A final message from Luthier

[TomcatViP]

Thank you for all your efforts and for leading your team so well trough the thunderstorm. I am sure those days would stay as epic as the days when Falcon4 came out just to be disregarded by short sighted visionary experts.

CoD will stay for ever as the apogee of a genre at a singular time. You stepped with the giants.

[Mysticpuma]

BTW, let's hope you now have time to make your Korean War simulator and maybe you now have time to fix the CloD engine to utilise in that game instead?

MP

[fruitbat]

I wish you all the best for the future, its sad that things have ended as it has.

I was talking to T_O_A_D on comms earlier about this, and it occurred to me that its thanks to yourself and Oleg and the rest of the team involved with il2, that there we were, talking to each other, me in the UK, him in the US.

Without il2, it is very unlikely that we would ever know each other and be friends, and all the other friends i have made though flying il2.

For that alone, you have my thanks, the hours and hours spent flying il2 is a a massive bonus.

cheers fruitbat.

[SlipBall]

There was nothing ever wrong with the engine, the patch's hurt the engine, complainer's demanded more patches...in short, we killed the game. I am flying the release now, it just needs some horse power to run, and some AI commands to enjoy.

[Chivas]

Thanks Luthier for all your efforts.

The new game engine, was trying to do almost everything I wanted in WW2 aircombat sim. It just took too long to run OK on average unoptimized computers. You got so close to making it work, a new GUI with better COOP support, and improved AI would have made the sim playable enough to keep the wolves at bay. Unfortunately there are always scapegoats warranted or not. I think I'm done aswell, I'm getting to old to follow another long development, but that new Oculus Rift virtual reality headset, may drag me back in.

I'd like to see you and Oleg start another development company. The genre would certainly be better for it.

~Salute~
JG27_Chivas

[PeterPanPan]

Very sad to see you and presumably a lot of the rest of the team go. Such a shame that despite all the passion and desire, it came to this. I believe your intentions were always the best. Uncertain times for us all but hopefully, as a certain Vera Lynn once sang, we'll meet again one sunny day. All the best to you for whatever the future may hold.

[kristorf]

Originally Posted by SlipBall

There was nothing ever wrong with the engine, the patch's hurt the engine, complainer's demanded more patches...in short, we killed the game.

Personally I think your wrong there mate, rushed and shoddy product killed this game, we only wanted what we paid for and were told we were getting.

Just my opinion

[kopperdrake]

Just wanted to tip my hat to you and thank you for the flight sim we do have. It was seeing screen shots and youtube videos of Cliffs of Dover that pulled me in to the flight sim fold - I was blown away.

Thanks to your game, and the community surrounding it, I am hooked, and look forward to anything coming close to the experience you have helped give me with CloD.

Cheers and good luck,

Bunny

[Jugdriver]

Thank you Luthier,

You and your team have made a great sim and I feel it will be seen as a benchmark that other WW2 flight sims will have to be measured by for a long time, it truly is a beautiful combat flight simulator.

Good luck with your future endeavors

JD
AKA_MattE

[magot]

Good luck Ilya ... and thanks for best sim