It looks stunning, really excited for it and can't wait for release.

Also, everyone please remember it won't be perfect day one so don't expect it to be.

Does anyone have a suggestion as to who is the best to pre order this from?Has Ubisoft already made it possible thru this siteor will in the immediate future- I wanna be the first on my block to get it..ok ok probably the onlyone on my block to get it!!!

Friday update should be good this week! Should be no need for secrecy now. :)

yehaaaaaa!!!i just cant believe this is true!!i am so exited like a boy on x-mas evening.
if the trailer shows ingame graphics, then i wonder that nobody mentioned the clouds and the morning fog yet.looks reaaallly stunning!!the next two months will be the longest in my life i think.

Oooh, hadn't thought of that!

lol, I wait to see Tree_UK's joy outburst.
:)

All we need now is that Glorious Official "It's gone Gold" Announcement.

excellent news!
uh?

Wait, doesn't someone have to eat someone elses' underwear since CoD is coming out now?

video enough for you?
*edit* having read the rest of the thread, i'll take that as a no.
PICS!

I'm fairly positive that if a patch is released during next Spring then he'll maintain that it has, with that patch, reached the stage at which it should have been released; it was rushed out too early and he was right all along.

Anyways - damn, this is going to be a tough couple of months.

Hi Luthier, Oleg and all the Team.

This is excellent news today. Thank you for this information.

Long live CoD !!!!!

And mine is on the release date of March 25:th so thanks for my best birthday present up to date ;)

Thank you Oleg and team and congratulations to the bab...ehr sim! sim!:grin:

This announcement really deserves a new killer PC.
Core I7 2600 K OC to 4.3 Ghz , GTX 580, 8 MB DDR3 , SSD 80 GB, 26'' Acer monitor , a new HOTAS (warthog?)
Probably will do the job...:cool:

Great news.

You have made my week!

I guess I had better start practicing with the Hurri, as it will be my ride, unless of course the Gladiator, Anson, or Defiant are flyable.

:cool:

Renegade pilots as in Polish, French, etc., pilots flying for RAF?

This is going to be the longest thread ever on this forum... More than 12 pages in one day!

Awesome news, and I completely agree with Kristorf: I can't believe the hypocrites here, who have slammed members in the past for pointing our historical or realistic inaccuracies in the sim, who are now moaning about the game's release. I've been waiting at least 5 years for this sim, and this news is perfect.
Cheers team: I wish you a happy, and prosperous, 2011 :D
Blue skies :cool:

im curious when it will be available in the shops in austria!!!cant wait

Does this mean there won't be a Friday update? Bummer

Nope those are Germans flying Spits with German markings! :lol:

Great news!! just enough time to sort my upgrade!! roll on march!!

Lets hope we get to see and hear a bit more in the updates too :)

We should see a dedicated website soon with more info.

Thank you so much!the best news this year so far!I will have to improve my fly skill because right now i suck.Good luck with finishing the game release and i hope you will manage to put in what ever you intend to!

1st post in these forums, just to say I am damn exited about this. Good show 1C!

Ooooooh.


http://static2.cdn.ubi.com/gamesites...screen-018.jpg

Website: http://il2sturmovik.ubi.com/cliffs-o...ming-soon.aspx

Well done guys

long awaited game as for many

now i can also do the computor upgrade ive been holding out on for ages

what do you guys reccomend
was thinking a i7 930 based computor
what ram 4-6 gb?
ssd hdd
gfx?

any ideas appreciated

Not too less memory, chap?

Pre-orders are also up, £49.99 for the collectors edition.

Hmmm wonder if other re sellers will sell it?

Wow, with that amount of memory I will be able to play only chess in the PC:rolleyes:
Sorry, my mistake: 8GB RAM.
Thanks for correcting me.:)

Come on... SO!

Never was so much owed by so many to SO few

It one of the most famous quotes in the friggin world so get it right ;)

look at the bottom of the page.

"Storm of War, Ubisoft and the Ubisoft logo are trademarks of Ubisoft entertainment ..."

Thank you Oleg and team. Simply the best news. Very, very excited now.

PPanPan

We can only hope it's a typo. I'm pretty sure the Polish pilots in RAF planes were on the same side as the Brits, I really don't want to be fighting them (unless i'm in a 109).

