DCS WWII: Europe 1944 - Unofficial Promotional Trailer
by Mysticpuma

http://vimeo.com/74960856

Much better then the official one.

it tells the whole story

Very very nice!

Love it

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Creator Ilya Shevchenko 6 minutes ago

All right, so here's the general breakdown of the response to the new Me.262 stretch goals:

For: 18
Against: 2
(if I counted right)

So I think I'm going to update it today, and that'll be it for the kickstarter changes. Getting down to the wire.

A lot of people wrote about making a 50K stretch goal for the map SDK, but that actually doesn't need quite that much money. When I talked about releasing it earlier, I meant doing it simply within the constraints of the base 100K goal.

First and foremost we still need to have an internal discussion about it. There are legal issues. I don't own the EDGE engine, and the map editor currently is pretty much open code. Obviously that's not something we want to release to the public, because technologies.

If ED, the people who do own EDGE, are OK with releasing it out - and that's a BIG IF - then we'll need to work a bit to make it nice and obfuscated, I'll personally write something that passes for a manual, and in a month or so it could be available to backers. I guess we'll set up a backer discussion and share roles and find some people willing to make 3D models of buildings and landmarks and so on and so forth. Once again, IF this is possible at all. All this within the 100K base, and I really don't see how asking for any more money is needed.

Alain: Regarding the $20+ levels. Right, if you already own both the DCS Dora and the DCS P-51, the base 100K tier gives you nothing. I really hope we'll get the 150K with the 262. I really think that people were discouraged by the seemingly unreachable 375K for the B-17, and if we give some much closer goals, we'll pick up the pace.

Vijar: Yes I guess we do need something big and powerful to interest the general gaming community and get some media coverage. Time's running out. All bets on my upcoming aircraft video.

Milan: On one hand you may be right, and the kickstarter is rather early. On the other hand, I think we did extremely well already, all things considering. Everyone involved in the project is energized. People who invested the majority of the cash to get it started are feeling a lot better. We have a much better idea of what we're doing and what the people want. We still made the money we need to spend as much time as we need on the project, and there's still a pretty good hope of tacking on an exciting new flyable. So, is it as good as can be? Of course not. But it's still really, really good.

I will never understand why the devs do not hand over the making of promo movies to guys like MP and many others who have such a passion for making them.

Seriously. Wouldn't you have had all this stuff sorted out before you launched your kickstarter campaiagn?

I wish them the best. But this lack of preparedness does not fill me with confidence.

The developer can't officially acknowledge Mysticpuma's promo video, as I very much doubt IC would let DCS/RRG use IL-2 and COD clips in a promo video that's in direct competition with their BOS project. Ilya hands are tied in creating the type of video that Mystic can. Ilya can't use IC controlled products, and they haven't created enough of the DCS WW2 project to draw from. That's the whole point of Kickstarter, to garner funds, and assess their market potential, to see if its even feasible to carry on.

Well obviously there would be guidelines/rules, but still my point stands I fail to see how using even the meagre bits and pieces they have atm could not be represented better in video form by somebody who has a huge amount of talent and passion for the era and videomaking.

Basics like this really trip me out.

A long time ago i showed 'Come with me' to some people who have absolutely zero interest in the era or sims in any shape or form. Every single one wanted to and did have a go at il2 after watching it.

I would not even bother to show them any of the dev trailers that were put out as it would have been ..hmm..yeh ok..so how about that weather

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