With Ubisoft behind him, Oleg has had no shortage of funding for this project, and he and his team have taken their sweet time in getting it ready for release. Anyone who has the hardware to run CoD would be a fool not to buy it, but since I hear it's going to be released on steam, I might be a fool....err, no, I'll probably cave in and buy it anyway.
1C has a completely different business model than AH, and offers a completely different flight sim experience. Both are good in their own ways. Il-2 has always offered something more like a simulation of WW2, while AH is free for all combat with the weapons of WW2. You are not required to hate one if you like the other, but most seem to do so without giving the other a chance. This goes equally in the other direction, of course. The Il-2 community thinks we're a bunch of children playing an xbox game that just happens to run on a pc.
Wings of Prey or whatever the console port was was ran a lot better on my PC than Aces High does despite looking more or less like Cliffs of Dover, granted I'm sure the flight model calculations were a bit smoother.
Wings of Prey has flight model calculations?
AH has a top notch flight model, and that takes a lot of cpu power with not a lot left over if you don't have a half-decent gpu. Have you tried Rise of Flight? The graphics are stunning, but still without as much eye candy as wings of prey. It can bring a good pc to its knees because of the physics calculations.
