Well. Maybe, just maybe, they will switch this the last minute so that leaked beta version copies aren't attractive. But it seems to be a daft marketing strategy to release videos through Bill Stealey's YouTube account that show the beta version in action...?

+1 Murkz

Pardon my ignorance Murkz,what flight sim is that?

Chucky, that is IL2 Ciffs of Dover !

I had my doubts about this game in another thread- for a product scheduled to be released so soon there seems to be no awareness made of it, either it's vaporware or the production values must be quite poor, simply because they're not too proud of something that looks like it's a homebrew in 2011. It's not as if Wild Bill doesn't have experience in the industry not to know what the concept of marketing is.

The other curious matter is that the video states it's also coming to Xbox- PC niche enthusiasts might opt for graphics that look like Panzer Elite, but there's no way even as a budget title that's going to go anywhere on a gamer's platform. After all, this was a previous marquee shot that seemed to indicate what the product might actually look like:

http://forum.totalsims.com/viewtopic.php?p=78912&sid=1703dee552a73508ee5f2cab67974d7d


I tried looking though the community forum to see what the buzz might be, just a quick glance at recent topics makes no mention of M4 Tank Platoon, just this Armored Assault game.

http://forum2.totalsims.com/index.php

Why is no one even talking about it? Nothing from fans taken back by 1990s graphics and apparently twitch action gameplay, nothing from Wild Bill or anyone telling people that this is not going to be representative of the final game, there's nothing there at all. Maybe it is some stratagem not to show what the graphics will look like in the final stage, but it doesn't make sense that the the game mechanics still has to look like it's in some very early phase where they haven't figured out whether it's going to be a first person shooter or not. That just shows a different type of game entirely even if they didn't want to disclose what the visuals would look like. Why still give the impression that the beta is in a primitive stage if this isn't the way it's going to be? What is the advantage in that?

Thanks Murkz.I thought I was having a hard time identifying it.

Just checking out those links Kontakt.
LOL at M4 Tank Platoon 'The definitive simulation of armoured land combat'.

Doesn't give you much hope for the modern day follow-up that's in the pipeline does it?

People churning out dross like that are precisely the reason that nothing develops beyond Steel Beasts Gold, Panzer Elite, never mind Steele beast's PE. Snake if your reading this I apologies for suggesting that you need to even consider enhancing your simulation to attract more customers you would be better off spending some time releasing SBGOLD with a few ww2 bitmaps and charging a tenner for it because people would probably lap it up!

This Karking Fuznagel has actually set back the tank simulation communities hopes for a competent ww2 tanks sim by at least decade! I can only hope that some one has enough sense as take that pile of bobbins and unplug the speak and spell it was coded on because that might give it time to learn to spell Colour correctly!



Our only hope is that individuals Like Oleg maddox who actually respect their subject material finally take pity on us and give us what we have been begging for! Oleg your our only hope!

I would write more but I think I just had a relapse

Is it bad that I'm actually embarrassed FOR this sim? Those screenshots and that video look pathetic. The version of Panzer Elite SE I got off of gog.com looks better and it's 12 years old.

This is the state of WWII armor simulations?

IIRC Oleg hinted that the Cliffs of Dover engine can/will be adapted to an armor sim.

See you guys in a couple of years...

Luckily we still have Steel Fury and T34 vs Tiger for WW2 action.

From now on I will call Wild Bill 'Mild Bill'.

Did you guys notice the crewman sticking out??