Il-2 Sturmovik Battle over Britain very close to release

[Trumper]

I can understand the frustration,it is annoying when a question cannot be answered.I think it is a case of Oleg himself doesn't know.
He is damned if he does and damned if he doesn't really.If he states a time and it doesn't happen well he will be slagged off and he also then puts himself under more pressure and may release something incomplete that for an extra 3 months could be so much better.
Enjoy the journey,sometimes it' s better than the destination.
IF Oleg does give a release date i hope it is really ready and bug free and fully working before the announcement is made.

[Mysticpuma]

Trumper pretty much nailed it there. "Bug Free".

We'll all moan if the Sim is buggy, crashes, graphically glitched etc, etc.
I too really want this Sim now, but look if this arrives and it needs patch after patch to make it playable, can you imagine how many posts there would be on this forum alone saying that they had released an incomplete product, we are Beta testers, they stole my money......etc,etc (again).

I appreciate that Oleg and his team are working away to make it 'perfect' and just look at the responses to last-week's update regarding the colour of the flame. That's just the colour of the flame!!!! Can you imagine how many even smaller/larger details they have to contend with and which will be moaned about if slightly inaccurate on release?

So, Oleg, take your time, get it right, but I would ask.....if at-all possible, maybe a Spitfire V 109 Beta/test map released for users to try as at-least this would be a possible 'open source' test for user feedback before the final release.

I don't expect the latter to occur, but when it comes out......I'll raise a glass to Oleg and the crew for all their dedicated work and patience listening to whine after whine on these forums and yet still coming up with what should/will be the best Flight Sim, Combat or Civilian, ever created.

Cheers, MP

[engarde]

wishful thinking.

it will be done, when its done.

[Peffi]

1c will publish SOW BOB when they, not we, feel it is ready. The attention to detail however is in my opinion sometimes unnecessarily high and I am afraid the development of the game suffers from this.

Merlin, just how many release dates do you want, Oleg has given us 3 already, weve had November 2007, November 2009 and September 2010, now stop being greedy.

[nearmiss]

I'm looking for my "beat the dead horse gif" to post here.

[merlin1]

Actually I agree with all of you. Just thinking, are all this candys (colour of the flames ect...) we reaily need now or when the game will be released... Many times we heard, on maximum settings we can play after few years from release date becouse todays hardware can not handle this game.

I do not want the game to which I'll need or spent a computer for 2000 + Eur. I assume that mr. Oleg knows this and is in a dilemma now, not for me, but for a lot of other potential users.

Once again.
Oleg and his team do a great job. No doubt !
He said, the game have a lot of bugs. Do not waste time on candys but the things that will make the game playible. This is just my opinion.

I love Il-2 very much, and I am very grateful to mr. Oleg some 10 years ..

Mysticpuma:
I love jour videos too... big thx.

rgr.

[Bryan21cag]

I never post on here i just usually sit back and wait for updates, but on the off chance that Oleg and his team actually pays attention to these things (and i hope he doesn't) i feel its time i chime in. I do not know of one other company or person that allows this kind of interaction of a games development and even goes so far as to ask for tips on specific items of concern prior to a game coming out and then using the feedback in final game content. Now maybe a lot of game developers do this and i just don't know but i have been gaming for almost all of my 31 years and have NEVER once come accross this personally. Threads and posts like this one show you very clearly how human nature can be. "if you give a mouse a cookie". While the rest of the world sits in darkness waiting for the next iteration of there favorite game series to come out if ever, we enjoy constant although at times intermittent contact with the very person that is developing our favorite game. Now to some this may seem like an opportunity to consistently demand more and more and more and more. (mouse-cookie) but for me i consider this to be a great privilege and i look forward to any and all updates that we receive. I truly hope that the abusers of this privilege (you know who you are ) take into account that the access we have and the interactive way in which Oleg and his teams go about making these games is NOT a requirement by any means and at any time (much to the detriment of the game and us) they could decide to not do this type of development any more and leave us all hanging in the breeze with no word for years just hoping that our new game might be in the works. Now like i said up top i truly hope that all of the impatient and seemingly ungrateful mice that refuse to just accept what they get as OVER and ABOVE what they normally get, will not spoil this for everyone who really appreciates this approach to game design and development. but I guess it would not be the first time in world history. Many Many thanks to everyone who works on these epic flight sims that are in my opinion still the very best ever made and thanks for your unique and appreciated approach to how they are created.

[Foo'bar]

Merlin, don't pay attention to what Tree is talking. Oleg's never given a certain release date to us (and Tree knows that). We got one by UBI indeed in november 2006 but that was before the decision to make a totally new engine.

1C Soft Club mentioned that "Il-2 The Battle of Britain" will come out in Spring 2011, at least in Russia.

@Tree: peace!

merlin ignore oleg saying on the Mystic Puma video that SOW will be released in November 2007 and the Interview where he said thousands will be playing SOW before October 2010, these things never happened.

@ foo, peace to you brother and I truly hope you have a very merry crimbo and new year, we may disagree on all manner of things foo, but i do have great respect for yourself and your work.