Oleg's Russian Interview Translated

[ElAurens]

Thank you Luthier for the translation.

And thank you Oleg for providing us with a wonderful update.

[VMF-214_HaVoK]

WoW! That is probably the most detailed information Oleg has shared with us thus far. Sure a lot of it he mentioned before but not this detailed.

Amazing stuff and the combat flightsim genre could not look any brighter IMHO!

Thanks for sharing!

[Skoshi Tiger]

I guess with M$ Flight Sim out of the way SOW may fill the void for all those third party developers making expansion packs. It all looks good!

[Codex]

@nearmiss ... LOL mate, I know exactly where you're coming from.

When the "naive" come over to my house and give me the "your an adult for goodness sake!?" look, I can guarantee that 99% of time after I sit them down and let them at the controls, they have new a respect for why I enjoy it so much.

As Bearcat once said ... this is my hobby. Be proud as a simmer!

@Luthier thanks for the translation!!

[Robert]

I hear you Codex.

Long long ago (mid 90's?) my friend told me about some WW1 dogfighting he would do at work. I don't remember the name of the game because I THINK this may have even been before Red Baron series. He was playing against a friend either on line or on a lan. He was so excited telling me about it. Of course my interest wa s highly kindled. I wasn't into computers at the time, but was still enthralled thinking of downing my own Albatros.

Flash forward until about 4 years ago. I have a full HOTAS set up, Track IR etc etc AND IL2FB/PF. My friend comes for a visit and sees all this paraphenalia om my computer desk. He surprisingly scoffed when I told him what it was. I got the old rolling of the eyes when I told him about Track IR (good thing I had the hat instead of the stickers I put on the bridge of my glasses ).

I told him to sit down. I turned on the surround sound. Put on the hat and reflector. Showed him a few controls and fired up a QMB. He's always had a fascination with Russia so I set him up in a MiG over Moscow.

For someone who just looked at me rather askance when viewing my sim set up I couldn't get him away from the computer. 3:30 in the morning and he's now in a Wildcat with no sign of getting out. It was fun watching him try taking off in the MiG with the opposiye torque. He was amazed at that little detail, while being frustrated. LOL We've all been there I said.

Yeah, I think he found a new respect for the hobby.

[choctaw111]

Thank you Luthier. It is always nice to hear what Oleg has to say. Great stuff in there.

[Bearcat]

Thanks for the Tx....

[yarbles]

I think the most encouraging part of the entire interview was when Oleg said:

"Oh really? Have you seen better AI in any other sim? Generally, it was offline gameplay that drove most of our sales, and not the online modes."

This tells me that he'll devote much needed attention to immersive and enjoyable offline content especially if he expects SoW:BOB to make any money.

As for when it arrives - who knows but if it means making a great offline game, then he should take all the time he needs.

[ghtmatrix]

up!

\,,/,

[Chivas]

Why is it so hard to understand that a portion of the team has been working on BOB SOW starting probably before 2004. with large periods of that time taken up by work on IL-2 addons. Of course they would be things accomplished by a small team otherwise we wouldn't have seen any updates over the last 4 or 5 years. The fact remains the full development team didn't go full steam ahead until IL-2 1946 was completed.

You gotta stop looking at everything as Black and White. Life is mostly shades of grey. I'm not sure how much of their work was lost when they shifted to the SOW engine, as some of the early BOB updates may have been done on the old IL-2 engine.