Yes!
The war will have absolutely NO affect on development and to think so is very unrealistic. Only if it became a war on or over Russian soil could it possibly cause Oleg and team problems and even then only if it was on Oleg's doorstep or turned into a global conflict. Other than that its going to be exactly like the USA/UK/CAN/AUS etc. etc. about Afghanistan and Iraq - have any of those countries had their computer programmers stop work because "the war is more important"? No, and again, to think so is just ridiculous tosh!
Argueing that the war is important is just a mute point - it has and will have nothing to do with the development of 4.09/SOW or the price of eggs!
So, please, uther, drop your point, it isn't usefull to the conversation at hand.

Back ontopic - has anything oficial been said about what "point" SOW must reach before 4.09 can be worked on?
I see that peopel are commenting on closed BETA but do we have any official words on that?
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While it has not been officially said one would assume that milestone would be either a working late Alpha or the closed Beta.
As Oleg has mentioned he will be inviting a select few to take part in a closed beta I am betting that would be the case.
But honestly it is a waste of time debating when, if and how it will be released.
It like everything else on this forum depends on Oleg and he ain't talking!

I cant believe you are even bringing war up in this thread... Not cool...

+1

next item:political correctness

You do realise the irony of this on a forum dedicated to a game that simulates..............war.

Wonder if my grandchildren will ever play "Su-25: Forgotten Battles"?

I sometimes wonder why the Slovakia and Bessarabia mapmakers don't just send their final versions to AAA and let them implement them. Everybody could use them with confidence then. The MTO map that came with 4.09b has already been superceded by the new desert maps available over there.

http://ide.li/modules/Forums/images/...n_rolleyes.gif or not.

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