Friday Update, February 3, 2012

[Ataros]

Originally Posted by Tvrdi

Do you know why AA isnt included in the game, in the first place?

My personal opinion is that reasons are the same as with other not-finished stuff, i.e. several mistakes and disasters happened during development process: bad decisions + pride&arrogance of some programmers after Il-2 success + economic crisis = Softclub merger and "anti-crisis management" (other people than Oleg making decisions) = many old programmers fired or left, new programmers have to start many things from scratch and/or decipher code = needs several more years to complete, but publisher does not have more resources and sets a deadline for release anyway.

As I mentioned here http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showpos...postcount=1159 (edit: wrong link corrected):

... Softclub merger happened in 2009 IIRC due to economic crisis. Then anti-crisis management took command and many employees of the team left. After the launch Oleg wrote on his Youtube channel that he is not sure if the team would be allowed to finish the product. Remember how happy luthier was bringing here the news that the project will be continued?

Regarding roadmap I think luthier mentioned some in spring and summer but then they did not got through it. Maybe because new people have to decipher someone else's code which can be a nightmare. Maybe there are other reasons. They can not tell us because of NDA with UBI and 1C/Softclub bosses, especially on the official forums.

Why all the above happened? Oleg as a man took responsibility for 2 major reasons: 1) did not insist on making CloD using old IL-2 engine and believed some team members that the new engine can be done in shorter time, 2) attempted to meet all user requests, wishes and dreams as it was in Il-2 which was not possible in the new engine because of its complexity (much more people had to be hired which did not happen due to many reasons - crisis and other)
Source: http://www.sukhoi.ru/forum/showthrea...=1#post1683314