Official Announcement

Good day pilots!

So, the long wait is over and we're ready to put the rumors to rest.

777 Studios partners with 1C to form 1C Game Studios (1CGS) and develop IL-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Stalingrad

You can read the full announcement on the official website of the game at http://il2sturmovik.net. We also invite you to our new forum, where you will find additional information about the project and will be able to ask questions and chat with the developers.

To all our ROF customers and fans - this is not the end of ROF development or new content. Please do not panic. We are still working on the details and we will inform you once we have them. Right now all current releases we promised are on schedule.

On a personal note - the ROF community and your support has made this day possible. We have always wanted to make a WWII product and your support of our WWI product has afforded us this opportunity. Now you will be able to enjoy both WWI and WWII products produced by our team and new expanded team. If all goes to plan there will be much to be happy about in the coming months and years. We hope you will stick by us and continue to support our flight-sim endeavors.

Onward and upward!



The Entire 777 Studios team

WOW! WELL DONE! KEEP THE FAITH!


EDIT: So there was something true in the leak that happened some time ago!
EDIT2: Also, first! :O

Hurrah!

Wow, this is great news for all combat flight sim fans! Will this new WW2 sim use the digital nature engine?

Rob

Scoobe,

Read the FAQ on the new forum. Will answer many basic questions. But to answer the easy one, yes it will use our engine as it's foundation.

Jason

Excellent! Good luck on the new venture. 777 studios have impressed a lot of people so far IMHO.

Bloody great news!

Jason, i have high hopes for the first time in years. I wish you all the best!

Oh, if you need Beta testers...

There is hope for WW2 simming after all.

Good show Jason! Congrats to you and the team/new team. Looking forward to see what all of you come up with.

Great news, good luck on this new project!

Wow. Huzzah Huzzah Huzzah. Such great news.

I always wanted to fly actual missions in Stalingrad. The stock campaign in Il-2 was disappointing at best.

Jason, how big is the theater going to be? Is it Just the City and the periphery (the Russian Army and German 6th, as well as the Romanians and Italians to the North?) Or will it extend down to Kharkov?


Will the Campaign actually follow the progression of the battle and eventually lead to the encirclement of General Paulus army?


Is it at all possible to have a dynamic campaign?

Here's hoping the marriage of 777 and 1C can breathe much needed life into the IL-2 brand. Any rescue effort for Cliffs of Dover would make many happy fans.

CLoD is not compatible with the RoF's game engine, there will be no rescue, it will be a completely new game..

I guess that depends on how closely it adheres to ROF as it is now. We have the career beta which isn't exactly the same, but it's not that far removed. I don't know if they'll be able to make it more offline-based than ROF is now.




The Jedi Master

Sad to drop Clodo much better engine :-(

As evidenced by it's great success.

I beg to differ! I think the ROF engine is far superior to COD's engine for sure. I just hope they push the ROF engine to what it can handle so we can have some
bigger furballs than we currently see in ROF.

"As evidenced by it's great success."

Great potential, but bad strategic choices.
But I still prefer a great potential with problems to solve to an old-looking OK game engine.

It doesn't look old or OK to me. RoF looks amazing.