SimFreak Posted December 27, 2013 Posted December 27, 2013 Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukah, Happy New Year, Io Saturnalia,whatever you’re celebrating, hope your new year brings you lots of joy and happy new experiences! For us, 2014 is looking to be a momentous year. We’re working hard to make sure we release a solid new title next year, a title that will thrive in 2015, 2016, and beyond. Most of our employees are based in Russia or in the former Soviet Union. The wonderful thing for employees, and a horrible thing for employers, is the fact that most of those countries are officially off from December 31st to January 10th. People in that part of the world love to celebrate the New Year, and they celebrate hard. Many businesses do not return to full working capacity for another week or two after the official holidays end, but we are of course different. Some of our employees are even planning to work from home over the holidays to ensure deadlines, but that’s purely their personal choice. I as a project manager obviously cannot ask anyone to do that unless it’s their own personal choice. Having said that, we probably won’t have any significant work done on the project for the fateful 11-day period. December was a difficult month for me personally with some unexpected events jumping out when least expected. One of our employees ended up in the hospital. Russian healthcare being what it is, waiting for the ambulance for two and a half ours almost led to a bigger tragedy. Not one but two of our married employees had their wives end up in the hospital. Finally, another valuable team member slipped on the ice but thankfully his face broke the fall. He now looks like a B-movie monster, and has to continue modeling with one eye swollen shut. Finally, I know many of you are very concerned about the state of kickstarter rewards fulfillment system. The work has not been progressing nearly as fast as we needed. We’re still not there. Including paypal with kickstarter ended up adding a huge layer of complexity because we can no longer just use kickstarter’s features. Programming everything together, bringing the lists of kickstarter and paypal backers, and integrating it with DCS forums and other site features just turned out to be a nightmare. At this point, it almost seems like it would have been easier for me to manually do the reward surveys via email or something basic like that. At this point, looks like the roll-out is not going to happen until at least the end of January 2014. For this I sincerely apologize. I should have planned this out better. In hindsight, I should have stuck with kickstarter alone. Anyway, I was really hoping to end 2013 with a bang: a couple of screenshots of the Bf.109 cockpit in-engine, flying around, and we still have a couple of days left in the year. If that does not happen, we’ll do a consolation update on the 31st. For now, here’s the current state of the P-47 cockpit. Looking to be completed by late January. We’re actually well ahead of schedule on cockpits with the project, which I guess is the best news I have to offer at the end of 2013. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/508681281/dcs-wwii-europe-1944/posts
SlipBall Posted December 27, 2013 Posted December 27, 2013 (edited) or...'the dog ate my homework' would have also worked well here :) :megalol: Edited December 27, 2013 by GT 5.0
Blaze Posted December 27, 2013 Posted December 27, 2013 Itching to fly that Thunderbolt. Great update! Hope the devs have a great new year. :) i7 7700K | 32GB RAM | GTX 1080Ti | Rift CV1 | TM Warthog | Win 10 "There will always be people with a false sense of entitlement. You can want it, you can ask for it, but you don't automatically deserve it. "
Phantom88 Posted December 27, 2013 Posted December 27, 2013 Ohhhh,That Jug is looking Sweet!! Patrick
Fifi Posted December 27, 2013 Posted December 27, 2013 Can't believe what i'm seeing! Looks fantastic! :thumbup: I wish you happy new year, and may 2014 be THE year for you! [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC]
ED Team NineLine Posted December 27, 2013 ED Team Posted December 27, 2013 Gawd that cockpit looks great, great update! Forum Rules • My YouTube • My Discord - NineLine#0440• **How to Report a Bug**
cichlidfan Posted December 28, 2013 Posted December 28, 2013 That is outstanding. Can't wait! Thanks for the update. ASUS ROG Maximus VIII Hero, i7-6700K, Noctua NH-D14 Cooler, Crucial 32GB DDR4 2133, Samsung 950 Pro NVMe 256GB, Samsung EVO 250GB & 500GB SSD, 2TB Caviar Black, Zotac GTX 1080 AMP! Extreme 8GB, Corsair HX1000i, Phillips BDM4065UC 40" 4k monitor, VX2258 TouchScreen, TIR 5 w/ProClip, TM Warthog, VKB Gladiator Pro, Saitek X56, et. al., MFG Crosswind Pedals #1199, VolairSim Pit, Rift CV1 :thumbup:
Raven68 Posted December 28, 2013 Posted December 28, 2013 It is awesome indeed!! Lots of progress being made I would say in spite of all the illnesses. :thumbup: Intel i5-9600K @ 3.7GHz; Gigabyte Z370XP SLI Mobo; G.SKILL Ripjaws V Series 64GB (4 x 16GB) 288-Pin DDR4 GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 4080 16GB 256-Bit GDDR6; Thermaltake Water 3.0 Certified Liquid Cooling System Windows 11 Professional HP Reverb G2 /TrackIR 5 in case VR dies; Thrustmaster HOTAS Warthog w/ Thrustmaster T-Flight Rudder Pedals
Pyroflash Posted December 28, 2013 Posted December 28, 2013 keep up the work, looks amazing! If you aim for the sky, you will never hit the ground.
