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Producer
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Location:Moscow
Posted Today, 12:44

Dear pilots,



We present you a new game in the IL-2 Sturmovik series. It was both hard and enjoyable to work on it. It’s a pleasure to be creating a continuation of the game that once won the world’s recognition in the genre - yes, it’s no easy to make something worth everyone’s attention. We’ve been persistent on our way to the dream, we started as players and turned into makers. The very game release proves that tenacious dreamers can accomplish their goals.



And the goal was to create the game withing minimum time because the IL-2 series had lived through some hard times and significant gaps between releases. We worried that players might forget the genre in the wreckless rithm of modern entertainment industry, and that we might release a game too complicated and slow for players. But we never lost our focus on the very core of flight simulation. Physics, aerodynamics, ballistics, and precise recreation of military vehicles. We wanted you not only know but also - feel like you’re flying. Feel yourselves surrounded by the clean ice-cold air, feel the power of a combat machine in your hands. The game remains on the base of persistent and continuos wish to improve your skills. And we, keeping this base gameplay untouched, added the best features of other genres to create one of the most hardcore and honest games on the market.


We enjoyed making the IL-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Stalingrad, that was so cool, and we hope you’ll enjoy playing it as well. We’re sure that the game will work correctly on your PCs but we are ready to make all necessary corrections if something goes wrong. If you encounter any technical difficulties, please, submit a ticket to our customer support, or tell us about your issue on the forum or on our social network pages - we’ll read it. Well, we’ve taken off, all parameters are ok. We’ll see what’s next later, when we climb a little higher. Thank you for your enthusiasm and your trust.



Thanks for your support,

IL-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Stalingrad Team

Just got my congratulary post deleted at the BOS forums, probably because it was not hailing its greatness enough.
So here I go again, just 2 cents of one of the many potential customers.

Dear Team,

Sincere congratulations on the release of BOS. I bought more than everything of ROF.
I hope it will go the same way as ROF, where my money went happely to 777s way and cool content my way!

Eventough presently not installed since of lately (...), I will not be a party pooper, suffice it to say that I hope that you will take feedback of a large part of your customers even more serious...

Thanks for all the hard work, Zol.

I wish them well!

...we started as players and turned into makers.

"Finished". If so then this is a dead duck.

"Released" is a better wording. Now the work of correcting bugs (and bad design decisions) should start in earnest. There is a lot of room for development of AI, of mission context and presentation. While to produce a totally correct simulation is a *lot* of work, there are many examples where this hasn't been "dry" with a smattering of useless "unlocks" to add to the irritation.

Considering ROF was in continuous development for like 4+ years after its release (and frankly I waited for its second anniversary to buy it because I thought it took till then to be more than just a shell of a sim), I would expect to see at least quarterly updates to BoS for quite some time, if not more frequent in the early days.



The Jedi Master