/rant on
All this is actually Oleg's fault im convinced. ive heard some right wicked stories when women have there new born babies taken away from them, so what has happened within oleg's psychi you reckon ?. i believe all this that we "endure" is the fault of OM. but what happened to OM is not his fault i conclude. Atleast he communicated and created the depth of understanding and hype around the title. Sadly for him it was a waste of time. i believe he cared just enough to understand our role in all this.

This is what im deeply sad about. WE HAVE NO ROLE IN THIS ANYMORE ! WE HAVE NO SAY, WE HAVE NO RELATIONSHIP WITH THE DEVELOPERS ANYMORE ! you know we have had the comfortable carpet ripped from beneath our feet. What is the point. Honestly i'd rather live a lie in the want for the next IL2, id rather Oleg was here. "Without Oleg its just another game" just like what a Geoff crammond racing sim would have been like without geoff crammond.
And on that bomb shell.
/rant off

All the missing content is due to 1C's actions, not Oleg's.

1C is the bad guy here.

Stop trying to lay this at the foot of Oleg, why do you think he left anyway?

1C covers probably not more than 10-20% of the development budget as a publisher for Russia only. The rest was financed by UBI which probably had more influence on decisions.

i wasnt laying the blame at olegs feet btw. my point being things are beyond a simple mess anymore. This really is screwed up. We do not know who to blame. Its a fact they are all at fault.

I read a gossip, he has family troubles. His son very ill.

Yup your right mate, it is screwed up blatently. But i dont think Oleg is to blame, i think that rests firmly of the shoulders of the people who perhaps forced him out, by all the snippets we have read it seems that leaving was not by choice.

Maybe thats the truth of why the game is the way it is, filter be damned we already know it was an excuse.
Maybe Oleg really did take his personal work with him because of the conditions of his leaving? I think If, and I mean If, how it appears to me is true, I wouldnt leave em anything.

Aye ! you dont take someones baby away and not expect repurcussions. maybe replace repurcussions with consequences given the artistic nature of the assets at hand.

Well what makes this theory feel right for me is Oleg said he was very pleased with the Binural sound and as an example of this we saw an early alpha E3 Video with Binural Sound, he leaves because of what ever bad blood and it goes with him, and we get a makeshift placeholder disaster that we have now. Makes sense to me.

I have to laugh that when someone posts wild speculation in this forum after a couple of further posts it all hardens into incontrovertible fact.

We're currently two steps away from constructing the latest conspiracy theory.

Back on topic: I too was very disappointed not to get the Su26. It would have given a nice change of pace and opened up some different possibilities.

Controls in COD are much much better than IL2 for aerobatics.
We were finally about to get a very good aerobatic simulator, the only one. What a waste...


Where is the Su26 ?!

We are still waiting it and it's boring, seriously boring.