Battle for Moscow

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Originally Posted by Chivas

A week goes by very slowly for the community, but its a nanosecond for the developer. A bi-weekly update might work, but I just as soon they wait until they had something worth reporting.

Not for me it doesn`t. A week is just a week. 9 months passed by like nothing for me. Still waiting with optimism. I come here check every week, nothing. Cool. Back doing other stuff.

That said, I don`t think that if we are to get some major updates, those would be in BoM if it is ready in 2013. Either BoM comes out in a few months with all the vital updates for CloD or we get those updates earlier for CloD only. If not, well then what can I do about it.I got a job that`s made of dealines too, lots of them. And I can tell you dealines are something of the devil. You always run out of time to do it 100% right. That is how I see 1C struggling and that is why I have understanding for them. CloD shows the very same love for sims as ye olde IL2 and Luthier is one of the people that sustains this love, the attention to detail and realism. Right now I`m having some trouble understanding their priorities but I bet that is caused by not knowing what we aren`t allowed to know as customers.

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I am not so pessimistic about those Updates. What I see coming is all the urgent Updates for CoD coming within the next months, at least everything basic required to make CoD a fun past time then it already is. BoM then will include a rework of the GUI, probably the new weather system, maybe a Dynamic Campaign, reworked Map Editor, stuff like this.

Purely speculative, but that is how I would approach the issue if I were in Maddox games situation. Get everything essential right and add the goodies later.

As a comsumer planning to get each new IL2 title that is an approach I can perfectly live with. However, I can see the dissapointment for those that only are intersted in the Battle of Britian. Then again, everybody how knows the history of IL2, and the controversy surrounding some Title upgrades, especially Pacific Fighters, knows that Maddox Fames never did a good job in the representation of a single theatre. It was the complete package that made IL2 what it eventually became, and that was far from obvious with initial the IL2 release. Il2 was also a hugely less complex sim then CoD now is.