A final message from Luthier

[secretone]

Thank you for all your contributions to IL-2 and also best wishes for your future endeavors.

[T_O_A_D]

Sad day Sad day for sure.

It was a breath of fresh air back in the beginning when IL2 came out beta.

You could see right away the future of flight simming from what we were using at the time.

CFS/JanesWW2 Fighters and such.

Thank you for all your efforts, you and the gang gave us a childhood dream come true with IL2 and its versions.

Sure something may come along better in time, and others pressure to replace it right now.

But she will always be my first real Love of flight Simming, such high hopes for CLOD but alas

Take care, and good fortune in your future endeavors.

[LoBiSoMeM]

Originally Posted by Osprey

Best of luck mate, and if you have the source code please try to leak it out into the community somewhere because I can't see 777's engine even approaching what you and your team have done here. It's been a turbulent time but we can see now that a lot of the troublemakers just appear to be ROF lovers wanting to stick the knife into something better. Troubles aside, we're having an epic time in COD so thank you at least for that.

May the suits at 1C who pulled the plug meet the famous Russian justice system in the near future.

+1...

[LoBiSoMeM]

And to 1C:

- Go to hell, stupid company!

[Walrus1]

A very very sad day.

Il-2 is over.

Whatever they are making is sure to be the 'Lite' version of what you and Oleg had envisioned.

Thanks for the games and all the work.

[Froddi]

~S~ Luthier!

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Originally Posted by Osprey

Best of luck mate, and if you have the source code please try to leak it out into the community somewhere because I can't see 777's engine even approaching what you and your team have done here. It's been a turbulent time but we can see now that a lot of the troublemakers just appear to be ROF lovers wanting to stick the knife into something better. Troubles aside, we're having an epic time in COD so thank you at least for that.

May the suits at 1C who pulled the plug meet the famous Russian justice system in the near future.

+1

[vranac]

Thank you Ilya for everything you done for this sim and old il2.

It is obvious that a lot of love,passion and hard work was invested in development
and clear vision was backing it up.

It is sad that most of us won't get what we hoped for, new serial which would last for years.

Good luck for you in the future and I hope that we will hear about some new project soon.

[JTDawg]

it is really sad, after the last patch , really thought you guys were on the right track. sorry the way things turned out , been a buyer since the beggining, an in cod have log more than 1000 hours , good luck an thanks atleast we still have a diamond in the ruff , take care an merry x-mas hope thing go better in the next years for you , your talent will be missed.

[Ploughman]

Cheers Luthier.

I really thought CloD was getting somewhere and I share the disapointment of a great many of your customers that CloD was finally axed, it's really so immersive now and graphically a treat even with quite alot of features turned off.

I don't know if the DN engine will be able to deliver an acceptable alternative and good luck to 777 and the 1C team with that. Whilst Jason doesn't want to make comparisons with CloD it is inevitable that Cliffs of Dover will be the yardstick that BoS will be measured by. That's testament to what you and your team have achieved since the launch of Cliffs of Dover.

I wish you success in the future and I hope our paths will cross again.

All the best,

Kev