This is close to what I am thinking, but I think the game is closer to release status and the screenies we are getting are just showing bits and pieces.

What we don't know is where the game play is in development. I think most of us would agree that the graphics are good to great (with a few posters taking exception lol). But are the game play aspects close to release status? Have frame rates been optimized sufficiently?


"We" don't know (I certainly don't) anything really. Oleg might be the only person who knows for sure with everyone else working on bits and pieces. Anything I or anyone else says is speculation and pretty pointless.

I will say this though....Christmas is around the corner. One would think there would be a push on to get the game out sooner than later for the buying season.

The good news for me personally is I am new enough to IL-2 to have plenty of game left to explore :). You guys that have been with this for 10 years are the ones who are hurting.

Splitter

LOL I've been around since the beginning, and I'm not yet tired at all of Il2 ... on the contrary I still enjoy online combat with my squad mates on full switch servers ... and recently had a lot of fun with the Joint-Ops courses ... actually re. SoW:BoB the latest willthe better, because I'm afraid I will miss the scenario/planes variety of Il2.

Ins.

i really hope so, the last two or three weeks discussions have been ... well, something you'd need a good dose of humor to enjoy.

also...
 

Not so long ago, there was a rumour that SOW was dead...Ubisoft was under fire and nothing was moving on this forum...Oleg was gone and we all feared (:confused:) that the project was canned. Suddenly, Oleg was back on tracks with SOW, and the game looked a bit different than what was previously presented to us... So what happended ? What was going on during those few ( months) ? So is it possible to assume that we dont have a clue about the real state of SOW ? IMHO, this mystery is part of the big secret surrounding SOW...
ANd it is just plain fun to get into X-Files conspiracy theory...:grin:...since we have nothing else to do for now...Hum...Apart working, taking the kids to school and so on....:rolleyes:

Salute !

looking great...cant imagine having all those distance images rendering, that is going to be incredible...water looks fantastic..:cool:

The Lysander-operations took place only during periods of moonlight. For really low flying you don't use the altimeter, you use your eyes.

My conspiracy theory is that SoW was dropped by the publisher. Hence the move to the new forums and the removal of IL2 references in storm of war.

LOL, they'd laugh at comments like yours :-P

Seriously, if these shots are a year old or more then it would have to be one hell of a conincedence to see new additions and tweaks to the game that members of the community suggested. Not only that, tweaks to the game that people talked about with Oleg via e-mail etc.

Despite some funny issues of debate that stretched for pages (head size etc) a lot of the comments are quite interesting and the discussion is too.
Whether or not Oleg replies to every-post now, clearly they take all the comments on board in one way or other.

A few years ago, some-people were saying exactly the same thing. They then said it the next year, and the next. It doesn't work like that. The game will be relased when the team are happy to release it (unless they're under pressure to get it out). Oleg and the team have cornered their market already. A celebration of jesus' birthday wouldn't convince me to buy the game any more than a normal week-day would.
Of course there's a Christmas market, but having a few more buyers won't affect sales drastically. In fact; if the game is incomplete on release, the newer buyers would be put off the genre.

there's a lot of factors involved.
personally I'd just like to see a sim that lives up to the expectations we've been hinted to be able to enjoy. That's all I can ask for. otherwise it's back to BoB2/Il-2. The former has the best dynamic campaign, and the latter the most to offer out of any flight sim.

;)

yes...but...
 

But they can modify some models without showing anything in hi-res or any F/X...They also can add suggestions and posting sreenshots in low-res, DX9 and no AA...Hum...That is exactly what they are doing....?
ANd the terrain looked much better a year ago in some sreens...
All I am saying is that they are keeping the best for a final official video
that will be amazing :grin: ...Because we already have had bits and pieces of
much better exemples of the top notch quality of SOW in previous postings...
Otherwise, it would mean that the game is months away from final release..
That is also a possibilty...:(

salute !