Probably =SLO=Hellcat is right.
That´s the logical explanation , the annoucement was a little confused, probably the Ubi guys doesn´t know much about the BoB history...

This should change the temperament of these forums for sure.

The updates should be fueled with information that has been concealed.

Like the system spec for instance... :rolleyes:

Thankyou Oleg, Luthier and team

I think the "fight against renegade pilots" may be about online play - as you often face then enemy flying the same plane. ie - you can set up an online war with all planes available to both sides maybe?

...or a 'what if' scenario with Adolf Galland getting his Squadron of Spirfires?!



Any suggestions on how I approach my wife about buying a new PC...:(


Do not worry about campaigns - I have at least 7 already planned...


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IMHO Saying that is going to be release but not tell you what System Requirements will have It's absurd, you need them to know if you need a new PC or but a new video card

Huzzar!
 

Excellent news!!! Thanks for the info.

As others have posted; time for that new PC.... :D

Hmm, Ubi has only PC download pre-orders at this time at 49.99 EUR
Better wait for the collector´s edition.

First: quick bit of PR nitpicking. It's the British Army, but the Royal Navy and Royal Air Force.

Vets/historians might be a little miffed to see mention of the "British Airforce". There is no such entity - it's the RAF. Especially in a product like this, that's quite important!

Second: Woohoo! Will be awaiting news of delivery/download options before purchasing. I'm in North America so not sure what the best method of acquiring a collector's box would be (I'll take a download for the game, if it's via Steam or other such system).

That linked screenshot (0018) is gorgeous. Most of the others have been seen before.

Congrats 1C & devs, can't WAIT to see the full thing running on a high-spec system!

Cheers, Spinner

I can hardly believe this day has arrived. Wonderful news.

Agreed. I can't in good conscience buy this game if the DRM goes too far. And neither could I play my small part in making the sim a commercial success by recommending it to friends. Both things I ver much want to be able to do.

I'd happily buy 3 or more copies - of the collector's edition, too - if there was no DRM at all. Which might as well be the case since DRM doesn't work. But then I guess we can't expect executives working for Ubisoft to be in touch with reality.

I'm new to this forum...I just wanted to add my excitement and thanks to the new up-and-coming IL-2. Sweetness!!!

I'm truly excited for the announcement of Cliffs of Dover but I can't but dream a little about the possibilities in the future of a North African campaign/DLC/Mod. I'm just dreaming, so no offense to what was just announced, CoD.:grin:

Yes, but will you - will you really buy 3 copies or are they just cheap words? There is bound to be some DRM, I'm totally fine with online activation - once.

I wonder if the shops..Not online stores but places in town will get any collector editions.

I dislike the name Duke Nukem Fornever in the same sentence as CoD! It shares the title "biggest vaporware in history" with Elite IV.

Yes. At least three. The sim, to me, is worth that much. I'll happily supply evidence on release day. If!

does that screenie look retouched?

I have a simple suggestion that I'm sure won't make any difference, but wouldn't it be nice if the preorder for the collectors edition came with a free download version on release day, so that no one has to worry about not being able to play if there box doesn't show up straight away. (although I suppose the servers will be dog-slow for the first few days anyway)

Of course he won't, just cheap words.

good catch! bad on Ubi$oft for not catching that. I hope that little error is not indicative of the support we can expect. If anyone comes across the system requirements, please put that in a new thread so we don't have to go through a million pages of an older thread.
Flyby out

If the computer you have now somehow falls off the computer table while you were cleaning it. You will need a new and improved model. I drove my Datsun B210 into a wall once. My next car was a Mustang GT 5.0:grin:

Trailer is really boring for this FANTASIC GAME. What happened??????
Soundtrack really sucks, where is Vera Lynn? :-P :(:(

I hope engine sounds are "ingame"

Have u guys ever watched one of Jafa´s videos( trailers)


The setting, music,.... everything..oh man
The "feeling" the "atmosphere"........ iam just disappointed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVfBdlVPFx8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhYVG...eature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTnz1...eature=related
.................................................. ...........................

Have I missed something?

When did the rename take place???

Wow, great news, hats off to the dev. team, I'm sure its been a struggle for quite a few years and it must be quite a relief to see a finished product. Looks awesome. We need some really nice videos now :)

damn right :grin:

Fail @ reasoning.
No wonder the niche is dying , we're a small community as it is, but this....

so, an online verification ONCE (as was announced by a UBI official in the german UBI forum) is too much ??

