Likely the death warrant was signed when Oleg left the building..

Or perhaps even before as I think the thrill had run it's course. Think of all those years in the laboratory.

Meaningless speculation in any case. The question remains; is it redeemable? Are there any risky enterpreneurs willing to take a chance?

If you change your mind, I'm the first in line
Honey I'm still free
Take a chance on me

Luckily Oleg had alot of fans from his original series. The investors seen there was enough sales of COD to warrant further investment to finish the sim. It appears the investors still have faith the game engine can be fixed as they're apparently about to announce the development of an MMO using the game engine. There have been patches, but progress has been very slow, as the graphics engine had to be rewritten. The fact the development is still working on the game engine does give some hope.

I sure hope they recoup their investments then. It's been a long road and many staunch defenders have fallen off the bandwagon it appears.

Yes, the unfinished release, and the very slow recovery has taken its toll on most of us. I said years ago I didn't think they would be able to enable all the features they talked about with playable frame rates. In fairness Oleg did say along time ago that features would turned down or delayed depending on the sims frame rates. That said I was shocked at how bad the AI, and AI Commands where at release and at present.

"Oleg: When we are designing the engine we put in anything we want or can and we're not very much afraid that there is not currently a PC that will run it well. However, when we are close to release we "cut" some features to get the right working gameplay - to get it playable with good FPS. Those features that were "cut", we will release or open later, when the new hardware will be coming. In the same way we did for the IL-2 series and it's why our old engine is still looking modern."

I'm sure at the time Oleg didn't think he would have to release such an unfinished sim.

They are definitely in over their head's. Maybe they could steal away some writing talent, by offering more money...I still laugh when I think of all those crash/dump logs they must have gotten. Laugh in a sad way that is

..wow Slip, your not a bad lookin' sort !

Odin's Beard, I go away for a few weeks and the Extended Forum is like a time capsule. Like a Flying Dutchman of forums, where the cursed roam the seas complaining about something for an eternity - doomed to wear sad-faces on the lack of Oct100.

How about a new game idea:

Dance Dance Revolution: IL2 CloD Grave Edition!

"In this new blockbuster from Konami you get the chance to blend classic, heart-pumping DDR gameplay with new IL2 centric features:

- Stomp on the franchise's grave, with double-plus bonuses for rhythmic complaining

- Smash the end-of-level 'Oleg' boss in the Dunkirk Dance Off!

- State of the art Graves to dance on - with all your favorite tunes!

Available: Fall 2012 or two weeks. TC&E apply. Does not include 'I Told You So Version XVII' or 'It's Probably a Tumor' DLC"

To be fair, we are talking about Cliffs of Dover !

To be even fairer I took a Spit up on the ATAG server last night and had a great dogfight with a 109 over Folkestone. We both ended up going home but it wasn't through lack of trying on either side.

Thank you...do I look fat holding this plunger

Where is IL-2 CoD at the moment?

Third place...right behind the MMO and then BOM.