The original business model was a series of theaters mostly in chronological order. Their next Sequel rumored to be in Russia could be before the FW-190 was built. That said there is absolutely no reason we won't have the FW-190 in future theaters, or MMO's in whatever direction the development decides to go, unless of course the development shuts down.

I really wouldn't worry too much. IMO, it's another 'crossed wire' situation, or a non-denial denial.

He's just saying that they will provide a FW190 when it is justified by the theatre of ops and timescale - that is it will appear in game when the game reaches the appropriate period of the war...and not one second before!

Whether that is the sequel or not we don't know - and won't until THE announcement, :rolleyes: confidently predicted for June.

You've never heard of Zuti. Hmmm. Have you ever heard of Daidalos Team?

Well, our russian friends are also wondering where the sequel will take place.
But this screenshot shows Volga river in their opinion ;)

http://www.sukhoi.ru/forum/attachmen...p;d=1342804664

Yes, thanks. For example, if we make in sequel Moscow 41, Kerch 42, Kharkov 42 or Stalingrad 42 then you won't see FW-190. If we make in sequel Leningrad 42 (late) or Rhev 42 (late) then you will see its. We plan to extend game after release and add new theatres.

I know about DT, but we're out of contact officialy. We don't help them and we don't look after them work.

Good news, Good to hear!

Okay, I think I understand your official answer. Please say hi to zuti from all his fans...unofficially of course.;)

btw, will there be a "free pussy riot" skin for the su-26 in bom?:-P

Oh so i did get you wrong! Thx for clearification guys and BlackSix! :grin:

And if these screens really are showing the wolga river the Focke can't be far away I suppose.. We will see.
Have a good day everyone!

Good. I like a historical planeset without "balance" or "KeWl" types. ;)

A personal question, unrelated to CloD or any other planned sequels or related projects, BlackSix. What is your personal view on a good campaign, as a successful campaign designer I mean? You have worked on payware releases which, apparently, have been well received by the russian community, but I'm curious which "style" you prefer.
I know some people like long campaigns with a hundred or more missions. I don't. Over time there will be a growing amount of repetetive mission styles and objectives and the longer a campaign becomes the more often this "been there, done that" feeling will pop up. There were some very creative and well-done campaigns shipped with 1946 (especially the VVS fighter campaign which let you start in a MiG-3 at Moscow in early 1942) which worked along the lines of a story being told, or a pilot's diary. I like such campaigns because I am a sucker for good storytelling which weaves the missions into a comprehensive storyline.

Then, of course, is the approach Desastersoft has taken with their recent releases for CloD. They don't focus on story but on player achievements. You have to achieve certain things to "win" the mission (even though winning or losing doesn't hamper the advancement through the campaign). That ain't my cup of tea, personally, but I can see why it appeals to some players.

So, what's your personal take on this matter? What kind of campaigns do you prefer?

If somebody want to understand you wrong he will do it. I don't know Zuti.

No.

I liked to make short campaign (20-25 missions) with a great literary briefings and strong storyline for the main character. In such campaign I showed only one operation but I did it as much detail. You can see example of my work in the '1946'. I made russian campaign VVS'46 but I had severe restrictions on the size of briefings for easy translation.
For long campaigns are very difficult to collect historical data and does not make mistakes.

Hi B6

A question about the features that have been deleted or can no longer be turned on: Are you planing to rewrite them too? Will we see them again one day? (if not in CloD, in BoM maybe?)
I really, really miss the fog;-):(


Thank you!

Hi B6,

Will the next beta have bulllet hit sounds?

It's a real immersion killer when you get smacked by a flak hit and as you don't hear anything you don't see the huge hole it made in your wing until 10 minutes later....!!!

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*this is not facetious

No that is obviously for the sequel...

AFAIK, you will see some of them in the sequel.

Our programmer did something with the bulllet hit sounds. I'm waiting full readme like you.

For sequel.

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A question about the features that have been deleted or can no longer be turned on: Are you planing to rewrite them too? Will we see them again one day? (if not in CloD, in BoM maybe?)

AFAIK, you will see some of them in the sequel


Too bad, the game was very good looking...

Good to hear, thanks B6.

Btw, what is your favourite ww2 aircraft?

