Friday Update, February 10, 2012

[icarus]

Wow, I'm just going to shelve this game and fire it up in ten years and then I'll have the best flight sim in the world. Can't wait.

ROTFLMFAO

[Chivas]

The new game engine was designed to be easily upgraded, much more so than the original Il-2 engine. Take the ocean and rivers for example, the engine is capable of improving water much like the water was improved in the original series. Also the new engine is capable of giving the rivers, riverbanks, which will make a huge difference in the overall look of the terrain.

All aspects of the terrain can be adjusted more realistically as resources allow. I have no doubt that the terrain will look much different as it evolves over the next ten years.

Personally I don't think we will lose flight sim quality as the sim slowly evolves into a combined forces sim. People building terrain vehicles, or ships arn't adversely affecting those people building the aircraft and other game play features in the sim. It will only add to the overall immersion of flying aircombat with a ground and sea war going on below. Maybe I feel that way as my flying as evolved into enjoying more ground attack missions over air to air. Although I do enjoy jabo runs and shooting a Spit down for something to do on the flight home.

[Chivas]

Originally Posted by icarus

Wow, I'm just going to shelve this game and fire it up in ten years and then I'll have the best flight sim in the world. Can't wait.

ROTFLMFAO

The original IL-2 in the last ten years evolved into IL-2 1946 plus Mods, one of the best combat flight sims ever, and I doubt anyone LTFAOOT.

[icarus]

Originally Posted by Chivas

The original IL-2 in the last ten years evolved into IL-2 1946 plus Mods, one of the best combat flight sims ever, and I doubt anyone LTFAOOT.

I am LMAO. Ten years to make a sim is a joke. BTW, its been 6 yrs already for CoD add ten to that and its 16 years old. Technology will fly past CoD if it takes that long. Dream on.

Steam won't eve be here in ten years then what? Good luck with that.

[Feathered_IV]

Looking back on luthiers involvement in the il2 series, it is very much his habit to jump from one area to the next without finishing things completely. An all-forces gang bang that fails to represent any area fully would be the ultimate expression of his dilettante style of project management.

[Chivas]

Originally Posted by Feathered_IV

Looking back on luthiers involvement in the il2 series, it is very much his habit to jump from one area to the next without finishing things completely. An all-forces gang bang that fails to represent any area fully would be the ultimate expression of his dilettante style of project management.

Not a fair comment. Luthier started building some Pacific maps and ships that evolved into Pacific Fighters that was never intended to include all aspects of the Pacific Theater. Never mind the copy write debacle, that had little to do with him. He then worked on some Eastern Theater addons. Its not his fault he and some of his crew were dragged away from the Korean War addon, to help Oleg's crew finish COD. What Olegs crew had developed so far was substantial but unfinished and still requires many manhours of rewrites.

[Theshark888]

Originally Posted by Feathered_IV

Looking back on luthiers involvement in the il2 series, it is very much his habit to jump from one area to the next without finishing things completely. An all-forces gang bang that fails to represent any area fully would be the ultimate expression of his dilettante style of project management.

You made a great point and this scares me to no end about the new IL2 series! They are already moving along before things are straight in one theater.

[Chivas]

Originally Posted by icarus

I am LMAO. Ten years to make a sim is a joke. BTW, its been 6 yrs already for CoD add ten to that and its 16 years old. Technology will fly past CoD if it takes that long. Dream on.

Steam won't eve be here in ten years then what? Good luck with that.

Wow, sometimes I don't know what the hell your talking about. I don't know how you figure its going to take another ten years for COD to evolve, I'm taking about the whole new series. Your not going to waste anymore of my time.

[icarus]

Originally Posted by Chivas

Wow, sometimes I don't know what the hell your talking about. I don't know how you figure its going to take another ten years for COD to evolve, I'm taking about the whole new series. Your not going to waste anymore of my time.

Oh, sorry dude, I thought you meant CoD only. Because that would be crazy.

Ten years for a series is reasonable, however the kind of thing that Il-2 did over the last ten years is getting harder and harder to do. Series are becoming more and more separate games now because technology is evolving so fast. The days of running the same graphics engine etc. for ten years are over.

[Feathered_IV]

Chivas, I wasn't thinking about the NG thing at all, more about trying to represent the entire pacific conflict from Pearl to the Home islands without fleshing out any particular area. Jumping later to the questionable content of 1946, then trying to give the Pacific Fighters treatment to Korea, before being reigned in to assume control of Cliffs, then zooming off on a tangent with the Moscow expansion. I just don't reckon that following through is one of his strengths. Maybe you feel that it is though.