Birds of Steel; the sequel of BoP
 

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/20...birds-of-steel

finally we know the sequel to the BoP, Birds of steel. As we suspected we go to the Pacific theater

http://www3.computerandvideogames.co...irds-of-steel/

This site even mentions the Ruhr Valley.

Better :)

Now, only have to wait until 2012

Personally I would of course love to insert it this very evening, but the news of a sequel in itself makes the future brighter! Seems like both the Lanc and the Mossie is about to taxi out of theire hangars...

What about Konami as the publisher? Do you guys have opinions on that fact? I don't know squat about them myself.

Yeeeaaaaaaaaaaaa


(No further comment needed)

You guys beat me to it. Hurray!!!! And Malta is included too!

MAC

hheers guys, and here is more:
http://www.gamersyde.com/news_konami...-11110_en.html

I think they're a good choice.

"users are given access to over 100 famous planes from the entire axis and allied forces rosters.":cry::cry::cry::-D

Yahhh!!!


:cry: My baby!
http://images.gamersyde.com/image_bi...-2294_0006.jpg

Excellent, every bird will have a cockpit view. Day 1 for me.

StiC

up up down down left right left right B A Start to unlock the atomic bomb?

EDIT: Oh awesome!

Komani is an old school Japanese Publisher . One of the top arcade producers.
They also have put out a few sim titles along the rail gendre for ps2 Ps3
That I would love to get my hands on. I think that perhaps Gajin will have better results with them then another "western publisher".

Aircraft carrier wood top (KittyHawk??) with a deck of corsairs in a screen shot looks cool

Hahah just read post above me forgot about the Komani code :)

Once it doesn't have those horrendous Metal Gear Online hurdles it should be good.

I'm pretty dubious about the "massive multiplayer" aspect. Without dedicated servers there'll be nothing massive going on apart from lag.

100 rendered cockpits sounds doubtful to me too. Probably being overly sceptical though, considering they already have their engine and can focus more on those kind of assets this time around.

Everything else looks great. The only thing I don't like is the U.S. pacific planes, never liked them. But the carrier combat and the Zeros will make up for that. Shame they didn't tip their hat to the European theatre in the trailer, but I guess they wanted to show the new stuff first.

Just the first trailer and I need more information xDD. There are 8 campaign; Midway, Guadalcanal, Coral Sea, the Mediterranean Maltese island, Germany’s Ruhr Valley. And the others?. I do not think Pearl Harbor is a campaign, I think it is a mission.
Minimum should be a campaign in Europe and another on the Eastern Front

100 planes :) , Dauntless, Buffalo, Wildcat, Avenger, Zero, Val, Kate, confirmated for the trailer... Do we start with the bets? :mrgreen:

My only reservtion is the cockpits, they look a little like 2D overlays, they look a bit flat..(?) The rest of it looks nice and fast and there's a lot going on.
All in all it looks great, bearing in mind it's at least 7 months away from release.

Fingers crossed that it delivers. (I'm buying it anyway)

I'm also glad to see a big name developer taking interest.

Not sure about 'birds of steel'... were any WWII planes made of steel?

Woo hoo!

WOW!

Gentlemen, I believe our prayers have been answered...

Life is good! cant wait!

At first I also thought the name's a bit awkward, but have come quickly to like it. It's a good name. Don't think of steel in the connotation of what the planes should be made of, but the qualities otherwise associated with the material, tough and strong, like in Men of Steel.

The name's gonna stick.

MAC

P.S.: What do you make of the logo? I love it :)

Give us a demo, sooooooon :-P

This is great news!!! I can't wait to hop in a Corsair cockpit! Hopefully it flys a little better than the P-51 ;)

Fair point, should have called it Balls of Steel...

You could call it Frank and I'd buy it, so I'm a poor test case anyway..

Truth is, I can't wait for it :)

EDIT.. Surley they'll need an Open Beta to test the MMO properly..hint,hint

Ruhr valley......please tell me that means a Lancaster....My soul sold for the Devil....tooth fairy and all. :)

And if i am very lucky....Very Very Lucky....a Tyhpoon doing "Rubarbs" over Germany.......I will be a Good boy...Promise !!! :)

banzai!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! thanks too much for the new hicks-81!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is kn'awesome news! 100 planes! I will see you guys on this the day it releases.

