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IL-2 Sturmovik: Cliffs of Dover Latest instalment in the acclaimed IL-2 Sturmovik series from award-winning developer Maddox Games.

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Old 06-29-2012, 05:31 AM
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I believe most of the bean counters have pulled the plug a long time ago I'm afraid. What we have here is a rescue operation with very limited resources, and those resources do not come from Ubisoft (educated guess).

Map making is outsourced, they have said that already but I think the "new" planes we see now have been around for a while, and/or have been outsourced too. How long since anyone seen a new cockpit ? I just dont think they have been working constantly.

The ratio of time spent over results is huge. The difference between BoM an CoD is a few aircrafts and a map, since they both will (hope!) be fused together eventually, it's the same program. There are other considerations of course, like campaign and mission making, FM/DM tweaking for the new planes and such but it's the same GUI, same clouds, same trees, the same weather, same graphics, sound, same track recorder, same AI, etc...

Luthier is no more to blame for this than Obama is to blame for the 2008 financial crisis. Its the previous guy, the one that created the mess that is to blame.

I wish them the best, they are very courageous to keep going like that. If Luthier has grey hair, I know where they come from...

I still remember being sure to play CoD in 2006...And I'm still hoping because goshdarn it, I love that DM, it is so satisfying ! That has not been equaled yet.

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Ubisoft hasn't been involved financially for sometime. IC publishing must be footing the thousands of dollars a day in development costs at the moment. I believe the Eastern Front Sequel was a third party group from the beginning that may have been drawn into the main development group, just as Luthier's Korean war group was drawn in. We've seen development information on the Eastern Front sim using the COD engine before COD was released.

I believe Oleg's dream sim suffered from the weakness of todays average computer, trying to enable to many highly complex features, poor coding via the modulation system, and optimization. The modulation system makes its easier to code, find, and change the code when required, but putting the code together without stutters or CTD's seems to be a problem. I know the code wasn't all bad, COD worked rather well on my highly optimized system from the first day of release, if you ignore the gameplay issues.

Hopefully Luthier team will be able to optimize the recent code update, as the future of the sim rides on it.
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Old 06-29-2012, 10:30 AM
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Luthier is no more to blame for this than Obama is to blame for the 2008 financial crisis. Its the previous guy, the one that created the mess that is to blame.

Actually, it was the one before the previous one
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The majority of the development team should be working on the game engine, AI, Commands, FM, DM, clouds, weather, and other features etc which will effect both COD and the Sequels. A smaller portion of the development team will be working on the sequels map, campaigns, and some aircraft that are exclusive to the Sequel theater of operations. So COD has not been abandoned as some here would try to convince you, and a lack of updates doesn't necessarily mean they are not working on the project, it just means its not ready yet. That said the bean counters could pull the plug on the development at any moment.
Wow! just wow Chivas. You're my hero, whenever I feel down or negative in life, I just read one of your posts and I start to beleive in humanity again. Hope and Chivas are the last things that leave us before we die. Are you Jesus?
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Wow! just wow Chivas. You're my hero, whenever I feel down or negative in life, I just read one of your posts and I start to beleive in humanity again. Hope and Chivas are the last things that leave us before we die. Are you Jesus?
There is always hope as long as the development team is still working on the project. I know if I was paying the thousands of dollars a day to keep this development working I would want to see some substantial reason to keep investing my money. The investors must be privy to some positive information, atleast for the moment, but don't let me disturb those wallowing in the depths of negativism.
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