Understanding you just like to twist a knife in Luthier every chance you get with your exaggerations, it shouldn't take to long to create a playable demo. There are always delays in this type of work but there is a very good chance it could be done in far less than two years. Considering there is a working game engine, with two aircraft already done, there shouldn't be too many road blocks in creating another three aircraft and the relatively small Normandy map. That said it will be interesting to see if the EDGE SDK will allow community modders to add a small strip of Southern England in time for the initial release.

Alright I'm finally in for 40 bones. P47 is my fav plane I can't resist

My experience says otherwise. But my experience is tainted by the fact I have almost zero interest in online games (despite having sunk way too much money into iRacing during a stagnant period --- now coming to an end, thankfully! -- for modern racing sims). So I've been waiting for a decent campaign engine in a sim since Comanche-Hokum.

I still wish they'd been able to keep developing that engine. It wasn't perfect by any means, but the scale of operations were large enough to present a challenge, and small enough that my actions felt important (I always felt like a spare part in Falcon4's impressive war machine). I could also influence the way the ground war developed with my actions, and it's that kind of involving, satisfying interaction I'm after.

But that requires imagination rather than just the incredible modeling talent which the few remaining sim projects focus on. And while I appreciate the effort that goes into that modelling, for many years I have been given amazing cockpits to sit in, but no really compelling reason to fly them.

I appreciate I'm in a minority among this small community, but I think I'm in a majority of the potential audience for flight sims. Give me Strike Commander's story and Falcon 4's modelling and they can have my $1 any time they like!

Talking of money, I have entered into complex negotiations with the team responsible for allowing me access to the contents of my wallet, and they have reluctantly agreed to release the princely sum of $1 in order to facilitate a medium term wager on the triumph of hope over experience.

There's no fool like an old fool. ;-)

I am already in at a substantial level so I am getting everything + stretch when it comes I think that cutting down the free portion to non backers is a no brainer. If DCS WWII goes like the other DCS modules then non backers should just pay for the planes they buy. I am assuming that the base DCS WWII World will be free like DCS world and maybe come with one flyable .. or maybe not..but I think that non supporters should pay for what they get. I don't think that they should get any freebies. Look man the past is the past .. You don't owe is anything but a decent product upon release so from my perspective as long as you deliver on that then I am happy. I think that the product should and hopefully will stand on it's own merits and that once released it will advertise itself to a large extent for better or worse and as long as it is for the better it will all fall into place. Just keep us updated within reason and make a good product.



Luthier is a seasoned veteran of the UBI forums so he is well aware of what he is getting into as you probably already know.. but I think that engagement on the forums is important.. but I think it should be limited to actual progress and specific otherwise folks will start to get antsy.. and comments like the ones below (although I have to admit Andrew was much more reasonable in his post.. ) .. which are old and un called for will sprout like weeds. Look I am certain that everybody in here who bought CoD has spent more money on beer and junk since they bought it than they did on CoD, so some of us just need to grow up and just get over it.. It's a new day and if you want in then get in if you don't then stay out but the nastiness and the vitriol is just uncalled for. It really is that simple folks. I am certain that whatever pain anyone who felt burned by CoD experienced pales in comparison to what Ilya & crew felt seeing their project go the way it did for whatever reason it went that way.. so we all need to move on from there. He has. It's a new day.. a new dawn.. and with all the sim goodness coming down the pike folks need to anticipate basking in the noontime sun rather than complaining about the chill of the previous night.








Somehow I think that with all the stuff coming down the pike you and your wallet may be having some issues in the near future..

And I think we should make a rule that prevents such idiotic posts!

OR,

In order to cater your desires we could make a rule that forces all democracies to be instantly replaced by dictatorships which after all is the basis of your post!

LOL, talk about idiot posts...

Oh, let them complain. Just remember that those complaints are completely ignorable since they're not participating

But lets take this deeper, You have to be part of the democracy to take part in it. You can't piss and moan about France and expect them to take you seriously if you don't even live there.

Last call!!

All done now.

Bit late I know. A Typhoon or Tempest instead of the me262 would've made me pull the trigger. Normandy map and no Tiffy? I understand why they're doing it but still. I'm going to sit back and wait until it goes retail. Take the one free plane for a spin and take it from there.

Beautiful..and so very true.

S!,
Well, to be honest, I kinda forgot about DCS:WW2. Real life will do that Anyhow, I just went to the KS webpage and I no longer see an option to donate. Am I overlooking something, or has the KS program stopped?

HB

The KS was completed on October 5th. Funding reached 159K, but don't know if Paypal fiquires are included.
From my reading there maybe a new KS to fund the B-17 project, but not in the near future.

KS is over.

New KS next year??

Other money source: Next year, sell betas of DCS:WW2 content on Steam (to those not in KS program). I notice that worked well for another game I'm "involved" in (supported by buying a beta). That game got more income in a week of selling betas than they got out of the entire KS (so they say).

FWIW

+1

Since I missed out on the KS, I'd support DCS:ww2 by purchasing via Steam. I really regretting that I missed out on the KS program. I'd like to have another chance to support this future sim.

HB

The input in control setup will not recognize my leo bothnar USB controllcard

So I will have to buy me a new Warthog just for this game. That is kind of all fashion.
If they updated and improved the settings I would be all over this sim

It recognises mine. The only incompatibility that I'm aware of is some of the earlier BU0836's with Windows 7.

It would take an act of God. Not happening. Ever.

For me to get excited about this I would require aircraft numbers as seen in historical engagements and historical behavior from all participants.

I'm so very over the IL-2 style 8 planes randomly generated meeting 8 opposing planes and the AI circle fighting until on or the other is destroyed. If lead can't fly a historical cruise speed for a human wing I'm out.