PS i hate waiting................still looking for sim games on 360 most nights...
there is still a strong realistic group going strong during my timezone but I just cant get into it for some reason.

Lets just pray that the scoring and hit detection is improved a bit to not drive away the new players so fast this time around.

Brilliant news. Europe and Pacific theatre and 100 planes? Better than anything could have expected. I can't wait for this to arrive.
Ruhr valley means only one thing to me, Dambuster raid in Lanc. If so then next years PS3 gaming is sorted for me!

So while we wait, why dont we go into the historic of the announced battles of the game.
This is a brief summary.

The battle of Midway:
http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq81-1.htm
What to expect:
Mission Bomb/torpedo the Japanese fleet
Allied aircraft: Catalinas with torpedoes, Maurauder, Dauntless, Avenger, Vindicator, Buffalo
Axis aircraft: Zekes, Kates and Zeros
Features: Take off and landings at Carriers


The battle of the Coral sea
http://www.history.navy.mil/history/CoralSea.htm
What to expect:
Mission Bomb/torpedo the Japanese attack fleet and ground forces
Allied aircraft: Dauntlesses and Devastators
Axis aircraft: Zekes, Kates and Zeros
Features: Take off and landings at Carriers


The battle of Guadalcanal
http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/e...l/guadlcnl.htm
What to expect:
Mission Bomb/attack the Japanese ground forces
Allied aircraft: Wildcat, Dauntless, Avenger
Axis aircraft: Zekes, bettys and Zeros
Features: Take off and landings at Carriers


The battle of Pearl Harbor
http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/e...r/pearlhbr.htm
What to expect:
Mission Attack the Japanese attackforces / Defend the vessels
Allied aircraft: Wildcat, Vindicator, P-36 and P-40
Axis aircraft: Zekes, bettys and Zeros
Features: Take off and landings at airfields and carriers.

The siege of Malta
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_o..._(World_War_II)
What to expect:
Mission Attack the German vessels / Groundforces, arial dogfights
Allied aircraft: Spitfires, Hurricanes, p51
Axis aircraft: BF 109, ju-87, ju-88,
Features: Take off and landings at airfields and carriers.

The Battle of the Ruhr:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Ruhr
What to expect:
Mission Bomb the Ruhr dam
Allied aircraft: Avro Lancaster, Mosquitoes
Axis aircraft: BF 109,FW 190
Features: Take off from and landing at Airfields in Britain

Feel fre to comment and correct ;)

Ah this is awesome news. Now just watch this forum burst into life once again.

edit: quote from the eurogamer aticle: People are still being tricked by Gaijin's April fools joke. lol

Brilliant job KAV! This is excellent hyping. Love it!

super great kav!!!very good post!!i love too!!

Well done KAV!

Now we can guess the rest of the scenarios/campaign locations, the bets are on.
I'm very happy about Malta of course, will be fun to fly over my house!

Very much hoping for the Alps, Norwegian Fjords and North African deserts!

:)

MAC

Yea, I would like to fly over my house, to so give us the Norwegian fjords with Lancaster bomb raids on the sub pens in Bergen and Mossies ship busting the german vessels in the fjords:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BouPNl3AnU

Aside from the fact that it's the sequel to BoP, the two things that's got me excited more than ANYTHING were the phrases; co-op strike (FINALLY) and "massive" online multiplayer dogfights! So that will be a minimum of 32 players to a room possible and with the word massive being in quotations implies that its likely to have even bigger numbers than that! If I remember correctly, Cliffs of Dover boasts over 100 players in a room? Could those numbers be possible in a console game? I can only hope!

Well Done Kav

I add:

The Battle of the Rhur
Nightfighters Bf-110 or He-219 Uhu

The siege of Malta
SM79 Sparviero, Macchi MC 200, CR.42, Gladiator

In the Pacific Theater don´t forget de japanese dive bomber Aichi D3A Val


I have wanted to play the attack online with Japanesse fighters .... kamikaze!!!

Other possible campaigns?

