RAF_Magpie Wrote:Everything else looks great
Thank you, finally a sentiment with which I quite agree! Honestly, I'm a little bemused by how negative people are being here at the moment...
Don't mean to play the Devil's advocate to the detraction of CK (which is astoundingly ambitious, and pulls it off with style from all I've seen so far) but come on lads, how conservative can a modding community be?! It's a fresh game, it's new, pushing boundaries and stretching hard- and software trying hard to do things which have not been done before...is it me, or is that similar attitude to the one found here?
I know it's not perfect, but as with all things - wait. Who's to say that RoF couldn't be the modern equivalent of Il-2 all those years ago, and couldn't be a more viable base for Il-2-like expansion than SoW ends up being. Yeah the specs are high, yeah internet connection thing is a drag and yeah it's easy to throw toys about with ''I'm never going to buy it'' chat...but wait. In a years' time or even two years' time when technology has had time to catch up with developers' aspirations, only then can we really make a decent judgement on whether to buy it or not. Of course a new game engine isn't gonna be as comfy with an 8-year-old community as an 8 y/o engine, who have got used to it's ways - but in a while we'll be that comfortable and familiar with the RoF and SoW engines too, and is it any reason to, basically, slag progress off?
Sorry if this comes across as overly ranty, but the images posted here (with the exception of those trenches
) demonstrate a truly remarkable step - finally the true next generation of flight sims is on the way...
...am I really the only one here who thinks this is a good thing? Come on guys, smile, have a little faith and look forward to something that could be great!
Screwy 8)