It's Friday and it's September!!
 

For some reason, my spirit is raising, hopes are high!
It's Friday, It's September!
Anyone who think we will get some news from the eastern front today?

Skarphol

No, but the 2 week waiting period has begun:-P

I'm tuning in on your good vibes brother! If not today we will see something soon. Lets just hope that Oleg or 'Vibecat' has hes known amongst his friends his feeling those positive rays maaaan.

I'm thinking he'll spring it on us 9/15/09! what ya think?

oh yer oleg is the duuude man...i love him...hes going to deliver big time, i just know it.

so nobody come in here with those negative waves ok?

OK, Friday is over in Moscow and central Europe now.
Oleg has of course not mentioned Fridays in particular, but, you know, back in 2002-2003 fridays was a real treat! Allways started work with a peek into the UBIZoo. (Wich by the way wasn't a zoo back then) There were at least updates every fortnight and free, totally unexpected patches every now and then that not only implemented fixes but whole new aircraft and objects! Will we ever se such times again? I doubt it. Will Oleg deleiver an astonishing new game before next summer? I think so.

Well, se ya next friday!

Skarphol

yep...i think so too!...the screen shots are going to be wizooohh! cant be long now!...soooooooo exciting!

No way. Screenshots are so BoB 2006. You wait, there'll be in-game video of GUI and campaign setup. Not to mention scenery and flight physics. Oleg promised big updates this time. He won't let you down. :grin:

all that, plus a website,system specs and a release date!...well...thats my estimated guess(i could be out by a year or three).

Dogfight servers will be a bitch!
 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-gpw...layer_embedded

OH! MFG!

Brings new meaning to the word Swarm!

well, well a weeks past, Oleg must be working up to something even bigger than we thought!

Absolutely! We won't be dissapointed. It will be HUGE and it will be soon. Be sure!

"something wonderful" :)

Soon we can have a 'It's Friday and it's October' thread! ;)

LMAO...isn't this one copy/pasted from last year?

The comment or the thread? ;)

or the year before that!...or even next year as well i would guess :)

Opening the bets : I bet we won't see any updatz this month.

Check six man , check six !!!

10-1 odds says you're right.

im laying offering 20-1 no updates by Jan 1st

lol

I'll bet Oleg just sits at his computer reading threads like this and thinks to himself, "now here's a bunch of people I want to communicate with...these are my kind of people."

Nah, Oleg is estatic that interest is still so high.

So where can we download the demo? :-P

Nah mate, he would actually have to visit the forum to take offence, and has he only looks at these boards once every three months or so i would conclude that our piss taking mainly falls on deaf ears. Its only his diciples who get a bit hot and bothered.:grin:

Oh, I tend to agree with you, I doubt he does check in here much anymore...why would he?

Last few updates me made where over at "SimHQ"...

And I have no doubt most of us know why that is the case.

Olegs last visit to this forum was august 5th, 2009. At least under his own log-in.

After all; this is an Il-2 forum, and Oleg is not working on Il-2 anymore if I understand him correctly.
All the latest news has been released on SimHQ.
It seems like news are beeing released as interviews on SimHQ, at least until SOW:BOB gets its own homepage.
I'm really curious about why the game hasn't it's own homepage yet. There might be a plethora of plausible reasons.
I still think Oleg ment it when he in november 2008 announced that the homepage would be up before christmas 2008. Why the page has been delayed is one of lifes unanswerd quetions.
I also still think Oleg ment it when he said new pictures would be released in September 2009. So I'll continue to pop in every day to check.

Cheer up guys! Think of all the thing you get done in real life, wich hadn't been done if the game was out!

Skarphol

Too True, Skaphol

Due to our long hiatis I have had to take up other hobbies, my next project involves using the following resource to create authentic woolen apparel to wear when SOW comes out!

http://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/fas...40s/index.html

Cheers! ;)

Wow!

That was the most unexpected answer this thread ever will produce! (well, most other answers are quite predictable)

Cool in a weird way! Everybody else is trying to look macho in helmets or uniforms.


Skarphol

Yeah his sort of people...customers! ;)

I'd like to place my order for an IL2 ski hat please. Eye holes are a bonus but not necessary though I'll pay a bit extra for them if needed. A yellow hat with red IL2 logo would be preferable.

Thanks Skosh. It's a true service you do for this community mate.

Knit one, pearl one, Knit one, pearl one.

Of course wearing the Balaklava with the ear holes will make flying SOW a behind-locked-door activity, I want my children to have SOME respect for me!