And good music

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xITLB...h+div-1r-12-HM

i hope we will have this engine sounds

White Cliffs of Dover... from the bottom of my heart...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUx3M...watch_response

Actually in relationship to how people make condecending statments about the plane that won the battle over the plane that lost it, calling it a sissyfire as if the guys who fly it are only doing so to get kills easier. Apparently the assumption that it is non-historical modeling or some such. I think going around posting such statements make the poster seem like a snot nosed teen who knows absolutely nothing about history and is attempting a troll. I think you got the analogy you just chose to see it otherwise, Now do you get it?

damn i would kill for this 3d grass ^^ :-P:-P:-P
look at the color of the forrest just wow
holly cow
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRuAa...eature=related

Well another one for the ignore list....

Absolutely, there is never too much whining whether it's your wedding day, a lottery jackpot or a release info of your favourite title after five years of waiting! :-P

(Couldn't resist, peace out =)

Where are the linked images???

This is also a great pic:
http://static2.cdn.ubi.com/gamesites...screen-012.jpg

Others...not so much:
http://static2.cdn.ubi.com/gamesites...screen-014.jpg

I just hope they can find someone with a decent computer in the next months. So they can present some screenshots with modern features like high resolution textures or anti-aliasing.

Thanks for the asst

I really wish Tree was here... ;)

Really? You must have accumulated a pretty long one by now judging by your contentious comments, I just find it pretty odd that people post on forums just to insult others about the choice of airplane to fly in a game. It's not football, it's a flight sim

clickable cockpit?

Great news. Thanks to Oleg and his awesome team. Can't wait to start flying.:)

Fantastic news! I'm having trouble believing this as it's been like a mirage for such a long time.

I'll arrange a good week-long vacation once this baby is out, arrange the family to another address and lock myself in with a new rig, a few copies of CoD, beer and pizza.

Never thought I could get such a vibe from a game release at this age. Life is good! :cool:

THANK YOU DEV TEAM!

One whine-o-rama however: How on earth can you mistype a Churchill quote like that on the homepage? Ever heard of google and proofreading? Well I guess it happens to everyone every now and then.. :P

Only one thing: the roundel for the collectors edition is definately not 1940 specific! Oh well, no problem :D

Am I missing something? Why are people saying that there is no German campaign?

"Exciting Single-Player Campaign – The campaign thrusts the player into the middle of the battle. The player will join the British Air Force to fight the German forces and renegade pilots on his own side, or join the German Luftwaffe and take part in meticulously recreated historical battles."

There is one.




Originally Posted by luthier View Post
There is a full German campaign. Please calm down. The announcement is just a little incomplete.

Sorry about the confusion!

where can i order my copy????....just joking, standing by to order where ever and when ever:cool:

I guess you didn't read through the three billion responses. I assume in the original text the german campaign was not clearly stated. People went ga-ga and after that luthier corrected the misunderstanding and I guess the original announcement was changed too.

A nice little storm in a teacup..

Ahh, just read that myself...but I still don't understand why people missed it..it's stated clearly.

You mean Silent Hunter 5, yes I was a big fan of SH3, SH5 came as a big disappointment.

But you can not compare SH5 with IL-2 COD, totally different situation, UBI is not developing IL-2 COD. And the initial IL-2 has a good history of support, not to worry!

People missed it because it wasn't in the original post.Notice the post has been editted.

Excellent news all around.

As for the "renegade pilots" bit, it could either mean pilots from occupied countries in RAF service, or simply AI wingmen that could be either inexperienced and incompetent or blatantly disobedient.

Repeat please! :grin:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXf1bhEEXd0

I mostly fly axis but
a) there's no fw-190 yet and
b) the goodies in the package are very tempting either way
so i'll probably go for the collector's edition.

Also, i like the idea someone posted about making a download available with the installation files, so people who are waiting for their physical disc to arrive in the mail can start playing right away.

For example you could create an account on the title's dedicated website, input your order number from the webshop you bought it from and it would unlock a download option on your account. This would be good for us since we could start flying right away (depending on your internet speed and the server load on their end, you could have the game as early as late evening on the day of release), but also good for them since it would boost sales during the early days when titles are selling for full price.

