So long Luthier. Thank you for all you have done for the community and the fantastic series which is IL2. I hope you have as much fun with your future endeavors as you did with IL2.

Take care buddy ~S~

I am not informed, just read some rumors on ATAG, SimHQ and sukhoi.ru forums. One rumor said Luthier moves to Asia to work on Korea sim for a different publisher. Another one said he is in the USA now.

Do you know of any reports of him wearing a handcuffed attache case...could be the best thing for the US since Operation Paperclip...all kidding aside, Korea would be cool

It's a bad new :(

I just want to know what happened with that? Sorry I don't have the game yet, but it's coming...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZC29KL_wSBo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHc04iRFFwA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QArJnYGoO9A

thx for your great work in the Il2 community.

No question. I would even say with Oleg they "stepped" on the giants: IL2 1946 is a milestone, a -still living- powerful collossus of a WW2 sim.

Thanks for the IL2 legendary WW2 simultators. They represent a huge step in the history of the genre, and this is something you, your team and of course Oleg Maddox can be proud of.

You have my gratitude,

S!

As many here, i hope to see you back with a new project soon. Good Luck!

Too bad CoD ended the way it did. The original IL2 series was awesome and team Daedalos seems to be able to tweak it even further. Maybe the new series that was just announced will approach the dimensions (maps, plane types etc) of the original series one day, we'll see.

Good luck!

Luthier,

I still remember the first day playing IL-2 like it was just yesterday: flying the MiG-3U hunting the German "window frame". And I am enjoying Clod, as I have since the day I bought it.

No matter what other people may say, CloD is a masterpiece. The feeling of flying alongside the White Cliff of Dover at dawn is so overwhelming that I completely forget it was just a sim and I'm sitting before my computer. You should be, even has to be proud of what you and your companions have achieved.

I feel a little bit said when I heard that 777 Studio took over the game. Not because they are bad developers, quite the contrary, not because the new game will be bad, one should not say anything which won't come in at least one year. But it is because I know no-one could surpass the old Maddox game in terms of passions and obsession they have for flying.

I just hope, even wish that those people "above" at 1C will change their mind and offer you a proper position in the development of the new game. Because IL-2 would never be the same without its own creators.

Too bad it had to end like this. Best of luck, Luthier!

Luthier,

Thank you very much for all you've done, for all your efforts.
Good luck!

With kind regards,
Ikarushin

Luthier, don't let the frustration possess you, you must go on and keep working on other simulation projects after some necessary rest. You live simulation like no other. Now you got the experience. You can analyse it all. But we want you back. If it's alongside with Oleg, much better!

Congrats for CoD, I'm one of these who entirely liked... yes, including the Su-26.

My respect!