Back to it! Knit one, pearl one, Knit one, pearl one.

I agree Feuerfalke, its because this website doe's not have a dedicated SOW section where as Simhq does.

Tree...are you postings from Turkey?

Tree, your kind of like a gyroscope...you have to constantly "spin" your "message" in an effort to maintain your balanced.

LOL - true.

Or at least to make it look that way ;)

Yes mate! :grin:

Really, i thought my statement was a simple 'fact'.

I don't expect you to understand...

:grin:

You obviously got the same duvet set has Feuerfalke, you really should lighten up and stop the constant worshipping. :grin::grin:;)

The funny thing is that neither of the post has something to do with worshipping somebody. So question is who's the biased reader here.

It's Friday and still September!

Hopes are a little less high than a week ago, but Fridays are allways wellcome anyway.

I'm a little bit more excited by the thought of 4.09 being released soon though! No firm news on that one either, but after reading up on SimHQ yesterday it might seem like it is just around the corner.

Skarphol

Yep read that too mate, it will be interesting to see if the 4.09 patch is compatible with the unified installer and Canon's fantastic new channel map. I also am less hopeful of seeing anything from SOW this month.

He's just trying to keep his balance (lol)...

;)

I don't think there is anyone who really believes there will something this month. It's fun to pretend though. Like picking at a wound. Getting ready for the big dissapointment to come. ;)

The thing I was thinking of regarding possible release of 4.09 was this post made Sunchaser on Wednesday over at SimHQ:
Quote: "From a post by Viikate at AAA this morning:
"No... Release candidate 1 was tested lot and there wasn't any issues except few typos in text files. RC2 fixes were send to MG yesterday and it takes them day or two to make the build.""

For all I know, Sunchaser and Viikate might be raving lunatics or a compulsory liars, but it's really not that far fetched that the 4.09 might be released soon. It has been in development for some time.

Skarphol

One thing this forum has done is bring Feuerfalke and Proton45 together in a lovely heart warming type of bro-mance, congrats guys I hope you will very happy together! :grin::grin::grin:

Cheers Skarphol for the news. ;)

It would be very nice to see 409 sometime soon. Not sure what "a day or two" translates into in Oleg-time however. Something similar was said prior to a patch that was due after PF and it was the best part of six months. I was thinking more of SOW, I'd put real money down on not seeing anything about that for a good long while yet.

And all the best to Feuerfalke and Proton45. Hope it works out.

Honestly, why in the world should they discuss these things in an open forum?

If they know what was going on here with every single cloud on the sky that could indicate a release or news about a release, you really think they'd choose an open forum to discuss 4.09?

Well, we'll see soon, but I honestly doubt it.

LOL...Really? That's where your going to go with this? That's the best you can do?

I really don't know. I don't know who these guys are anyway, maybe they are just normal forum members cluthcing at straws like I am.
As you say; we will see soon. (or probably later)

In the mean time; Its friday, work is over, I have a bottle of red wine and a wife to enjoy. At the same time!
4.09 and SOW:BOB can come when it comes!

Skarphol

lol, I'll run with it and see how it pans out! :grin:

Just read a bit in the original discussion. Sounds promising, but as people mentioned there and on SimHQ: Oleg has the final word on this and he will announce it when ready.

So, even if the patch will be ready today or tomorrow doesn't mean the release or any news are close.

looking forward to the 4.09 patch very much...and i would also take bets on we will see 4.09 before we see SOW in game screen shots :)

believe!
radiate positive vibes people.....

Possible raving lunatic here....
 

http://allaircraftarcade.com/forum/v...r=asc&start=90

Scroll down about 7 or 8 posts.


From Skarphol:
"For all I know, Sunchaser and Viikate might be raving lunatics or a compulsory liars, but it's really not that far fetched that the 4.09 might be released soon. It has been in development for some time."


Skarphol, just to enlighten you, according to my wife you have nailed it with the raving lunatic thing but not the compulsive liar thing. :) :)

She does not know Viikate but figures that if he is involved with flightsims he must also be a raving lunatic. :)

Sounds like you have a pleasant evening ahead, enjoy.

Well, at least I got something right then!

Skarphol

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Feuerfalke, WTF is your deal?
Are you as much a jerk as you appear on this forum in real life?


Just what does my statement you quoted have to do with: Discussion about, referrals and links to mods or MOD sites ?

4.09 is going to be an official release sanctioned by 1c.