It would also be an extra incentive to get the collector's edition, while otherwise some people who live in somewhat out of reach places might be put off by the long delivery times and opt for a download version instead.

Overall, excellent news and exciting times ahead, plus a special cheer for including the new multiplayer mode without skimping on the the offline content/campaigns. Like someone mentioned before, even if some fictional missions make an appearance (like the screenshot from igrommir with the damsel in distress), it will only serve to highlight the customizability (is that even a word? lol) and potential of the mission editor.

I would say i can't wait for March but i'm generally a patient guy, so i usually don't get all anxious and excited when there's still a month or more on the deadline clock. In that sesne, what i really can't wait for is this week's Friday updates.

Now that the cat's out of the bag, i suspect we could be seeing a demonstration of some of the special features that we all know are going to be included, but don't know much else about. Graphics are already awesome (CoD on reduced detail and no filters looks as good as modded IL2 on full detail to me, imagine what's going to happen with CoD cranked up to full) and a video of selected sequences will be enough to showcase the sounds too.
Dynamic weather, AI complexity, in-game briefings, the built-in support for 3rd party content/community mods without compromising online gameplay, systems and engine management, radio communications and vectoring by ground radar controllers, etc, that's stuff we all know have been planned features for a very long time but don't know how exactly will work in the sim. ;)


EDIT:

It's been confirmed as a control option at an earlier date. There have also been screeenshots in the development updates showing tooltips on various buttons and levers, much like it works in FSX. That doesn't mean we'll have to click buttons in combat with the mouse though. I guess we will be able to map whatever we want to keyboard, stick or HOTAS and/or click on them in the cockpits, whichever way we like. In that case, i'll keep guns, gear, flaps, engine controls, etc mapped to my keyboard and stick like i have them in IL2, then use the mouse for secondary controls that are not time critical or only get used once or twice during the course of the flight (rotating the compass marker to a new heading, choosing a fuel tank or turning on the landing light switch for example).

I guess this goes hand in hand with the new view system that's been talked about and recently we saw a screenshot of. Oleg Maddox said there will be two view systems, one similar to IL2 and a new one. There was one pic in a recent update showing a pop-up camera menu, so i guess this is it.

That would be cool for movie makers. Instead of cycling through the cameras you just right click and select the aircraft you want to view, then probably save the track again with the view transitions you want and finally (this last one was also a confirmed feature in one update), export it directly to video format without having to use external video capture software.

can't wait.... Can't wait!!!
Í just hope that we will have UBIZOO again. I'm missing all the weirdo's.
And whining about how P-47 won teh war..
I need to buy a new rig!!!
kap..

Is that true now?
It's not the first time I've heard talk about it. O surely hope so. I'm waiting this game for years.

A hurricane and a real, non Bouchon 109 E


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MP5zCM2sR1o

Today's news are good news, but, respectfully, few news.

News:
a.1) Released date March 2011
a.2) Publisher: Ubi (and a embryo of webpage)
a.3) Collector's Edition with a historical Spitfire Manual/Document
a.4) Renegade pilots flying for the Luftwaffe (Awesome ! :eek: :grin:)

Nothing more.


Already known (just following Oleg's good old Friday updates):

b.1) Planeset (not fully explained in release news)
b.2) Map printed in a cloth : this was already leaked/announced by Luthier weeks ago even asking to the community for historical background
b.3) Part of the footage already shown in Igromir show (to the fortunate spectators) or to the Internet in Youtube, via Iphones, etc.
b.4) DM and FM much more accurate
b.5) Better AI
b.6) Much more accurate environment (wheater etc)
b.7) Higly detailed ground objects
b.8 ) Scenario (obvious)
b.9) Graphic Software (DX11)
b10) Name (for somebody :) )
b11) RAF and Luftwaffe (and italian CAI) careers (Thanks, Luthier, for the correction)


Unknown yet (some very important)

c.1) Specs :confused:
c.2) DRM or antipiracy software
c.3) Cover
c.4) Price
c.5) Sale of Normal Edition (Steam? , direct download like ROF?
c.6) Activation mode (Internet connection full time even off-line? only 1 activation when purchased?
c.7) Worldwide release or different dates for countries
c.8 ) Forum?
c.9) Full Webpage
c10) Merchadising (Wall Papers, posters)

...and probably many other.

