IL2 Online.

[Husky01]

Is it wroth checking it out?

Hows the Flight Model?

Community good?

What are the upsides?

What are the drawbacks?

[WMLute]

great eye candy.

small arenas.

horrible flight model.

[Mr No Name]

IMO
great game, superior graphics arenas too small just like here except they are capped even lower at 128.  great flight modeling... if they had 5 or 6 hundred player arenas 9or greater) i'd always be there.

amazing plane selection, unbeatable eye candy... however the new game Storms of War - Battle of Britain is another leap ahead in graphics... rumor has it that the arena caps are going to be raised

CONS:

small arenas - although AH arenas should be larger too

harder to fly well but this is also a plus in some respects

no base captures - but if youre a furballer this isnt a con

[Russian]

Originally posted by Husky01
Is it wroth checking it out?

Hows the Flight Model?

Community good?

What are the upsides?

What are the drawbacks?

IL2:1946 has: best FM of any WW2 combat sim, best DM of any WW2 sim, largest collection of aircraft to date with max 128 player arena.

Visit this forum for more info.

http://www.simhq.com/forum/ubbthreads.php?ubb=postlist&Board=86&page=1

[Lusche]

Good eye candy. Lots of planes, especialy those traditionally forgotten in air combat simulations.
Crappy view system. Horrible controller configuration compared to AH. TrackIr implementation sucks.

[crockett]

Originally posted by Mr No Name
however the new game Storms of War - Battle of Britain is another leap ahead in graphics... rumor has it that the arena caps are going to be raised

I guess they have the same "two weeks" philosophy as the HT crew..

"San Francisco – May 15, 2006 – Today Ubisoft, one of the world’s largest video game publishers, announces Storm of War™: Battle of Britain, to come in November 2006 for PCs worldwide."

[Mr No Name]

I hear CT and BoB are doing a head-to-head launch  

[Swager]

Excellent SIM!   Harder flight model than AH.  Not as easy to master as AH.

Better graphics but I never liked the arenas.

Worth checking out.  It will give you a different feel.

[JB73]

I found IL2 on one of my disks for a video card I got a while back...

loaded it, spent 45 minutes figuring out how to map just a few buttons and 4 views.

FM was the worst I have tried. I know I am no real pilot, but I have taken 1 flying lesson and did everything except actually land the plane (I did work the rudders 100% of the time from taxi to being airborne and had the stick about 50 feet off the runway)

from my one experience the FM in IL2 is so "over modeled" it is almost arcadish.


also the map was almost impossible to read, and the "overcast" sky was an eyesore. there was NO feeling of altitude, 500 feet or 5000, I couldn't tell.

[WMLute]

anybody else notice that the people that say the AH FM isn't any good are/were sub-par AcesHigh pilots?


(just an observation)

[Mr No Name]

LMAO too funny lute... my reply would get me a PNG

[Scherf]

If the arenas were bigger AH would have teh big trouble.

[Stang]

Originally posted by WMLute
anybody else notice that the people that say the AH FM isn't any good are/were sub-par AcesHigh pilots?


(just an observation)

Yup.

[Bronk]

Don't forget the FM changes whenever fanboi whine reaches critical mass.

Bronk

[crockett]

Originally posted by Mr No Name
I hear CT and BoB are doing a head-to-head launch  

I'll tell you what, after doing a little looking around and finding a few videos on BoB. I can say it's going to be a damn nice looking sim. Can't say how it will play vs CT but it will look dam nice.

The GV's have working suspension, the tanks cannon actually recoils. Inside the cockpits of the aircraft, everything and I mean every knob, switch or what ever moves.

The environment is one of the best I've see as well. So it will dam sure be nice on the eyes, but I know they can't have big arena's with it looking like that.