Mogster Posted December 28, 2013 Posted December 28, 2013 Nice work :) It's good to see things moving along at a decent pace.
SlipBall Posted December 28, 2013 Posted December 28, 2013 I wish I could read all of the various gauges and markings
Abburo Posted December 28, 2013 Posted December 28, 2013 I wish all RRG team to get healthy as soon as possible and to stay away from any insanity activities :). As the progress shows, they worked hardly. Keep up and see you next year with more goodies for us. Happy new year! Romanian Community for DCS World HW Specs: AMD 7900X, 64GB RAM, RTX 4090, HOTAS Virpil, MFG, CLS-E, custom
DB 605 Posted December 28, 2013 Posted December 28, 2013 Looks great, i just wish we could have these shots in proper resolution...:) CPU: Intel Core i7-2600k @3.40GHz | Motherboard: Asus P8P67-M | Memory: Kingston 8GB DDR3 | OS W10 | GPU: Sapphire R9 290x 8GBDDR5 | Monitor: Samsung Syncmaster 24" | Devices: Oculus Rift, MS FFB 2 joystick, Saitek X 52 Pro throttle, Saitek Pro pedals, Gametrix Jetseat [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC]
Hans-Joachim Marseille Posted December 28, 2013 Posted December 28, 2013 Thank you for the belated Christmas Wishes ... you're like my aunt who always sends her Christmas card late (^,^) And yes, I'm also awestruck by those cockpit pictures (even though it's not as clean looking as a German cockpit). But hey, no Wunderbaum (see MiG-21BiS thread)?!
upupandaway Posted December 28, 2013 Posted December 28, 2013 Christmas is a messy business - let´s hope that all will be well next year, especially for those who suffered such tragic misfortune (not that the dog really ends up eating their work at some point). Screens are looking quite nice, but I can only agree: why not in proper resolution? [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Deedle, deedle!
SlipBall Posted December 30, 2013 Posted December 30, 2013 really looking forward to the 109 in engine, hope it happens tomorrow :)
Hans-Joachim Marseille Posted December 30, 2013 Posted December 30, 2013 really looking forward to the 109 in engine, hope it happens tomorrow :)Oh Wunderbaum, oh Wunderbaum, wie schön sind Deine Dufte (^,^)
SlipBall Posted December 31, 2013 Posted December 31, 2013 (edited) while I wait for the 109 shots today...does anybody else enjoy smashing the Christmas light bulbs located above in the banner, and then hitting f5 for more fun Edited December 31, 2013 by GT 5.0
TimeKilla Posted December 31, 2013 Posted December 31, 2013 Dont worry about the rewards too much everyone just wants to see Europe 1944 do well. :joystick: YouTube :pilotfly: TimeKilla on Flight Sims over at YouTube.
Roadrunner Posted December 31, 2013 Posted December 31, 2013 as far as i understood, you cannot add pictures with greater resolution than this on the kickstarer page. they post the same pictures here, so thats the reason for this size in the first place. BUT yes, they could make a second set of pictures for the forum :D regards and a happy new year, RR [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] "There's nothing to be gained by second guessing yourself. You can't remake the past, so look ahead... or risk being left behind." Noli Timere Messorem "No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always been there first, and is waiting for it." Terry Pratchett
Fifi Posted January 1, 2014 Posted January 1, 2014 while I wait for the 109 shots today...does anybody else enjoy smashing the Christmas light bulbs located above in the banner, and then hitting f5 for more fun Haha! Excellent! [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC]
Wolf Rider Posted January 1, 2014 Posted January 1, 2014 It was snowing for a while there too :) City Hall is easier to fight, than a boys' club - an observation :P "Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us." - Jefferson "Give a group of potheads a bunch of weed and nothing to smoke out of, and they'll quickly turn into engineers... its simply amazing." EVGA X99 FTW, EVGA GTX980Ti FTW, i7 5930K, 16Gb Corsair Dominator 2666Hz, Windows 7 Ultimate 64Bit, Intel 520 SSD x 2, Samsung PX2370 monitor and all the other toys - "I am a leaf on the wind, watch how I soar"
Hans-Joachim Marseille Posted January 1, 2014 Posted January 1, 2014 Anyway, I was really hoping to end 2013 with a bang: a couple of screenshots of the Bf.109 cockpit in-engine, flying around, and we still have a couple of days left in the year. If that does not happen, we’ll do a consolation update on the 31st.Wishing you all a Healthy and Happy New Year. Without more promises, please.
SlipBall Posted January 1, 2014 Posted January 1, 2014 (edited) it is peculiar on going behavior :huh:...is it possible to just forget a promise, over and over? :) Edited January 2, 2014 by GT 5.0
Hans-Joachim Marseille Posted January 2, 2014 Posted January 2, 2014 (edited) it is peculiar on going behavior :huh:...is it possible to just forget a promise, over and over? :) "You'll be there in my hour of need, you won't turn me away. Help me out of the life I lead ... Remember the promise you made." Edited January 2, 2014 by Hans-Joachim Marseille
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