Questions for Oleg??????????

[Avimimus]

Originally Posted by 52Zebra

Thanks everybody for your replys.
I am still a little confused, 409 will not have any new planes, right.
BOB is going to morph into Storms of war, right
How many patchs and or up-dates does BoB have?

52Zebra

Yes, you are correct, 4.09 will not have new planes.

As for patches, judging from Oleg's past record:
- Oleg doesn't work with a fixed number. There will be as few or as many as he deems necessary
- You can expect a relatively bug free product and excellent support with free patches.
- It isn't clear if Oleg will produce free addons (as done in the past) but he is planning new instalments of the series in order to cover additional parts of WWII.
- There will be 3rd party addons

Originally Posted by RXMAN

The official(??) title of the next sim from 1C is BOB:Storm of War.(one title)
There are at least two BOBs from other companies that have been out for a while.
RRG which is a new company of developers previously with 1C is working
on a 'secret' sim using the BOB:SoW engine, based on the Korean War time period.

Right, except in it would technically be read in the reversed order: Storm of War: Battle of Britain. Less technically, I have personally been referring to it as Bob's Sow.

Companies involved (that I know about):
"Maddox Games" they are producing BoB and the game engine
"RRG" was set up by Ilya with Oleg's help, it is developing Galba (Korea) but isn't responsible for coding (ie. has the tools but not the engine)
"1C" is the distributor in CIS & Russia
"UBI" is the distributor internationally

Art from Il-2 has served in at least two other products and components of the game engine have also been used in an additional two products. I would expect to see this collaborative pattern continue.

I hope this is understandable (I may not have been very clear at some points).