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It was so long ago I actually cannot remember!
Its cost me a flippin' fortune since then though!
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The screenshots on the Gamespot site got me interested. I was more interested in the Pacific War and thought CFS2 would be more up my alley. I originally imagined IL-2 would be a novelty. But, after I bought my game computer, and tried many flight sims, old and new, I soon realized IL-2 was incomparable. 2004-6 Practically all I used was IL-2
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My dog told me that he liked the way the water looked.
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The original worked quite well on my last old crummy computer,unlike other flight sims, that's why.
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After playing BF-1942, I wanted something better so I searched and IL-2 came up as a good flight sim on a review someplace.
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Good question:
I played Microprose Fighter Squadron for a cpl years and was always looking around for a better looking sim. The IL2 demo came along, and quite frankly, i didn't like it. Then the original IL2 came out. I toyed with it, loved the graphics, but my machine could barely handle it. Plus i wasn't thrilled on the lack of american planes. But i knew that the sim would eventually progress. I lurked these forums for 2 years, hoping to get more info and learn of the bugs from users etc. Finally i think it was Pacific Fighter that got me hooked since US planes were then introduced and by then i had a better rig to run it..Now i'm addicted
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Had lotsa fun with lotsa combat flight sims/games, like Red Baron, Chuck Yeager, Wings Of Glory, Dawn Patrol, Fighter Duel, Flying Corps (this one inspired me to build my first pedals
), Flying Corps Gold, cfs 1 and 2, swotl and whatnot... then read an announcement of IL2 in a magazine, saw it in a shop some months later... bought it. ... cfs3 came along too... but then FB came along and....
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I was craving a good flying game and my pops refered me to it after a friend at his work mentioned it
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I was flying CFS1 in 2001... I had fiddled with a few things before that.. but CFS1 was the first online experience and it was the first WWII flight sim with any real opposition, live or AI that I flew. Back then I was running a PII with 512M of RAM in it and a 16M video card.. Needless to say... on many maps in CFS1 particularly that high altitude P-47 bomber escort mission the sim would choke.. That was when I began to look at system specs because it never really occured to me before.. I saw IL2 but when I saw the system requirements I didn't think my PC could handle it.. so I didnt even bother with it.. plus I saw that it had no Mustangs... no Corsairs.. I didnt realize yet that it wasnt the average flight sim. I stayed with CFS1 for @ a year or so... in that time I upgraded my video card 2 times to a 32M card and a 64M card with 768M of RAM.. When I heard that CFS3 was coming out I knew my PC couldn't handle it.. so I upgraded to an XP1600 on a R9000 Pro 128.. with 512M of 133 RAM.. While I was headed to the Woodbridge Va. Best Buy one night checking to see if CFS3 had come in.. I ran into a guy in the parking lot named Phil (Never saw him again.. ) who said that he already had it.. and it was not that good..(I didn't know about piracy at all... ) but he did say that IL2 was a good sim and he told me about here and Hyperlobby... I had heard from another guy that flew in CFS with us a few nights that IL2 was a good sim too.. I went into BB and looked at the box .... I thought Hmmmm I can run this now since I upgraded.. what the heck.. I'll try it.. I bought it, took it home, installed it booted it up, and .. it was definitely different.. but that first night was short.. I was only fiddling with it.. over the next 2 or 3 nights I got more into the sim and was floored.. There were so many ooooo Ahhhhh Woooooooooooww moments .... and I knew pretty early on after returning to CFS1 with my squad that my time in CFS was short.. very short.. I told everyone about it and only one guy came over then.. although all of them are here now...
What sold me? The graphics and sound were unlike anything I ever experienced. The track record feature.. I was watching one of the stock P-39 tracks.. the one where the flak blew out the wheel from the wheel well.... The views... I was out of the pit one day looking at the plane and accidentally hit my mouse.. WTH!!
I tried to move the image and L clicked .. WTH!!!!
The centrigugal force keeping you from bailing out.. in the P-39 in particular.. One day I was in a QM and I crash landed. My wife called me for something.. I just got up and went and left the sim on.. When I left it on it was daytime... when I came back a few hours later it was night...
I flew in CFS1 a handfull of times after that.. and each time I was a killer.. CFS1 was a toy compared to IL2..
That's it... I have been here ever since..
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Similar to many, saw previews of the game on the net and in PC Gamer back in probably spring of 2001, when only the IL-2 was planned to be flyable (can you imagine that! That plane gets really dusty these days!). Looked decent and I thought about how I haven't played a WWII sim since Janes WWII Fighters, and before that Wings of Glory and all the Dynamix stuff. I kept my eye on it's progess and said it's time for a new WWII combat flight sim if it's any good. Got the demo in fall of 01 and instantaneously after taking off, knew I had to get the full version. The P-39 and MiG-3 took almost the whole runway to take off, you had to trick and coax your plane into doing the maneuvers you wanted it to do. I simply enojed the depth and the workload put on the pilot, the realism plus immesive visuals are what did it for me,bought it in December of '01 and that was that.