You made another buddy Feuerfalke?

Hey Tree, only 17 days left, think Oleg will make the deadline? :)

Its one of those strange ones Sunchaser, we all know that the 4.09 patch is being completed by effectively a team of modders overseen by Oleg, we know that Oleg is using modders to help with SOW, however you still cannot discuss mods or put links to mod forums in here because they are satanists.

er.... hmmmmm, .... not a chance.

Tree, we better cool it or what's his face will be along to tell us to get a room....and I do not know you that well yet.

I still think Oleg will make it though.
That and my conviction that Santa is really out there somewhere, keeps me going.

I'm tuning into your positive vibes mate, and this year i will leave a note for Santa.

You posted a link to your source, which is a forum for mods, which again is forbidden. So I was just hoping you don't spoil the news of this pleasant evening and you asured yourself that this comment is legally posted here. After all, this announcement has not take place, yet ;)

If you take it as a personal offense, just because "Feuerfalke" posted it, that is your personal problem, though, as no personal offense was posted, made nor intended.

I think it its absoulutely possible that there might come some pictures or info within September.

The game should be more than 90% ready if I have understood things correctly, and thus there should be really a lot to show. But Oleg doesn't show anything, and I'm quite sure he has a good reason for it. I just can't think of what that reason is.
The fact that www.stormofwar.com seem to belong to UBISoft must be a minor problem. Just give the game another name.
What could it be other than that?
Problems with digital rights management or copy protections shouldn't prohibit the release of pictures and videoes.
Could there be some problems between developer and publisher that are yet not sorted out? He still could release some computer specs..

I don't get it. But I have absolutely no knowlegde of what kind of hurdles and problems you have to solve before you start to promote an upcoming game. It seems to me though, as if Oleg has been quite close to starting the PR-work several times, but then has been held back.

September is far from over, so I'm still hoping.

Skarphol

Oleg coming through this time? well...if we take into account his past record with SOW i would say not a hope in hell, god i really hope im wrong, i really really do, nothing would make me happier than to see a really great update about SOW.

I'm happy that it's coming and I'm more happy that it will be soon.

I don't care if it will be september in the posting date, but 2009 would be nice. ;)

Oops Feuerfalke, my bad, I forgot I posted a link, apologies for that one.

I wonder why the mods are not all over it?
Maybe, since it was a link to a non mod conversation they let it slide?
Maybe they simply do not care as much as you do if a mod comment slips in sometimes?

I wonder how the screenshots forum here, which contains mostly mod related material and discussion escaped your scrutiny?

Maybe you need to take your linking to the rules expertise over there, eh?

I linked to a non mod related topic on a mod site, hang me!

Well, maybe no Oleg shots of the new game but there is sure a whole lot of buzz surrounding the old one.

We cannot mention the pending WWI stuff or the new planes, maps, etc., shown in the screenshot forum as that would be talking about mods so all we got left is the pending OFFICIAL release of 4.09 referred to here:
http://mission4today.com/index.php?n...sh=15&start=75

Look down a couple posts and see this:

char_aznable
Air Cadet Grade 1
Joined: Jul 09, 2009
Posts: 16

Post subject: Good news!
Posted: Sat Sep 12, 2009 05:24 AM

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I'm glad to inform you that patch 4.09 release candidate has just been recompiled. After intensive testing, if no further bug will be found, it will be officially released soon.

PS. It will take surely less than "Two Weeks".

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The post is over the Team Daidalos logo, for anyone not up, TD is the Oleg allowed modding team so it should pass censor muster here.

That's good news, Sunchaser!

Personally, I would appreciate if you 3-4 guys kept the arguing between you at a lower level, or maybe just took it in a private topic.

Skarphol

Hehehehe

The return of patch fever is here !!!!!!! :)

No worries, Sunchaser.

I could understand it the way things were before, but since development was taken over by 3rd party, IMHO the fundamentation of this ban grows a bit weak. I hope that with the official statement about the patch this will be somewhat lifted or at least no longer prosecuted.
On the other hand, your post didn't alert a mod, so maybe we see some part of this change already taking place?

Good to hear the patch is near - thanks for the news - S!

Sounds like you already got a room... ;)

This has turned into a dating site. :grin:

It's the "YET" that worries me. :D

Why are you guys in such a hurry?

Developing team still has half a month to post the screenies. And if he doesn't, I don't really care anyway... The less time they're spending here, more time they have to work on Storm of War.

