Friday 2010-08-27 Dev. update and Discussions

Originally Posted by C_G

I don't think the addition of blood/gore and consequential rating change would have much if any impact on sales. Haven't you seen the 12 yr-olds at EBGames buying games where the whole point appears to be to kill your opponent in close combat in the goriest way possible? Have those games' sales suffered? Are the 12 yr-olds a market segment likely to buy SoW:Bob?

The problem is that the US, while great for sales of bloody first-person-shooters (biggest market) is a side market for a lot of flight sims, where as Europe/Russia are real markets you don't want to miss out on. If you wanted to make a version with blood you would miss out on Germany, who required cartoonish shooters to change blood to "green slime". Similar laws exist in other countries as well (Australia for example). Another problem would be adding a swastika. This, like blood, is all fine and dandy in the US/Canada, but Germany, France, and Russia have issues with this.

Strange as it sounds, this game is not being made with the American Market in mind, as it is not the cash cow of flight sims like it is with FPS.

Anyways, this thread is for discussing what has been posted by Oleg and Luthier in the updates.

[Splitter]

Originally Posted by philip.ed

Great footage mate! It'd be awesome to see this in game.

That is some of the most insane strafing footage I have ever seen! Talk about close. A well aimed rock would have brought down some of those planes. Plus, the danger from secondary explosions was very apparent. Wow.

Splitter

[furbs]

Originally Posted by Dano

That's just nuts

Now has Oleg merged his photographic interests to give us a virtual camera for screenshots complete with aperture, shutter and iso settings?

I think i remember a update that said something like this...and even more options like lighting and stuff just for when you take a sceenshot.

[Romanator21]

I know that this is a result of the long development time and therefor there is no one who could be blamed for this. It is just something that will be noticed like the IL-2 Ju88 being out of shape and blocky compared to later twin engined planes like the A-20 or B-25.

I personally like to compare the R-10 to the D.XXI !

However, it's always possible for 3-d models to be updated after release. Look at what DT has done to the Hs-129 for instance.

Still, that Ju-88 is incredible by most standards. I can only wonder how future models will appear.

[McHilt]

Great update! Loveto see it as always

get well Oleg!