Luthier, many thanks for rescuing CoD !! 3 cheers for luthier
 

Luthier,

with all the rumors flying around, and not many of the forum visitors realizing how close we came to total disaster following the forced release of the unfinished CoD, i want o pass my sincere thanks to you for rescuing the SoW/CoD project and persevering to pull it all together in the end under very difficult circumstances.

many thanks also for keeping the greater oleg vision alive, and trying to keep active and further implement many of the new elements that had been worked on in previous years before you took over (rearm/refuel, dynamic weather, vehicle and ship control, dynamic campaign engine, complex AI routines for ground vehicles and trains etc)

without your great effort in the last year this whole SoW project could have collapsed, and in the last few months we now at long last have a pretty decent CoD that runs well on mid level pc's, and a game and gfx engine that will allow a BoM release without much further delay (and will simultaneously implement further fixes for CoD).

we pray now for a steady hand at the wheel and that the SoW series might have many further successful sequels, with each building on the previous one like the old il2 series did, giving us gradually more features and new elements.

3 cheers for luthier !!

and for all you trolls and ungrateful little whiners who might still be squirreling about, let ye be warned, i got a shotgun and a shovel in the boot of my car, and there is a whole lot of desert out there, they wont find your bodies for 20 yrs, and no body = no crime , you wont be missed :)

I await Yobnaf's eloquent input into the discussion.

that's one of tree's aliases

you dont need to be psychic to predict what the "contribution" will be :)

if only the rest of life would be this easy :)

Still no official news that he is still on board or that he left 1C?

Zapatista lo invitamos a ud a pasar por caja a cobrar su cheque prometido en el dia de la fecha.

La gerencia de 1C.
Muchas gracias.

luthier for next presidency!!

The new IL-2 game engine has slowly but steadily improved, and is still our best hope for the type of WW2 aircombat sim we all want. Even with all COD's problems, its the only combat flight sim that's been able to rekindle my interest in flying. The only major feature holding COD back from being a real good combat flight sim is the AI and commands. If the AI issues can be address, and further improvements are made to other features, the Sequel should be a success. The community and third parties have become involved and are making excellent campaigns.

The development definitely has been a struggle, for many reasons, most we will never hear about, and it appears from posts in the Russian forums there is still some life in the development. I would imagine the development delays have put scrutiny on the jobs of more than a few in the development, some warranted, some not so much. Oleg had more than his fair share of problems developing COD, and Luthier appears to have had many of the same problems. Oleg was a casualty of the long development, and retired, I would imagine Luthier is/has been in the cross-hairs, again warranted or not. Building a far more complex game engine will always be tough in the beginning, but it appears to be at the end of the beginning, and they certainly deserve smoother sailing into the future of the series.

If the development has secured further financing, things will definitely get better, and the Debbie Downers will have to change their mantra from the sim is dead to counting rivets.

:lol:

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