Biggest disappointment of 2011

[Sephirius]

Short version?

Buggy as a motherfucker.

I'd say totally unplayable and blatantly not finished. When a game ships with what is obviously placeholder sounds and sound engine you know it's bad.

Which is dumb as hell, because they could have just updated the engine from IL2:1946 and had the modelers/sound guys go nuts making all the assets, and it would sell like hotcakes. There was no need for the complete travesty that all IL2 games have been since.

[Julhelm]

Well if you look at some of the old Storm of War footage, that's exactly what it was. IMO there is nothing substantially new about the engine - it's basically the 1946 engine with bits and pieces added to it over ~6 years of development. No wonder it ran like an unoptimized piece of shit. I remember my friend demoing the game on his quadcore dual crossfire rig and he got framerates in the single digits over London.

[weemadando]

I had issues with it where all my cockpit textures were rainbow-ey and shadows were exploding with glorious blossoms.

[Julhelm]

I didn't find the original Il-2 any fun so I passed on Cliffs of Dover. Wisely so. I did buy that new Take on Helicopters game and it turned out to run like a turd on my system and I haven't really bothered with it because of that so I guess that kinda counts as a disappointment.