Time line for Normandy and FC2 release

[Yogiflight]

3 hours ago, 56RAF_Roblex said:

To back that up, here is what Jason said himself

Thanks, I didn't know anymore, where he posted it.

[Avimimus]

9 hours ago, tattywelshie said:

Totally agree! I'm so excited for those 3 aircraft, don't know which one i'm most looking forward to! Even if the June date does slip, because they are still sorting out the final details, i'd rather have it a bit later but with everything sorted than it be rushed.

 

Yeah. I feel that way.

 

Honestly, we're getting more twin-engined aircraft than usual in BoN - and some of them are quite tricky and might require more programming (e.g. avionics for Ar-234, Me-410 gunner), plus they are working on drop-tanks and redoing the visual damage for all aircraft, and we're getting more variants per plane than ever before.

 

I'm quite happy to give them an extra couple of months. Some of these aircraft (e.g. Me-410) I thought I'd never see in the sim. Even aircraft like the Typhoon seemed unlikely.

[Asgar]

1 hour ago, Avimimus said:

 

Yeah. I feel that way.

 

Honestly, we're getting more twin-engined aircraft than usual in BoN - and some of them are quite tricky and might require more programming (e.g. avionics for Ar-234, Me-410 gunner), plus they are working on drop-tanks and redoing the visual damage for all aircraft, and we're getting more variants per plane than ever before.

 

I'm quite happy to give them an extra couple of months. Some of these aircraft (e.g. Me-410) I thought I'd never see in the sim. Even aircraft like the Typhoon seemed unlikely.

Totally agree, the moment I saw the Me410 listed in the original BoN announcement I thought I was imagining things ?

[56RAF_Roblex]

6 hours ago, Avimimus said:

 

I'm quite happy to give them an extra couple of months. Some of these aircraft (e.g. Me-410) I thought I'd never see in the sim. Even aircraft like the Typhoon seemed unlikely.

 

On the Stormbirds blog he quotes something Jason said in September. 

 

 

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The fact is that we have until June 2022 to complete Battle of Normandy or our ability to make any further products will be jeopardized. The era of Covid has wrought havoc on our schedule, our team and our vision of what we can accomplish.

Jason Williams

 

 

 

That seems to indicate that they will be trying very hard not be slipping an extra couple of months.   

[Feldgrun]

On 4/12/2022 at 4:24 AM, CountZero said:

im more interested in whats next

 

What's next has been the subject of much speculation. I'm really curious myself... Late Eastern, another Western, Italy, or maybe Pacific?

[[CPT]Crunch]

My suspicion is with the new lighting and weather we're going to see a major evolution in map quality for both Normandy and Aras which is going to blow everybody away.  It can be done since they're both majorly overlapping sharing terrain and physical features.  And that's going to raise this games status and popularity like nothing else.

 

Been way to long and way to quiet since they've given us an actual peek. 

[Dallas88B]

1 hour ago, [CPT]Crunch said:

My suspicion is with the new lighting and weather we're going to see a major evolution in map quality for both Normandy and Aras which is going to blow everybody away.

That would be nice ! 

[Jason_Williams]

23 hours ago, [CPT]Crunch said:

My suspicion is with the new lighting and weather we're going to see a major evolution in map quality for both Normandy and Aras which is going to blow everybody away.  It can be done since they're both majorly overlapping sharing terrain and physical features.  And that's going to raise this games status and popularity like nothing else.

 

Been way to long and way to quiet since they've given us an actual peek. 

They will be good maps of course, maybe our best, but not anything far beyond what we already have or truly revolutionary. And they don’t really share any assets and built by different teams for different eras. Not trying to burst your bubble, posts with this kind of vibe tend to set unrealistic expectations. 
 

Jason 

[ShampooX]

15 minutes ago, Jason_Williams said:

They will be good maps of course, maybe our best, but not anything far beyond what we already have or truly revolutionary. And they don’t really share any assets and built by different teams for different eras. Not trying to burst your bubble, posts with this kind of vibe tend to set unrealistic expectations. 
 

Jason 

Jason is it possible to get some darker colored Panzer skins added to the Official Skin folder with this release?  There are some really good user skins already available to pull from.  The yellow stands out from far distances too easily.

[ST_Catchov]

1 hour ago, Jason_Williams said:

Not trying to burst your bubble, posts with this kind of vibe tend to set unrealistic expectations. 

 

Nonetheless, I'm feeling the vibe for the new Arras map.