Ive posted this to some other forums also. Maybe this post doesent belong to here, but i know theres lots of Il-2 fans here in AH. This all is IMHO so dont take my word too seriously (well you dont take that even if id wanted to..
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I did some investigation on screenshots and previews of Il-2 and ive came to conclusion, that Il-2 has never been and never will exist (well, never say never). The reason, why somebody would do something like that is either financial (ripping bluebyte off) or marketing technique for other bluebytes games. Just to mention, Bluebyte just released Settlers 4 and Darkspace is coming soon.
Im not here to start any flamewars either..
If we take close look at the pictures, which have cities visible, we will see the ultimate amount of details showed. Eg. the trees are shown to unlimited distances and same for the buildings. In some screenshots there is very fake looking amount of detail boundaries. Eg. the left railroad track is blended in quite close distance, but the aside one isnt blended at any distances. Buildings textures look sharp to unlimited distance.
If we take in consideration, that this game is still in Alpha stage, that kind amount of details would put even Cray supercomputer to its knees. On my computer, rendering such a nice smooth 3d scene would take few minutes for one single frame. The cockpit details are maximum from first screenshot to last. If we compare WWiionline screenshots with Il-2, the online seems to be from stone-age and with such a huge developer team (in wwiionline), hows that possible? Even tho Russians are famous of their talented hackers, i bet best of them are already working in american developing companies.
Theres also cheesy picture of downed plane exploding and mens running away from it. If we look at the planeparts blown away from the plane, they seem to have "floor effect" and they have stopped their motion after theyre hit the deck. That is very very unusual and ive never seen that one before in any games ive seen.
Theres also lots of other stuff and if this isnt enough, i can tell you more.
So..Please all consider this stuff for a while and add the reality, that the beta itself was supposed to be released 1.5 months ago. Now theyre claiming, that the beta will still take some (undefined) time to be released.
The previews are based only on marketing hypes and screenshots, so theyre as accurate, as any of you could make up.
If we add all this together, theres only one word describing it..roadkill.
Ill promise to eat my words if somebody can show even a piece of acceptable evidence, that Il-2 game actually exists. I actually would be delighted, since i like flightsims very much and i regurlaly fly AH h2h mode.
