Cliffs of Dover released

IanHenry

IanHenry

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I know this is probably the most appropriate place for this, but I think some people may be interested to know that Cliffs of Dover has been released over at JustFlight. It’s going to take me 8 hours to download it though!
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Regards,
Ian.
 
IanHenry said:
I know this is probably the most appropriate place for this, but I think some people may be interested to know that Cliffs of Dover has been released over at JustFlight. It’s going to take me 8 hours to download it though!
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Regards,
Ian.
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Very cool. Thanks for the heads-up, Ian!
 
Yeah,It's been a VERY LONG time in the making,I've seen some vidss,Looks like groundbreaking stuff! Hopefully They got those"Filter" issues straightened out for International release.
 
Does anyone know what the flyable aircraft are in this? I've been trying to find out but apart from references to 12 flyable aircraft and 'Spitfire, ME 109 and Stuka' (like obviously!) I haven't found any more detail.
Please tell me they aren't counting multiple variants of aircraft as more than one flyable aircraft?
 
I noticed that even if you have purchased it through Just Flight that it is still required to use Steam. So will you actually be able to play it now? Steam says it will not unlock for 2 weeks, 5 days, 21 hrs at the time of this posting.
 
...So if you're not online, DON'T buy it...(?) I paid for IL2 46 just to have it require a web connection when in fact, I didn't have one...(!) and now, they want to force that Steam on you?...
...seems a bit bl**dy conniving to me :a1451::banghead:

...or as Mr. Horse said: ''Nope, I don?t like it.''
 
Thanks for the tip, Ian ! Downloading now via Steam. It said download time is 50 minutes but i am at 70% already after a couple minutes. I do have a pretty fast internet connection...

I had my reservations for this Steam thing too but after using it for about a year now ( mostly Railworks2 ) i think it's the best thing since sliced bread. Super fast and never a problem.

90% now. I'll report back once i checked out the Spitfire AND the White Cliffs of Dover... :cool:

Cheers,
Jan
 
I'm really interested to hear some initial impressions once it's running. Does it run well on your FSX rig? Is it as immersive as it looks? What about those notoriously twitchy snap-roll dynamics that Oleg seems to have been so fond of in the past?

Inquiring minds want to know. I'll bet a lot of the lads here are interested as well.
 
FYI for people faced with a long download from Just Flight...

1) Start up steam and go to the Library page.
2) Bottom left, click on +Add a game. Select "Activate a product on Steam"
3) Enter the key that Just Flight sent in the email.
4) Game is now activated and downloads at a much, much faster rate then I was getting with the Just Flight downloader. (averaging 1.1 mbs and on Just Flight I was getting about 160 kbs)

Also, this is working for me in Canada where the actual release is not supposed to be for almost 3 weeks. Still skeptical it will let me play when downloaded, but hopeful :)

** Edit - well it does work :) If you are in North America, have not purchased it yet and don't want to wait, Just Flight is the way to go.
 
Well, my (very) first impression : some really good, some really bad. Extremely amazing cockpits (!) which are accompanied by THE most terrible engine sounds i've ever heard in a sim. Makes me feel like driving a lawn mower at best. Unbelievable really.. :confused:

Lots of stuttering going on while flying low over medium/dense scenery, which, to me, looks a bit cartoonish. Water looks very nice. White Cliffs of Dover too ! :cool:

Flyable external models/textures are the beez kneez too. Extremely realistic specular on canopy/cockpit glass. Britain : Spit I, Ia, IIa, Hurri, Blenheim and Tigermoth. Germany: Bf109,110, He111, Ju87,88. Italy: Br.20,G50.

I believe for the first time Oleg's amazing cockpits are clickable now be it only minimal.

I am hoping something will turn up to reduce the stuttering ( still trying various settings/resolutions ) but we're probabely stuck with these tremendous awful engine sounds which are an abomination compared to the superb cockpits and external models.

Tested on Alienware Area 51ALX, i7-980x, GF GTX480, 12GB 1600Mhz Tri Channel Mem, W7 Pro 64.

cheers,
jan
 
Man, stuttering with an I7? Okay, I don't feel like I need to buy a new computer now.. I am running on a E8500 dual core at the 1280 resolution with most of my settings on low-medium and AA at 8.. I hope something can be done with the way the scenery objects appear, that seems to be the biggest effect with stuttering when flying over the towns.. Otherwise its pretty fluid for me..
 
my download link on direct n drive is still saying pre order looks like just flight jumped the gun

:jump: and put it out early ahead of the do date which as april 26th last time i checked
 
Just Flight is (I believe) a UK based company and the game is released in UK and Australia. No gun jumping at all ;)

What is surprising is that people who live in regions where it is not released can buy it through them and activate it.
 
Okay I got this because I loved the earlier IL-2 titles and haven't touched any kind of sim in over eight months. But... everything about this looks like a rushed release. I think the main reason for bad performance is that multicore support is "broken" (developers even admitted this themselves), so it does not matter if you have i7 or whatever.

Maybe they were having financial problems, and to continue the development this was the way they choose to gain some funding, releasing it unfinished... who knows. Anyway it needs huge pile of patches to be playable, and maybe two more years of developing.

Well back to playing some other stuff then...:salute:
 
I expect UbiSoft did push it out the door before everything was fixed and finished. After years of development, I'm sure they want to see some return on their financial investment into this sim.
 
mind you ... first announced nearly 7yrs ago .... you'd have thought in that time they coulda been able to at least make it run smooth and support more than 4 gigs of ram !:monkies:
 
Yeah, you would have thought so. I guess they were too busy making incredibly well detailed models of ground vehicles, grass, trees, and buildings to be troubled with making a smooth running combat flight simulator. Oh, well, there's always the modded versions of Il-2 to keep me happy when I want to shoot something down or blow something up.
 
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