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Hi Guys
That was a big delay in updates.
Now it is time to have return somehow.
I'll tell you some news about progress of development and I'll try to keep informing you each Friday\Saturday.
First of all - big news is that we are not only making updates for WoP - we are working on sequel now.
In WoP we will add (with the help of our yuPlay team):
* in-game and out-game (yuplay client) friends lists, with notifications of changing theirs statuses - online\offline, playing WoP, etc
* achievements
* yuplay persistent chat, which will be available in yuplay client, and, perhaps in game too
* maybe sometime there will be server status out of game (in yuplay client)
also we'll try to add coop to some other mission in game (not only Luftwaffe addon)
This update (with traditional fix of some bugs) will be somewhen in the end of May or in June, I hope.
Now some news about sequel.
First of all - we needed to change scheme of development and to switch to sequel from our initial scheme of making major updates for WoP for certain reasons.
* As you know we are making full mission editor (and also "free flight" - advanced quick mission editor, something between mission editor and dynamic campaign).
This feature unfortunately required very significant changes in AI (ground and Flight). All old missions are not compatible with new mission structure support and AI changes - and it will be hard to make backward compatibility
* We have refactor all the Flight models, made some changes in Damage Model and lots of chnages in AI. It is too much work (and even not visible) to rework all the old mission.
So the decision is made and we are now working on sequel.
Here I'll give you some exclusive information about sequel. It is not offical announce, so something can be changed:
* Sequel will be much more online oriented, with unseen before level of supporting of user-genereatd mission. Online orientation doesn't mean that the game wont be playable in single-player.
* sequel will have lots of downloadable content addons from the begining. For example each location with planes from WoP will be presented as DLC (and it is going to be free for all users who bought WoP of course).
* sequel is going to have total 2-3 times more content then original WoP.
* we are planning to announce sequel this year.
More information about what will be in sequel will be with announce (I think after update for WoP).
Next time I'm going to show you game mission editor and tell you more about it.
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