What will we see in July?
 

After reading Luthier's latest I have a question for those of you who understand the developmental process. Will the US release version incorporate the state of the art or will there be a massive patch released simultaneously? Will the train continue to move while they paint it or will there be a focus on getting the best US version right out of the box to attract the new larger customer base?

The Box version and the online version will be current with each other. Whatever the latest greatest build they have will go gold.. then they will continue to ddevelop and tune it. Steam will keep ALL versions the same.

Actually North America is a smaller customer base (simmers) than Europe is. With first person shooters it's still the #1 market, but with something like CloD, Europe is the money-maker.

I really wonder why that's the case for north america. The only people around me that actually r interested in aviation/flight sim is a guy from Turkey. And I am from China. I don't know any Americans that play or have heard of the IL-2 series.

All people here do is call of duty, halo etc, and games like starcraft has a pretty big fan base too.

That's nothing "North American" about it. Most casual gamers in "western countries" do not have an interest in flight sims. In fact most of them just want to be entertained, short term, without a steep learning curve to master the game. That and the steady descent of the attention span to the levels of the carpet's height, that is. :rolleyes:

Whatever happens in July , lets hope it's not like Steams disaster release of Witcher 2 - I brought this on Steam and the last 2 patch have been 9GB each in size. This is all due to steams shitty way of doing things.

Lol Verify files first before patching...
Steam always forgets what you have on your system. If you verify the downloads are smaller.

We have a lot of fliers in our squadron from the USA.
I think the delay for the USA launch has nothing to do with getting the game up to scratch, but more likely USA customers are more likely to demand their money back from the retailer. Something Ubisoft is well aware of :(

No this is different. There is no fix for it yet , Steam have admitted it. Witcher 2 = 9GB patch is on steam. You can't play until you update.
the Steam version is one archive that updates the entire game, pure idiocy

Well, first we have to assume that the release date will stand.
It's been pushed back twice now, I think, and it's really up to 1c to decide if the game is fit to fly for North America or still needs some work. I would not completely rule out another postponement.

If the June patch fixes what it promises to fix, then that is a major step forward. Then there should be another big patch (just assuming but I have a hunch) just before the release in NA, which might have to correct some stuff from the June patch, as well as adding new fixes and maybe new content.

So by launch date a significant amount of progress should have been made.
But I don't know if we'll see any new campaigns, and the sounds will probably still be the same for a while longer after the NA launch.

I'm from the UK but I made a very close good friend in the USA from our mutual love of il2 (and Frank Zappa, as it happens:grin:). I dont think Battle of Britain is as high on americans' list as say europeans', simply because its not, for the most part, part of their history. I'm sure if it were Korea or even a re-run of the Pacific theatre, or mediteranean theatre then interest would be far higher.