The status of the yet-to-be-announced title

[deathmisser]

29 minutes ago, MAJ_Boatswain said:

@LukeFF  Post this blurb in the very first post of the thread.  This is much more informative and relevant, in terms of content and should ease the 'non-annoucement' angst.

To transcribe a bit for western readability: 

"The only issue that worries us is developing a new GUI. Scale-form API has been dead for 6 years already, which means it is almost impossible to find developers for it. That means that continuing to improve our current GUI is not possible, (the marshall-story is a consequence of that) and necessitates us building a new one from scratch.  Last year we made the decision we should have made many years ago - to develop a new GUI for IL-2 using a new API we're making from scratch, to allow the design of the IL-2 franchise to evolve with modern technology.

Why is there worry about this? We've evolved our current GUI over the last five years into something incredibly complex. This new project, of course, will have less deadlines and be done much faster, but don't forget - the GUI is not just a visualization tool; it also makes the game logic.  Career modes have half their algorithms inside the GUI.  Another side of it, is that this time we want to develop a brand-new look to the GUI (everyone was tired of the existing 'mobile-like' design), and with that comes new functionality we've not implemented before. That incurs risk in the development, and is very ambitions - hence our worry.

Graphic technologies for the new project are mostly complete, and content development is underway. New aircraft systems and a new damage model are nearing completion as well, but we still have more work on them to do (while the new aircraft 3d models are still being developed.) The map is in active development (for about 10 months so far) and is going well.  It, too, carries risks because it is the largest storage-volumed content in the game. The new map is larger, and has much more variation than any other we've previously done. We've even developed new tools for the map team to help them meet their milestones on time. 

We remember the CLOD legacy.  CLOD started everything entirely from scratch, and there were too many risks involved. We are taking that lesson, and only generating from scratch the required modules we need for a new project (GUI, shading, radio, new AI, and a few others) while bringing as much of the existing modules from IL-GB as we can up to modern development status to match the new, scratch-made components.

We have a lot of basis to ancticipate a positive announcement and outcome, and the hope and current track is to have everything done in the timeline we've set forth internally, which should not be too long this time. "

It's interesting about the map though. 

 

"Map - is in development for 10 months already and its going well. Map development have some risks too while its most volumed content in the game and new map is way larger and variative than any other we done before - but we have already developed new tools for the map team which should help them to met the milestones in time."

[MAJ_Boatswain]

10 minutes ago, deathmisser said:

It's interesting about the map though. 

 

"Map - is in development for 10 months already and its going well. Map development have some risks too while its most volumed content in the game and new map is way larger and variative than any other we done before - but we have already developed new tools for the map team which should help them to met the milestones in time."

Throwin my money down that they're trying to beat Jason in the race to Midway. 

[deathmisser]

7 minutes ago, MAJ_Boatswain said:

Throwin my money down that they're trying to beat Jason in the race to Midway. 

Lmao I wish but they denied the pacific theatre of war though.   

 

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Ok I've rearranged my list a bit so it's easier to understand if I missed anything please let me know.

 

Spoiler

Module

 

A. It's something new 

 

B. Needs lot of recourses

 

C. Swimming pilots ? 

Aircraft 

 

A. Piston engine themed 

 

B. New aircraft systems 

 

C. New damage simulation

 

D. New ammunitions 

Map

 

A. It's not Italy 

 

B. Little to no cities

 

C. Not in the Pacific

 

D. Larger Map than ever before

 

E. Variation in landscape ?

 

F. Most volumed content in the game

 

G. Really exotic and beautiful

 

H. Started 10 months ago as of Sept

 

Misc

 

A. It was almost gonna be Malta if Jason had his way.

 

B. They picked five theatres of war before deciding the final one.

 

C. No carries 

 

D. LukeFF confirmed some of us guessed it right in the 
"the status of the yet to be announced title". As of Monday
the 25 of September.
 

