I'm sure this has already been brought up at some point but i  was just wondering. Is Microsoft planning on ever making another CFS?

Thank you very much

IF it's still being developed, it was intended to be almost a repeat of CFS1 just using up to date technology.
There was also to have been greater variety but it is unlikely the Pacific would have been catered for in this version.

>>>It was writing 'CFS4' which was (ostensibly) an update of 'CFS1' using new aircraft, engines, scenery, and expanding the theatre of operations.<<<

It was an update of CFS3 using its engine.

>>>Shortly into the project it was announced that it had been cancelled.<<<

Incorrect, it was well along, over a year & within a week or two of going to the beta testers when it was killed.

>>>Some of us believe that it wasn't actually cancelled but that it was 'put back' for the release of Vista to exploit the new hardware / drivers that will become available and try to steal a march on Maddox's IL2 series, particularly 'Battles of Britain' which has the same idea.<<<

Actually, combat fligh sims ROI suck & don't meet MS's revenue requirements.  Bottom line CFS4 projection fell short of the ROI hurddle so it got axed.

>>>The reason this is suspected is that Tucker's team of developers doesn't seem to have been disassembled, but rather just 'assigned to other duties'.Watch the skies<<<

Very few actually survived the purge.

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It was not a CFS re-do any more then CFS3 was.  The aircraft mix & mission types would clearly show that.

I wish they'd make another CFS game, but I think with CFS3 they are done with that, from what I can tell CFS3 was somewhat of a flop (A lot of people didnt like it) and MS doesnt want to try again maybe? Just like the Train sim series that got chopped as well, and I was waiting for it..... I wonder whats up with MS.... Cheers, Gunny

CFS1 came with 8 flyable single engine fighters, 3 RAF, 2 USAAC, 3 Luftwaffe, period.  It was a dog fight, intercept the bombers game,  no more no less & no where near as good at it as EAW.  

CFS3 added a tactical air component with its range of medimum bombers B-25, Ju-88, etc & CFS4 would have added even newer content looking at additional facets of the war.

So bottom line is CFS4 was not a dog fight game/intercept, way too many multi-engined aircraft that were player flyable.  

Questions, Did CFS have any submarines in the box & is Tucker still at Aces?

BTW You know of course that add for jobs was up for over a year after the game was killed & the source of many CFS4 is back rumors.  Its content was as accurate as its timing.

That is nice that it would have been a Bomber oriented Combat Simulator but you would it still would be fighting the same old enemy in the same old scenery.

Now if you would have add new Theaters and still keep the same theme than that would have made it a lot more interesting. Like a B25 skip Bombing over Nothern New Guinea or TBS torpedoing a supply ship in the Central  Pacific or flying a B24 over the Atlantic and dropping depth charges over a U-bout.

Now that would make it different and worth buying. Now flying a B17 over Western Europe in a Bombing run is a little old. Now its not that a B17 Bombing run over Western Europe is boring but its time to emulate other Theaters and missions as well.

You know they have never made a good Simulator recreating the famous B29 missions over Tokyo before. Wouldn"t that make it more interesting as a World war two Simulator. I do not care if included other aspects of World war two combat simulation and a World map with a open structure like the rest of the CFS series. That would make a better product than just another Europear Thearter base combat simulator.


I believe that would give Forgotten Battle/Pacific Fighter programers a run for their money.



James007