Good one Robert. :) Well as long as you are worried about that, your mind is off how long Oleg has to post the alluded to Sept pics, right?

Lucas From Hell, well actually I am in such a hurry because I would like to see them from here and not your place and I ain't all that young anymore.

Pictures. You're talking about Pictures?!!?? I want MOVIES dammit!

I have to admit I myself will be pretty damn dissappointed if nothing is posted in September. I've been the patient good boy and haven't raised my hackles regarding BoB, but I've been waiting since 2004 when BoB was announced (though it may have been 2003. I THINK it was almost a year from FB's release that BoB was mentioned).

I understand the path a game's developement takes isn't always clear and things happen, but it's time. I know Oleg's stated 'real' developement started in 07, but the game was annonced farther back than that - complete with Hurricaine renderings.

This dog needs a bone..... and this time I want one of those meaty ham hock bones and not a chicken bone.

spot on post +1

Awwwwwwwwwwwwww, nuthin! Sigh.

Oleg, Wednesday is going to be my birthday, you know what can be a beautiful surprise... :)

How much time does it take to post a few pictures?
10 minutes tops.
Such a thing can be done during a lunchbreak or after workhours.
If Oleg is too busy some other employee can do this with Olegs permission.
Maybe even the tea-lady with her famed internets skillz.
Or Oleg could drag a homeless computer programmer off the street and ask the guy to post some ingame pics on the forum for food and half a glas of vodka.
Posting no updates is not a question of lack of time but a deliberate attempt to
annoy tree_uk.
There can not be another reason :!:
:-)

lol, its working too :grin::grin:

So only a few days left, any takers on the odds we get an update?

Flyingbullseye

In the last year or so Oleg has been very poor at delivering things that he has said he would, hopefully this will change, as for this month I doubt it will.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2nBXvGF4f3...E/s400/LOL.jpg

IMHO there must be some legal reason why Oleg is effectively showing us nothing, In June Oleg stated the Game was 80% finished so by now it must be well on its way to completion, but we have seen no in game footage since the start of development. You would also think that if the game was nearly finished Oleg would be starting the marketing process but we have seen nothing. On the upside Oleg did say that he expected SOW to go gold before October 2010 its just whether we believe him, the jury is out.

That's one of the many possiblities Tree.

It might be similar to the total blackout that KotS/Rise of Flight went through when they were negotiating with Neoqb. Until everything was signed, absolutely no new information was released and all updates were removed from the KotS page.

It might be a mix of that, and a healthy measure of Oleg Maddox's cold-war work ethic.

:-):-):-)

yes maybe...but why then even say hes going to do something, then never mention it again? website, system req, release dates and screenshots? just winds people up.

While I can't say why he doesn't meet his own personal estimates (note the words PERSONAL and ESTIMATES), there question why he even makes those statements is quite easy to answer: Because that is largely the only question of this community. ;)

Same story everytime Oleg shows up:

C: "WHEN? WHEN? WHEN? WHEN? WHEN? WHEN?"
OM: "Soon."
C: "WHEN? WHEN? WHEN? WHEN? WHEN? WHEN?"
OM: "No fixed dates, yet."
C: "GUESS! GUESS! GUESS! GUESS! GUESS! GUESS! GUESS!"
OM: "Okay, well, maybe September."
C: "SEMPTEMBER? OK YOU PROMISED! SEMPTEMBER? OK YOU PROMISED! SEMPTEMBER? OK YOU PROMISED! SEMPTEMBER? OK YOU PROMISED! SEMPTEMBER? OK YOU PROMISED! SEMPTEMBER? OK YOU PROMISED! SEMPTEMBER? OK YOU PROMISED! SEMPTEMBER? OK YOU PROMISED! SEMPTEMBER? OK YOU PROMISED! SEMPTEMBER? OK YOU PROMISED! SEMPTEMBER? OK YOU PROMISED! SEMPTEMBER? OK YOU PROMISED! SEMPTEMBER? OK YOU PROMISED! SEMPTEMBER? OK YOU PROMISED! "

In all fairness Feuerfalke, it was Oleg that said he would show In game footage from September on without any prompting, see below posted at Simhq.

I fully understand a estimated guess Feuerfalke and understand a delay can happen...but like i said before some of the stuff Oleg said would happen are NEVER mentioned again...also like Tree said Oleg told us September over 4 months ago...IF SOW is going to be out next year(i dont think so) then he must have a build where he could take a screenie or two...how long would that take...2 mins?...if he cant do that then we are in for a long wait still.