COD: you may want to keep hold of your money.

Downloaded it to my new rig via steam.
Gave it a 30 minute dogfight. Pretty much the same as before. Very smooth on my system but all those bugs, like the voice system totally broken and useless. Also the Hurricane has no spirit. Doesn’t sound or feel like a Hurricane (not that I’ve flown one but, you know).
Nope, not for me. I’ll stick to FSX, Duxford and the A2A Spitfire.

Just noticed this is available as a download for a tenner, will take a look (and John I hear you re: Day Z, great news that the project is going to be a standalone game)

It’s gotten a lot better with the recent patches but it’s very much unfinished, let alone polished. The flight modelling has a long way to go. Also, best steer clear of the 1c forum, virtually every flight modelling discussion bogs down into a RAF vs Luffwaffe shouting match. Lots of spiteful attempts to use ‘facts’ to persuade the developers to nerf the Spit, (which still doesn’t match it real world abilities as it is).

Moggie, if she keeps blowing up on taxi out, it might be because for a long time the Hurri & Spit mixture controls were modelled back to front!

Yes, I still have yet to taxi the aircraft to the end of the strip without a major mechanical catastrophe.

Think I’ll just try shooting down a few Stuka. Behave whilst I’m gone!

Moggy

I have a new i7 4ghz Quad core. I’ll have another go and see what’s improved. Wonder why everyone always picks on the poor old Stuka’s? In IL2 those rear gunners were sharp shooters (but then I occasionally got blown by a tanks main gun!).

Blowing the dust off this thread, apparently CloD is much improved on the latest Beta or so my Oceanic Wing mates have been saying. I’ll update this post with the download details.

Rumour is that their new Battle for(over?) Moscow project will improve the core engine further and this will benefit CloD. Unfortunatly I’ve been addicted to DayZ of late and not been flying online as much as I should.

I did a quick mission the other day to show someone what it was like and popped 2 109’s without using Track IR – very tasty 🙂

I’m still putting Rise of Flight higher (especially as it’s FREE) and my combat abilities have improved drastically since getting into it.

Yes, I still have yet to taxi the aircraft to the end of the strip without a major mechanical catastrophe.

Think I’ll just try shooting down a few Stuka. Behave whilst I’m gone!

Moggy

I purchased when it came out. realised the only fun was as a shoot-em-up and abandoned it in favour of FSX.
There’s no immersion or feeling of `being there` so not for me.

Ha, Moggy 🙂 Been there done that, blown the engine..

I love the way it tells me what part of the engine has gone west because of my inepetitude, normally before I’ve left the ground.

It’s not perfect and has some way to go, but it’s playable and when multiplayer is sorted properly I think it’ll really rock.

I still haven’t built a system to actually run it. I decided it wasn’t worth the investment – at least not for the time being, not for me. (Bear in mind i’ve played and owned every instalment of il2 through the years, and loved every minute of it – it enabled me to meet many, many good friends online, that i otherwise wouldn’t have).

Maybe i feel as though simming has just taken up too much of my time, however, if i had the £600-1000 spare i’d go for it.

I think so.

It is playable as a shoot-em-up, but if you want immersion you can have it.

Hampered by a lack of any usable manual, you’ll find yourself searching the web for tutorials on how to start your Hurricane.

Moggy

So this is well worth the money you say guys? Been debating it awhile now especially after buying all the other IL-2 games!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBsFkAP48iI&feature=player_embedded

😮 Awesome

Installed it today and it is simply brilliant.

Can’t stop – I need to get back to 1940

Moggy

There’s a user-created fix that seems to be solving any stutter/fps issues for most people, with masive performance increases for very little image quality loss. Check this:

http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthread.php?t=21048

Looks promising, and may help the devs to implement the changes officially, so people don’t have to sneak around behind their backs.

I’m completely torn between an i5 2500k system, (more expensive, will need more time to build), or a 1090t six core system (cheaper, finished sooner, not as good).

😡

I want to play this game NOW damn it, and see what all this fuss is about! :diablo:

Awesome!!

To refresh, I’ve gone for an i5 760 running at 2.8 GHz, 1333 DDR3 (more on that later) and an NVidea GTX550 with 1GB.

Ok, so the uprade kinda turned into a new PC (I had the brainwave of turning the old setup into a media server, so bought a new case etc.* for the new bits), but I’m pleased to report that CloD runs OK with the settings backed off a bit. Turn the grass off and pull the detail back to mediium and it runs as smooth as you like – the aircraft look lovely and the lack of detail hardly notices. There are still issues to be sorted by Oleg and the boys but it looks like a winner to me.

If anybody wants me I’ll be over the channel somewhere…

* err, 200 quid later, but that did include tickling the RAM (ooer) up to 8GB, a nice Antec case and PSU, and the gubbins to make the old box remote controlled. I might go SLi next month, we’ll see! I have the option of going up to an i7 as well which is getting close to what is reasonably cost effective without spending megabucks on Extreme processors or Zeons.

Thanks Matty.

John, please do let us know how that works out – i’m looking at an i5 myself.

I’ve got it running after a bit of a sweaty battle with AVG and after reinstalling the redist programmes.

My current rig won’t run CloD very well – I tried! Considering it’s a Core 2 Duo 8500, with a 9600GT 512MB GPU that’s not surprising. I have a table of goodies (i5 760 and GTX 550 1MB) to go in asap and I’ll let you know!

It does appear to be using multicores here, and they even say that it is meant to. Not a great deal for sure, but then very few games do anyway.

There wouldn’t be any great gain for it to be 64bit unless it needed the memory, which apparently it doesn’t. Again, I don’t know of any games that are 64bit.

I think what everyone is upset about is that, yes, to run it smoothly you do need to turn the visual settings down, even on very fast computers. But that’s not unusual for a new game. I think what’s upsetting is that even at high quality it doesn’t look as good as it should. There just isn’t the atmosphere and polish that we’re used to from games like Call of Duty, Crysis and etc.
I think it should be remembered that this is a niche market game that has nowhere near the value that those properties have.

Engine management, yes, it’s all there. Haven’t tried it yet.