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Endless Summer Savings Sale, P-51, P-38 and Tempest Shots, New Features, Gamescom 2019
Dear Pilots,
We are on the backside of summer in Moscow and Las Vegas and the Sturmovik Team is finishing up their summer vacations and pushing hard to complete Battle of Bodenplatte, Flying Circus and Tank Crew. We can’t even begin to explain the hard work that has defined the past several months. Our team members have definitely deserved any summer vacation they have taken this year. But before we go any further in this newsletter, let’s point out that we have launched our Endless Summer Savings Sale. We continue to offer strong discounts on our flagship titles to help both new and returning players fill up their hangar. Remember that any improvements we make to our engine also benefits our older titles so these discounts are a great bargain. It’s an investment that pays off over and over again as we progress. Please tell your friends and family what a great value this special pricing for BOS, BOM and BOK truly is. Every new purchase allows us to new make new planes, new maps and new features!
The Endless Summer Sale will run on the website from August 15th - September 3rd and on Steam from August 15th - August 29th.
Battle of Stalingrad – 66% Off (Website and Steam)
Battle of Moscow – 66% Off (Website and Steam)
Battle of Kuban – 50% Off (Website and Steam)
Blazing Steppe Scripted Campaign – 50% Off (Website and Steam)
Fortress on the Volga Scripted Campaign – 50% Off (Website and Steam)
Ten days of August Scripted Campaign – 50% Off (Website Only)
Havoc Over the Kuban Scripted Campaign – 50% Off (Website Only)
Bodenplatte Coming Along Nicely!
We continue to work on the BOBP map and its large list of airfields and urban areas which is something rather new for us. This map has been a challenge like never before and we have it functioning in Beta, but it has a little way to go still. However, our last three Allied planes are coming along nicely. Check out this beautiful formation of vintage American air power and a couple of bonus shots of the Tempest and P-38J-25 in flight. The Tempest continues to be tweaked and improved after the first round of Beta testing and the P-38 is also in Beta with small tweaking necessary. The P-51D will also be coming to Beta soon. All three aircraft are quite complex. The different design philosophies of each nation have really become evident as we make more and more planes.
We must remind everyone that these planes are still a Work-In-Progress so some of these details in these images may change.
Saddle Up Cowboy!
Our P-51D-15 “Pony” is nearing the Beta stage as we finish the cockpit and external model. Here are the first pics of the P-51D cockpit. Our model team has done another awesome job!
Advanced Pilot Physiology
Our Lead Engineer Andrey aka “Petrovich” has posted a detailed Developer Diary about our new Pilot Physiology modelling. This optional feature adds some new more realistic limitations to our “virtual pilot body” making dogfights more interesting and virtual pilots a little less like Superman. Read Andrey’s special Dev. Diary HERE.
Personal Images in Cockpits
Another popular request has been the ability to place a personal picture in the cockpit of your plane. We have now added this capability and are testing it in the current Beta.
New View Distance for Airplanes
And again, by popular request, we have increased the visibility of distant airplanes. This has been a difficult technical challenge, but we think Sturmovik pilots will appreciate this new combat reality. Can you spot the far-off planes? We’re still tweaking the feature, but it’s in testing.
Gamescom 2019
Also, if you are attending Gamescom 2019 in Cologne, Germany August 20th– 24th you are invited to visit our display inside the 1C Entertainment Exhibit (Booth A20, Hall 10.1). Stop by and give Battle of Bodenplatte, Flying Circus or Tank Crew a go. We’ll have a few gaming stations set up for you and if you are thirsty, we’ll have some refreshments! How about a Bodenplatte Light Lager of Energy Drink? The can is a cool little collectible! We’ll also have some great looking T-shirts to also give away, but supplies are very limited!
Next Collector Planes in Pre-Production
And last but not least, we have begun preliminary work on a couple of cool Collector Planes. We aren’t announcing them quite yet, but they will available for pre-order later this year and then in your hangar next year. Sorry, no hints yet!
We encourage everyone who receives our newsletter to read our Developer Diaries that we produce several times a month. They are chalk full or important information about our projects. You can always read them HERE or in our forum.
See you in the skies!
Best Wishes,
The IL-2 Sturmovik Team
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