How do I feel about the game at this point?!!
My answer is completely unambiguous; absolutely thrilled and delighted.
Maybe my standards are lower than some but for me Great Battles is the premier WWII flight-sim bar none, especially after the latest patch.
I say this despite huge disappointment over the thwarted foray into the Pacific by 1C studios.
The VR experience in Great Battles, imho, is also excellent and noticeably better than DCS (if only we could have VR in IL2 1946). The immersion factor with Great Battles in VR is, again imho, about as good as it could get, because you obviously had to look around a lot in WWII air combat - for example physically looking over your shoulder to observe the explosions from your low level bombing run, is so intuitive and simple that other in-game views such as switching cameras and such-like feels very clumsy and distracting.
The trouble is, despite being fairly ancient myself and well past retirement age, I still work practically full time, so the few spare hours I have, evenings and weekends, that I can devote to mapbuilding and generally tinkering with 46, are at the moment spent in deep immersion in the skies over the Rhineland, so I get nothing else done.
The P51 gyro gun-sight is an absolute highlight and a personal favourite of mine; and the aircraft damage models are excellent; and the ..... well I won't go on
As for dumb AI, well I have a heck of a job to nail em with any ease.
Only one real niggle, the depiction of the towns and cities, while technically superb, is poorly designed - the boundaries between buildings and countryside are far too sharp and when flying low down, unlike the general terrain, it looks fake. But I'm sure this will be addressed as the game evolves.
Overall however, the maps are superb. Still say it would have been so much easier for the 1C mapbuilders to make Midway or the Solomons, but maybe one day.
Squash