Il-2 Sturmovik Battle over Britain very close to release

[merlin1]

I dont think soo.

Mr. Oleg

Once jou said that the Il-2 Sturmovik Battle for Britain is very close to release, and now is all depend from developers. Unfortunately me and many of users of this forum dont have equal feeling. with all respect to jour work and the work of your team. I simply must to ask a question. When the release will be happened ? In the Q1, Q2, Q3 Q4 in 2011 or even in year 2012 ?

I dont understand why you cant answered, or you dont wont answered on this simply question ?

I just gett the feeling that the IL-2 Battle for Britain will be never ending story or, never ending game... If you can not confirm whether the game will be released by December 2011, or ignore the issue of many that put him here, then we can rightly I suspect just that ... That you and your team do not have a detailed time periods in which the game came out. And this is very, very bad: And in my opinion, manipulate of expectations of members.

I not complaining at all. I just wont fair answer.


I hope this thread not will be errased from moderators.


rgr.

[Dano]

Originally Posted by merlin1

Unfortunately me and most of users of this forum dont have equal feeling.

Most? Please provide proof?

[JG52Krupi]

Oleg and his team are working in a gaming genre which doesn't have a large fan base and won't receive any where near the amount of money/praise as they should do in respect to the amount of work and research they are clearly doing to achieve this massive massive game.

You should not moan for a release date just trust that when Oleg feels that this game is ready to be released we will be getting something spectacular.

Look at all those FPS which require F all research and very little time to compile (yes CALL OF DUTY/HALO IM LOOKING AT YOU) and yet receive an unbelievable and a ridiculous amount of praise and money, which quite frankly IMHO they don't deserve.

You have the cheek to moan for a release date, you should be glad that there are ppl like Oleg pouring there time and soul into this genre and will not be getting much in return.

Thank you Oleg and Co for the hard work you are doing for and pushing the boundaries of flight simulators.

[onlyforbrian]

Well Dano, I was thinking the same thing as Merlin1...I'll tell you, I've been with Oleg and IL2 since the very beginning. and I bought every version and incarnation, add-on that ever came out, not to mention also shelling out bucks for that fiasco for PS3,.. so as a loyal customer who has put more than a couple dollars in Oleg's pocket, I feel I deserve some consideration in return.. But this SOW release is turning into a bit of a sad joke..we've been waiting now for more than 5 bloody years already!! Oh..it'll be released in Jan 2006, then sept 2006, then march 2007, then Dec2007..then on ..and on, and on...yawn..the REAL war didn't last this long.... can I be so bold as to suggest, why not do as was done with the IL2 series, release the darn thing, and then fix the gliches and bugs as we go with patches and updates. that would also be a much better, faster way to get glitches discovered and feedback ...

[Chivas]

Originally Posted by onlyforbrian

Well Dano, I was thinking the same thing as Merlin1...I'll tell you, I've been with Oleg and IL2 since the very beginning. and I bought every version and incarnation, add-on that ever came out, not to mention also shelling out bucks for that fiasco for PS3,.. so as a loyal customer who has put more than a couple dollars in Oleg's pocket, I feel I deserve some consideration in return.. But this SOW release is turning into a bit of a sad joke..we've been waiting now for more than 5 bloody years already!! Oh..it'll be released in Jan 2006, then sept 2006, then march 2007, then Dec2007..then on ..and on, and on...yawn..the REAL war didn't last this long.... can I be so bold as to suggest, why not do as was done with the IL2 series, release the darn thing, and then fix the gliches and bugs as we go with patches and updates. that would also be a much better, faster way to get glitches discovered and feedback ...

Il-2 was released fairly bug free. The updates were mostly that updates, not bug fixes.
I've been waiting for SOW since its first announcement in 2003/4. Finally we are in the bug fixing, optimization faze of SOW. Except maybe for the completion of the German Campaign.

This could take months depending on the severity of the bugs and optimizations. Take note how long its taking to debug the 4.10 patch, although they aren't working full time.

[Dano]

Originally Posted by onlyforbrian

Well Dano, I was thinking the same thing as Merlin1...I'll tell you, I've been with Oleg and IL2 since the very beginning. and I bought every version and incarnation, add-on that ever came out, not to mention also shelling out bucks for that fiasco for PS3,.. so as a loyal customer who has put more than a couple dollars in Oleg's pocket, I feel I deserve some consideration in return.. But this SOW release is turning into a bit of a sad joke..we've been waiting now for more than 5 bloody years already!! Oh..it'll be released in Jan 2006, then sept 2006, then march 2007, then Dec2007..then on ..and on, and on...yawn..the REAL war didn't last this long.... can I be so bold as to suggest, why not do as was done with the IL2 series, release the darn thing, and then fix the gliches and bugs as we go with patches and updates. that would also be a much better, faster way to get glitches discovered and feedback ...

Good for you, still doesn't prove that the OP is right in his comment and he seems to agree by the fact that he edited it to a far better turn of phrase.

[merlin1]

Originally Posted by Dano

Good for you, still doesn't prove that the OP is right in his comment and he seems to agree by the fact that he edited it to a far better turn of phrase.

I am not an English. Soo my English language is poor sory for that.
rgr.

[Skarphol]

We all know that the game:
a) will be released when it is finished, and
b) will be finished when it is finished.

So, the game definitively is'nt finished yet.

Even so, Oleg has time and recourses to spend on minor details like the color of the exhaust flames, a detail that is allmost never visible, and 99.98% of the time has absolutely no impact on how the game is experienced.

This tells me that
a) the game must be very close to finished, or else Oleg would have used his resources on more important problems
b) the game is probably in a testing phase where most of his resources are spent on trial and bugfixing.

How long such a task as ironing out the last bugs of a such a complex game can take is very hard to predict. Just think of 4.10. No wonder Oleg wont give us any releasedate.

But the updates could be more interesting, though..

Skarphol

[Dano]

Originally Posted by merlin1

I am not an English. Soo my English language is poor sory for that.
rgr.

No problem

[Letum]

Relax Merlin.

All things in time.