1. #111
    DKoor's Avatar Banned
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    If stock IL2 has better campaigns I would still be playing them.
    These days I also rarely fire up that game.
    Real life stuff + years that have passed... have done the trick.
    I rather invest the time in reading some books.

    But... playing IL2 from time to time can still be fun.
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    Originally posted by DKoor:
    If stock IL2 has better campaigns I would still be playing them.
    These days I also rarely fire up that game.
    Real life stuff + years that have passed... have done the trick.
    I rather invest the time in reading some books.

    But... playing IL2 from time to time can still be fun.
    Basically that's exact same thing I do buddy. I never get into the full bob campaign or il-2's.

    They are both just nice diversions for me. Games are ment to be enjoyed. Not ment to be work Imo.
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    Originally posted by stalkervision:
    Pictures do prove stuff if your being honest with them.

    Mp is not for me. I see lots of people think the same way. I have had enough sillyness with that aspect of sim games to last me a lifetime. Also I don't particularly like the Il-2 FM's with certain planes I favor.

    Also I tend to like the BOB sky graphics more then Il-2 but that is just a personal thing.

    These are just personal prefrences.

    Il-2 has a lot of things I do like. The game is a big supermarket of choices. BOB is BOB. Wish it had a bit more. What it does it does well imo. That's why I alternate the two.
    I played online from 2001 to 2003 and whilst they were good times, especially flying with my squad in co-ops and VOW the sillyness you refer to got a bit much, I may never go back.

    I actually do not play much offline anymore either ... in the last 3 months my time spent related to IL2 would be divided thus:

    posting on various forums ... 5%
    researching material for skins/missions 20%
    skinning and mission writing 50%
    testing skins/missions 20%
    actually playing the game 5%

    In other words I spend the same time on the forums than I do playing


    A lot of what I do "in game" most people would find just stupid. For example I recently decided it would be fun to make a mission where you had parked your plane between a clothes line and a toilet behind a house in a village in Slovakia and had to take off whilst being bombed. I spent several nights in FMB trying bush takeoffs from various mountain villages in a J8A until I found a spot where takeoff was difficult but reliably possible if you did it right.
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    I can totally relate to everything you say buddy.

    IMO none of that stuff you do for yourself is stupid. It is for your own entertainment and maybe a few others and there is nothing whatsoever wrong with that.
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    I have come to cope with almost all of the AI quirks in this game... But one I just can't seem to not get driven bat sh*t crazy by...

    I having an AI friendly shoot me down when I'm working on downing an enemy plane. Really... Lots of
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    Yeah thats extremely ... annoying

    Some little things annoy me too, how every time you load the game and watch replay tracks you need to configure the settings e.g loop or don't loop replay, those kind of things. Unlike a lot of "GUI" stuff theres no ini file reference to these settings.
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