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03-10-2009, 06:51 PM
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03-10-2009, 06:52 PM
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Tree, I don't remember any Hogwash coming from the developer, he's never "promised" any release date.
Oleg first brought BOB to our attention back in 2004/5 with a "possible" release of end of 2005. At some point they realised the IL-2 engine wasn't capable of what they wanted to achieve with BOB and started the SOW engine build. At the same time the third party needed help to finish Pacific Fighters. This left a skeleton crew working on the SOW engine, objects, maps, and features. I don't remember the exact dates but about this time the publisher UBIsoft announced the release date of the end of 2006? This was never verified by the developer and UBI has never said a word since. From your investigation into the matter, they may no longer be the publisher. I don't know if they realized the SOW wasn't possible on 2007 computers, or there were still monies to be made with the IL-2 series, but they conscentrated their work on paid addons until the last addon IL-2 1946 was completed. So basicly the full development crew has only worked on SOW for the last couple of years, and the sales of the addons have helped finance full work on the SOW series. Again, anyone who has ever developed anything slightly complicated knows that its impossible to give a definite timetable. Oleg learned that lesson early in the IL-2 develpment and always tried to prefaced his comments with the word "hope".
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03-10-2009, 07:03 PM
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At the Birmingham interview Oleg said he expected a release in Q4 2007, but that's just history. The main thing is its still being worked on.
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03-10-2009, 07:34 PM
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03-10-2009, 10:13 PM
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I think that they doing their very best, and looking forward to a release as soon as possible...very complex, so much to do, most likely wishing the work load would end soon..and I bet very tired, but excited at what the world will soon see
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03-11-2009, 10:51 AM
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I also think that he said he WANTED the game out Q4 2007. The same way he said he wanted and needed it to be released Q4 2008. But things never turn out the way you plan them, especially not with such an unique project.
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03-11-2009, 10:15 PM
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With the statement that work on BoB started in 2007, I guess it will be fair to assume that these videoes from 2006 has very little to do with what we will be seeing in the end.
But nevertheless, it seems to me like they had stuff like flightmodels, cockpits, dynamic weathersystems, squadron-size takeoff etc up and going allready in 2006. That's not bad for not even having really started working yet. In 2007, SaQSoN or Luthier (don't remember wich, and can not find the post) said that 1C could not afford NOT to release the game in 2008. Such a statement would normally indicate that the product in 2007 was in it final stage. If they had only started working in 2007, that's a little short funding for such a complex product. The thing that Oleg said in December that he hoped to have the SoW:BOB site up and running around the end of December is another weird mismatch between what he says and what we see. Most of all this wondering going on stems from Olegs own statements. And I really don't think he is trying to confuse us on purpose! No other game-developer has treated his customers as nicely as Oleg has done with the IL-2 series! So all these confuseing signals are making me really puzzled. Skarphol Last edited by Skarphol; 03-11-2009 at 10:26 PM.
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