If anyone has trouble getting the CE edition delivered I would be willing to act as a distributor to my fellow european brothers in arms just send me a pm
Saw this post tonight in HL.
http://forums.ubi.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/8071032709/m/1751069519
Does it clarify things a bit better,or not? (confused, I am)
Regards
Charlie
OopsâŚand some new footage released todayâŚ
âThe Boxed version will be available in the UK, but only via Ubishopâ
Really ? no other retail or e-tail outlouts at all ? :sucks:
Steam is listing it now.
Finally, if you buy the physical version of the game, there will be no need to download anything additional in order to play the game. An internet connection will be required to activate the game, and for online play, but that is it. The game only uses SteamWorks for match-making and not the Steam DRM.
Now this sounds reasonable to me. Now I just have to find a collectors edition in a shop here in SwedenâŚ
I took a leap of faith.
I ordered a Collectors edition on Amazon.de
I have no idear if it turns out to be vaporware, but: âno guts, no gloryâ or something like that.
Amazon.deâs release date was 30. march, so if it exist and everthing goes like clockwork I might recieve it around the 6th of april.
Depending on the reviews I will have a few days to envy those of you who bought it as download, or regretting buying a bug-filled game :roflmao:
I was one of those buying the first IL-2 and it was not something to brag about.
Buggy as hell. It took me several years and a pirate copy of the succcessor to buy the succcessors :eek:
In truth, I donât expect COD to be great of the box. The BoB senario is extreamly worn in my book. But the release of a new sim engine that are made to be modded. An engine made by people with a lot of experiance in making flightsim. That is a product with potential. I hope and wish for some of the communityâs craft modders to make some of our most beloved and exotic aircrafts. In my case the Mosquito series and the Butcherbirds
Making maps of some of the most greatest exiting battlefield.
Last but not least, making carrier ops available with a bit more realistic deckspace. I am quite sure that both the HMS Illustrious and CV2 Lexington are not wide enough.
As I said earlier in this post if anyone wants the CE version but cannot get it in your own country just send me a PM I will be happy to order multiple copies and post them around Europe
@Majik, have you been into the once mighty âGameâ stores recently?
I popped into the maidenhead branch the other day and actually had to ask where the PC section was :o Now wind the clock back 10 years or so and Game retailers had at least 50% shelf space dedicated to PC games, the other 50% spread between the consoles. Well Game now has a bigger shelf space for secondhand DS games than it does for PC games :eek: I think we must face the reality that the retail PC games market will eventually die out. Iâm not sure if the PC game publishers and developers are generating the same revenue from e-sales that they once got from shops, but if they are not I think future PC games will have the higher prices. Certainly games such as IL2 which we all now will be patched, patched and patched again then I predict the prices will be closer to that of console games and certainly higher than the ÂŁ30 we are used to paying
I will be buying the CE edition in the hope that more money gets back to Oleg and his team which in turn I hope will push the development of IL2:CoD. Personally speaking I would like to see a number of expansion packs released that are all paid expansion packs, something like
Poland '39 - a few new aircraft types, Polish, early German and maybe some Russian a/c and of course a new map
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Low Countries and France '39 - Lots of new aircraft types for this pack Dutch, French and the first American A/C (Hawk 75 and DB7) one large map for this pack
Africa '40-42 - Again lots of new a/c such as the Italians but also of course the later German and British a/c, could also cover the med. with this pack
Italy '43 - The invasion of Italy
D-Day, onwards to VE - the final pack to take us to the end of the war in Europe.
Iâd be happy to buy all of those as expansion packs for IL2:CoD. Hopefully Oleg has something similiar or better planned that can maybe take us back to the eastern front and the pacific.
Curious, Starfire, that was not my experience with IL2. I remember enjoying every moment from the first minute. In those years EAF was flying EAW, we all loved it, but in a few weeks most of us were flying IL2 exclusively.
I expect the same for CoD. I ordered the Collectors a few weeks ago, and I wouldnt mind buying also the download version.
