Well, in any case, I hope you change your mind Vranac. You're a good pilot and a great and enjoyable teammate to play with. I'd like to see you in BoS if you can stand it.

Not strictly correct. Only the name has been transferred to a different engine (not new by any means). Also it will not be DX11 it will be DX9 as stated by Jason. They MAY consider upgrading to Dx11 in the future but as that will be after the 2014 release (barring slippage) we can guess that it may not be Dx11 until say 2016/2018, if ever.

The dislike and hostility is generally an outpouring of anger and grief following the stopping of "SoW" along with the suspicion that BoS will not live up to CoD player's expectations.

The whole of this week following the announcement has been like a funeral.

[QUOTbortedMan;488403]Well, in any case, I hope you change your mind Vranac. You're a good pilot and a great and enjoyable teammate to play with. I'd like to see you in BoS if you can stand it.[/QUOTE]

I also think you are a good pilot and a nice guy , at least we met each other on ts in flight together few times.

S!

It's not just a matter of engine. It's a matter of heritage, philosophy, culture and knowledge which is spread among all the people involved in the IL2 experience, beginning from the creators, finishing in the community.
If on the new project will be used the good part of IL2 heritage it will be a good product.
If they will waste what has been achieved in 10 years of development within IL2 (they should be crazy, anyway, because that culture is also their market....but it's not the first time we see failures caused by misinterpretation of business laws), then it will be a failure and IL2 will be dead forever.

It has felt that way for me, plus I am very sad for luthier and his family

Clod is dead, but his spirit is alive and left a worthy heritage in the way of thinking wwII aerial simulation.
What the community wants is that this heritage will not be wasted and - obviously - is expecting that those who took the name "IL2" will recover this heritage and will not use that name only because it's part of a commercial agreement.

+1 Well said :sad:

Very sad indeed. I hope he saw it coming in sufficient time and was able to make alternative arrangements. Getting laid off just before Christmas is no joke.

Yea, tough time of the year when you are down.

But there are clouds in ROF, and co-ops, and no crashes etc etc etc.

Let's wait until the DN engine properly models the white cliffs for a BOS sequel.

Really, what is the point of comparing CLOD and ROF? One looks better than the other at certain things. One works, one doesn't. Both have good and bad points and require optimisation to look at their best. CLOD at 12 noon looks rubbish. ROF without tweaks looks cartoon-ish. Set CLOD to 17:00 and wow - set ROF to 17:00 plus clouds etc and wow.

Woopee.

Hood