No olegg there to take your money... he has been out of busines for long now...

yet there is an (comparing weathering) uncanny similarity between both 'pits

where did you get that from ? (asking, not being critical)

from all that i have seen RoF's BS it simply going to be the old RoF using a new map, and a few new ww2 planes added. they will try and expand their RoF dx9 engine with a few visual tricks, but essentially their gfx engine is obsolete before they even start (which is particularly problematic in its limitations to produce complex flight models).

for 777 there is no use or access to any of the old il2 FM, DM, graphics, object models etc

it will only "look like il2" in that it will be located in a russian scenery and has some soviet ww2 era aircraft, it has nothing else in common afaik

I really think they are going a little further than that... afaik they raise the polygone-count, so it won`t just be a re-painted RoF... Sure the basic are the same, but...

I am really critical because I hated to see the CloD-Engine being canned, but what we saw from BoS so far at least raises some hope.

Time will tell... and until then we have Team Fusion who saves CloD!

It's not time to create a dedicate forum to il2:Bos (at last avoid some "ego" wars :) )?

Online flight:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwrPU-xW2-8&

Sokol1

Makes me sick.

We have not seen much at all of this sim beyond a few screenshots and a couple of videos, beyond that, we have developer posts on the BoS forum that tackle questions but all in all, NONE of us has really seen this sim in action.

With that being said, the more posts the dev's make about their work on the project, the more it seems that it actually wont be a WWII reskin of ROF.

You seem all too eager to put your fingers in your ears and cover your eyes and pretend (no matter the proof otherwise) that your opinion of this sim is going to be fact, I don't know why you harbor such seething anger against it but you do.

I suppose now is the part where someone reports me to the moderators for advertising a 777 product but nobody here would do that...right?:rolleyes:

You need to chill a bit Mike...you seem too close to the project, makes you overly sensitive :)

Why Osprey?

This was stated by dev's in il2:BoS in many topics, but this current one resume well:

Notice, they refer to original il-2, not to il-2 CloD - at any time they promised exceed CloD level.

Another thing important to notice, in any time they don't promised that il-2:BoS will have the SAME "coop" style of il-2 (that's mean launch by Hyperlobby, chat, statistics, etc, blablabla...).

(IMO) It's a bad move - from "UBIZ00 old crow" perspective - they use the "Il-2 Sturmovik" brand, better if some "777/1c World War II: Battle of Stalingrad" or something... [/B]but this brand (il2) sold in Russian market, and the guys there don't mind so much about "coop's", just only dogfight's, it's like a (virtual) "national sport". :)

PS- "photorealistic" dont mean use Satelite map images, but something like "Oleg's photorealistic". :)

Sokol1