4.09?
 

Okay this is not a moan session just a random what's up as I see almost no current threads mentioning 4.09...
The beta was launched with much fanfare and now silence? Is the patch so unstable that it cannot be completed, is SOW so close no-one cares about IL2 anymore?
Even the beta dll's thread is several pages down.
Unless it has been released and I am the last idiot on earth not to have spotted it :)

I already hold the 4.10 beta...

Russian virpils have a sign. If has fallen sukhoi.ru - wait for a patch. And it this week has fallen already 2 times... :)

PS Excuse for awful English.

At least you probably missed the repeated quote from Oleg, that he needs all people working on BoB until a certain stage of development is reached. At that point, he's willing to let a few of his team integrate coding and make the necessary modifications for the Dedicated-Server, which would be needed ready when 4.09 was going to be released.

Many people think, that this "certain stage" is BoB reaching Beta-phase. I don't know if this is true, but I wouldn't expect news or the final 4.09 until the end of this year.

Well if thats true then its ridiculous! The natives are already getting very restless about SoW,and now you are saying you think 4.09 will not be out for another 6 months!!!
So I wonder if it will be out before or after SoW!

Probably shortly before.

And it's not at all ridiculous!
The reason why BoB was postponed so far is purely because the team worked on the IL2-Engine again and again. Remember BoB was postponed over a year because of the PacificFighters-Problems and even more, because they made some free addons to compensate for us.
And now they have the very same problem: Push the release of BoB back another few month or rather concentrate on the new engine now and release the patch later.

Considering we have a working IL2, now, I can perfectly well understand why Oleg made this decision.

(And before anybody jumps at this statement and demands a patch for the problems and bugs in IL2-1946, consider that there won't be any changes to the code, if the patch was pressed out now, but there is a chance we get more content and bugfixes, if Olegs team has the time to program them after that stage is reached. Don't know about you, but I prefer the later.)

I just hope I'll live long enough to see all those nice stuff
:lol: .

It does seem a little strange for me that Oleg said 'we need everyone working on SOW' after releasing the 4.09 beta, why did he work on it in the first place if he knew he would not release the final version for perhaps another year? Crazy way of doing business.

He didn't - the beta is 3rd Party but finishing, encoding and updating the dedicated server would be his job.

Just glad to know I did not miss any important updates.
I as you can see from my sig fly ADW and I am extremley happy with IL2.
But having a 8800GT I would not complain about a little more eye-candy.
Guess 4.09 will arrive when it arrives. I really was only concerned because no 4.09 threads existed on the front page.
Keeps the admin on his toes :grin: