Ubisoft and Eagle Dynamics. Another strategy

WernerSobe · 08-05-07, 08:20 AM

Hi.

I not just playing silent hunter but im also a huge fan of "LockOn Modern Combat" better known as Lomac. Its a modern jet flight simulator.

The interesting thing about it. It was just like silent hunter developed by a small software forge (Eagle Dynamics) and published by ubisoft. Just like silent hunter it was pushed out to early and suffered many flawes in the beginning. After less then a year patch 1.02 was out and ubisoft bailed the project leaving the comunity with unfinished product.

But the story continued. Eagle Dynamics took the work in their own hands and continued working on project. They told the comunity that they will continue on project but that would cost money and the community agreed. So now after 3 years they have turned what was already a nice day into a juwel. They have released an Addon (which they must call "unofficial" because the rights for the original game remain at ubisoft). They have added a new flyable aircraft and a lot of new content, fixed bugs and replaced almost everthing in the game with better stuff. So in example a new flight physics engine that is extremely realistic. Just the bugfix list in their addon contains about 100 fixes. And they have the entire "patch descritpions" is 10 pages long. I could write letters about all the changes but in few words, they turned an unfinished game into the best real combat simulator of all times.

So why cant the hungarians do the same?

08-05-07, 08:20 AM	#1
WernerSobe Commodore Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 625 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	Ubisoft and Eagle Dynamics. Another strategy Hi. I not just playing silent hunter but im also a huge fan of "LockOn Modern Combat" better known as Lomac. Its a modern jet flight simulator. The interesting thing about it. It was just like silent hunter developed by a small software forge (Eagle Dynamics) and published by ubisoft. Just like silent hunter it was pushed out to early and suffered many flawes in the beginning. After less then a year patch 1.02 was out and ubisoft bailed the project leaving the comunity with unfinished product. But the story continued. Eagle Dynamics took the work in their own hands and continued working on project. They told the comunity that they will continue on project but that would cost money and the community agreed. So now after 3 years they have turned what was already a nice day into a juwel. They have released an Addon (which they must call "unofficial" because the rights for the original game remain at ubisoft). They have added a new flyable aircraft and a lot of new content, fixed bugs and replaced almost everthing in the game with better stuff. So in example a new flight physics engine that is extremely realistic. Just the bugfix list in their addon contains about 100 fixes. And they have the entire "patch descritpions" is 10 pages long. I could write letters about all the changes but in few words, they turned an unfinished game into the best real combat simulator of all times. So why cant the hungarians do the same? Last edited by WernerSobe; 08-05-07 at 08:42 AM.