Announcement of the game "IL-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Stalingrad"

[Bearcat]

Originally Posted by vranac

You didn't understand, everything under 200.000 is a disaster.
CloD was optimized by MG in official patches.Try last official patch. While TF is doing a great job and optimized particle effects,explosion effects,clouds...
MG team was working on a sequel which we would have been playing already (alpha was expected Q1 2013) on advanced engine.That was priority for them and like Ilya said, fixing CloD would not bring any income. However they patched CloD regularly.

We got modded RoF WW2 instead which is a step back in every aspect.
I expected FM to be good at least but it won't. FM is final for LaGG and 109 and LaGG manual is very detailed for every flight regime with exact figures and behavior of the aircraft in specific situations. And in BoS it's waaay off.

BoS is not a modded RoF and it has nothing to do with CoD and the reality of the matter is that had 1CMG been smart they would have kept the Storm of War name and released CoD as the first of many on the improved engine closer to it's scheduled release time with the idea of expanding it as it went along just like IL2. They didn't have to have all the extra stuff that they had in there initially. 2048 skins with alpha layers, shadows, more detailed CEM, DM & FM and more features in the QMB & MB would have been enough initially. They did not need to have the full level of fidelity that they put into the sim because it only complicated things.. They had no real competition. They had a ready made fan base of rabid fans who had been waiting 5 years and a legacy gateway sim in IL2 and the name of IL2 and 1CMG. At the time CoD was released there was nothing even on the horizon that could really compete with IL2 much.. much less CoD. Sure there were some sims that did some things better.. but to this day there is no sim that does all that IL2 does as well as it does it proportionally to itself.. (I hope I am making sense to you .. I understand what I am saying but.. )

I don't know numbers and all that and I do understand what you mean about the numbers.. as far as sales go.. but I do know flight sims and what makes a good one and I guarantee you that had they been more practical and less ambitious in the short term they would have made out a lot better in the long term. The initial failure of CoD and even the presence of BoS is solely the result of poor management decisions at 1CMG.

I also am pretty certain that as much as some want to dismiss BoS as a not ready for prime time, entry level modded RoF .. it will be much more than that and it will be around for a long time. It will have a good FM.. a good DM and it will be thoroughly enjoyable and do what CoD had the opportunity and should have done 3+ years ago. Whether or not DCS WWII takes things to an even higher level remains to be seen.. It can.. it all depends on how the shoe is made as to whether or not it will be a comfy fit. We shall surely see.. but all those dismissing BoS especially if they haven't even flown it have no basis in reality for their opinions. We will know the deal before summer ...