Sorry Force, but nobody here has to explain or excuse the plight of this sim

Sooo they created a simulation on how it feels to fly WWII planes but a lot of us were hoping for being able to simulate being a WWII pilot. At least the previous installments attempted to do this with ranks, etc. I know, times change and they aren't focusing on making the games immersive anymore. It's funny that anyone would consider 7 years of developement a "shortened deadline". That's funny!

People continually bring up the long development time wondering how the sim wasn't finished by now. The truth is, full work didn't really start until after the release of IL-1946. For whatever reason/s the development decide to work on more addons to the original IL-2 series that included Pacific fighters thru 1946.

Sorry Chivas, I'm not buying it. In summer 2006, Oleg said the release date for COD was November 2006, obviously they didn't make it but when IL-2 1946 was released in January 2007 it came with a bonus disc of WIP on COD that had dynamic weather and clouds and showing some 3D models. To say that Oleg gave that initial release date without the bulk of work being done already is probably just your opinion and not fact. I assume a lot of the set backs involved switching to Directx from Opengl etc.

Oleg announce BOB in 2003/2004 and it would be released at the end of 2005. Shortly after that announcement the development decided to help Luthier expand his Pacific work into a full blown addon. This only left a skeleton crew working on BOB. In 2006 Ubisoft had a press release announcing the release of BOB for the end of 2007. This was never confirmed by Oleg. I believe this was the time they found the sim was too large and complex for the average computer of the time, so they concentrated their resources on the addons, while a skeleton crew explored Speed tree, Direct X etc. The full crew only started work on COD after the release of IL-2 1946 in what 2008. To say that there was full crew working on COD from its first announcement would be wrong.

This was probably the point where Oleg started having employee problems. Luthiers third party crew that were developing the Galba addon, was brought in to help them finish COD. At some point after Luthier arrival the sim was still only seeing 1 fps. Then when the sim was about to be forced out the door another wrench was thrown in with the Epilepsy filter which killed much needed frames. After the release they had no choice but to rewrite the graphics engine to gain stability and frames. Some here suggest that all this was caused by an incompetent developer, anyone with a modicum of common sense would know it was far more complex than that.

Pacific Fighters was done by Oct. 2004. There is a video interview with Oleg in summer 2006, while he is flying the latest build complete with screenshots of cockpits looking pretty much like they do now, and saying it will be out by the end of the year. Your saying he did everything up to that point and felt he would have it done in 6 more months with only a skeleton crew? Now your saying Ubisoft just throws out release dates without consulting the developer and run the risk of looking bad when it doesn't make it? It's amazing the lengths that folks defending this sim go. In the 7 year development time they might not have had a full crew 100% of the time, but I would guess they had it a lot longer than your leading on. Common sense tells you that when you buy a game and it's poo-poo, and 9 months later it's poo-poo with an air freshener sprayed on it, the fault lies with the developer. Not the alignment of the planets, or some other mystical force.

Oh so you want to try and use common sense do you Force? That'll muck up everything, especially the speculating which has no room for common sense.

Bisher, I salute you Sir...for outstanding use of wit and verbiage..

Fact: This game don't work right.

Counter Fact: Why? Pure Speculation.

End Fact: "Oh so you want to try and use common sense do you Force? That'll muck up everything, especially the speculating which has no room for common sense."

Force, it's impossible to argue facts...with those...what don't believe in them...