I little doubt that BOB SOW will be completed. That said any project can be canned, but we know from periodic information that everything is full steam ahead especially since all the work on the Il-2 series has stopped.

People have been wailing for a proper advertising campaign to start since 2005. It would have been a colossal waste of money had the developer and publisher listened to us, lol. The advertising will start when its time to start, especially since they also want to use the SOW engine for cgi movies.

Developers work for a living.
Publishers seek to take the living from the developers, whilst telling them to work harder.

I really hope that you are right. I remember the wait and agony when the news about Harpoon 4 started to thin out after 6 years that last time when they had showed to code to Ubisoft Romania in a last attempt to get it done. Then suddenly (but not that unexpected), the knife in the back of the project. I guess a lot of us still have a hard time falling asleep from time to time thinking of that and the promises from Ubisoft that it would be released - be sure (or similar)... Another thing that COULD happen (which would be worse than killing the project) is a press release from Ubisoft saying that SoW:BoB is now scheduled to be released on Xbox 360, PS3 and then PC a year later - with the new title "Tom Clancys Storm of War", telling that you may even use a joystick on the PC, but a gamepad is recommended ;)


/Mazex

My guess at this stage if UBI pulled financial support the project would still see the light of day legally or illegally. Unless ofcourse Oleg has hit a technical wall.

BoB is a project that has simply gone far too long and sucked up far to much resources from the publishers and the developers to cancel the project now. Neither one could afford that and UBI is expecting to surpass the success of the IL2-series and they surely won't let this chance just pass.

Considering the competitors, I have no doubt that BoB is advanced beyond the tidbits of informations we have. Remember development started over 5 years ago, with more or less people working on it.
And the scan of the high detail WIP landscape taken from that Russian game-magazine I mentioned before, dates back to February 2006!


Btw, mazex, there is a Tom Clancy-Flight "Sim" Game planned to be released Q4 2008 ;)

My gut feeling...we will have our baby before Christmas

Never mind bOb:sOw.

Is 4.09 still alive and kicking?

That's something I've missed - I tried a search for scan + magazine etc but could not find it - got link?

EDIT - thinking of it, is it that landscape with the river showing the wireframe mesh?


I know - and I don't want another ;)

[QUOTE=Feuerfalke;41595]... to surpass the success of the IL2-series ...QUOTE]

This is a question totally beside topic of this thread, but;
Is the IL-2 series an economical sucsess?
Has there ever been released some sales figures for this game?
This is not some sort of retorical question, I just wonder.
There is no doubt in my mind that this is "The holy grail of WWII flight sims", but do the general public know?

Skarphol

Yeah, I was refering to the wireframe-model with the riverbed and I remember a statement, that the other screenshots still showed a modified IL2-engine, not the BoB-Landscape.

I don't know, though, what about these shots or the video for example, but I remember people making statements that the shores display 1:1 IL2 waves:
http://s58.photobucket.com/albums/g2...ent=cap028.jpg

http://s58.photobucket.com/albums/g2...ent=cap020.jpg

Not that IL2-landscape looks ugly... ;)


I don't know about the success of the IL2-series, but it was mentioned several times, that the number of sales exceeded Olegs and UBIs most daring dreams for this niche-software.