Friday Update, February 24, 2012

[zapatista]

Originally Posted by speculum jockey

Love how when someone suggest that they work on alternate MP modes or more content people scream that they want more aircraft, and the devs should only focus on the Flight model and patching the graphics engine.

But show a video about something totally unrelated to flying or the patch and people fall over themselves to give the first "+1" or "thanks devs".

there is no need for snide remarks directed at those that welcome seeing these new elements

in the last 5 or 7 yrs extensive discussion took place in the main il2 forums, and between oleg and his supporters on what main elements the sim should expand into for broader gameplay in the next series, and integrated battlefield management is one of these (this will NOT include 1e person shooter role or infantry, but would include some limited vehicle and some ship control (other new elements wil be, 24/7 dynamic campaighn server, extensive ground AI routines of both civilian and military elements (oleg even showed london busses running on a timetable on preset circuits for ex), and several others

large parts of these elements have already been built into the sim in previous yrs and now some of these new elements need (relatively) little time to bring to completion, and work on them IS NOT DONE BY THE SAME PEOPLE that work on recoding the new gfx engine or are fixing flight models.

so why complain at great new features being added ? BoM being a land based conflict with extensive ground elements (rather then BoB being mainly aerial) is the logical next project to start adding them in, hence they are now broadening the content and will hopefullly attract a new fanbase rom the tank sim crowd. oleg always stipulated the SoW/il2 series would remain a flightsim primarely and that will be its main focus and orientation, the other elements will just complement it (and wont be modeled to the same degree of detail)

rejoice, for its all good !!