Incredible, they've already said "wait for announcement", then someone says something about someone they know that may know something and the rumour mill starts spinning like there's no tomorrow. Here's a little tip, wait for the announcement.:rolleyes:

Reading the sukhoi site through the Bing translator is like reading ancient druid poetry written by a schizophrenic. The speculation/translation in here is as hard to follow.

Anyone got a simple one liner for what it is trying to say?

well you guys remember those little video teasers with the player controlled vehicles and AA guns...?

I think there just improving on that and making it better for an announcement in 2 weeks.

Salute

This latest rumour just hi-lights once again the real question, which needs to be answered by a 1C Spokesperson:

What is the status of Battle of Moscow/Battle of Stalingrad? Is the series continuing and in what form?

We have to assume this will be the whole point of the announcement. I can't see any point in delaying the announcement unless they were still in negotiations, which is probably the case.

I will believe there is a sequel when I have a working product on my harddrive which is bug free. Engaging in a couple years of speculation and unkept promises is pointless.

we already had that confirmed at the completion of the most recent CoD patch (which is only a few weeks ago), work on BoM is continuing and there was mention by luthier of some major announcement due about other aspects of the SoW series. the initial indications were that this new announcement might be about a possible MMO project (with or without still creating later installments of the SoW series is not clear)

which brings us to the current date, where a few 3e hand whiff's of possible change at 1C has the usual same trolls and whiners in the western forums go in a tail spin while cluttering the forums with their clouds of doom and negative speculation. no doubt foobar and ivanK heard something, but there is no indication of what part of the elephant the blind man is holding and then trying to describe to the rest of the crowd of onlookers. neither is there any indication of how reliable their sources are, and these would be lower level employees in any case (who dont hold the big picture information senior management has).

meanwhile in the russian forums (which are usually much better informed) there is no increased chatter or leaked reports of imminent negative changes regarding the future of the SoW series (or reports of major staff changes, or disgruntled recently fired staff members posting under new pseudonyms and bringing out all the dirty laundry). if anything there are positive reports of a new possible investor to breath further life into the series (with a strong emphasis on maintaining realism and a high quality flightsim), AND work continuing on BoM as planned

and if it would so turn out that there has been some change in the current project leader for SoW (luthier), then the lot of you have advanced notice so each of you can go and buy him a case of good vodka as a big thank you for rescueing the SoW series from the imminent death it faced 18 months ago, and for fixing the giant mess he was given when he took over. our only hope for a high realism ww2 flightsim was saved from near death, and after 12 months or so he has given us a pretty good next gen flightsim product that has lots of potential in it to quickly make further giant leaps forward in a very short space of time (since the core game and gfx engine is now working well enough to address the other residual issues)

it is much easier to break and destroy something, then it is to create it, and if any of you are at all interested at all to maximize our chances of getting to the promised land of all-things-good-in-ww2-flightsim, then you better stop giving matches and cans of fuel to the trolls and whiners who have no intention to ever help create anything positive, as they are only here to share their misery

Very good post zapman. Right on.

Indeed, in 2010 the question was raised about allocate
financing that would support the patriotic education of youth.
(!) Perhaps this project today touched the simulator IL2.

Watch from 1.30 minute
http://www.1tv.ru/news/polit/153305

waiting for official information

Of all the tiniest crumbs of information that we've had to subsist on over the last few years, this is by far the smallest and most vague. Wait and see fellas. Wait and see.