IIRC I never played EAW, I was flying Janes WWII Fighters before IL2 and if my fading memory serves me correctly I had just ventured online with Janes when one afternoon I walked into my local âGameâ retailer and there on the shelf was an entirely new product that I had not even read about in my trusted PC Gamer magasine (I was a bit younger back in 2003!) Anyways I immediately recognised the a/c on the cover of the box and simply had to buy it there and then. Within an hour it was installed on my PC and naturally I started a career as an IL2 pilot. The game was amazing and I never once looked back at Janes or any other sim for that matter. Not sure how long I had IL2 before I even flew the fighters, I was having such fun in IL2âs that fighters didnât really get my attention. Sometime later I ventured back online and was eventually invited to fly with 81Sqn whom I soon joined up with as my first virtual squadron. However 81Sqn pilots started to not turn up and many training nights it was just myself wearing the 81Sqn colours so I decided to hand in my notice and leave 81Sqn. Thats when I bumped into this highly chivalrous and honest bunch of virtual pilots wearing the âEAFâ tags, I soon started flying coops and it wasnât too long before I was enrolled as a green pilot into the EAF eventually joining 92Sqn (before the split) Iâve been a loyal fan ever since. The only other maiden to get my attention has been RoF but my advances in that sim I have been rebuffed by my PC being unable to play the game
Iâm with Nepe on the original IL-2, canât remember it beeing all that bad even if it wasnât bug free. And as I remember it, the patches in the beginning was pretty frequent and did bring a lot of improvement fast.
But it did have a problem, it was unplayable on the PC I had when I got the beta, but I think I had upgraded before it was released, but lots of people had problems because their PC couldnât handle it.
@Classic
I did not see your chivalious offer on my request before after my Amazon ordering or I would have taken you up on it
@Nepe
EAW is from before my time in EAF. I am a newbie here :rolleyes:
I was stuck with Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator 1 & 2. The original Sturmovik was released at the same times as MS CFS 3. CFS 3 was such a disapointment compared to Sturmovik. The FM in Sturmovik was a lot more believable (harder) and grafix was way ahead. But I fell for the damage model. In CFS we just saw bits of grafix flying around; In Sturmovik real pieces of the aircraft fell off. I was so cool
I think Oleg managed to kill the CFS series with Sturmovik.
EAW was way better then MS CFS, and with IL-2 there was no comparison.
Funny thing, I remember trying CFS 2 I think it was, pacific at least, at Wasp place, landed on the carrier on the first try, in a sim I had never tried before, on a computer and joystick I hadnât flow before. :roflmao: (But I did blow up a couple of times in head-on attacks, apparantly the âbubbleâ was way big!)
I am really curious how the FM will feel like. When Im flying Il2 after ROF it feels like it was going back to EAW from Il2.
I am too Paf, from what i have seen, gunnery looks to be an order of difficulty harder.
RE: Oleg killing CFS.
CFS and CFS 2 were doomed from the start, open access to the aircraft flight perameters made any longevity doubtfull once folks started mucking around with them⌠IIRC there was a download-able flyable Snoopy and Kennel.
Went from Janes WW2 fighters to Falcon 4, before i found what i was looking for with original IL2.
We will need people to convert/adapt our training missions to COD.
I will be hard to convert the gunnery training. The german glider had the perfect wingspan for gunnery conversion training but we might be able to make the target a/c âfriendlyâ
We also need to conduct gunnery tests to se which historic vounlerbilities that have been transfered to the Sim
AhâŚEAW, now that was the good old days lolâŚMikke , I joinned the EAF about the same time you did and had to train under Erik for a few months, then Moose and then ServalâŚyou would bring a tear to a glass eye lol.
Im busy with RoF at the moment so I may miss buying CoD till I judge how it plays. From what I have seen so far Im not to bothered by itâŚseems more like an upgrade of Il2 with the same issues as beforeâŚI will get it eventually but probably not at release.
I agree on both your suggestions Starfire. Good thinking !
I really appreciate your volunteering like that.
Good show that man !
Sporran
@Sporran
Thanks Sporran
I will look into it as soon as I get the game.
So somwherea around the 30+ of March.
One of my old filming buddies, Tinus Le Roux convinced Oleg to give him an early release to make a demo.
No sound effects unfortunately as these were not finalised when he made this: