CLOD's big MOD wows Mengjiao

[MengJiao]

One of the guys with alpha access posted a video comparing the LaGG-3 and the 109 and says he's pleased that the devs are sticking to realism and that the LaGG is a dog but he's worried that this might make MP a bit of a ghost town.

I've been toying with signing up for the early access for BOS but the $100+ CDN price tag seems excessive.  I'm also a bit leery after CLOD.  I know some guys think it's decent with the TF 4 mod, but I just hate it.  Anyway, here's the video I was talking about.

   I'm leery too.  Mostly because apparently I will buy almost anything about WWII and almost any flight sim.  So BoS has two strikes against it since I know I will get it eventually.  So I wait as long as I possibly can and usually this pays off.  Meanwhile, I'm back to RoF and Caesar in Gaul.  See.  Neither one is about WWII and only one of them is a flgiht sim.

[sandman2575]

I'm also a bit leery after CLOD.  I know some guys think it's decent with the TF 4 mod, but I just hate it.  Anyway, here's the video I was talking about.

I can completely understand being leery of BoS given the CloD debacle, but I'm curious what it is you hate about CloD - ?  I'm not suggesting it's perfect, but I think there's a lot to enjoy here now.

ApeoftheYear's YouTube tutorials for CloD & BoS previews are terrific -- esp. with the former, I've learned a lot watching him.  (Of course, he makes everything look so easy -- he seems to be a damned good fighter sim pilot.) 

[Silent Disapproval Robot]

I think the main thing that I really can't stand about CLOD is the front-end UI.  It's just atrocious.  If I select a quick battle and pick something like low-level dogfight, I can't even do something as simple as select the nationality of the AI enemy.  I can assign them German planes but the game will always make them Italian and give the planes Italian markings.

The single player AI is still completely broken.  You can try to issue orders to your AI wingmen but they won't follow them.  Enemy AI is still on some sort of odd fuel/visiblity trigger.  If htey reach a certain fuel state, they'll immediately turn for home and fly straight and level even if you're right one their six, plinking away.

I also don't like the fact that anti-aliasing doesn't work well.  It makes it harder than it should be to ID targets at long range and discern their angle of motion.

[MengJiao]

I think the main thing that I really can't stand about CLOD is the front-end UI.  It's just atrocious.  If I select a quick battle and pick something like low-level dogfight, I can't even do something as simple as select the nationality of the AI enemy.  I can assign them German planes but the game will always make them Italian and give the planes Italian markings.

  For CLOD I use the editor.  It's very much the same as the old Il-2 editor.  I'm not trying to do anything elaborate so it works okay.

[sandman2575]

I think the main thing that I really can't stand about CLOD is the front-end UI.  It's just atrocious.  If I select a quick battle and pick something like low-level dogfight, I can't even do something as simple as select the nationality of the AI enemy.  I can assign them German planes but the game will always make them Italian and give the planes Italian markings.

The single player AI is still completely broken.  You can try to issue orders to your AI wingmen but they won't follow them.  Enemy AI is still on some sort of odd fuel/visiblity trigger.  If htey reach a certain fuel state, they'll immediately turn for home and fly straight and level even if you're right one their six, plinking away.

Yeah, I agree this kind of thing is stupid.  You can set it up so that RAF planes have LW markings and vice versa --  why would I want to do this?? 

I also don't like the fact that anti-aliasing doesn't work well.  It makes it harder than it should be to ID targets at long range and discern their angle of motion.

I thought it was just my bad eyesight and generally atrocious situational awareness that was causing this.   ;)

May be just my imagination, but I thought you could force better levels of AA for CloD through the nvidia control panel.  I also thought the "SweetFX" injector improved things, but I recently removed that because I thought it was causing the game to crash.

[Silent Disapproval Robot]

Maybe you can if you have an nVidia card.  I have an AMD card and forcing AA doesn't work.

[Silent Disapproval Robot]

This is a pretty god damned epic vid!

[Rayfer]

LOL...was that game footage or a movie? Epic!

[Rekim]

Woh. That was amazing.

[Staggerwing]

Pretty sharp!

Did you guys catch the 'Saint' graphic on the left front fuselage of one of the Hurris?  ;)

[MengJiao]

Pretty sharp!

Did you guys catch the 'Saint' graphic on the left front fuselage of one of the Hurris?  ;)

  the titles were odd in spots: not knowing its from it's and what's with "12 Months Later?"   Let's see, the footage is supposed to be from 1941 or the enthusiasts think Dunkirk happened in 1939?  One of the Big Things about the Battle of Britain is that it happened Right after the Battle of France.  The new regime in London had made a series of crucial decisions such as not sending any more squadrons to France and blowing up the French Fleet.  The whole Summer of 1940 happened bang-bang-bang!  And Churchill managed to stop the German momentum on all fronts with the Battle of Britain being the end of the Beginning (as the footage suggests).

[sandman2575]

That made my day.  Just spectacular. 

Need to update to the latest TF patch.  Wish I had even a fraction of the skill of some of those simmers.