Fresh stuff from sukhoi.ru (Discussion)

[klem]

Originally Posted by philip.ed

Klem, my point is that CloD is, after the next patch, only to be developed collaterally which I perceive (as does Kendo) as abandonment. Unless the next patch provides the immersion, missions, environment to really simulate the BoB it's still a relatively empty shell in my books. Fun can be had but it doesn't sustain me. .......................
there's a lot under the surface which is untapped) but apart from being Forgotton-Battles, set in the BoB with brass-knobs on is it anything more?.............................
My point really is that after the next patch the sim itself is being directly abandoned and perhaps later being handed over to the community. This negates Chivas's point that the SDK will allow expansion. I'm not doubting that at all. I'm simply stating that the development team (unless they produced a sub team) will not be expanding the Battle of Britain further directly. And the indirect changes will not add the meat to sustain an offliner like me. Even if a dynamic campaign system is introduced, a community member will have to fill it out because the team won't be working on CloD directly.

This is why I hope BoM is a success. If the game expands, I can see a development team going back and working on CloD. The BoB is in a lot of people's interests and it would be foolish to not see it become the numero-uno sim representing this period.

Well I must admit to having a narrower view as I am only interested in on-line play. There I expect the devs to complete the aircraft (FMs, controls etc), sort out and complete the FMB and hopefully the rest will come from those terrific guys running the servers and building the mission maps. My regret is that we will never see large scale missions.

I understand what you mean about off-line play. I guess you have a point there if it is so bad. The truth is I played a couple of rounds of the career and got bored because for me the AI are just that, artificial, and I can't take them seriously no matter how good they are. Knowing I'm up against other real living pilots is what gives me my fix.