Oleg, for the love of all that is holy, please come back and sort out the mess.

We need you!

WB.
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That's probably why he left in the first place...

Cheers

Nico

I've been thinking that same thought for a wile, Nico. If he was forced out by UBI, that's one thing. To leave bacause he saw the ship sinking (thinking) then I have no respect for the man any more. I'll never know, and I doubt any of us ever will, so I'm probably stating an opinion with nothing behind it but a little frustration.

I just loaded the new Alpha and even on my pathetic system I'm getting very pronounced stutters. I had them before, but they were no where near as pronounced as this. Because of my PC, CoD's been more of a sight seeing adventurs and not much of a combat simulator, so I turned the dials up as much as my system would let me. The results though unacceptable for a modern PC looked pretty good on my rig. Certainly better than IL2 - minus the battles.

My personal 'black death' mission is the 109 E-3 flying over Calais in the quick mission folder. It's just a sightseeing flight. I practice touch and goes. Look around and learn to navigate using rivers and cities. Before I loaded the new patch I turned down the settings to a reasonable level - meaning no trees or grass. Building detail was on high, but I cut down the number of them to low, where they were medium prior to patch. Things were smooth except for the stutters that weren't too bothersome considering the setting I had and my low end PC. After patch. SIGH. Oh well.

I'll recheck tomorrow - make sure I installed correctly, though I'm sure I did it right.

I still respect Oleg. He's the only one of that crew I do respect anymore. If he left because the ship was sinking, and he didn't want to be part of an inferior product, well I respect that. At least he may have had the integrity not to try and sell something that was obviously going to be broken beyond repair. (conjecture)

Having said that, I don't feel like even his return would save these guys in my own view.

Oleg has a kid and has given a decade of his life to a very intensive industry (skipping holidays etc.) This was my main reaction to him stepping down - regardless of the reasons, he could probably do with a break. In any case, he certainly deserves it.

i still want to know what was going on at the end there. Oleg appeared in the promotional video and turned up and the launch in russia. yet he must have already cut his ties by that stage. In retrospect it looked pretty shonky. they must have realised oleg was the brand and they needed him to launch the thing, even though they all knew it was a dog.

Oleg was a perfectionist and never would have released the sim in this state, unless he was forced too. Unfortunately he wasn't the main financer, so it wasn't his call. The sim was released unfinished, but its the only way the sim had a chance to be finished.

Oleg was probably only invited to be the arm-candy for the Spitfire Girl! haha

I have a sneaking suspicion that Olegs post last week at 1C ' A little word from Oleg ' was an indication that he is back in some regard to try and get things back on track. Unfortunately the thread got locked due to people mocking his english (thinking/sinking) before anyone could ask him anything sensible. Ho Hum.

No that was an old thread and someone Foo'bar'ed it...then joined Foo'bar in the banned arena.