Oleg said, "Yes 4.0, but not 3.05...
Simply because it deserve to name as new thing..."
Or maybe because its now 5 months late & has aged a bit. Just five or six months + two weeks for sure
So now its 4.0 the sun gods faithful are still waiting & waiting & waiting for it. Nice to see so much progress take plave since last year. Wonder when 4.0 will become 5.0, maybe another 6 months & 2 weeks for sure.
Looks like a good plan to string the gullible along till they can be sold BOB in 2007 or 08 & two weeks for sure.
Too bad after all this time there is nothing really new in it, just stuff you never got in the box & pickings from the FB/ACE leftovers draw. All the stuff that was "too big for the CD" remember?
A 6 or 7 month late Betty that was supposed to be in the box, still no Grumman's or other US naval attack planes, some left over Italian aircraft from FB that were never delivered. I guess with the British fleet at Pearl harbor on 7 Dec 1941 some left over central European maps for Pacific Fighters makes perfect sense, great stuff.
Nothing new all stuff owed for ages but I am sure y'all are still really hot for this fabulous whatever. Oleg has just got to love guys that will buy the same story & product over & over again.
Finally an update to 4.0 since last time was 3.05 so we don't forget whats still not there:
4.0 will not even have the rest of the planes and Maps needed to bring Pacific Fighter up to grade as promised. Most of the planes will dedicated to the European Theater.
There is no map yet done for this system that is wide enough to place two task forces at historical distances.
That being said, You will never get US or IJN battleships so you cant do a proper Pearl Harbor. You will never get USN torpedo bombers or Yorktown class carriers so you cant do a proper Coral Sea or Battle of Midway . You will never get the B-17 or an adequate Solomon Islands map including Rabual or the northern PNG islands so you cant do a proper Guadalcanal campaign with the Tokyo Express running the slot.
You will never get the B-24 the most heavily use US bomber in the PTO. You will never get Japanese BB,CV,CA,CL and DD's so you can't do a proper Battle of the Philippine Sea. You will never get B-29's so you cant do Siapan/Tinian. *You will not get the Betty one of Japans mainstays throughout the war.* Oleg says just two weeks for sure on this one.
You will not get the B-25J "Hard-nosed" and the cannon armed B-25H for the Island hopping campaigns. You will not get the F4U-4 or P-47N so you cant do a proper Battle for Okinawa. You will never get Cribbage's PBY so all the people who contributed to it are out in the cold.
One really has to wonder what kind of historical Pacific War can be simulated with all these missing parts.
BTW: IR track 6DOF will not be there either, but not to despair maybe the Val will finally get its hinomaru the F4F & A6M2 proper flight models.
BEAR
Actual fan comments from UBI/PF forums posted Wed March 30 2005 16:14
"Its a proven Psycho treatment, keep the patient on edge for "very soon" until Free Patch 3.05 turns Free Addon 4.0" that turns Full Paid BoB 1.0. We won't even know the time passed, thinking we get FBP Patch in just 2 weeks, and BANG! BANG! we have BoB."
"We have been waiting for the "add-on" since October. Supposedly the planes were already done and there was just not room on the CD."
"Patient? WTH do you think the community HAS been dooing? This isnt a patch rant, but most of the community has been patiently waiting since they purchased PF. If the patch isnt going to be released soon I wish they( ubi,madd ) would just shut the hell up about it. They keep dangling carrots in front of us and then we dont hear anything concrete."
"I think people have been so patient on this one they've started to leave."