Odessa Map

[namhee2]

In the Developer Diary 130 (page 4) of August 19, 2016 you can see pictures of the "Odessa Map", someone knows why the map never appears in the game ....

 

[Jade_Monkey]

A mix of what I remember and some guesswork from my end: Zeus was working on that map. At the time he was not part of the dev team and the odessa map was a community made map.

 

Then Zeus joined the dev team and they probably assigned him to official maps to work on.

 

Edit: i used to follow this thread but it's now inactive:

 

https://forum.il2sturmovik.com/topic/5594-will-there-be-other-maps/

 

Edited March 7, 2021 by Jade_Monkey

[Juri_JS]

According to Jason, finishing the Odessa map was a training project for someone (probably Zeus):

https://forum.il2sturmovik.com/topic/24601-developer-diary-part-130-discussion/?do=findComment&comment=378956

 

No idea why it was never finished, but apparently some objects from the map have already made it into the game. Together with the Velikie Luki summer map, these objects were added:

od_railcoal

od_railcross

od_windmill

 

All other Velikie Luki objects start with "vl_", so I guess that "od_" stands for Odessa.

[Danziger]

That was a nice looking map. I wish it could have been finished.

[Juri_JS]

Who knows, maybe Zeus is still working on it as a personal project, similar to the Velikie Luki summer map.

[=gRiJ=Roman-]

Let's keep our fingers crossed!

[BlitzPig_EL]

New territory to utilize is a good thing.

[Pollux]

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[SYN_Luftwaffles]

Odessa would be awesome! 

My guess is it'll come out as a expansion/standalone map accompanying the IAR 80/81 one day. 

[Pikestance]

it would be nice if they would release additional maps of time periods already covered to give you a more dynamic career. 

[Jason_Williams]

Sorry guys. No work is being done on any Odessa map these days. I had forgotten about that very old DD. Maps are terribly difficult to build in our engine. Very few have mastered it even with instruction. 

 

Jason