1C and Ubisoft Announce IL-2 Sturmovik: Cliffs of Dover

[NSU]

nice

[kendo65]

Great news! I see that the first page announcement now mentions the German campaign.

This is a bit cheeky - but lets think of absent friends - Tree must be sick as a parrot today - wrong on 3 big issues:

1. DX11 - confirmed.
2. Ubisoft as publisher - confirmed.
3. Release date - March - confirmed......Spring 2012 my arse!

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Feb 11th - decided to revisit this piece of ancient history in the interests of fair play, justice, and a nagging guilty conscience - or maybe it's just masochistic self-indulgence? Probably I'm just bored. No-one's probably going to read it anyway - bit like a tabloid issuing the retraction to their front-page headline on page 34 in very small print....

Anyway, hindsight (which, as we all know, is a 'wonderful thing') has revealed Tree not to have been as wrong as I made out.

A re-evalution shows:

1. DX11 - Tree was right, though God knows how, when Ubi didn't even know? Lucky guess, esp?, or sleuth-like powers of deduction (or is it induction?).

2. Ubisoft as publisher - Wrong - debates about when they got involved not withstanding.

3. Release date - Wrong, though arguably only because the devs left out half the game [deliberate overstatement before anyone takes offense]. Arguably if DX11, dynamic weather and dynamic campaign had been included, we may not have seen the game to 2012.

So there you have it. Tune in next week to see me whip myself with stinging nettles...

[Robert]

Originally Posted by kendo65

Great news! I see that the first page announcement now mentions the German campaign.

This is a bit cheeky - but lets think of absent friends - Tree must be sick as a parrot today - wrong on 3 big issues:

1. DX11 - confirmed.
2. Ubisoft as publisher - confirmed.
3. Release date - March - confirmed......Spring 2012 my arse!

Yeah, but that was for "Storm of War".... NOT "Cliffs of Dover."

[careca]

Is that true now?
It's not the first time I've heard talk about it. O surely hope so. I'm waiting this game for years.

excellent news

[rakinroll]

Great news, thanks.

[chiefrr73]

Small interview with Luthier :http://www.neocrisis.com/articles/19...over-interview

[chiefrr73]

This is the last sentenc of the interview with Luthier, wich is impressing me a lot: "Be bold. Work hard. Don't cut corners; people can tell. Listen to your community. Know exactly what they want, and give them plenty."

[Skoshi Tiger]

Originally Posted by chiefrr73

Small interview with Luthier :http://www.neocrisis.com/articles/19...over-interview

[QUOTE] We were starting our engine anew, and we thought it would be best to place the game early in the war so we could advance through the years with our sequels and take our players through the war step by step exactly the way real pilots did.[\QUOTE]

I don't think my wife could stand me in a five year straight progression through the aerial battles of WWII! Do you think she will let me visit the kids when I'm on Furlough?

Cheers!

[Chivas]

Originally Posted by chiefrr73

Small interview with Luthier :http://www.neocrisis.com/articles/19...over-interview

Thanks for the link. It was great to hear they had that much fun developing the game. My only concern now is their next addon to the series, when Luthier said there will be alot raised eyebrows when its announced. I think it may now be something other than the Med.

We know Luthier is developing IL-2 Korea and another third party developing IL-2 Battle for Moscow. It was strongly rumored that Oleg was going to do the Med, but I'm not so sure now. Its all good and let the speculation begin.