 

Edited September 27, 2023 by deathmisser

[Guest deleted@83466]

6 minutes ago, MAJ_Boatswain said:

Throwin my money down that they're trying to beat Jason in the race to Midway. 

A map in development for 10 months, with massive space requirements, requiring new map-building tools, just for an ocean with 2 tiny little islands in the middle of it?  I don’t think your prediction corresponds with the information you presented.

[deathmisser]

8 minutes ago, SeaSerpent said:

A map in development for 10 months, with massive space requirements, requiring new map-building tools, just for an ocean with 2 tiny little islands in the middle of it?  I don’t think your prediction corresponds with the information you presented.

 

Plus I am going through the thread comment by comment about what @LukeFF have said about some of us getting it right before he made that comment.

Looks like it's ether Korea or Burma since the main core of the Il-2 GB is WW2 I say Burma. But yea I'm still looking.

 

Plus he did say some instead of most of you and most of the guesses were Korea which won't line up with his comment.

God I've finished so here are the guess from this thread since that comment.

 

Korea
Burma
Tunisia Campaign 
Invasion of Sicily

Edited September 27, 2023 by deathmisser

[CzechTexan]

43 minutes ago, deathmisser said:

It's interesting about the map though. 

 

"Map - is in development for 10 months already and its going well. Map development have some risks too while its most volumed content in the game and new map is way larger and variative than any other we done before - but we have already developed new tools for the map team which should help them to met the milestones in time."

From the Alps to North Africa?

You have high mountains, Med. Sea, and lots of space (Italy) in between.  That's a lot of variations of geography (and landmarks).

 

or, From Himalayas to Rangoon.  Similar variations.

 

or Helsinki to Leningrad to Murmansk.  That's a lot of space.  Not much variations, though.

[dburne]

Korea - interest perked.

Pacific - Interest perked.

 

Beyond that I do not know.

"New Project for the game".

I definitely have no idea what this new thing will be. I sure hope for major GUI improvements and AI improvements.

Edited September 27, 2023 by dburne

[deathmisser]

3 minutes ago, CzechTexan said:

From the Alps to North Africa?

You have high mountains, Med. Sea, and lots of space (Italy) in between.  That's a lot of variations of geography (and landmarks).

 

or, From Himalayas to Rangoon.  Similar variations.

 

or Helsinki to Leningrad to Murmansk.  That's a lot of space.  Not much variations, though.

Some of these I will love I dream of a Finnish module. But yea these are the ones we know off that has ticked the boxes with in Luke confirmation comment.

Korea, Burma, Tunisia Campaign & Invasion of Sicily

So I just found out that Korea is classed as a pacific nation according to the wiki. 

 

 

I guess this means that Korea is off the table which should leave us with the other three.

[LukeFF]

[deathmisser]

2 minutes ago, LukeFF said:

Well you kind of had m8 lmao. 

 

It's ether Burma or Tunisia.  But Yea sorry for the ping m8. 

[Varibraun]

1 hour ago, deathmisser said:

Plus I am going through the thread comment by comment about what @LukeFF have said about some of us getting it right before he made that comment.

Looks like it's ether Korea or Burma since the main core of the Il-2 GB is WW2 I say Burma. But yea I'm still looking.

 

Plus he did say some instead of most of you and most of the guesses were Korea which won't line up with his comment.

God I've finished so here are the guess from this thread since that comment.

 

Korea
Burma
Tunisia Campaign 
Invasion of Sicily

 

Well, you know that I think it is Korea from a business perspective of appealing to a combined Chinese, Russian, S. Korean and Western audience.  But, regarding Burma being on your "confirmed" potential correct guesses list, Han did say this back in May regarding Combat Pilot:

 

Let's see who's Zero will be first? )))

 

 

 

[Gambit21]

49 minutes ago, deathmisser said:

It's ether Burma…

I wish.

CBI would be a great way to go. Not what I think it is mind you…but my first choice if I had a say.  

