Fresh stuff from sukhoi.ru (Discussion)

[Feathered_IV]

Presumably that is why they hired all that new staff recently.

[kestrel79]

It makes sense...they've shown us tank footage...they've hinted at "cool features we can't say yet"... I can see them heading in this direction.

But yeah I'll wait for a more official announcement, those translate websites can be sketchy.

[Feathered_IV]

I hope it is being handled by a separate team to Maddox Games though, now that I think about it.

[SiThSpAwN]

I just hope they stick to Sim level realism and not go for mouse controls....

[_YoYo_]

Originally Posted by Feathered_IV

I hope it is being handled by a separate team to Maddox Games though, now that I think about it.

Good point...

[Ataros]

IMO the market became so small 1C just has to use either RoF, DCS, MS Flight or this MMO business model. The old business model does not work for so few customers.

MMO f2p model would allow continuous financing and more important quick feedback from customers (voting by money).

The bad news is it will take at least 2 years till release IMO. Personally I would rather fix CloD engine, release normal sequel first and only then go for the MMO wrapper. Otherwise it can easily become another 5-year project because it is suicidal to release a free-to-play game in an unfinished state.

BlackSix, could you please put down a question that is very important for game announcement:
Will the game use:
1) open arena similar to Warbirds, Aces High, WWII Online where all users fly in the same airspace OR
2) many simultaneous 16 vs.16 or 32 vs. 32 missions similar to WoT, WoP, WoWP where all users fly in separate games, like in limited COOPs.

The 1st option is suitable for hardcore sims but requires netcode optimization for maybe 300+ connections. The 2nd option is suitable for arcade gameplay mostly. I hope Luthier takes part in competitors' beta tests and understands how hard (impossible?) it is to achieve hardcore gameplay in 16 vs. 16 duels.

Another question is if there is any chance community will get SDK to mod CloD under new circumstances ((

[BlackSix]

Originally Posted by Ataros

BlackSix, could you please put down a question that is very important for game announcement:
Will the game use:
1) open arena similar to Warbirds, Aces High, WWII Online where all users fly in the same airspace OR
2) many simultaneous 16 vs.16 or 32 vs. 32 missions similar to WoT, WoP, WoWP where all users fly in separate games, like in limited COOPs.
...
Another question is if there is any chance community will get SDK to mod CloD under new circumstances ((

I hope we'll tell about it in the announcement. It's important info.
About SDK I'll ask later, afterwards the end of all events.

[Ataros]

Originally Posted by JG52Krupi

unless they intend on making it a complete ww2 game like ww2online.

This is what I hope for. Warbirds and Aces High were not bad too imo.

Originally Posted by BlackSix

I hope we'll tell about it in the announcement. It's important info.
About SDK I'll ask later, afterwards the end of all events.

Thank you very much.

[SlipBall]

No sense us passing a negative judgment on the MMO, without first seeing the details of it.

[JG52Krupi]

Originally Posted by BlackSix

I hope we'll tell about it in the announcement. It's important info.
About SDK I'll ask later, afterwards the end of all events.

Given this news I find your avatar very apt, looks like COD released unfinished slowly revived is now about to be neutered and replaced by a MMO that will fail miserably...

Christ I hope this is just a way of getting some of the arcade players money and not the future of il2 sturmovik

Might have to start work on that 190 and typhoon models and hope the crackers can revive COD

Please make this mess clear for us ASAP!