There are also a couple instances where Alied pilots flying in Northern Africa rescued their comrades by landing and doubling up on the way back to base. If memory serves me right one instance actually occured on the edge of an Italian held airfield.

Imagine a mission where you got to reproduce those events!

From the implementation of Spit Girl I doubt it took up much of their time.

Cheers!

He made one big mistake, he made clod under ubisoft. He should make this game the way ed and rof did. On his own. Then he would realize he cannot deliver without puting this sim on market in time because he would ran out of money.

Second mistake he made, he wanted to get all features in final build. Impossible!!! He should take the road of adding features in paid updates.
Its Too bad because i think that clod is real gem.

I believe that Oleg's vision for this sim as others have said was to produce the best he could technically. Oleg left or was pushed before the release of C.o.D. so he never was able to see his dream fullfilled. Don't blame Oleg for a sim that was released half done it wasn't his decision.
If he ever comes back into this genre he will have my support, when the original Il2 was released we had a playable demo. From that he gathered a huge support group even though our pc's weren't capable in a lot of cases to give the best results.
A lot of people rubbish UBI but at least they supported him through the series, and from that series has come the true flight simmers that love this genre.
I have both C.o.D. and R.o.F. (and all the original il2 releases), of the C.o.D. and R.o.F. Cliffs is by far the best.
I have always had an issue with Sli not being finished (and I have voiced my opinion about this often), but with the last release to Steam and Luthier's Sli code (plus another alteration I have made) I now have Sli working to where I can run my Hurricane/Spitfire at roof top level over London with smooth game play. Ok I have taken a lot of time to get to this point but I kept trying different things until I got it to work.
Luthier and the team were so close to success with this sim, too bad they weren't given the time.
I wish Luthier and those of the old team success in their new fields, may they find somewhere to expand their dreams with success.

I wish people would give up on the Ubisoft bashing. Ubisoft had almost no influence on the development of Oleg's sims. They were the publisher/distributor for western markets, that is all. Every major decision about financing, release timing, etc. was done by 1C, not Ubisoft.

After 10 years I'm still amazed the people still do not understand this.

You and me both.

Yes he was infront of his time, but he could made it too, the big mistake was to release it too early, ubisoft put the release mark rigth? if they put them in these days , and fund the project one more year, theyr earnings could be incredible, and athe game could be a total sucess, we dont know what we lost, and what would have been whit the series. and never we will know it

reasons?
BIG mistake of early release
Magazines doing the review under other reviews, ex they saw some bad marks and they gonna do it too
Fanboys of other sims, yes, its sad but some of them, are married whit their sims
whiners.

UBI had nothing to do with it.

1C not ubi. Amazing how many people just don't get it.

That is where you are TOTALLY wrong, Fruitbat!

It was EA Games..... who doesn't hate EA Games? :D

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