Normandy (with Typhoons :grin:)
Barbarossa
Strategic Bombing of Germany
North Africa
Kursk
Leyte Gulf (but I do not think, too many Japanese missions)

Easily. The game MAG for PS3 had up to 256 players in some modes.
Konami are a good pulbisher and I'll be suprised if they don't help this take off. It would be good if they implimented servers too.

I'm going to try and see how much I can sweet talk Konami over the coming months. May put an interview together on my site (which I will share here).

And now for my resopnse where I turn into a child:
MY GOD!! It looks visually stunning. ME WANT NOW! :(

I hate to rain on paraids though, however we have to keep in mind multiple versions of aircraft - in BoP there where 5 (or so) Bf-109's with multiple FW-190's and spits etc. But, that does mean that they only have to polish the assets for WoP and port them over (109's etc). Whats got me most excited is the carriers! As long as we don't explode as soon as you put a wheel wrong and can "accidentally" slide into other aircraft! :cool:

haha !!careful when u will drop your bombs ,if your wife discover ,when she come back from the supermarket,u miss the target and destroy the house,for sure,it will be a frying pan attack!!!lol!!

Yay.

http://www.konami.com/games/birdsofsteel

Can't wait to start practicing some carrier style landings at Tempelhoff!

Be sure to watch this thread:

http://forum.gaijinent.com/index.php...irds-of-steel/

Anton's already dishing the dirt!

"MMO part will at least feature persistent world, economics, evolution, etc.
Stay tuned!"

Oh baby.

Co-op strike mission please: four players, two in torpdo bombers and two in dive bombers. Mission to sink the Yamato. Heavy AA fire and bombing a highspeed zigzagging enemy

Aside from the dambusters thats my dream scenario

I'd love to see some of the Flying Tigers campaign in China. Dunno if that's likely though.

Well with the naval aspect the Steel works nice as well
The logo is great would make a cool hat crest or other

the release date puzzles me a little. they must have a lot to work out because you would think they would want a christmas release. but is that a brewster buffalo in one of the screen shots??? this had the potential to be VERY interesting!

I'm sure if they could they would release it prior Christmas. Developments run on tight budgets and schedules, both are often exceeded without any external circumstances. In the case of this development I could imagine that circumstances played a big role, first the earthquake in Japan (Konami is a Japanese company), then the PSN shutdown which Anton confirmed had a big impact. So there you go.

MAC

Who wants to release a game at christmas, going up against CoD and BF3?

I saw wake island in the screen shots I think.
BTW this is sad news as well as they dropped the IL2 sturmovik name. im guessing there was some legal issue.

Perhaps losing the Il2 name will be a blessing. We are already shunned by the Il2 PC community as being not simulatory enough, and not a true Il2 game. The Il2 name is not really recognized in the console world so this may actually help us draw in more new players. We still benefit from the Il2 programming heritage of course. It could be a win /win.

It would be cool if they introduced an ongoing ranking system, sorta like Battlefield Bad Co where your kills and overall performance gives you an ongoing upward rank that you can continually try to improve. Maybe unlock some new things at certain levels.

Publishers generally don't like you using their trademarks when you don't work for them anymore.

Huh? As far as I know Gaijin is still with 1c. So they could use the Il2 name if they wanted, I think they (and konami) have just chosen not to. Even the new PC game Cliffs of dover was originaly not going to have the IL-2 name, it was ubisoft that wanted it again, most people prefered the -Storm of War- title.

When a large part of the game will be focusing on the pacific its a bit weird to have a irrelevant plane in your title anyway.

I'd rather they take their time and QA this one first. BoP should have never made it to market with some of the glaring flaws it had (no brakes with stick, HUUUGE deadzone with Xbox stick, P-51 performance, no credit for MP kills, sloppy MP menus, etc.)

And before you flame me, remember, you PS3 guys got a patch -- we Xbox players did not. If we had, I'd still be playing regularly. As it is, it was just too frustrating. I switched to IL-2 1946 on PC and had a blast.

With you on this one. Perhaps it's a blessing in disguise the game won't make it prior to Christmas, with that pressure gone Gaijin/Konami should be able to take the time that's needed to get it right from the start. Title updates on consoles are very expensive.

MAC

Agreed. Not to mention BoS would get swamped by the big games that come out at Christmas time. They don't want to be competeing against Battlefield 3for example. Idealy they will want to release on a week that nothing else comes out that way they get most media coverage and hopefully sales.

