It did not go GOLD.... it went Bronze because Ubifail sucked at launching this game.

I wonder how Oleg feels about how Ubi is treating his baby..............i would be pretty pissed!:evil:

I think these guys are going to work on the program untill the night before release. How much time does it take to get a Gold file distributed to a bunch of file servers? Anyone with a disk is going to be downloading a last minute release patch. No hardcopy for me this time. I'll get it online with the release patch and burn a backup copy.

I don't know who set the release deadline but from reading between the lines there's still a whole lot of optimizing to be done. Il2 got released when Oleg was ready and they even had time to make a demo. This time they're fighting a publisher set deadline. Would not even surprise me if they can't get it done by March 24th and push it up by a few months. Olegs not going to release buggy software. Maybe feature wise incomplete, but not buggy.

There will always be bugs. No game released lately has been bug free.

Its the publisher that rules the roost and has the final say about things such as release dates.

D'know something, part of me feels that the development is quite ahead of the screens we see, I think those screens are older maybe a month or two ago. I have noticed that alot of the screens are the same pictures but from different angles and aircraft. The videos are rehashes of old videos too.
Oleg said himself the 25th is SOLID so I think it will be so, he would not say that if he was unsure, and as someone else has said, he wont release something if its got a game breaking bug in it.

Time to be positive I think, if anyone deserves the flak its definately UBI with the dreadful marketing and advertisement!

Il-2 was. It was years before I found the first bug, and a couple more years before I even managed to crash it, and that was after they had started adding in Dx9 effects to it.

Doesn't mean its bugfree tho , every setup is different on the PC pretty much, a game that is "that" perfect technically is unreal to achieve, it really is.
That said im sure IL2 always has been one of the most polished series ever and an excellent flight sim with a lot of passion behind.

It was not.

I agree with zauii, no program or game is perfect, there is always something wrong somewhere (too many PC configurations in HARDWARE, drivers, Antivirus, etc).

And a plane flying top speed with landing gear down is a bug too (that was one of the early general bugs encountered I think, the past is all fuzzy hahaha).

But I rarely have seen a game so polished and optimized like the original Il-2, it was able to take advantage of every kind of effects and full GPU power of the cards of its release time. And I could not make it crash, I saw the first CTD with it like 5 years after release, and since then I only had 3 o 4 more CTD on differents PC (I switch every 3 years or so) and that count the current MOD period

Two weeks, be sure.

Sorry, couldn't resist... :D