I guess what rumples my feathers is the whole elitist mindset that I see prevalent in the aviation gaming community. I do not say these things to boast but to illustrate that I do have a semi informed opinion. I did fly the original IL2 but did not do 1946, I was on a gaming hiatus of sorts & only within the last 4-5yrs have really gotten back into it. To my dying day I will tell you that Warbirds is/was better but there are those that disagree & have their various reasons why but that brings us back to "opinions". I cut my MP teeth in Warbirds & went on to became truly good in Airwarrior. About the time I started working on my PPL Warbirds came out. Ok I DO own the sim & the guys above that you mention I happen to be one of as well (well maybe not performance tables in the shitter). Please by all means enjoy it and if it makes you feel immersed that is what matters most. My issues with BoS are my own reason to not give them a dime or fly it myself but that has nothing to do with anyone else enjoying it. I don't care what people like as long as they enjoy it.
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I have sims that already fill that offline immersive experience need and have dynamic campaigns so BoS would never fit for that anyway at least for me.īut that does not mean they are not good sims, that doesnt mean that War Thunder is not a good sim either. We are talking specifically about online wars, squad v squad.
Now that means nothing when it comes to offline play and immersion. I don't own the sim nor have I flown it but quite a few people have that I flew with for many years in EAW, Air Warrior, Warbirds and IL-2 1946 have some serious issues with BoS for flight model and damage model reasons and these people are the type of people who take AC performance charts with them to the bathroom for reading material and in a few cases been pilots for many years themselves so if they have issue with it that is the only reason I need. I really did not get into this thread to have a debate about those items but I can certainly have that debate if you would like. Now those things when talking about a WWII combat sim are pretty important. My issue with BoS aside from their business model are things like damage model and flight model. Ya know sundry means various items not important enough to be mentioned individually. I really don't take that into account at all.Īs for the other "sundry" things I have issue with. Maybe you are thinking about someone else. Me? Hmm I don't ever recall complaining about a lack of clickable cockpit in BoS.