Funny as the 'No Friday update Topic' has as many posts as the 'Friday updates' themselves.
I think that Oleg doesn't have anything new or not buggy/cartoony to show, reason why he doesn’t seem so enthusiastic to share his WIP.
The only successes of BoB are the planes and the quality of the cockpits (graphics and functional complexity) and I must say that the lighting and the shadows are well done too. The ensemble allows some pretty nice and realistic shots.
But the rest remains IL2 like, with little improvement (even more cartoony than IL2 on some aspects) and if the promised ‘breath taking’ meteo effects are not in the initial release, I’m afraid that BoB will run short of commercial arguments to make the event.
The lucky thing for the dev team is that there is almost no concurrence in the sector of WWII combat flight sims (except some crappy outsiders that aren’t even worth to be mentioned … like rowan bob etc …). The only threat is that some potential buyers, disappointed by the cartoony and unachieved graphics combined to a the horribly low FPS would turn to something else more rewarding as far as the eye candy is concerned like the console sims (Wings of prey …) and finally the IL2 community will remain the only potential source of new buyers.
The new newbies market coveted by Oleg (he wants to attract them with the possibility to play BoB as easily as a console when using low realistic settings) will not turn away from consoles that offer a much more achieved photo realism.
I would like to add that I regret the exaggerated kindness towards the weak aspects of BoB and to have a realistic opinion about what the sim community thinks about BoB I go on some more neutral forums like SIMHQ where people say what they want in total freedom …
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