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    trumper's Avatar Senior Member
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    It is an excellent sim and well worth adding to the collection of flight sims.The 2.05 and multiskins patches have transformed it.
    There is another patch in the works and a support crew that is second to non.S to them.
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    <BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by capt_frank:
    I asked Santa for this game for Christmas but he couldn't find it anywhere.

    Does anyone know where this can be had here in the states? I just checked our local NC Wally World but to no avail. I know I can get it off EBAY for full purchase price, but I'm going to keep that as an "alternate choice".

    So anyone know?

    Thanks,

    Frank </div></BLOCKQUOTE>


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    I found it a comp usa for 29.99 I should have bought it then
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    i just got this last week. having some problems with the spitfire at the moment...landing is quite different than this sim. i need to devote more time is all.

    kudos to shockwave for addressing AI! "The Flying Tigers" title is coming to a pc near me.<div class="ev_tpc_signature">

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    I just ordered it from Shockwave as suggested, $27.49 including shipping. I am a dire hard fan of the IL2 series, but I like to try other stuff, like smoked oysters on a ritz cracker...
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    It`s a good game.
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    I quite like the idea of a picture of Chrstina Appelgate on the instrument panel!<div class="ev_tpc_signature">

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    I tried this when it first came out. It was an absolute mess: unstable, buggy, broken, and with some ridiculous flight model bugs.

    How much has it improved?
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    What's common there with IL-2, try to sneak -alone - close to He111 formation before firing them. Sniper-O-rama again Both sims are excellent teachers for patience and tough speed sharpshooting in this.
    2.05 patch brought also agggressive (have more g, literally!) opponents. No more 'Ach, there goes bunch of Spitfeuers und Hurricanes upon our bombers, however wir bleiben in formation', instead 'Wir folgen those Spitfeuers zum Valhalla if needed', for example (of my Germlish )
    As you are pumping .303s to into bombers in frustration, be sure that little formation of, say, 40 109s will be flattering you to death
    Going to intercept a bomber formation approaching Portsmouth, you notice condense trails high above your Hurricane formation and think, 'hell, they will be dropping upon my neck before I reach those bombers', instead those trails turn suddenly back south as your formation approaches bombers. Escorting 109's fuel has been counted as well
    I could compare offline only BoBII:Wov campaign flying to online IL-2: You have to fly a l o t to feel bored.

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    All true, boxmike. I tried out the latest patch a bit today. Was able to get the jump on a Hurricane straining to catch a smoking formation of badly bashed Heinkels. Love the tracer effects---look just like B of Brit-period gun cam footage. I raked him good with my trusty 110, and he buggered off smartly. Try jumping the AI in 46! It is an entirely different experience with action all over the sky, beautiful effects, and quite a different way of fighting with 6 DOF.

    True confessions---I bought it when it first came out in Sept 2005---and I frisbeed it into the trash in fury and consternation in Oct 2005! I came back when the good people on this forum urged us to give it another try with the patches. I reenlisted and never looked back.
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    <BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by GoToAway:
    I tried this when it first came out. It was an absolute mess: unstable, buggy, broken, and with some ridiculous flight model bugs.

    How much has it improved? </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

    Same here, the menu system was awful too...
    I gave it a couple of patches before I gave up totally. IL2 is the benchmark and it didn't cut it for me...

    Lovely engine sounds though...<div class="ev_tpc_signature">

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