Problem with that theory, is that the devs have not fixed anything in nearly 5 months, and have announced and shown progress on a sequel already.

If we can step back into reality for a second, you would realize we live in a world where results are the only thing that matters. Excuses don't matter that much to folks when money has changed hands and customers got the short end of the stick.

Not an easy thing to show the graphics/performance code they are fixing/rewriting for the update, while easy to show some interesting ground war aspects one of their crew is working on. You would have to believe the developer has done a considerable amount of work in the last months on the critical rewrite of the graphics/performance code. If they haven't then indeed all the negative soothsayers will have successfully foretold the demise of the new IL-2 series. The King is dead, long live IL2-1946.

Chivas, they could show a video showing off the new AI routines, sound updates, radio commands and ground physics couldn't they?

The graphics rewrite is badly needed everyone can agree, i also want to know what the FM guy, the DM guy, the sound guy, and the new AI guy have been doing for the last 5 months.

Why doesn't Luthier show us?

I can think of two possibilities; because they have made no progress in these areas and they are still broken, or they've made an arbitrary decision, for one reason or another, to show no progress on the unfinished features.

I sometimes wonder what BlackSix does all week at work. He must have other duties besides communicating with us...hell, maybe he's the AI guy or something.

He's in charge of morale.

From November 18th update...

"One shows the ongoing work on our FM; the guys are poring over Spitfire performance data"


By furbs9999 at 2012-03-12



with luck they managed to read the manual and fix the FM

He's just looking at her leg's, and sniffing her scent...OK maybe I was wrong, looked like a lady's purse on the desk