Fresh stuff from sukhoi.ru (Discussion)

[klem]

Originally Posted by Thee_oddball

i don't think there was 5 years development. 1.5 years? for the CLOD engine , I think they scraped the original SOW engine.

2/10/2010 "were STARTING a whole game engine from SCRATCH" Ilya

plus what there playing looks alot like the preview from the CD

I think that's generally correct. Something was happening during the last year or two before release and what we have is definitely not the product of 7 years development unless it was wandering woefully in the wilderness. Also, in that video, most if not all was taken from IL-2 1946. It has always given me the feeling that either the guts were ripped out of it for some reason (<enter political/finacial/skulduggery reason here> or it was started again from scratch around late 2009/2010.