And finally, the quality of the video is, in my humble opinion, poor to show the great new capabilities of this Sim. Taken from old footage from low-end computer, short, and not transmitting the potential of this Sim. Just it looked like another Air Simulator more.

IMHO, this new Sim deserved a better Marketing campaign, better video, a better webpage, a Forum started, and a much more intense media speech to explain to newcomers what it really will be, and to spread illusion between us ,the old foxes that are expecting this great Sim for years.

Sorry, it is my feeling, ilusion and disappointment a the same time. It seems like if , suddenly, they were in a hurry. Why? Leaks?

I repeat, respectfully to all, specially to 1C Management and Dev Team.

PD: Of course, no doubt I'll purchase the Collector's Edition...

You'd be better sending a donation to the development team. But there will be a DRM, and you should be able to understand why (although hopefully not one that requires a connection every day, or that installs dodgy software on your PC).

Come on Major, get with it - it wasn't clearly stated - it wasn't stated at all, until after everyone spotted the mistake.

Yes it does deserve all that, but so what? The main thing is there's been an official announcement that it's due to be released in March. That's fantastic news. The fact is that it's now close enough that we don't have to worry much about system specs because a) we'll probably find out shortly, and b) we'll definitely know when it's out. You mention price - there is a pre-order price on the ubi website. It's just been announced today, you don't need to know everything from day one, and as you pointed out, we've already been told much of it before now - that's a good thing, not a bad thing that the news isn't new today.

Big deal. All the information you want will be in the next couple of months. Show a modicum of patience.

FINALLY !!!
that was (is) the longest wait ever for a piece of software....
i think they originally announced it 2006, wasnt it ?

the only problem i have is that i have to divide my flying time now between ROF and CoD (stupid title by the way)....imho they could have waited a year more to get it bugfree and ...noo...dont throw that big stone at me ..help ! :grin:

Good spot. Bit like Neil Armstrong's cock-up in his first foot on the moon words. Didn't matter in the end though! :grin:

What do you expect? Those Ubi idiots seem to have lost the point of the "Storm of War" series concept, left it out of the main title, included "IL-2 Sturmovik" to completely confuse anyone tracking this for the past six years and... oh wait, yes, they did mention SoW at the bottom in no context whatsoever just to further confuse anyone not aware of this new game and left them wondering "wt* is that"?

Yes I know its been said but I'm entitled to a nitpick too :)

TG it's on it's way at last.
(It's disappeared from play.com)

Luthier:
"Most of the footage was taken on my own crap PC months ago in an early beta. "

Did I waste my money then Luthier?.......

ASUS Sabertooth mobo
Intel i7 950 o/c @ 4GHz
6Mb RAM
GTX570 GPU
750W PSU
HAF912+ case, fans, stuff
Win7 64

Great news but..........

.....after so many years i was wainting for some special announcement.

This should be the official web?

http://il2sturmovik.ubi.com/cliffs-o...ming-soon.aspx

This shuold be the official Ubisoft press release?!

http://www.ubi.com/UK/Games/Info.aspx?pId=9329

We still don't know what aircrafts will be flyiable, ecc. ecc. ecc.....

Really a poor announcement, not a good way at all to promote CoD, really a poor marketing policy.......and the video based on a pre-beta is a shame.

However, thank you a lot. We were waiting this annoucement since 7 years ago, so today is an historicall day for us.

Does anybody know if the UBI store takes payment immediately or when ready to ship? Also, over eight quid for express shipping that takes one to three days!?!?

Edit: Ok, the faq links are now working, they take payment when it's ready to ship.

"Exciting Single-Player Campaign – The campaign thrusts the player into the middle of the battle. The player will join the British Air Force to fight the German forces and renegade pilots on his own side, or join the German Luftwaffe and take part in meticulously recreated historical battles."

This stuff is beyond me. One waits for years to know when to get out of jail as there is no definate date.. and once that date is set a few months from now it can in some twisted way be a disappointing as the warden didn't mention the make of the car that will be there to pick you up.

My analogy might suck but so does comments like this from people with tears in their eyes as they don't know what the DRM etc. will be like the first minute the official announcement is out..

You might want to wait for Amazon or Play Dano,shipping will probably be free...

You see - this is exactly what we're afraid of when we oppose DRM ;) ;)