Oh, and by the way: I am personally very sad to hear that Oleg leaves game development. I understand that the haters of this sim, such as Wernervoss, Tree, nuggetx, RS_colonel and others will obviously be quite happy that Oleg is biting the dust: being the developer of a product for which they have only contempt.

In their eyes this upcoming sim is so sub-par and absolutely rubbish that it must be a joy for them to see that it is the endpoint of a sim development career.

I am sure they will come in here and explain how it is good and just and how they saw it coming all along, and if he had only followed their expert advice all would be good.

Rejoice fellows, the sim developer you hated is calling it quits: this must really have made your day.

New engine, looking to be incredibly CPU intensive, and doesn't use hyperthreading?

'New' my arse. And as for "future proofed"...double my arse.

Well...be nice if somebody from Oleg's end could find the time (about 30 seconds) to say yay or nay. Hmm, that would be helpful, wouldn't it. Oh, but how inconsiderate of me, to think they'd have time away from all the important work to give people (us) some basic gen on what we might find worthwhile to buy in terms of hardware. Yes, better spend a few hours instead making a video of four Tiger-Moths floating over the sea than give us some critical (but easy) data on supported hardware features that'll help to make the game fly. Or, even more importantly, give us some critical data that MIGHT SAVE US FROM CHUCKING A BUNCH OF MONEY DOWN THE DRAIN ON POINTLESS UPGRADES!!!

Ahem.

Sorry guys, guess I'm a tad pissed off at this continuing information vacuum that appears to be the result of high-handed arrogance, or an intention to hide drawbacks that might give potential purchasers an informed choice leading to loss of sales. Yeah! How DARE we expect to be given the opportunity to make an informed choice!!!

Though kudos to Oleg, I swear I heard him mumble that eight gigs of RAM might help the game run more smoothly.

So, either CoD does HT but neither Oleg nor Ubi think that's worth shouting about ( ), or it doesn't, in which case it's not a new engine at all, is it. In fact it's old, and dated, and severely limited in scaleability.

So it beggars my belief somewhat that a dev, knowing he's coding for a genre, never mind a specific game, that is so massively reliant on processing power, fails to have it make use of HT. You mention other games that either don't use it, despite being current-gen code, or do use it but don't shout about it...maybe that's because the genre or engine can manage quite nicely without it anyway.

It is clear beyond any possible doubt that CoD is going to be whaling on the CPU like a pipe-wielding navvie, so to not implement use of HT defies understanding. Unless it's a simple case of none of the devs having the required coding ability to achieve it. Well heck, they've never managed something as simple as a dynamic campaign so it's not a hard guess to make. I guess.

ahh, let me see.... looking for quotes.

People like Freycinet are living in their own world. Did I ever say that i hate the sim ? Way to put words into my mouth.

Posting blatant things which are FACTS are not hating on anything. I don't know how one cannot understand that.

It's also known as bug testing or hunting which some professionals are getting paid to do.

Did I ever say that i hate the sim ? Way to put words into my mouth.

CoD going into the dumps before even getting released, classic

I want to like it , and i would if every new information wouldn't be a stab into the back of us - players.

I'm fighting for us gamers, not for those evil money companies. You should support me.

7 years in development , we are in XXIst century and Oleg cannot make an in-game server browser where as games in 1997 had those.

i'm speechless

All i know is that i will be enjoying RoF campaign and maybe after 5 years i will buy CoD with the 5+ expansions and dynamic campaign in one package for 20 $.

This videos are bad, is Oleg serving us a Pearl Harbor soap opera? because if so , i would go re-watch Pearl Harbor.

Making points to improve a sim, like COD, is a great good thing. What drives me up a wall is when people try to destroy a sim on account of their ridiculous belief that DRM is an infringement on their basic human rights. If a developer makes it hard to steal software, this does not make the underlying software crap. This does not make Steam or Ubisoft the bad guys either I am not pointing to anyone in particular on this forum, mind you. Still, whenever someone says, look at the lighting, the grass, the trees or the instrument gauge flaws, I am always thinking, "Oh, great another guy trying to Silent Hunter 5 a sim because he has a problem with enforcing DRM!" I don't blame Oleg Maddox, if he is sick of hearing from the DRM crowd; not one bit.

Projecting a bit there bud.

Projecting what exactly? Whenever someone trolls COD, there is a lengthy criticism of everything from ground colors to tracer wobble, but then there is the mention of DRM. Sometimes the DRM is mentioned in the signature of the troll and not in the actual post, but DRM bashing is a common source of COD criticism and a rediculous one, IMHO. It happens a lot. I am convinced that a beautiful sim like COD could not possibly get this level of criticism, before it is even released, except from the DRM trolls. Just my opinion.