Just FYI, SOW is not dead

[Feuerfalke]

BoB is a project that has simply gone far too long and sucked up far to much resources from the publishers and the developers to cancel the project now. Neither one could afford that and UBI is expecting to surpass the success of the IL2-series and they surely won't let this chance just pass.

Considering the competitors, I have no doubt that BoB is advanced beyond the tidbits of informations we have. Remember development started over 5 years ago, with more or less people working on it.
And the scan of the high detail WIP landscape taken from that Russian game-magazine I mentioned before, dates back to February 2006!


Btw, mazex, there is a Tom Clancy-Flight "Sim" Game planned to be released Q4 2008

[SlipBall]

My gut feeling...we will have our baby before Christmas

[Golf Pro]

Never mind bOb:sOw.

Is 4.09 still alive and kicking?

[mazex]

Originally Posted by Feuerfalke

And the scan of the high detail WIP landscape taken from that Russian game-magazine I mentioned before, dates back to February 2006!

That's something I've missed - I tried a search for scan + magazine etc but could not find it - got link?

EDIT - thinking of it, is it that landscape with the river showing the wireframe mesh?

Originally Posted by Feuerfalke

Btw, mazex, there is a Tom Clancy-Flight "Sim" Game planned to be released Q4 2008

I know - and I don't want another

[Skarphol]

[QUOTE=Feuerfalke;41595]... to surpass the success of the IL2-series ...QUOTE]

This is a question totally beside topic of this thread, but;
Is the IL-2 series an economical sucsess?
Has there ever been released some sales figures for this game?
This is not some sort of retorical question, I just wonder.
There is no doubt in my mind that this is "The holy grail of WWII flight sims", but do the general public know?

Skarphol

[Feuerfalke]

Yeah, I was refering to the wireframe-model with the riverbed and I remember a statement, that the other screenshots still showed a modified IL2-engine, not the BoB-Landscape.

I don't know, though, what about these shots or the video for example, but I remember people making statements that the shores display 1:1 IL2 waves:
http://s58.photobucket.com/albums/g2...ent=cap028.jpg

http://s58.photobucket.com/albums/g2...ent=cap020.jpg

Not that IL2-landscape looks ugly...


I don't know about the success of the IL2-series, but it was mentioned several times, that the number of sales exceeded Olegs and UBIs most daring dreams for this niche-software.

[Ctrl E]

Feuerfalke - you mentioned the sequel to microsoft combat flight sim is being developed. is there any place i can see pics or vids of what it might look like? i made the mistake of it a while back. it was pretty basic compared to il2.

[Feuerfalke]

Originally Posted by Ctrl E

Feuerfalke - you mentioned the sequel to microsoft combat flight sim is being developed. is there any place i can see pics or vids of what it might look like? i made the mistake of it a while back. it was pretty basic compared to il2.

No, but that is, why I mentioned. There are a couple of flightsims being worked on right now, but you won't see ANY pictures soon, I guess. Not even daring to speak about WIP-videos and stuff. And when you consider some people calling BOB vaporware, because there is no info or no competitors, so Oleg has no right to hold back information, it really makes you wonder.

[Robert]

a bump a day will keep unecessary posts away.

[Former_Older]

[QUOTE=Skarphol;41606]

Originally Posted by Feuerfalke

There is no doubt in my mind that this is "The holy grail of WWII flight sims", but do the general public know?

Skarphol

Combat flight sims, perhaps

But a better question is: why does the general public care?

How's this for a parallel:

I have been into old cars for almost 20 years. I have spent tens of thousands of dollars, bought cars, sold cars, built engines, suspensions, etc, restored lenses and instruments and body panels and chrome and whatnot and gone to shows and entered cars in shows and worked 12 hours on collector cars a day AFTER my 8 hour day job and researched and helped others and chased down original reference, and scoured junkyards for the elusive parts blah blah. I know going into this it would be expensive, time consuming...and not something most people cared about, but it was a passion.

Many people appreciated what I had done, and ohhhh'd and ahhhh'd over things I did, but they never actually got into the hobby- they registered that it was "cool", and then moved on to the things that they, personally, cared about

Same thing with combat flight sims. Plenty of people might think it's cool, but most of them just register the fact and then move on without getting involved