Do any of you fellows remember FS2000? That was absolutely riddled with bugs and defects just like CFS3. Now look at Fs2002 and FS2004. Two outstanding games that work well.

CFS3 was a huge leap in graphics and things. Fly low over land on CFS2 then do the same with CFS3 with the Autogen on. I think thats an amazing difference.

Sooner or later M$ needed to change the graphics engine used by CFS. CFS2 is just about the best that can be got out of that engine so to move forwards a change was needed. And CFS3 was that change. Of course there were bugs and glitches, there are in all software. Especially new software. CFS4 will have the performance of CFS3 with better graphics, better hardware compatability and fewer glitches. Remember the change needed to be made at somepoint. And M$ thought that CFS3 was the time to do it.

I personally like CFS3. The planes look good and sound good. Whats more I can fly around my part of the world and recognise features in the landscape. (If you hadn't noticed, CFS3 offers the most accurate terrain mesh I've seen in FS and CFS.)

I know Tempest misses the turning fights of CFS1 and 2 but I personally found these fights too easy. Especially when you could single handedly tackle a flight of 8 Oscars in a Hurricane. I find a duel with an Go229 in a Tempest MkV in CFS3 most rewarding. Especially when you finally get a good hit and you see his engives catch fire.

And as for future sims, I want an North Africa/Mediteranian CFS. Just think about launching an attack on Taranto with a dozen Stingbags. Sadly though this is unlikely to happen because the Yanks didn't really play a part in that theatre. And I don't think Americans are too willing to buy games that don't really involve their country in any way at all.

I still think they made a mistake. I cannot agree that the aircraft look good in CFS3. From Spot View it's like looking at a goldfish in its bowl.

Until CFS3 raised its head FS/CFS had always allowed ongoing development of the sim as a whole. My old friend Bill Potvin always used to say there is only one Flight Simulator. CFS is simply a version of it*. Each new version had some improvements over the previous one & 3rd party files were compatible to some extent. This allowed ongoing development that contributed to FS & CFS alike. They took a step backwards with FS2000 & CFS2 was the improvement it should have been. This allowed the DVC & multi-LOD models to be developed ready for FS2002. Right - we're back on course - until CFS3 arrives. Arrrrrgh........! They did it again..............! What a complete cockup. These people couldn't run a pissup in the proverbial brewery.

FS9 came back on course & proves that you can improve the graphics considerably without changing the complete format. I agree with the others that a CFS4 based on the FS9 graphics engine is what I would like to have seen.

As I said previously this is completely irrelevant as the format has already been decided upon. This means that FS & CFS will go their separate ways from now on. I think this is a darned shame.

*PS. FS2000 = FS 7, CFS2 = FS 7.50, FS2002 = FS 8 etc.

PPS. Compare the amount of 3rd party aircraft already developed for FS9 in the few months since its release with the handful available for CFS3. I think this says it all.

i'm no usual guest in the CFS 2 forum,but i gotta say that i really would like to see a dynamic campaign again in CFS4. not like in CFS3, i want it more accurate,just like in falcon 4. of course this will be a much bigger effort to develop since the theatre of operations is quite big, but most of it is squaremiles of empty water. although many factors would have to be analyzed and processed by the computer, i think that this isn't a real problem since modern hardware i capable of doing so.

just my 0,03 €...

Can aircraft be created for IL-2?

I think most people stick with CFS because so much of it is compatible with the FS series.

Regards,
Stratobat

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CFS2 (With add-ons) betters IL-2 for me...... (I do own both IL-2 & F.B.) CFS3, hmm, don't start me!

By the way there are beaucoup missions and campaigns for the russian game. Th emissionsand campaigns a very easy .Don't do quicks any more just make up my own.
Just like in this game

One nice feature of CFS3 to those of us on 56k is the fact that aircraft are a lot smaller in file size. You can have a fantastically detailed aircraft that comes in a smaller file than a mediocre CFS2 or FS aircraft. I don't think i've seen a CFS3 aircraft yet in a file bigger than 3mb. Where i've seen CFS2 aircraft in files as big as 11mb.