Bah, technocratic approach by aviation engineer Oleg gave us the initial IL-2 that had excellent FM for its time but not even customizable skins.

If Dynamix hadn't folded depriving IL2 of serious competition IL2 would most likely be just a footnote in simhistory today.

Since then we have got the custom skins (with the important exception of defaults) and campaing generators have bravely but ultimately (IMO) unsuccessfully added life to the off-line experience.

All the while we have also got some half-dozen "most accurate ever" FM's, proving that it's a lot easier to adress FM/DM issues later than to add life and athmosphere to sim lacking them.

Very few people will notice that something is amiss when a British SPAD 7 performs as well as a Frech one, but everyone including the reviewers will notice if the campaing is lifeless.

So, where initial priorities should lie is pretty clear.


-It's the campaign engine, silly!-