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08-11-2008, 02:23 AM
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Beating a dead horse
Well, after over 2 years of waiting on BOB SOW I'm thinking we are beating a dead horse.
 The 4.09 Patch has never been completed. The Birds of Prey (Console game) appears to have 16 poly aircraft over a landscape that looks like what has been promised in SOW. I'm not going to speculate or try to run anyone aground here. Developing a really competent Combat flight simulator is a huge task compared to putting out a console game. Everything is done when the console game is released. The controller and software that drives the game is a done deal, and whatever limitations of the console hardware and software are fixed. I can understand a departure from a Computer based CFS that has variable issues with graphics, sound, controllers, mission builders, etc. some darned complicated stuff. I'm hopeful there will be an SOW. Oleg has always been such a super guy about keeping everyone up to speed, but I'm thinking he's off on something else and just keeping us going with an occassional posting. IMO, I've had a great run with the IL2 series. We haven't had one material thing promoted to us, but words and a few graphics over the past years. Last edited by nearmiss; 08-15-2008 at 07:47 PM. 
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08-11-2008, 06:26 AM
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Having been around for the Harpoon 4 debacle when after almost a year of been shown work in progress screen-shots Ubisoft cancelled the project I can well understand your sceptisim.
But unlike Harpoon 4, there would be plenty of third party developers prepared to jump into the breech so to speak if Ubisoft or even 1C pulled the plug. But do the maths when SOW was announced way back when Vista and Direct X 10 were twinkles in Microsoft's eyes. They are here now. Multi core CPU's and mega graphic's cards from both nvidia and ati have more than quadroupled what could be done back then. So lets say the project was close to Alpha stage just before Vista and the Geforce 8 series popped up. Well that would have made everything done up til that point obsolete. While this is no excuse for no updates it could be a valid reason for the sudden slow-down of info. I agree Birds of Prey looks remarkabily like the footage released on the 1946 DVD and I still have not quite got my head around the explanations given for that. But I am sure we will get something soon. Either a "Dear John" thanking us for our loyal support and wishing us luck with 4.09 beta or some real ingame footage that will blow our socks off. I am hoping for the later.
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08-11-2008, 07:00 AM
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I'm not worried about Birds of Prey taking resources from Storm of War as BOP is developed by another developer. It should not affect the progress on Storm of War.
BUT the lack of communication and information on SOW:BOB is really disturbing. If I understand things correctly here, the reason for NOT showing any real progress on this board is that UBI is the company that controls all information. If that is so, why has the little information we have got thus far been presented here and not over at UBI? UBI has no usefull information on SOW:BOB at all. The purpose of this board seems more and more diffuse. This is not a "SOW:BOB" site but an "IL-2"-site. Still there is nothing on this board related to IL-2 that has not been covered over at UBIzoo. And as far as I can remember, I'm not even sure that UBI will be the publisher of SOW:BOB. Oleg hasn't posted at UBIzoo since may 2007, and Olegs ready room is removed. There may well be some good explenation for all this, but thus far I haven't got it into my head yet. I'm not thinking SOW:BOB is a dead horse, but all this certainly seems odd. Skarphol Last edited by Skarphol; 08-11-2008 at 10:02 AM.
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08-11-2008, 07:45 AM
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The lack of communication and information is not just disturbing its indication that little or nothing is happening. If SOW is going to happen then i think it is a long way off. I also found the official answers we got regarding BOP difficult to believe.
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#5
08-11-2008, 09:56 AM
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nearmiss, the funny thing is, if you really ment what you just wrote, you wouldn't have posted it, as it is exactly what you posted you no longer want to do: Talking among ourselves.
So it's basically just another pointless thread, trying to provoke a reaction from the bada$$ developers. And that you don't hope for a reaction or follow the thread, you can tell that to your socks.
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#6
08-11-2008, 10:53 AM
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Why do we even bother asking about SoW in here anyway,this is the IL2 forum.And for IL2 updates,the news is not here,its at AAA.
SM79 Typhoon Mosquito XVI Gloster Meteor FW190 A3 etc Last edited by JG52Uther; 08-11-2008 at 11:28 AM.
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#7
08-11-2008, 12:20 PM
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nearmiss is out on the fishing trip...that`s new
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08-11-2008, 07:12 PM
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__________________
 Personally speaking, the P-40 could contend on an equal footing with all the types of Messerschmitts, almost to the end of 1943. ~Nikolay Gerasimovitch Golodnikov
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#10
08-11-2008, 09:34 PM
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There will not be any SOW and any further Oleg combat sim. I think that the problems are:
- technical (hardware & software) changes, - too advanced expectations and criticism from the community, - publisher/distributor money&time pressure, - other (as always). That all, and maybe more, drove Oleg to the decision to give up. I wish it is not true... 
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