When is Storm of War: Battle of Britain going to be released?

[Chivas]

If you had been following developments of BOB SOW over the years you would know the answers to most of your questions. Just because you haven't heard them doesn't mean Oleg has expressed them.

As far as Oleg not understanding or caring about terrain detail.... the IL-2 series had the most believable terrain in flight sims for its time, and has said that SOW will have cinematic terrain. The best terrain I've seen yet is the IL-2 BOP console sim terrain videos and have no doubt that SOW will far superior to even that. My only concern is I don't believe todays or even next years computers are capable of cinematic terrain, moving weather systems, hundreds of highly detailed aircraft, FM's, DM's, on large maps. Although the SOW team is capable of writing very tight code as seen in the IL-2 series.

[tagTaken2]

Yes, one of the best things about Il-2 was that it could run on low-end systems at release, but just kept looking better as we all upgraded.

I'm not going to do a 250-line rant, I have Black Shark to play with in the meantime, but it would be nice to see something like one new screenshot every week.

Emailed to me on Monday morning to cheer me up

[FS~Hawks]

I have read that we will be playing SOW by the time the battle of britain anniversary in 2010 so im going to say Feb 2010

[virre89]

Originally Posted by Chivas

If you had been following developments of BOB SOW over the years you would know the answers to most of your questions. Just because you haven't heard them doesn't mean Oleg has expressed them.

As far as Oleg not understanding or caring about terrain detail.... the IL-2 series had the most believable terrain in flight sims for its time, and has said that SOW will have cinematic terrain. The best terrain I've seen yet is the IL-2 BOP console sim terrain videos and have no doubt that SOW will far superior to even that. My only concern is I don't believe todays or even next years computers are capable of cinematic terrain, moving weather systems, hundreds of highly detailed aircraft, FM's, DM's, on large maps. Although the SOW team is capable of writing very tight code as seen in the IL-2 series.

Optimization my friend.. they're not gonna release an unoptimized game, unless they want a big bitchslap, that said there are very capable computers out there, it's more about how good the developers utilize the hardware tbh and make it run smooth.

My estimate is that the processor will be the big hit in SoW, i mean graphics will be great and huge, but there are gonna be more graphically demanding games out there than BOB by it's release(probably already is), even if BOB shall render a lot the processor / VRAM is probably whats gonna be crucial.

Considering how long the development has taken I also share concerns about the game engine and what technology it is/was aimed at the time. If we go along with Oleg's theory that work did not start on SOW until late 2007 then the best GPU at the time was an 8800GTX and CPU's were intel dual core's with Quad's first appearing later the same year.
On the face of current information received i would estimate a release around late 2010 or maybe early 2011 though it is very difficult to get a real grasp of development with so little and often conflicting information. Hopefully when we see actual inflight shots in September we may get a better idea of development progress, or if we start to see some form of marketing i.e an official website which usually indicates a release within the next year or so.

[JG52Uther]

Originally Posted by Tree_UK

Hopefully when we see actual inflight shots in September .

HA! We can dream I suppose.
I don't even worry anymore.I will wait till it come out,then buy it.
If I live that long!

[infirebaptize]

Originally Posted by Chivas

If you had been following developments of BOB SOW over the years you would know the answers to most of your questions. Just because you haven't heard them doesn't mean Oleg has expressed them.

As far as Oleg not understanding or caring about terrain detail.... the IL-2 series had the most believable terrain in flight sims for its time, and has said that SOW will have cinematic terrain. The best terrain I've seen yet is the IL-2 BOP console sim terrain videos and have no doubt that SOW will far superior to even that. My only concern is I don't believe todays or even next years computers are capable of cinematic terrain, moving weather systems, hundreds of highly detailed aircraft, FM's, DM's, on large maps. Although the SOW team is capable of writing very tight code as seen in the IL-2 series.

with proper in game video settings you can run the game according to your specs

shoot i forgot to ask about the release date!! so when?

[Thunderbolt56]

At this point, I come by here once a month or so to see if there's any news.

Same posters posting the same rhetoric.

See ya next month.

[Foo'bar]

patient since 344 months now

[TheGrunch]

Originally Posted by Thunderbolt56

At this point, I come by here once a month or so to see if there's any news.

You could have picked a thread to look at that hasn't been pretty badly necro-ed.