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#2758044 - 07/04/09 02:52 AM New from the maker of IL2 Mat Manager
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A new mod from the creator of IL2-Mat Manager, Aces High 2, takes immersion to a new level for fans of the Battle of Britain era.

Immersion: a state of being deeply engaged or involved. In the flight sim world, it means a game with the ability to suspend disbelief, and allow the player to see, think and feel as though they are behind the stick of Bf109 E4 over the Channel on June 1940.

The wind whistles over the airframe, the engine throbs, nearby flak bursts so loud you can feel it in your chest, the joystick jumps as a line of cannon shells stitches its way across your wing, your heart beats harder and your palms sweat as you twist and turn avoiding the fighter on your six. The landscape whizzing by looks photographic whether seen from altitude or treetop level. That's one kind of immersion.

The other kind of immersion comes from the feeling of being there 'in time'. Is there a feeling of period? Could you believe you were in a 1940s world? Is the language appropriate, the interface, the historical accuracy? It's the immersion that comes from wanting to be able to, say, sit in the cockpit of Squadron Leader James Leatheart's Spitfire on 6 June 1940 at Rochford, and know it is represented in the right skin, at the right airfield, and being able to look out your cockpit at the famous P9398 KL-B numbered Spitfire with the Kiwi emblem, being flown by Alan Deere. That is 'period immersion.'

For the first time, there is a flight sim which not only models the correct markings and skins of every single Bf109, Spitfire and Hurricane which flew in the Battle of Britain, but now also the many hundreds of Luftwaffe bombers with their colourful spinners and emblems...


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http://www.freewebs.com/heinkill/
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#2758172 - 07/04/09 06:55 AM Re: New from the maker of IL2 Mat Manager [Re: HeinKill]
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#2758196 - 07/04/09 07:24 AM Re: New from the maker of IL2 Mat Manager [Re: Simbo 123 SQDN]
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Ah, not quite old news! It hasn't been released yet (it is part of the upcoming 2.10 patch) and I was lucky enough to get an advance copy of the mod to install and try, from Aces High.

So in fact I feel just a little ahead of the curve actually!

I'm going to add some fly by videos to the article to give people a sense of the breadth of the work, it's quite something

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#2758234 - 07/04/09 08:17 AM Re: New from the maker of IL2 Mat Manager [Re: HeinKill]
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Originally Posted By: Simbo 123 SQDN



Ah, not quite old news! It hasn't been released yet (it is part of the upcoming 2.10 patch) and I was lucky enough to get an advance copy of the mod to install and try, from Aces High.

So in fact I feel just a little ahead of the curve actually!

I'm going to add some fly by videos to the article to give people a sense of the breadth of the work, it's quite something

cheers


It`s nice being ahead of the curve is`nt it !! wink
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#2758275 - 07/04/09 09:26 AM Re: New from the maker of IL2 Mat Manager [Re: Simbo 123 SQDN]
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#2758417 - 07/04/09 02:38 PM Re: New from the maker of IL2 Mat Manager [Re: F19_Klunk]
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I know, but I also know there are a lot of fans of Aces IL2 Mat Manager here so thought there may be some interest...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9hBIgcU48A
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