It makes more sense to get everything right from the get go. Better to wait and have a fab game than rush it out onto the market half assed.

I'm guessing that this has more to do with MW3 in November than anything else..

It would be suicidal to release it 4th quarter, MW3 is going to be huge. Best to let it settle first.

Remember MW2? That landed 2 months after IL-2 and took a lot of players away.

Hell Yeah!!

When i was i child I used to spend HOURS flying over the pacific into something look like this
http://www.old-games.com/screenshot/...attlehawks.jpg

I will drool for this sequel!! :-)

Roast???
 

Ok, whats up with all the hate on the Gaijin boards BOS topic???
People need to give Gaijin a break, people still blame them for what 505 did. :mad:

Ok, I am done complaining now. :grin:

Some BOS facts that have been mentioned.

1.Coop/versus mp
MMO will feature persistent world, economics, evolution, etc.
2. Number of players in one session is not the mmo games criteria. There is out of session online gameplay.
3. Flight stick support + custom layout.
4. Unique cockpits for each fighter.
5. Consoles will most likely not have dedicated servers.

BoS looks very interesting, indeed. I wonder how the "MMO" aspect will be handled, maybe you choose a nation & squadron to fight with - Each with their own aircraft/strengths. Kind of like MAG & Tom Clancy's EndWar.

Who knows?
Only time'll tell.

The mmo system will work like similar games like

-steel batallion line of contact.
-mechassault 2
-chromehounds


so if you had played these games previously you will know how this will work out.


I just hope they allow us to host rooms with a server list in addition because these "mmo" servers always die off because the developers loses interest into funding them over the long term , this is what happened with steel batallion , and hopefully wont happen for this game

just to help keep you psyched for WoS,,,,carrier planes with mood music.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6exfgVO34bA

I'm sorry Bobby but I had to fix that for you :(

tis ok pope. was looking more than listening anyways....

great vid, bobby.

Awesome actionvid Dale :-)

Birds of Steel gameplay vid
 

Here is some gameplay vid from E3 2011:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w32EI...layer_embedded

Nice find! I'm liking the addition of Heading and changing the airspeed to Indicated Airspeed.

Looks quite good, might have to ask them nicely for more footage of the whole level :p

Hands up those who volunteer for beta testing!
Form an orderly queue.....behind me!!!

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Ugh, some things never change.

Not sure about those threat indicators. I guess its ok for arcade though.

First thing I noticed too, Sounds like Grandpa Simpson.. (just like BoP)

For the record I'm waiting for the Japs to shoot you down so you STFU

Strange, I can't hear it.

it definately needs to score assists in the kill system, allow for both private and ranking rooms, also in ranking rooms you should not be able to pick teams.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgHiJ9qk5Vg

Camo option confirmed.

http://img9.uploadhouse.com/fileuplo...51566e577c.jpg

Aaaaaa that looks great.
Some nice new birds there and the game modes sounds awesome, bring it on.....

Watched the 1st 2 minutes and I already want that guy to drown on his flight back home. You can stick your F...ing F22 up your behind. What an intensely anoying idiot.

Liking the new planes though. P-39 :)

Great. I want it now!!!

He needs fly lessons :grin:

The AAA looks really good.

I think we will all aircraft of BoP, more 50 news aproximatly :o

AWESOME does not begin to describe the feeling I have right now!!!

"R2 pull me out of it!"

I have to admit,I used that line once too many times myself! :rolleyes:

Looks blooming good though, the free flight looks interesting and I'm glad to see the return of the Ta-152 (LOL Just kidding). QBlackDeathQ will be happy at the ammount of 190's though, cant wait to talk to the skys online with this!

Really need to get my ass into gear and get onto Konami.

EDIT: Nice to see that that was PS3 footage as well.

Me too, and the D9 has turned into a D12! That thing should have 5 cannons (3 being 30mm) You definatly wont want to go head on into that lol.

I'm sure there is no difference.

