Just my thoghts on the latest Screens update +examples offuture hopes for SoW

Yeah, but there has to be a point when someone decides its done, If the Terrain in May 2009 was finished you'd of thought we would have had at least a glimpse of it by now.

[IceFire]

We don't know exactly what he means by the terrain is finished. He may mean (I won't pretend to put words into peoples mouths) that the terrain system is finished. But the actual look of the terrain can be massively altered by textures alone... just like at the Slovakia map... same terrain system as always but the visual is much more impressive than the earlier maps that we have.

We have seen a few shots of the terrain on the test map but I suspect that is still not what the finished look is going to be like at all. Soon I hope!

Originally Posted by IceFire

We don't know exactly what he means by the terrain is finished. He may mean (I won't pretend to put words into peoples mouths) that the terrain system is finished. But the actual look of the terrain can be massively altered by textures alone... just like at the Slovakia map... same terrain system as always but the visual is much more impressive than the earlier maps that we have.

We have seen a few shots of the terrain on the test map but I suspect that is still not what the finished look is going to be like at all. Soon I hope!

Ive not seen anything that looks 'photo realistic' as of yet though. I guess time will tell. Re-reading the interview with Oleg though from May 2009, where he states that SOW is 80% complete is encouraging, its just that with the WIP's we have seen so far it looks to be way off completion. Oleg must be holding it all back and if what he said back then is true it will be released anytime soon.

[Qpassa]

Let's be patient, let Oleg Team do their own work

[Foo'bar]

Originally Posted by Tree_UK

Ive not seen anything that looks 'photo realistic' as of yet though. I guess time will tell. Re-reading the interview with Oleg though from May 2009, where he states that SOW is 80% complete is encouraging, its just that with the WIP's we have seen so far it looks to be way off completion. Oleg must be holding it all back and if what he said back then is true it will be released anytime soon.

How often have you to tell that SoW hasn't been finished yet? :facepalm:

[JVM]

Hello Foo'bar...

Originally Posted by Foo'bar

How often have you to tell that SoW hasn't been finished yet? :facepalm:

Thanks for that Foobar and there was me thinking it was on the shelves already, what would i do without you guys.

[Chivas]

I've thought for a long while that alot of what you see in BOP/WOP was the basis of the original SOW that was to be released along time ago but Oleg wasn't happy with it. Hence some employee's and publisher parting ways. Some of those lost employee's may have become a part of the Gaijin developers team. Oleg's gift to Gaijin of IL-2 FM's etc sounds alittle suspect and I wonder if there is much more to it. This could be where Oleg gets his funding to continue work on the SOW project, especially if UBI is no longer in the picture.. Oleg has stated that SOW is better in every way than BOP.


This is based on some early screenshots of SOW that were almost copies of what I've seen in BOP, especially the White Cliffs of Dover, and village lay outs.

UBI announcing the eminent release of SOW in 2006/2007. SOW had to be close to completion in that period. What happened?

Not an official comment about SOW from UBI since that announcement around 3 years ago.

Aspects of BOP are very similar to IL-2, and not just because they're both combat flight sims.


Anyway its fun to speculate, and I don't really care either way, as long as we eventually see a new combat flight sim benchmark in the SOW series.

[philip.ed]

+1 to that chivas.

If you look at the vids for SoW when it was in the first edition engine (based on Il-2) you can see that clouds, planes, cockpits and terrain are all really good; I'd say that all three of what I've mentioned (bar the terrain) is better than WoP.

Now if Oleg wasn't happy with that, then I'm expecting wonders here....

[furbs]

thats pretty much what i think...WOP looks so much like the Mysticpuma video from a while back to me.