Was Oleg Maddox too far ahead of his time?

[addman]

Originally Posted by Volksieg

That is where you are TOTALLY wrong, Fruitbat!

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

EA...tsss. How about ACTIVISION *insert devil picture of choice here*

[nearmiss]

There is no way Oleg or Luthier were ahead of their time. Look at all the newer awesome games and their graphic environments.

What about COD. Is it a significant improvement over modified IL2 ?
The graphics... ? Anything else you can think of?
Is the COD AI improved over the modified IL2 or BOB II WOV?

Was the COD development team ever up to the task of building a better air combat simulator game than IL2?

Do you really think COD is better than IL2 with modifications?

You can answer all the questions yourself

Enjoy what we have now, you won't be disappointed.
The BOB II WOV is soon to release a huge new improvement patch, and the IL2 is constantly being improved with modifications.
The WW2 Air combat simulation world is not collapsing.

Then 777 Battle of Stalingrad is over a year away (2014) and it may take longer.

No reason to complain... We all loved Whitney Houston, Michael Jackson, and other great stars. It is time to pull ourselves together, quit grieving over something that cannot be and enjoy what we have.

Happy New Year!

[arthursmedley]

Well said nearmiss! Hope you (all) have a great new year

[furbs]

Oleg was so far ahead of time during COD's development, he got another job.

[baronWastelan]

Originally Posted by nearmiss

There is no way Oleg or Luthier were ahead of their time. Look at all the newer awesome games and their graphic environments.

What about COD. Is it a significant improvement over modified IL2 ?

It is, but the improvements were not used by MG to give the player an improved experience.

Originally Posted by nearmiss

The graphics... ? Anything else you can think of?

Eye-candy, and ability to change the types of bullets in the fighters.

Originally Posted by nearmiss

Is the COD AI improved over the modified IL2 or BOB II WOV?

There are more options to modify COD AI behavior -- but not in a Quick mission without editing the mission file .

Originally Posted by nearmiss

Was the COD development team ever up to the task of building a better air combat simulator game than IL2?

Was there "a team"?

Originally Posted by nearmiss

Do you really think COD is better than IL2 with modifications?

Best I can say is they are equally appealing, but for different reasons.

Originally Posted by nearmiss

You can answer all the questions yourself

Enjoy what we have now, you won't be disappointed.
The BOB II WOV is soon to release a huge new improvement patch, and the IL2 is constantly being improved with modifications.
The WW2 Air combat simulation world is not collapsing.

Then 777 Battle of Stalingrad is over a year away (2014) and it may take longer.

Better to say 2 years to get a BoS in a useful state.

Originally Posted by nearmiss

No reason to complain... We all loved Whitney Houston, Michael Jackson, and other great stars. It is time to pull ourselves together, quit grieving over something that cannot be and enjoy what we have.

Happy New Year!

Hope yours is happy too!

[Volksieg]

Originally Posted by addman

EA...tsss. How about ACTIVISION *insert devil picture of choice here*

Hey! Activision are great! Remember they are the creators of...

Call of Duty
Call of Duty
Call of Duty

and who can forget.....

Call of Duty?

[LukeFF]

Originally Posted by ATAG_Bliss

You don't have the 1st clue what happened.

Yes, I do.

You don't even know what team members are there from the old team.

Wrong again.

You weren't here when IL2COD was active, so please don't come here now that it's closed.

I was here long before CloD was released. January 2008 to be exact.

A WWII sim on the ROF engine is gonna be an insult to WWII itself.

The only thing that's insulting here is your attitude. Let it go already.

[Lexicon]

Hello LukeFF,

Do you have information about the " Oleg/1C/CLOD" story that you could share with us ?
It seems you know more than we do ...
Now that IL2 franchise is gone and Ubisoft is no longer in the loop, maybe we could finally know what is the "real story" behind CLOD...

Salute !

[fruitbat]

old news,

[Frequent_Flyer]

For seven years we heard about the " next generation flight simm". roughly one year after release the entire code had to be rewritten. Eight years and what happened. Next go around, hire a marketing firm to research what theater of operations will bring in the most paying customers. Starting with BOB was the first and largest mistake, releasing it DOA wasted the time and money of all concerned . Pandering to the Russian market with BOM would have been the end if it had made it that far. The world is full of people with vision, 'unrewarded genius is almost a proverb'. Havinga good idea and making a sucesful business venture require marketing strategy's and and a management with business acumen.