IL2 Cliffs of Dover Trailer

It was a bit like the original, launch a game that would just get better and better as the technology improved to run it and by the arrival of 1946 it was a happy cohesion of technology and software.
However Cliffs of Dover (COD) seems to have suffered from the lack of the highest end rigs being owned by potential purchasers, this has lead to a rash of poor reviews and games returned, additionally, the min spec on the box struggles to run the game at even slideshow speeds….

The prices have already crashed on the new game that has taken so long to come to the market place, all be it to early, and the reviews are killing it too. A user modded version of 1946 actually comes close to rivalling COD in game play and beats it hands down in the sound department, top this off with stupid things like none SLI support on launch and it was doomed to failure from the start, additionally, you had to download it from Steam and it had 2 passwords required simply to play it, ( a patch has since taken care of one of them), even buying the game in a box you still were required to download to allow it to run, an insidious new development of late in the games industry, why if one purchases a product to run offline, must one have to have the facility to go on the web to download or verify the product prior to using it….. all that does is encourages hacking to bypass that little puppy….

Good game but with a lot of offering and designed for the future…… Unfortunately without thinking of the customer market you are aiming to sell it to in the present……..

I’ve just read the review in Aircraft and it is indeed scathing, poor frame rate and terrain being just a couple of weaknesses.

The above posts from knowledgeable enthusiasts help to clarify the situation – thanks folks.

And I thought my mid-range PC was working hard when I purchased IL2 some years back. I think I’ll have to wait a couple of years before trying ‘Cliffs’ of Dover’.

All I want to do is play the game on high settings, straight out of the box/download. Seems Like I’ll need the mother of all PCs to be doing so anytime soon.

In the meantime I could always open a chippie called ‘Cliff’s of Dover’…

Apologies for the amount of ‘I’s in this post. I, I, I, me, me, me etc

🙂 At the moment the game is highly buggy and very demanding on PC specs

Shame that, as the original IL2 series from Oleg was the opposite, and ran very well on what one wouldn’t expect it to. In fact, I remember it running quite nicely on a very average laptop.:)

Indeed – setting those fanboys against the reality of the professional review you might be discussing two different products.

Your comments are encouraging nevertheless.

🙂 I think the fact that it had such a bad press and release before it was going to be released later in the USA has probably helped.I think they put back the release date over there so they can keep working on it,the big market in the USA MAY have saved the sim from dying.
As long as the programmers are allowed to continue hopefully it will come on ok.
I think it has been developed to be reasonably future proof [as much as they can do ] and as the power of computers gets better the sim should blossom.
Thats just my interpretation,sorting the wheat from the chaff in those hysterical ic forums.
The problem with that forum is it is full of fanboys who won’t hear a word of complaint or the other extreme those moaning like mad,occasionally some sense is made LOL 🙂 .

Thanks – that seems to concur with what I’ve been hearing – so just in time for Christmas, perhaps!!:)

🙂 At the moment the game is highly buggy and very demanding on PC specs .Reading between the lines on the I c forum looks like UBI the distributors pushed the sim out the door before it was finished [Oleg the developer has taken a side step away ]and the public have become Beta testers.
Given time and input from the developers it WILL be a cracking flight sim but maybe not until later this year.

Interesting that the reviews of the sim in the professional press when it was released, have been very poor. On the basis of these previews it was on my shopping list, but I am waiting to see if it is refined.

Check in the Flight Sim forum for more news.

I’ll need to watch it later :rolleyes:

Shame it’s only available for PCs. I did rather like IL2 – Wings of Prey for the X-Box 360.