Haha, you haven't seen me in a head on :evil: Il-2's have to watch out :p

And, sorry I should have explained - the 360 is the proprietary system used at E3 these days (apart from Sony conferences and exclusives), I was surprised they didn't use the 360!

this jabroonie was not a flight sim or real/arcade air combat player. he was way to green and asking "coached" questions. so i am imagining he was a spokesperson...paid actor..blah, blah. blah. it was a great video and gave us a lot of insight to this game besides the graphics. 1)....it is my impression that the first missions are in the pacific. that is the vids we have been seeing. so do you think the same as me??? 2) like BoP...you unlock planes as you go ( was the question jabroonie boy asked). 4) free flight looked interesting. 5) did you see the mission displayed while the nimnod was babbling (which was more important to us)?? the battle of santa cruz. so here's the story behind that.

http://www.ww2pacific.com/santacrz.html

http://www.uss-hornet.org/history/wwii/santa_cruz.shtml

http://wwiiarchives.net/servlet/campaign/17/0

i will have some more stuff for you tomorrow when i get a chance to do research.....your gonna love it!!

i am loving this game more and more as i see it. damn got to wait how long???

Well Im sold I WANT IT NOWWWWWW.

Guy needs to learn how to fly though.

"I'm going to crash this plane just to see what it says I died of."

BEING A JACKASS

I watched that a couple more times though with the sound muted. Great terrain. Flight looks pretty much the same, good options on the free flight mode.

Yeah... good stuff.

Just saw the new vid.

1st off some one plz shoot that guy. :grin:

"Ohh, I drowned, maybe it will say I had a heart attack and are there people living in the houses?" :|

I really don't care for the indicators, way to big.

Planes look sweet though.:-P

Looks great but I'm not seeing any P-38 action here.

For the love of god it better be in there! lol :)

She is so cute, almost got me distracted from the very interesting info on the MMO stuff at the end of the vid:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z71lhanU5wY

True she is nice but I hate clueless people reading things like that off a script.

screen grabs from the E3 video showing the aircraft available.... note at the bottom of the first P-39 is shown as well as mention behind of 'battle of britain 1940'

http://i941.photobucket.com/albums/a...gill/photo.png

http://i941.photobucket.com/albums/a...ill/photo2.png

http://i941.photobucket.com/albums/a...ill/photo3.png

Edit: also look to the screen on the right of the guy in the video it's titled 'battle of Santa cruz'

The video gives away some cool info. Is there to be a camo option?
The different modes sounds cool, and there seem to be some upgrade to the info menues, blackboard with drawings and flags and stuff.

MMO part is to contain airfield raids (new option?) and tournaments, how cool is that ? Has Mac and Edal sold their tourney concept :-P

BoS has already been flown by id_ts like the guy in the vid, let the hardcore fans have some more info on this, please :-):-):-):-):-)

:):):)!!!

Hi Gilly,

I think Battle of Britain 1940 refers to the camo which may be selectable for each aircraft, it's in the same line. It's like this in WOP.

MAC

Agree Mac but it at least suggests British aircraft is maybe what I should have added!

Lol Gilly,

Hard to miss British Aircraft when they're going to have +100 WWII aircraft in Birds of Steel!

MAC

You'd certainly hope Mac!! Lol
With 100 aircraft you'd expect most bases to be covered with hopefully a few specials, that said GT5 claims 1000 cars it just a shame half are MX5's!!!
I'd hope that Anton and team will be willing to hint at, if not divulge the aircraft we'd expect to see. The E3 video shows some nice additions to the aircraft and I have faith that they'll deliver far more. The Ruhr being stated as an arena gives me much hope for what I want although the thought of flying a Betty over industrial Germany has some amusement factor!!!!

lets hope they don't just find a bunch of russian flying crates to fill out the numbers

IL3,5,7 and 9??!!!!

Please have a hurricane,
Please have a hurricane,

PLEASE HAVE A HURRICANE.

Don´t worry Foz. I am convinced that they will use many planes of the Birds of Prey (for example, all german fighters has been in the video E3 menu). The Hurricane is a classic and don´t include it in the game between +100 planes would be a mistake.

also, in the maltesse campaing, the Hurricane relieved to Gladiator in the defense of the island, but that, you know ;)

I hope not mistaken :-|

Hi all,

the PC/MAC relative of Birds of Steel has a new website:

http://www.worldofplanesgame.com

:)

MAC

http://i1222.photobucket.com/albums/...nesWebsite.jpg