[LeBigTed]

Dear Gents,

I received my COD today, I bought Collector edition.

First I had to say I was very surprised by the box, which is very big : it is like a collector DVD. Manual is nice, Spitfire Pilot's book well reproduced (I have another one, so I can compare;o) and the map ot bad.

After a short installation, a long time to download it on Steam, I enjoy to be into the menu. I read it was pretty dark, but that didn't chock me. The Music is very nice, it is important for immersion, but on my computer, music stoped when I was choosing a new menu... Sometimes it is playing, and sometime not...

I really enjoy to personnalize my pilot, choosing the pant, the jacket, the vest, glasses or not... Like in Te Godfather's game. According to me this is very nice, I appreciate it !

So let's go first fly... Here we go guys !!! After a long time to load it, the game crashed... I'm playing with an old laptop, COMPAQ 8510P, INTEL CORE 2 DUO, Win XP SP3, DX9.0c, ATI MOBILITY RADEON HD 2600. I have to say here, I was not sure COD could ran on it... and I forget to choose the good video options ;o)

So first fly, first pic, was all option LOW and VERY LOW, we get this :



With FPS Problems (I don't know if it was Low or High), but the game was not fluid. Return into the past when I first flown SECRET WEAPONS OF THE LUFTWAFFE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eosVhMLr1A

(If Oleg read this line, I really enjoyed SWOTL music, I never forget... Good rythm...so if Moders would like to add it... ;o)

Second flight, I saw my pilot into the pit, nice...


(You can see I am chating with my dear friend Planemad, who everybody knows here ;o)

but still FPS due to my config...


So to conclude, I think the most waiting simulation game ever made is for SUPERCOMPUTERS ONLY, if you don't have it, I will not recommend to buy. I bought it to encourage developpers to keep it up, and because Simulators are today my only way to flight a Sptifire... I am a big fan, we are on a special market (Marché Niche in french) only for fans...

But I am optimist and I remember IL2 STURMOVIK 10 years ago, no one could play, very long time to load, FPS problems... We are still flying with it today... So be patient as a great philosoph said ;o)

I have to wait to have a new computer to really enjoy this game, but I am not disappointed. If Oleg wants to offer me a supercomputer, I would never say 'No', and I will enjoy to help him developping COD.

ANOTHER TIME customers have to be patient, no doubt in a few months or years it will be the best sim ever. This is easy to criticize it today, I will really enjoy to speak about it in a few months or years. A lot of improve had been made for realism !


So I think I said all... I probably will edit my post in some days, after having past more time on this. I really enjoyed to buy it, and enjoy to have it now even if know I will play in a few months. IL2 1946 with mods (especially HISTOMOD 4.5 is very veyr nice, so I can continue to play it ;o)

I hope it will help you guys to have an opinion !!

Cheers,


Ted


PS : I am playing ROF, Low graphism (25 %) without any problems, and I did some good screens, I hope it will be the same thing with COD in a next future ;o)