Blacksix may I ask, what is your day job at Maddox Games? Understand that communications is not your main role, and I wondered what other work you do.

he stated one time that he is doing research and works on offline-missions...

Bf-109F-4 and G-2

Now I've been doing historical research for the sequel. I read German and Soviet memoirs, military orders and advanced modern analyzes. I make lists of regiments, airbases, the chronology of military action, etc. In the near future I'll start to make the final version of the mission and my work with the community greatly increase after the announcement.

Is this fair dinkum mate? 2013 for an alpha.

See BlackSix's answer on previous page:

- I know that you and your team are very enthousiastic about WW2 scenario in general. But does you and your team actualy play the Sim too after work (online or offline) or is it mor like just a job which you don't want to hear about in spare time?

- If you also fly online, where?

- In CloD we don't hear flak sounds in the cockpit (I don't mean hit sound). Is this a sound bug or wasn't it possible to hear flak in an airplane? Do you know about that?

Thanks!

Sounds like they could:

"I winced as each shell exploded ahead and to our right. Great black
balls with their orange-red flashes could be heard as they exploded,
CRUNCH, CRUNCH, CRUNCH. Every time we would catch a flak burst above or
below the wing the plane would shudder. You could hear pieces of flak
puncturing the outside of our Superfortress. Two minutes before bomb
release the fighters began to come at us in droves. They were flying
through their own flak all the way in."

LAST RUN OF THE RANKLESS WRECK
By J. Ivan Potts, Jr.

I can say about myself. Some of us play the sim but I've no accurate and current information now. Sometime I play the DCS:Ka-50 and A-10C, Silent Hunter 3 and 4. But for the rest I prefer Total War, The Elder Scrolls and Fallout series. I flew online in the old IL-2, now I don't fly in CloD, it's not interesting for me.
About problem with the flak sounds I don't know, sorry.

Thanks BS,
is Ilya interested in flying CloD...will it be more interested after official patch release?..or it isn't interested in combat flight sims at all?
sorry can't resist :)
Cheers

Count me in. :cool:

I took it as 'I'm Russian, I prefer Russian front in my spare time.' Personally, I'm British, so prefer the western front in my spare time.' The Russian front doesn't interest me much. Simples.
Don't forget this is a Q and (maybe) A thread, not general discussion.

@B6:

Will we see fixed (historical) cockpits of the CloD aircrafts in the sequel?

tip for your 3d cockpit builder:
http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showpos...7&postcount=45

Gents if you want this thread to be used by B6 for communication, please keep offtopic discussion or discussion between yourselves to a minimum so that people can use it to ask questions.

Ilya is flying CloD.

You will see some CloD aircrafts in the sequel. We'll fix cockpit if we argee with your bug-reports.

Questions for Luthier
 

Attention!
Please ask questions for Luthier in this thread:
http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthread.php?t=34369
He will try to answer them tonight.

Hi B6,

Any official news to give us today?

Yes
http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthread.php?t=34369

This feels like RC day to me :)

Presently I just have a notebook with a I3 and its not capable of doing CoD any grace. I will wait to update and build my next rig until the final version of CoD or BoM.
Do you today have any idea what it takes or will take for hardware to run the sim at 50 fps or better with all setting at high? Do we have to wait for next generation hardware or are we there today?
PS! I'm still happy with my old Il2 in the Sturmovik sim so take your time and make it right before going gold.
Best of everything!

I'll answer late.

Friday Update will be in 1-2 hours, Q&A will be in 8-10 hours today.

Viking.

My rig runs il2 cod at 75fps avg with all settings maxed out.

So anything equal to or better than my rig answers your question

Thank you hc wolf!

Hi B6, you have said that you do research, so I thought you may like this site...you may already know it, or may not care for it.:)

http://cmtk3.webring.org/l/rd?ring=e...2Findex%2Ehtml

On the same theme............

I have used this site for years for building CooP maps and campaigns in IL2 very detailed ground information.

As you are probably already aware BlackSix

With BoM on the way these are useful maps and records from the Russian perspective.

http://www.armchairgeneral.com/rkkaw...W.htm#Moscow41

Thanks, but I use similar russian sites. It's easier for me)

Map example from the link I provided.

