What is with the release date please?

[Feathered_IV]

Historical accuracy. Can't have the Battle of Britain overrun by yanks right from the start. Maybe you can get into it via Canada? Opting out of the Commonwealth is a bitch eh?

[kristorf]

I really can't see what all the fuss is about regarding the release date of this (long awaited I admit) game.

With all the things happening in the world at the moment, earthquakes, tsunami's, existing and near as damnit future wars, famine etc
we have a group of people jumping up and down acting like prepubescent spoilt children whinging, whining and crying that they will have to wait a
whole week or two longer for something that has been in development for years.

GROW UP PEOPLE.

Done when its done and that really is all there is to it

[Sven]

Originally Posted by Feathered_IV

Historical accuracy. Can't have the Battle of Britain overrun by yanks right from the start. Maybe you can get into it via Canada? Opting out of the Commonwealth is a bitch eh?
:

Haha +1 !

[louisv]

Originally Posted by Sauf

well, ok an exception for you, only because you gave us aussies maple syrup (where we learnt what the maple leaf was and it was a country), will move on before i think about that to much

ps, I still have a packet of Canadian wild rice in my pantry, 10 years old, been keeping it till they sell canadian duck here.

http://www.secondworldwar.co.uk/inde...tle-of-britain

Canada at War - The Battle of Britain
July 10, 1940 the Battle of Britain begins. This was a precursor to Operation Sea Lion, Hitler's plan to capture England. But in order for him to land troops on British soil, he first had to control the air. This was the task of the Luftwaffe. The Luftwaffe's attack force consisted, at the beginning, of around 2000 aircraft including a large proportion of Messerschmitt fighters, while the RAF only had about half that number of planes in Hurricanes and Spitfires. Outnumbering the British almost 2 to 1 the German Luftwaffe planned to attack RAF bases, then seaports and finally commence their ground assault. With nowhere else to turn, the British turned to Canada for support. Canada began to produce Hurricane fighters and train pilots to defend Britain.

The Canadian fighter group 242 began to take a powerful role in the battle of Britain. This group shot down huge numbers of Messerschmitts while the British fighters were regrouping. Their only major loss was when a group of Messerschmitt 109s flew out of the sun in an ambush and shot down nine of them. The battle of Britain took an important turn when a stray German bomber came under attack from flak guns, dropped her bombs to reduce weight but didn't realize that he was flying over London, a target made off limits by Hitler. In retaliation, the Allies began to bomb German cities. With Hitler's subsequent order to bomb British cities, the pressure on British airbases and radar stations was relieved. This gave the RAF time to regroup and it began to achieve victories. German air losses eventually became so great that Hitler, with his attention now more focussed on the forthcoming invasion of Russia, was forced to give up his campaign and Operation Sea Lion was postponed indefinitely.




http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-Bri...n_contribution

Canadian contribution

Many Canadians served in the fighter squadrons which repulsed the Luftwaffe in the summer of 1940. In fact, although the RAF only recognises 83 Canadian pilots as flying on fighter operations during the Battle of Britain, the RCAF claims the actual figure was over 100, and that of those 23 died and 30 were killed later in the war.[13][14] Another 200 Canadian pilots fought with RAF Bomber Command and RAF Coastal Command during the period and approx 2,000 Canadians served as ground crew.

[Specht]

Originally Posted by speculum jockey

Oleg said it takes about 20 days to translate it from UK to US English. Also there is the household voltage difference and all the game-code is in metric as well.

That add up to a lot of work for the devs to make it North American ready.

I'm from Brazil, I'm fine with UK english and here we also use the metric system, still, I'm suffering the same fate of the North Americans. D:

[Sauf]

Louisv, i meant no disrespect, first post was made in a light hearted manner.

thought i was pisssed 10 hours ago but still here, someone call a doctor if this dot stops .................................................. ................................x

[TacKY]

Originally Posted by Sauf

k, what year did the USA join BOB? No offence to the patient yanks, but ffs Tacky you ask some stupid xxxx,

I didnt know asking about a release date was some "stupid xxxx" because if it was, I would be going to all the threads of other games that some of the Europeans whine about in regard to a three day wait. All I am wondering is why the month wait because it seems odd.

The metric system shouldnt be a problem since the IL-2 used meters for the altitude.

Originally Posted by kristorf

With all the things happening in the world at the moment, earthquakes, tsunami's, existing and near as damnit future wars, famine etc

None of that affects me so why should I halt my life for something that is happening across the world? All that is irrelevant.

[Hood]

Originally Posted by TacKY

Why does the US have to wait a almost a month before we download the same game that the UK players download on March 31?

So you can decide if the features list is good enough to justify you buying it.

[PeanutJelly]

What's the big difference between UK English and US English?!
Why can't i just buy the UK English version and get it earlier?

[kristorf]

Originally Posted by TacKY

None of that affects me so why should I halt my life for something that is happening across the world? All that is irrelevant.

What I am saying is that some are consumed by a release date, and are quite frankly acting like spoilt kids in the great scheme of life