Erdem

-1 Actions like these will open ways for piracy. Completely removing account login will result in programs like Hamachi being used to play over the internet. Logging in every 10 days can also be exploited by using someone elses account. I believe ED is walking on a tight line, they are catering for a niche market and if their games are pirated; it's pretty much end of story for them.

We also need chat rooms in server browser ASAP.

I think dumping Ubisoft as the publisher has been the best thing happened to ED. It's possible to self-publish these days with the introduction of digital distribution. Ubisoft killed the Silent Hunter series and dumbed down the Rainbow Six series, now I think it's IL-2's turn. I hope IL-2 team will somehow manage to find another publisher or do it themselves.

Argh, the waiting is killing me while everyone else is flying! Please ED give us some news :)

I'm waiting as well.

Congrats! Any words on Steam version?

I can't believe how you guys can make comments like "Steam is intrusive" while you're happily buying ED games which are Activation/Deactivation limited, but also were Starforce protected in the past. I personally feel shafted by ED after BS was put on Steam because it didn't have the Activation/Deactivation protection.

You can watch producer notes off Youtube. Though it's weird that there are no training tracks provided with 1.02. Isn't that the reason the patch delayed so much?

So after 2 years of lost sales, lots of popularity and "We don't do Steam, we're just hardcore." comments, ED finds about Steam! Congrats. At least A-10 will do much better. Edit: It also doesn't have Starforce protection, just regular unintrusive Steam DRM according to the Steam sale page. Things just got better for me.

Finally. I stopped playing IL-2 because of that. It was so annoying.

I do. Though my FPS dips a bit with an Intel i5 and an HD5850. It looks absolutely horrible and like a garbled pixel mess otherwise.

It's actually smoother for me. All is well.

Flaming Cliffs 3? :D

Well that's quite obvious, but they don't have the budget their rivals has.

Check out these vids, they're made by Russians and very informative. Lots of good footage. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0op5wsxNgdo&feature=related

No BS compatibility yet?

So we'll have to put up with 10 shortcuts on our desktops in near future? Uh, doesn't seem very logical to me. DCS series can at least be grouped up.

After installing FC2, I now have 4 separate shortcuts on my desktop for both DCS+FC2. A-10C module isn't far away now, so after it arrives there will be 6 shortcuts that I have to use to switch between games. I'm wondering if there is something planned about this shortcut traffic? Sort of an unified launcher?

I think it looks awesome. A cross between F-22's slickness and Su-27's evil looks :)

Well I finally caved in, and the game is indeed improved on almost every aspect. Props to ED. I hope they make good money with FC2 and keep giving us some nice DCS modules :)

Incredible, I'm waiting for your models :)

Ironic :D

Incredible footage and nice info, thanks.

Excellent song GG :D

This looks like a bug to me. Both missiles seem to be tracking their targets.