[deathmisser]

2 minutes ago, Varibraun said:

 

Well, you know that I think it is Korea from a business perspective of appealing to a combined Chinese, Russian, S. Korean and Western audience.  But, regarding Burma being on your "confirmed" potential correct guesses list, Han did say this back in May regarding Combat Pilot:

 

Let's see who's Zero will be first? )))

 

 

 

 

Oh thank you m8. 

 

I could guess he is joking here but from what Luke said and my break down.  I think it's safe to say it's Burma.  

 

Luke can we have that cookie now please lol 

[LukeFF]

[R33GZ]

1 hour ago, Varibraun said:

Let's see who's Zero will be first? )))

I didn't think the A6M fought in Burma? It was IJAAF, not IJN? Plenty of Allied claims for 'zero' kills, but I believe they were all actually Ki-43 or possibly Ki-44

[Gambit21]

1 hour ago, R33GZ said:

I didn't think the A6M fought in Burma? It was IJAAF, not IJN? Plenty of Allied claims for 'zero' kills, but I believe they were all actually Ki-43 or possibly Ki-44

Yes it would be the Oscar - something I personally don’t think they’d take on at this juncture for various reasons. Just my 2 rubles.

[BladeMeister]

1 hour ago, LukeFF said:

DAMN CATS!!!!!?

 

S!Blade<><

[ZachariasX]

8 hours ago, danielprates said:

 

KSP is already doing that better than any other game, better than KSP2 as a matter of fact.

Yes, but here, they have to do it in a planar 300 km x 300 km world. I suppose the moon will be a smaller rectangle.

[blitze]

5 hours ago, LukeFF said:

So many choices. No wonder kitty is confused.

[ITAF_Rani]

Love this speculation ...lol

Large portion of sea.....mumble mumble....?

My bet...

 

 

[Trooper117]

9 hours ago, MAJ_Boatswain said:

Throwin my money down that they're trying to beat Jason in the race to Midway. 

 

You just lost it mate...

[=LD=dhyran]

1 hour ago, ITAF_Rani said:

Love this speculation ...lol

Large portion of sea.....mumble mumble....?

My bet...

 

 

oh yes, the street of Messina! NA and Italy would be a great scenario!

 

Thats it!

Edited September 28, 2023 by =LD=dhyran

[Trooper117]

Might as well close it down now... the cat is out of the bag, We know it's going to be Korea, and by the way, those of you with a long memory will remember that Han did say on an interview in the past that he would like to do Korea... nuff said, move on.

Come to think of it, they might as well tell us officially as we have guessed correctly anyway... ?

[dburne]

Y'all going to be shocked when it turns out to be the Pacific.

Lol.

[Trooper117]

26 minutes ago, dburne said:

Y'all going to be shocked when it turns out to be the Pacific.

Lol.

 

Haha... if it did turn out to be Pacific, we will have a bit of a choice now wouldn't we. ?

[Lusekofte]

I am going to be a bit positive, if it turned out it is Burma or New Guinea

[ITAF_Rani]

1 hour ago, Lusekofte said:

I am going to be a bit positive, if it turned out it is Burma or New Guinea

New Guinea also to me could be high possible....

 

New ammunition?

Obviously torpedoes

 

 

Edited September 28, 2023 by ITAF_Rani

[ITAF_Artiglio]

Well if they want to bring up the Korean scenario, my adventure with Il2 could very well end here...
I'm still waiting for the IAR.80, scenarios to understand on this sim starting from Russia, implementing a part of the Mediterranean, maybe even a small part of the Pacific a nice A6M Zeke, since in the game there are already planes for these scenarios, but rightly better to move on to Korea.. .

Edited September 28, 2023 by LukeFF
profanity

[deathmisser]

52 minutes ago, ITAF_Rani said:

New Guinea also to me could be high possible....

 

New ammunition?

Obviously torpedoes

 

 

 

Don't tickle me with boomerang and the Australian Mustang.  

