Ok, is it just me or does HF and Pdog smell a bit like Fscott etc etc before WWIIOL came out?
I am a beta tester for Il-2. I like verm's opinion. Apples to apples guys.
Il-2 is NOT a MMOLG. It NEVER WILL BE. Oleg DID mention he wanted to modify Il-2 one day to make one. Different thing than his current game becoming one.
Il-2 is a GREAT sim, it's not going to go lame turkey as WWIIOL did. Thats unfair, the demo allready proved it's above that level.
Il-2 is different than AH. It is first and foremost designed to emulate the experience Soviets and Germans had in WWII on the Ostfront. It has beautifull artwork in the cockpits, ground and planes to immerse you in this. AH has much more functional cockpits, and a simpler damage system as all AH wants to do is emulate the experience of WWII air combat in a large scale theatre. Different targets and I think both hit dead center into their respective areas.
Il makes an effort to portray WWII planes as Soviets view them, their performance and abilities. If your not closed minded it's actually incredibly interesting to spot the differences from sims based solely on western tests. I enjoy it, then of course I could care less if any given plane is shorted by a few miles per hour or has an unhistorical performance. It is only a game folks...
These endless fights are amazing to me. Oleg is nowhere near done with Il-2, he wants to refine it's FM more, add more features to control on the plane and effects and enviroment in the world the plane flies through. And more pressingly he wants to move onto add-on packs and expansion into other areas like the spanish Civil war or the Manchurian combat theatre.
Dale is nowhere near done with AH, for 15 bucks your going to get an MA and HA with supply, dozens and dozens of plane choices, hundreds of people to co-ordinate and fight across a massive map with. Graphically AH will grow with each generation of hardware and drivers and be more amazing every update.
Why don't people start arguing about Il-2 vs MSCFS series and AH vs WWIIOL or WB? This stuff is really starting to grate on my nerves!
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