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Huh, where am I bashing Gamespot? I gave them credit for justly panning a very buggy game. However PC Games (Russia) gave it a 90, two very opposite scores. Hmm, interesting the Russian reviewer is ahem, Russian, just like Maddox dev team. Can you connect the dots now?

Mainstream media outlet Gamespot panned it with a 4 outta 10. But interesting PC Games (Russia) gave it a 90 out of 100. Gotta be somewhat biased for their countrymen. http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/il-2-sturmovik-cliffs-of-dover Oh well, we'll see how long it takes them to patch it up to make it worth purchasing. Let's all say it together with huge amount of sarcasm, "Thank you Ubisoft!". :mad:

Great job Chris, well done!

Wow, now that's sad. :eek:

Generally I don't look too hard into forum feedback. Sometimes they tend to be overloaded with tech problems from people not computer savvy. But I'm sure there's still definitely some valid problems. We'll see how bad when some reviews from various media outlets get released. Either way, I'm not too worried about it, the game will still get much support and backbone from the dev team. As this is the first of many releases with the new engine. Btw, Olegs departure was first confirmed IIRC back around x-mas. Also I think he said this was just like a temporary leave of absence. Who could blame him though, been making WWII fighter sims for over a decade now.

Now that was scary, I was starting to believe all the paranoid "Ubisoft wants to destroy IL2!" panic attack posts.

Ha, just saw this on TV the other day. Check out this 89 year old WWII Medal of Honor recipient Woody Williams strapping on a 70 pound flamethrower. He used one on Iwo Jima. Damn he's still gung ho, hats off to him! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9OsYSCshec

In the meantime, I highly recommend Andrew Wilson's book "Flamethrower". It's about his experience with the Crocodile flame tank from Normandy to Arnhem.

Bummer, the release date got pushed back a month, it's now April 26th. http://www.bluesnews.com/s/119863/il-2-sturmovik-cliffs-of-dover-next-month

Well your dxdiag said you have just 9.7G HD space. I'd try freeing up some space so you have at least 20G. It's worth a shot at least.

Nice catch, this can have an impact on games. I recall a few years ago whenever my HD went below about 15G I noticed performance drop in some games. Besides defragging, you could go to disk cleanup to clear up more space. Also use the "more options" tab and also clean up system restore and shadow copies. I'm on Vista and these backups are usually unnecessary and chew up large amounts of disk space. Just ran mine myself, got 22G from clearing system restore and shadow copies. Then got 1.2G from the normal disk cleanup. Unless your having trouble with your PC then should be fine deleting all but the most recent restore point. I had to change my system restore settings in task manager. That and shadow copies were chewing up tons of space.

I'm of course talking about their sales and not the normal MSRP. But they have sales all week practically, their midweek sale is tues-thurs and weekend deal is fri-sun. But it doesn't take half a year for games to go for a decent sale. I think your missing some deals. Here's just a few examples: Mafia 2 - 75% off just four months post launch Just Cause 2 - 50% off four months later AvP - 33% off just one month later Go ahead and look into it more and you'll see for yourself. Find a game on Steam, look at the launch date, then click on 'related news' at bottom right to find it's first sale.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initial_public_offering Yes, Freespace 2 is a classic, one my all time favs.

No no no, realism would be your house shaking and falling apart when your troops get caught in a arty barrage in-game. Now that's realism!

Did anybody else catch what Steam/Valve did when BF knocked the prices down on the ToW series last year(October)? Yup, they had a big sale for the ToW series at the same time. I forget the exact prices, but I do recall the Steam sale was much cheaper than the prices here. I figure this isn't good for BF getting undercut like that, or any company for that matter. Steam is by far the cheapest way to buy games. In the past couple of years it's gotten bigger. Directodrive, Gamersgate, and even Amazon is getting in on matching the Steam sales. Watch, in less than 3 months time Shogun will be on sale for half off.

What are your graphics settings at? I've just recently discovered the model quality is the FPS killer for me. While the texture setting can be maxed with no impact on performance at all. Also by using FRAPs I learned I can also max out anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering settings with no impact on performance, done through NCP. Since upgrading my graphics card from a 9800GTX+ to a GTX 570 monster. This sucker chews through the latest games at high res with graphics, AA, and AF maxed. Then the card telepathically tells me "Hey what did you expect, you just spent $330 on me, I destroy high end games for a living." And then I respond telepathically back "Yes you certainly do, you are fulfilling your job, thank you very much."

Yep, leave it to Emrys to ruin the feel good thread of the year. You should be ashamed of yourself and your conduct in this thread. Now apologize to him, do it, we're all waiting with great anticipation. Ok seriously, been coming here for a decade now. From my experience with other various sites/forums, this ranks easily right at the top.

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This is music to my ears!

OMG, this video is gonna rock, I can't wait!

Wow, great shot, love the troops standing in the HT ready to fire. P.S. BF is winning! (Sheen fever, catch it!)

A glorious day indeed! Thanks also for the pics and release date.

Yeah this is definitely much easier to understand, very useful mod. I'm sure glad I asked you about your text mod.