A final message from Luthier

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Originally Posted by Osprey

Best of luck mate, and if you have the source code please try to leak it out into the community somewhere because I can't see 777's engine even approaching what you and your team have done here. It's been a turbulent time but we can see now that a lot of the troublemakers just appear to be ROF lovers wanting to stick the knife into something better. Troubles aside, we're having an epic time in COD so thank you at least for that.

May the suits at 1C who pulled the plug meet the famous Russian justice system in the near future.

+1

[vranac]

Thank you Ilya for everything you done for this sim and old il2.

It is obvious that a lot of love,passion and hard work was invested in development
and clear vision was backing it up.

It is sad that most of us won't get what we hoped for, new serial which would last for years.

Good luck for you in the future and I hope that we will hear about some new project soon.

[JTDawg]

it is really sad, after the last patch , really thought you guys were on the right track. sorry the way things turned out , been a buyer since the beggining, an in cod have log more than 1000 hours , good luck an thanks atleast we still have a diamond in the ruff , take care an merry x-mas hope thing go better in the next years for you , your talent will be missed.

[Ploughman]

Cheers Luthier.

I really thought CloD was getting somewhere and I share the disapointment of a great many of your customers that CloD was finally axed, it's really so immersive now and graphically a treat even with quite alot of features turned off.

I don't know if the DN engine will be able to deliver an acceptable alternative and good luck to 777 and the 1C team with that. Whilst Jason doesn't want to make comparisons with CloD it is inevitable that Cliffs of Dover will be the yardstick that BoS will be measured by. That's testament to what you and your team have achieved since the launch of Cliffs of Dover.

I wish you success in the future and I hope our paths will cross again.

All the best,

Kev

[TomcatViP]

Thank you for all your efforts and for leading your team so well trough the thunderstorm. I am sure those days would stay as epic as the days when Falcon4 came out just to be disregarded by short sighted visionary experts.

CoD will stay for ever as the apogee of a genre at a singular time. You stepped with the giants.

[RegRag1977]

Originally Posted by TomcatViP

You stepped with the giants.

No question. I would even say with Oleg they "stepped" on the giants: IL2 1946 is a milestone, a -still living- powerful collossus of a WW2 sim.

Thanks for the IL2 legendary WW2 simultators. They represent a huge step in the history of the genre, and this is something you, your team and of course Oleg Maddox can be proud of.

You have my gratitude,

S!

As many here, i hope to see you back with a new project soon. Good Luck!

[Chivas]

Thanks Luthier for all your efforts.

The new game engine, was trying to do almost everything I wanted in WW2 aircombat sim. It just took too long to run OK on average unoptimized computers. You got so close to making it work, a new GUI with better COOP support, and improved AI would have made the sim playable enough to keep the wolves at bay. Unfortunately there are always scapegoats warranted or not. I think I'm done aswell, I'm getting to old to follow another long development, but that new Oculus Rift virtual reality headset, may drag me back in.

I'd like to see you and Oleg start another development company. The genre would certainly be better for it.

~Salute~
JG27_Chivas

[badaboom]

Thank you Luthier for this Great series,I still remember the Day I brought Pacific Fighters home and fell in love with the theater. It gave me incredible enjoyment,Fair Wind and Blue Sky's to you Sir!

[ATAG_Doc]

Ilya now that you have escaped that awful place will you ever publish a biography of your time behind the iron curtain?

[RedToo]

Originally Posted by ATAG_Doc

Ilya now that you have escaped that awful place will you ever publish a biography of your time behind the iron curtain?

I have absolutely no interest in reading Luthier's biography, but I would pay good money to read Oleg's.

As for Luthier: Goodbye.

RedToo.