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1C Game Studios to Cooperate with Team Fusion on IL-2 Sturmovik: Cliffs of Dover



1C Game Studios is excited to announce that we have reached an agreement in principle to cooperate with Team Fusion on future commercial development of IL-2 Sturmovik: Cliffs of Dover. This includes giving Team Fusion access to the Cliffs of Dover source code so they may continue their work to fix and improve Cliffs of Dover and build commercial add-ons for the base title. Such cooperation was made possible only recently as full ownership rights to Cliffs of Dover was returned to 1C Company after many years. We can now allow Team Fusion to continue their work more comfortably and help turn Cliffs of Dover into the product is was intended to be. 1C Game Studios recognizes the hard work and passion that Team Fusion has exhibited in improving Cliffs of Dover and we welcome their continued dedication to the product. We also welcome them to the 1C Game Studios family of developers who help make the combat flight-sim genre and IL-2 Sturmovik series so compelling.



In the coming weeks and months, Team Fusion’s work will be offered as an official content update and patch for Cliffs of Dover on Steam. This update will merge all the current changes and fixes into one update. The update will initially be optional. Not long thereafter, the update will be codified by Team Fusion and officially entered into the source code and file system for the product itself. The title will then be permanently updated through Steam negating the need for a separate patch.



Later in 2017, the first commercial add-on for Cliffs of Dover will be released. The add-on will be focused on the North Africa theater and will update the engine to DirectX 11 and include new airplanes, a new map and other content and improvements. There is a possibility that other theaters will be developed in the future pending the outcome of this first add-on. More information about the North Africa add-on will be made public in the coming weeks.



The Cliffs of Dover product line will be distinct and separate from the IL-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Stalingrad line produced by 1C Game Studios. Both game engines will be developed separately by each team with the announced IL-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Kuban development schedule unchanged and unaffected by this announcement.



Cliffs of Dover and its add-ons will be sold on the official IL-2 website (http://www.il2sturmovik.com) and through Steam. There are no current plans to incorporate Cliffs of Dover into the existing 1C Game Studios user account system. Players will continue to manage their Cliffs of Dover install through Steam just as it is done now.



We hope you find this announcement to be exciting and re-assuring that your favorite hobby will continue to grow and flourish. 1C Game Studios and Team Fusion ask for your support as this new era of cooperation and development begins!



The 1C Game Studios Team

For those giving me kudos, thanks. However, I am not the one making final decisions on this topic so much credit goes to them. I have indeed had a role to play putting it together and I'm happy for that, but I cannot take all credit. Also, I am not a producer for TF now. I still work for 1C-777 only.

My overriding belief is that for the genre to re-bound we need multiple products being made with as much content as possible and each one offering something slightly different driving innovation. As I have said many times, if everyone who bought the original IL-2, bought our product, we'd have enough money to make everything you want. That's not reality though so we need to think outside the box.

And there is no practical way to merge the two engines and teams, so the best answer to the allow each team to pursue their vision and look at the results. The deal that was put together is about as win-win as can be expected.

Jason

Posted 21 December 2016 - 22:39 JG13_opcode, on 21 Dec 2016 - 22:20, said: Unpopular opinion time: This is bad business for 1CGS. Giving consumers a reason to stick with CLOD and not to move to the new sim is going to hurt sales, not help.

The CLOD debacle has already hurt sales due mainly to those that boycotted our product because of politics, rumors, arguments, unlocks and other crap including us not giving TF the source code earlier. And we already compete with ROF, 1946, DCS, WT, FSX, P3D and several others. The only way to grab new customers is to: 1. Erase the bullshit political divide that plagues this community and genre. 2. Make a better product. We're doing both and forcing players into one path has already proven to be not good for any hardcore sim product. You don't see the things I see. Jason

Anything with airplanes is competition and those users are potential customers even if a remote possibility. Even if the crossover is 1% from various sources it adds up. Not everyone segments themselves and supports only one game. Also, we compete in different areas. Visuals, sound, FMs, Content etc. Any one appealing feature may bring a new customer. Some of you are only looking at "type of product" a the key ingredient. I will never win over most WT, DCS, FSX or other products users, I just need some and my core audience we've already built. The problem is many in the core audience, all the shit talking about us and our product due to closing CLOD and Unlocks didn't do us any favors. I have 16 months to change that or die basically.

Help me or leave me alone is all I ask.

Jason

Hello All

I am a little late to this topic, being a little busy with my own side of things.  :)

That being said, I do have a unique perspective on this event, being the guy sitting on the other side of the table from Jason.

First of all, I will say Jason is being modest both for himself and 1C.  They do deserve the credit for initiating this process, and having the foresight to understand this was the right time.

A lot of people do not understand that 1C's hands were to a certain extent, tied before this point.  Up until the middle of this year, UBISOFT held distribution rights, and any attempt to do a deal such as it appears we have would have been far more complex.

1C acted when they could, and they should be congratulated for that fact.

Here's another thing from those who want to criticize this deal as an unnecessary diversion away from further development of the BoS game engine:

1C is not investing any money in TF... we are an independent... we have to stand or fall on our own two feet.  What 1C gains is revenue from the new products TF releases... and they can take that new revenue and re-invest it in BoS to make that series better.  Alternately they could re-invest the revenues in a new generation engine which could blow both BoS and CoD out of the water.

I'm not sure what any BoS fan would have to dislike about that?   Is that not thinking towards the future?

Of course, I am happy as a member of TF to have a chance to work with the Source Code, who wouldn't be?  But there are lots of advantages for 1C in the deal... otherwise they would not make it.

It's a smart deal all round.  And Flight Simmers have the benefit of being able to enjoy two sims from the same company.  ;)

Phoenix a écrit: Ensuite, le prochain patch, le 5.0 basé sur le code source sera soit sur la béta, soit sur l'installation par défaut. Pour l'instant, ils n'ont pas décidé.