1C and Ubisoft Announce IL-2 Sturmovik: Cliffs of Dover

[K_Freddie]

Originally Posted by zauii

Quoted for truth.
Now I hope all DRM pussies will stand up and buy this game, we need to support these few rare great PC titles

You shouldn't worry about the support, it's there... just not the DRM way

Originally Posted by zauii

And as mentioned before, there is no way in hell Oleg lets all his work slip into some clusterfuck fail with UBI after all these years of hard development and research.

Oleg has had run-ins with UBI management with the IL2 series. Thank goodness he did not let them 'rule' him and the IL2 development (SH3/4/5 are examples of a good sim series going progressively bad).

CoD development looks to be divorced of UBI influence, and maybe Oleg/1C are using UBI for wider distribution which is good business sense. This being the case hopefully the 'contract' is controlled by 1C which would be better for all of us - here's hoping

[whatnot]

Originally Posted by K_Freddie

You shouldn't worry about the support, it's there... just not the DRM way

Enough with the DRM already. There has been feedback about DRM for the past years about three billion times. What do you think the odds are that all of that feedback + Oleg's common sense would have been missed and now that they see this dribble on the 11th hour there will be an emergency meeting to change the DRM strategy of the upcoming release? Wake up.

It's decided already, it's going to be what it's going to be and I have a hunch it will be good.

Personally I would buy and play the game even if it would stab me in the gut with a swiss army knife every time I start it up. If you won't buy it due to a need for being online or whatever, fine, but don't spam that BS here over and over again. Let it go.

(All of a sudden I realized I'm guilty of forum policing.. I surpirise myself. I guess we all have our limits )

[K_Freddie]

Originally Posted by whatnot

Enough with the DRM already. There has been feedback about DRM for the past years about three billion times. What do you think the odds are that all of that feedback + Oleg's common sense would have been missed and now that they see this dribble on the 11th hour there will be an emergency meeting to change the DRM strategy of the upcoming release? Wake up.

My, you are asleep.. don't go all 'groupie fanboy' on me.. I also like the series.
As there's no concrete confirmation about the type of DRM, I reserve my judgement.. and if it's is the SH5 style of DRM, you can be guaranteed of 12hour emergency meeting

[WhiteSnake]

Would be really nice to atleast know some Official Minimum and Recomended System Requirements before it commes out...

[Defender]

Originally Posted by WhiteSnake

Would be really nice to atleast know some Official Minimum and Recomended System Requirements before it commes out...

I'm sure those system specs you seek will reveal themselves, but not before the intense and time sensitive optimization period the sim will go through. Giving system specs before they're universal is a huge mistake. i'm sure they're aware the next question after "what's the release date"? is "what are the system specs". If you have a 4 year old computer that was mid range back then, it might be time for an upgrade, but who the hell knows. Most sims these days are easily customizable so with the right balance in video options you can obtain decent fps until you can afford that computer upgrade.

I always just assume I will have to run everything on medium and go from there

[blottogg]

I'd like to add my own "WOOT", and thanks to Oleg, Ilya and the rest of the crew. You do good work.

It took me a couple of pages to confirm this is in fact the flight sim formerly known as SoW:BoB, and not another addition to the original Il-2 series. Guess I've got to increase my lurking in this forum past the Friday update pages.

It turns out my old graphics card knew more than I did. My BFG 9800GT (DX9) died last week, to be replaced (at cost, as it seems BFG isn't honoring their warranty any more) with a eVGA GTX460 (DX11). The old card took itself out behind the barn, sacrificing itself so that I could enjoy the upcoming CoD in all its DX11 glory.

As soon as I can figure out how to pre-order the collector's edition in the States, I'll sign myself up. To the carpers, know that it won't be perfect on day one. There will be bugs, and perhaps features you don't like. Be ready to submit the bug reports, and to turn off the stuff you don't want to use. Try to keep the criticism constructive, as that will let you vent while still doing us all some good. We're close to the next chapter of 1C flight sims, and it's going to be a good chapter.

"Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning." - Winston Churchill

[KG66_Phantom]

Thanks to Ilya and the crew for persisting and getting this to the final hurdle, lets hope P40s cant carry a 10000lb bomb 20000 mils at 300000 feet

Phantom