August 6 2011 Development Update

[caprera]

Originally Posted by Phazon

It was revealed on VE day that the next theatre will be Operation Barbarossa. Sneak-peek pictures of an IL-2 Sturmnovik and the Kremlin were shown.

Hurray for the wild imagination of the Devs...


Seriously, AGAIN !? Why not for once try a different theatre that has not been seen a hundred times already ??

[xnomad]

Originally Posted by caprera

Hurray for the wild imagination of the Devs...


Seriously, AGAIN !? Why not for once try a different theatre that has not been seen a hundred times already ??

Maddox Games were the first (and only?) to bring the Eastern Front to the genre. There are way more Battle Of Britain, Defense of the Reich and 'the Pacific' Flight Sims out there so how can you say 'hundred times already'?

[caprera]

Originally Posted by xnomad

Maddox Games were the first (and only?) to bring the Eastern Front to the genre. There are way more Battle Of Britain, Defense of the Reich and 'the Pacific' Flight Sims out there so how can you say 'hundred times already'?

I know and it was the feature that made me buy it in the first place. I'm just tired of seeing the classic scenarios passing through every single game that takes place in WW2.

I thought it was time to move the action to the Mediterranean to see something rather different from oceans of water or grass we've been plenty of for years now...

Maddox Games brought us the Eastern first: maybe now it's time for a new record.

[Phazon]

Well at least they'll have an easy time with the R&D for it, being based in Moscow and being Russians and all.

I hope that the personal passion for that particular theatre means they'll do something more interesting this time around in terms of trying to simulate the actual campaign rather than just the aircraft that fought in it.

I think there are some gread scenarios not yet really explored:

- Mediterranian (some was possible in IL2 but just a little)
- The Battle of France (there had been some fighting even if it was not as intense as during BoB and there had been a lot of ground ops from both sides)
- Early Pacific

But although I never really warmed up to Soviet planes I understand their move. Let's be honest: It was the Russian market that kept IL2 going I would say and the community there is perhaps as big as all the rest combined (ok here I am just guessing but during the years I learned that there has been a more constant and overall serious passion for this game in Russia). But anyhow they need to fix the things first.

[caprera]

Originally Posted by 41Sqn_Stormcrow

But although I never really warmed up to Soviet planes I understand their move. Let's be honest: It was the Russian market that kept IL2 going I would say and the community there is perhaps as big as all the rest combined (ok here I am just guessing but during the years I learned that there has been a more constant and overall serious passion for this game in Russia). But anyhow they need to fix the things first.

Surely you are right, Russian fans are way too many to be "ignored".

I think i will be old when i'll see the Med in such a sim