[deathmisser]

4 hours ago, ITAF_Rani said:

Love this speculation ...lol

Large portion of sea.....mumble mumble....?

My bet...

 

 

Iicr Sicily is apart of Italy so I guess that is a no. 

[Jaegermeister]

12 hours ago, deathmisser said:

 

Plus I am going through the thread comment by comment about what @LukeFF have said about some of us getting it right before he made that comment.

Looks like it's ether Korea or Burma since the main core of the Il-2 GB is WW2 I say Burma. But yea I'm still looking.

 

Plus he did say some instead of most of you and most of the guesses were Korea which won't line up with his comment.

God I've finished so here are the guess from this thread since that comment.

 

Korea
Burma
Tunisia Campaign 
Invasion of Sicily

 

So full circle right back to where we were before this thread started LOL.

[No145_Bunny]

Some other map possibilities, countries involved in WW2, that may fit with the information that we already have:-

Norway

Antartica

Australia / South East Asia

Greece

 

Some of these could be quite boring though.

Im still betting on Malta.

Bunster

 

[1PL-Husar-1Esk]

4 hours ago, Trooper117 said:

Might as well close it down now... the cat is out of the bag, We know it's going to be Korea, and by the way, those of you with a long memory will remember that Han did say on an interview in the past that he would like to do Korea... nuff said, move on.

Come to think of it, they might as well tell us officially as we have guessed correctly anyway... ?

Yes, I remember that he said it. Looks like I have long memory ?

[Sgt_Joch]

on Korea, I remember even Oleg Maddox had at one point after il-2, but before CLOD, said he would like Korea to be the next project.  One of the reasons given was that the team had a lot of reference materials on Russian planes of that era.

[deathmisser]

12 minutes ago, Sgt_Joch said:

One of the reasons given was that the team had a lot of reference materials on Russian planes of that era.

I mean fight more Russian aircraft isn't really new. As we got three whole modules and about half a dozen pure collector aircraft.

For the Americans two modules 3 pure collector aircraft.

 

Ture this time it's will have America vs Russia with 3 other air forces fighting along side. But I would't class it as something new though. 

While Burma at least this time it will be Britain focused and finally getting a Japanese aircraft into the game which I will class as new.

Would need a lot of resources.   

Edited September 28, 2023 by deathmisser

[RNAS10_Mitchell]

I'm still thinking Manchuria.  Hasn't been done to my knowledge.  Uses Russian aircraft  (some of which we already have).  Great Segway into Asiain theater.

[Jade_Monkey]

1 hour ago, No145_Bunny said:

Some other map possibilities, countries involved in WW2, that may fit with the information that we already have:-

Norway

Antartica

Australia / South East Asia

Greece

 

Some of these could be quite boring though.

Im still betting on Malta.

Bunster

 

 

 

Yeah, im going to out on a limb and say they are not going to gamble the launch of the "new game" on a Norway/Antartica flop

[DD_Arthur]

1 minute ago, Jade_Monkey said:

 

 

Yeah, im going to out on a limb and say they are not going to gamble the launch of the "new game" on a Norway/Antartica flop

I want to hear more about the WW2 battle of Antarctica, sounds really interesting….

[Sgt_Joch]

38 minutes ago, deathmisser said:

While Burma at least this time it will be Britain focused and finally getting a Japanese aircraft into the game which I will class as new.

 We all know you are pushing for Burma. Personally, I have no interest in Burma.

 

What would interest me about the Pacific would be carrier ops, but for all the reasons which have been discussed already in other threads, it does not look like the team is willing to tackle such a massive project which is why people keep coming up with possible land based compromises like Burma or New Guinea, but personally I don't see that happening.

 

Korea ticks all the boxes: land based, reasonable sized map, interesting plane mix, plenty of reference material, etc.

[RNAS10_Mitchell]

13 hours ago, LukeFF said:

I understand you can't tell us where just yet, but any chance you could tell us if anyone (obviously without saying who) has quessed correctly?