Announcement of the game "IL-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Stalingrad"

[bongodriver]

I wonder what has happened to all that work, languishing on a hard drive somewhere? or is it all deleted?

[Les]

Originally Posted by bongodriver

I wonder what has happened to all that work, languishing on a hard drive somewhere? or is it all deleted?

I could be wrong, but I was under the impression it all got handed over to the BoS developers.

I like what I've been seeing so far of Battle Of Stalingrad, in a lot of ways it looks to me like a worthy successor to IL2:1946, but I have been wondering how much of it is being done from scratch and how much of it is being adapted from other sources (ie. BoM & '46).

That's not meant to be a put-down of the BoS developers, I'm impressed by their current and previous work and by the disciplined approach they're taking to making a sim that balances amount and quality of features with achievability of production deadlines. But I wonder if there will be a point at which they'll be met with the same sort of uncharted-territory type challenges that other developers have had to deal with.

I sort of hope they do have access to all the IL2 resources that the 1C company owns, in addition to the results of their own work on ROF, if those resources can be used to help keep the development of the new IL2 series moving along at a greater pace, and help them avoid the pitfalls and ground-breaking challenges others might have encountered.

[zapatista]

Originally Posted by bongodriver

I wonder what has happened to all that work, languishing on a hard drive somewhere? or is it all deleted?

Originally Posted by Les

I could be wrong, but I was under the impression it all got handed over to the BoS developers.

nope, the RoF crowd didnt get any of the earlier CoD work, or what was being created by the CoD team for their next installment BoM. neither did they get the flight physics modeling, aircraft blueprints, historical research or damage models etc.

the Rof-ww2 project is entirely their own creation, and the use of the il2sturmovik brand name is just to try and generate more sales and make people believe it is from the same creators as the earlier il2 series which had a very good reputation

still its not all bad, having more ww2 games available will attract more players to the genre, and this will allow a percentage of these same new players to then gradually progress to the more hard core simulators like CoD and DCS-ww2 series.