Could you share you Russian sources for maps ?

http://www.rkka.ru/imaps.htm
http://militarymaps.narod.ru/maps.html
http://hamster02.narod.ru/index3.html
http://1941-1945.at.ua/publ/1-1-0-41

+ google if I need more info.

Please, delete image in you post.

Ok thxz for those links.

Yup that was a bit large that map.

The only one I didnt have was this http://militarymaps.narod.ru/maps.html

My rig below runs 75 to high 90s...all maxed... 8)

No AA and Vsync turned off. Stutters still remaining making the 90 feel like 30...

Winger

B6, please tell the sound guy that his work is very good in this patch!

I'd like to see any 3d program get over 60fps on a 60hz monitor with vsync on, regardless of how well optimised it is :rolleyes:

I agree. Tried a Spitfire 1a in F3 flyby mode. After going past the camera position I was able to put it into a turn and have it come around again without the camera resetting (tricky but doable - sometimes!).

The engine sound as it moved away, turned and then finally flew past the camera position again was amazing. Incredibly close to reality. Great work.

I've told, thanks)

He does do great work. Any chance he can make the .303's sounds less like someone is tapping their fingers on the keyboard when in cockpit view, and more like the destructive sound of 'tearing calico'?

Hi B6,


the last patch BETA (i speak for myself) was much better for me, i see you guys are working hard on it. I must say, there are old bugs, i think you all know it but great work.

Tell the team they made a good job and hopefully they will iron out the excisting bugs.

Thank you

Hello!

Our work on the project CloD fully completed and, as you know, the final patch is available in the Steam. Development of the game lasted for several years, and the final result is very ambiguous, but I hope that we have managed to fix most of the errors and at least partially regain your confidence. I would like to sincerely thank all of you for the support and assistance extended to us in difficult times and for what you are all the time being with us.

My work in this section also ends. A few more days, I will answer the questions, but in general, that's all. As you well know, I can not tell you now about the future of the series and you have to wait for the official announcement from 1C.

Once again thank you all and good luck in the sky! :)

Well: thank YOU!

And good luck with the sequel!

Thank you B6, you did a very good job in your section. All the best.

S!

PS: And your english learning curve was amazing :)

Thank you BlackSix.

Before you go can you at least tell us if you are going to fix the Merlin engines, they misfire at medium to high altitudes on high RPM and Boost. Its not much good having aircraft with engines that don't run properly.

Thanks!
I'm sorry but it was the last final patch. Watch for official news.

Thank you Blacksix from one of the silent majority ;)

hm my understanding from one of the previous posts by luthier was that CloD WILL get further improvements/bugfixing etc, with the exception that no standalone patch for CloD will be released anymore, only further bugfixes and improvements of CloD+ sequel.

Therefore collecting bugs via il2bugtracker for example would be of some help to improve the series, sequel AND CloD. the majority of bugs can be applied to the sequel as well (most of them are engine-wise), even every collected bug and mistake in all german planes should be of any help, cause at least these are going to be in the sequel...
With this (keeping on to collect bugs and remove already fixed bugs from the bugtracker) we could assure that no already known bug will appear in the sequel as well.... it could be fixed during the development and we all could be saving some time when we collect the new bugs of the sequel if the old ones arent existent anymore ;)

BlackSix, Would be nice to get some clarifications on this issue pls :-)

^^^
Yes that would be nice to clarify

Another question and I think we probaly know what the answer will be, but here goes, is it possible to say whether the sequal will be announced soon or are we talking a much greater length of time?

+1 and come on, B6, please do whatever you can at your hands to convince Luthier to free some resources and make a hotfix, just to not let red-fighters with that nasty problem that appeared in the final release. It's very needed to keep balance and gameplay.

S!

I have no this info.

After the release of official news about the future of the project, all your questions will be gone.

Ermm
 

I don`t like the sound of that??? hopefully it`s good news.

This is for you to decide)

I guess the good BlackSix means that once the announcement has been made we will have the answers to our questions. Although, looking back at the last two years, I am a bit sceptical if this will really happen. ;)

Thank you Alexander, I am sure these are good news.
All the best.
S!

Thanks for having kept us informed despite all the trouble, B6!

Ok, that's all. Thank you and good luck!
Closed.