Author Topic: Il2 And Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator 3 (Read 1424 times)

mentalguy · « **Reply #30 on:** April 24, 2006, 07:54:33 PM »

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Originally posted by DREDIOCK
You mean there are other WWII Slight sims??

never heard of a Slight Sim before.

RAIDER14 · « **Reply #31 on:** April 24, 2006, 07:54:39 PM »

only thing good about IL2 was the crash model

mentalguy · « **Reply #32 on:** April 24, 2006, 08:23:56 PM »

Raider, Whats a Slight Sim?

DREDIOCK · « **Reply #33 on:** April 24, 2006, 09:01:06 PM »

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Originally posted by mentalguy
never heard of a Slight Sim before.

Well now you cant say that anymore can you?

DREDIOCK · « **Reply #34 on:** April 24, 2006, 09:02:07 PM »

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Originally posted by mentalguy
Raider, Whats a Slight Sim?

Silly person.
Isnt it obvious?
A Slight Sim
Slightly simulates something;)

FiLtH · « **Reply #35 on:** April 24, 2006, 10:19:39 PM »

I loved Combat Flight Sim 2. It felt the best to me..how the planes flew and the gunnery. Not that id know HOW they felt..its more like how Id imagine they'd feel.

Pongo · « **Reply #36 on:** April 24, 2006, 11:13:11 PM »

No nead for partisanship.
Most everyone on this board probably has both.
I play IL2 when I want to try out one of the planes it has vs drones.
Its easy to install.
Whith TrackIR its got ok views, without it it sucks. The view system has to have been done by someone who never played a combat sim. I cant belive they flew AH1 and then delivered a game with that view system.

Russian · « **Reply #37 on:** April 24, 2006, 11:33:07 PM »

I don’t understand this discourse of Il2 view system. I particularly like it much more than AH’s ‘instant snap’ style. I like to be able smoothly control every aspect of view. Just because in AH one can stick head threw glass to view six doesn’t make it better. And with introduction of TrackIR, this argument is just silly since both systems perform alike. Although, IL2 cannot have 6OF which is the only thing not implemented (and will not, not until BOB).

Pongo · « **Reply #38 on:** April 24, 2006, 11:36:41 PM »

Well I dont aggree. I have been playing both since they were introduced and anyone that doenst like AH much better has some kind of idealogical blinders on.
If AH went back to semi transparent canopy bars it would be perfect.

Russian · « **Reply #39 on:** April 25, 2006, 01:17:30 AM »

I also began using both products from beta stages, and I still like mouse view better. This is not about my personal bias, but about preferences.

RTSigma · « **Reply #40 on:** April 25, 2006, 02:18:57 AM »

IL2 is great when you want to do the "real war" thing and fly a Yak or a 51 against scores of 190's, JU88s, or even some C205's and Zero's.

The view system may not be AH's, but you need to realize, if you played AOTP and AOE, same system there, same for most games. Its not that big of a deal.

Online its not as huge or developed in the way AH2 is, but if you go to the right servers you can have a lot more fun facing off against opponents and won't have to worry about 2k B17's taking out your FH's.

deSelys · « **Reply #41 on:** April 25, 2006, 07:13:22 AM »

Yeah but what about them WWIIOL flight and damage models????

Popcorn bucket: 0.5$

Edbert · « **Reply #42 on:** April 25, 2006, 09:01:59 AM »

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Originally posted by RTSigma
The view system may not be AH's, but you need to realize, if you played AOTP and AOE, same system there, same for most games.

Same as every combat flight sim out there except AH.

Other than the eye candy the only big advantages 1C's offering has is it's offline play...the historical aspect of WWII air combat , and the ability to hit the pause button when the wife-ack shows up.

I think that everyone who plays AH knows that combat against AI can only keep your attention for so long, online versus human opponents is where the hard core fun is. Of course if you play it (IL2/FB/AEP/PF) online it tends more towards a AH-MA melee than anything historical and you cannot pause it so it loses it's only advantages over AH at that point. Plus the 128 player servers are so insignificant as to no even warrant a comparison.

MrRiplEy[H] · « **Reply #43 on:** April 25, 2006, 09:43:31 AM »

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If you are talking about playing FB off line, then I agree. I find every off line game boring. On line in FB the same as every other flight game in that you just fly to the enemy and fight them.

That's what I was talking about. OTOH the 8-player maximum arenas available last time I tried the game didn't exactly blow my universe either. Buggy host service littered with l33t colored pesky little hosts.. come on.