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 Posted: Mon, 7th Sep 2009 18:18 Post subject: IL2 Sturmovik Birds of Prey |
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Is this coming out for the pc?? if not are there any mods for previous Sturmokic games that have the battle of Britain campaign?
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| Posted: Mon, 7th Sep 2009 18:32 Post subject: |
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yeah i played this on the 360 but would rather play it on pc for better resolutions and also to play it with a decent flight stick rather than a crappy controller.
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| Posted: Mon, 7th Sep 2009 19:17 Post subject: |
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forget birds of wank, where is storm of war.....
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| Posted: Tue, 8th Sep 2009 03:48 Post subject: |
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| moosenoodles wrote: | | forget birds of wank, where is storm of war..... |
+1
Anyway, I'd really like to try BoP. Obviously it won't be as simulative as the original IL2, but seems that isn't too far from its glorious PC predecessor in terms of pure gameplay experience. And graphically wise is gorgeous tbh.
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| Posted: Tue, 8th Sep 2009 04:44 Post subject: |
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| ixigia wrote: | | moosenoodles wrote: | | forget birds of wank, where is storm of war..... |
+1
Anyway, I'd really like to try BoP. Obviously it won't be as simulative as the original IL2, but seems that isn't too far from its glorious PC predecessor in terms of pure gameplay experience. And graphically wise is gorgeous tbh. |
Well you are wrong. I don't remember IL2 on PC much, but I'm pretty sure BoP is as simulationy as PC's IL2. It has arcade, realistic and simulation modes.
Arcade is arcade, but realistic is where a major difficulty fuckfest starts. You get stalls from every mistake when turning, your plane can start spinning like crazy and you have to stabilize it. When you fire guns plane starts shaking from recoil, all the aiming assists are off, if a wing gets hit it becomes harder to fly and these are just few examples from REALISTIC mode. I didn't even try Simulation cos I don't have a joystick, but people who did said that it's very very hard and simulationy.
So yeah, just because it's on 360 and not PC doesn't mean it was dumbed down. They just added arcade mode but old IL2 is still there if you want it to be.
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| Posted: Tue, 8th Sep 2009 13:35 Post subject: |
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Apparently not, only thing they put in sim mode is the ability to stall easier... lulz,,, where are the balistics/round type penetration stuff? do they have individual hit locations for fuel tanks/wing spars and struts etc?
dunno, looks fantastic but im not sure how much "simulation" mode really would be simulation, especially based on consoles with a controller, hopes its great though will get it for my son on his xbox360 for xmas he will be in awe at it...
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| Posted: Tue, 8th Sep 2009 14:18 Post subject: |
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I tried the demo and it seems they do have fairly accurate hitboxes. If you hit their engines, they will first burst into flames, and if you push it, they will blow right off with the rest of the wing. It's more than enough to set an engine on fire and they will fall down eventually. Also if you take too much hits on your wings, their aerodynamic properties will be seriously hindered.
I also failed a mission because I shot down a stuka and the debris tore my left wing off. So it's fairly realistic in some aspect, but certeanly NOT a simulator, since there are controls that are completely missing from the game, due to the limited controllers.
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| Posted: Tue, 8th Sep 2009 14:40 Post subject: |
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well as long as the aircraft dont have a habbit of nosing up or down, then as an arcade/console flight shooter it will be fine, otherwise compensating with a controller all the time would be a bitch on the thumbs/fingers over time..
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| Posted: Tue, 8th Sep 2009 17:45 Post subject: |
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Its not only graphics overhaul it seams they really put some work into campaign mode. Objectives and battles feal a lot less generic like they do in normal Sturmovik.
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| Posted: Tue, 8th Sep 2009 18:33 Post subject: |
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| Glottis wrote: | | ixigia wrote: | | moosenoodles wrote: | | forget birds of wank, where is storm of war..... |
+1
Anyway, I'd really like to try BoP. Obviously it won't be as simulative as the original IL2, but seems that isn't too far from its glorious PC predecessor in terms of pure gameplay experience. And graphically wise is gorgeous tbh. |
They just added arcade mode but old IL2 is still there if you want it to be. |
i tried it... and I own all the IL2 games on the PC.
This has far less than the PC counterpart.
They had no choice but to dumb it down some.
Still good game.
But it is nowhere near close to being a sim as it was on the PC.
And some stuff feels better though in this incarnation... like the campaign and such.
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| Posted: Tue, 8th Sep 2009 21:02 Post subject: |
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Its total crap as far as a simulation.Tried the 360 demo,any sort of turn results in the plane stalling and becoming inverted which sends you into the ground.Totally stupid.I will stick with the real simulation.IL-2 for PC.The days of console simulators died a long time ago.
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| Posted: Sat, 5th Dec 2009 00:43 Post subject: |
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'Wings of Prey' Beta Now Available for Pre-Order Customers
| Quote: | Minimal System Requirements:
Processor: Intel Pentium 4 3200MHz
RAM: 1024 Mb
Graphic card: NVIDIA GeForce 7600 256 Mb or ATI Radeon X1650 256 Mb
HDD: 10 Gb free disk space
OS: Microsoft Windows XP SP3, DirectX 9.0c.
Soundcard, DirectX compatible
Internet connection: 56 kb/s
Keyboard, mouse
Recommended System Requirements:
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo 2400 MHz
RAM: 2048 Mb
Graphic card: NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250 512 Mb or ATI Radeon 4850 512 Mb.
HDD: 10 Gb free disk space
OS: Microsoft Windows XP SP3 with DirectX 9.0c / Microsoft Windows Vista SP1 / Microsoft Windows 7
Sound card: DirectX compatible with support 5.1
Internet connection: 512 Kb/s
Keyboard, mouse, joystick |
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So again, what it does, it does well, but it does not do everything you would expect from a real simulator.
