Does anyone have a notion where Oleg has gone? I mean I know he left the building and all. But what is he doing now?

Anyone think that he may be concerned with the legacy of this sim?

He's probably sitting in some russian game convention, sipping something cool with a hot chick on his lap.. ''I remember the days when I was in charge; I'd have had this lot sorted inside two weeks!''

Last information I ever saw about Oleg was that he took a job at Vizerra in 2010.
Oleg Maddox Joined the VIZERRA Team. Interview: http://blogs.vizerra.com/vizerra_en/2010/12/oleg-maddox-joined-the-vizerra-team-interview.html

He is still shown on their team page and if you look I think he is in the back row on the right of the picture on the Team page too.
Team: http://vizerra.com/about/team/


*2012 in red added by me.


Seeing what his position is at Vizerra I rather doubt it.


Wheels

Pretty good prediction Trooper

Thanks Wheels. I guess that settles it.

CoD gives occasional glimpses of the original developers intentions (and how good they would have been) but in terms of its evolution I just cannot see that any significant progress has been made. To me they haven't even got to the stage where I could say 'yes, thats where it should have been when it came out of the box' and its been out over a year and that was after years of development.

There have been enough 'the sky is falling' threads and comments to fill a phone book but I do think it is becoming a more and more valid comment for users to ask whether there really is much chance of this game coming good or whether its just one of those things and to move on. Lots already have of there own volition. As a squad CoD was eagerly anticipated but we haven't flown it once together, those of us that got it barely post about it any more on our forums so its pretty much dead for us. There is still IL2 which with the new mod packs isn't half bad at all so our mission writers are back into that and there is RoF.

I've always viewed BoM as the biggest red herring there has been in the CoD saga. They used it to divert attention while struggling with the COD code, I bet we would have heard and seen far less of it had CoD not had so many issues. Due to the nature of a lot of the combat in that theatre with low level attacks and intercepts the CoD engine would be on its knees as it stands so the prospect of that one comming off looks slim unless CoD has a drastic reversal of fortunes. As to the re-write I have my own thoughts on that but looking at the number of graphical issues that carried over I suspect it wasn't half the radical code replacement everybody expected.

From being genuinely enthusiastic about this game I've got to the point where I won't post at the 1C forums and rarely post here as, well, what is there left to say ?. Personally I think its on its last gasps.

I think that speaks volumes how the game has not been adopted by many squads / clans, 2 of them I've been involved with never organised any events for it because its just too buggy and tempermental, let alone the severe issues that plagued the game for months (anyone remember the no tree and sound "workaround"? Ha.)

I mean ROF and DCS don't offer perfect online experiences by any means, both games have their quirks. But both games along with the original IL-2 seem to be fairly popular with squads because they still let you get in, fly and have fun - not spend the night doing technical troubleshooting.


What annoys me most is that both ROF and DCS are small russian-based teams that are self-funded from their own developments, although supervised by Western management. 1C is essentially the Russian version of Microsoft with alot of money behind it, I just don't understand why they just aren't willing to invest more into the game, get some competent programmers in and try to salvage the reputation of the IL-2 brand which was once considered THE combat flight sim to have. Do they not have any pride in what it once was? I just don't understand it.

Sure we're a niche market, but how can you not have any pride for once being the best and letting so much mud tarnish your company's name? Crazy.

That's because the management of 1C is made up of suits who have no life beyond "shareholder value" or "business blabla". These guys came from Softklub, another big russian publisher which merged with 1C in 2010, and from what the grapevine carried along these guys don't have the slightest understanding of the different approaches between a simple shooter and a complex simulation. They put down a ludicrous deadline to begin with, demanded a playable demo for IGROMIR 2010 (when it must have been obvious that the project was far from close for release) and then thought their pressure and haste would produce the results they desired. Yeah ... sure.

Bottom line is that this sim was sold as one product but delivered as something completely different and despite promises to 'fix' the difference it's obviously that any 'improvements' are being made under the guise of a new sim which will no doubt be equally flawed and cash-starved.

I hope I'm wrong and the new sim proves to be everything CloD wasn't but either way I've lost all faith in what the devs spoon-feed us.

Unfortunately, I remember all too well just how damn good Hyperlobby IL-2 was and unless a new sim surpasses that then the genre is going backwards in my opinion.

There must be a lot of programmers sans knee caps in Russia...