Micropose Announced Bomber Games

[Father Ted]

- TM8 VR is designed so as to be the best VR & coop experience there can be, although my understanding is that it works also without VR, and without friends (but then just play the 100th)

This is the one I'm interested in.  You could do it to an extent in IL2 46 (minus VR of course), but a proper, polished PvE experience of a daylight raid over the Reich would be very cool IMO.

[em2nought]

In a similar vein, This VR experience "1943 Berlin Blitz" has been mentioned before hasn't it?  https://store.steampowered.com/app/513490/1943_Berlin_Blitz/

[Grim.Reaper]

Saw in dev blog where they suggest B-17 Flying Fortress : The Mighty 8th Redux will be released into early access in January 2024.  Again, not expecting a lot but will be hard to resist if reasonable price.

[Tripoli]

It will be a first day buy for me.  The original was pretty good.  For those who never played the original, here's a relatively recent youtube campaign playthrough by "Taff in Exile":

[Jarhead0331]

I'll be very pleasantly surprised if Redux releases in January...but I won't be holding my breath.

[Grim.Reaper]

I'll be very pleasantly surprised if Redux releases in January...but I won't be holding my breath.

Think originally was expected to be released into early access in December, so maybe they have used up their delay:) they said late January so we will see...

[Dammit Carl!]

More of "twin-engined/treetop/whaoo!" kind of guy so a B-26 sim would be my spirit animal.  Still, am not going to complain about nuttin' new we get in the grand scheme of things.

[Toonces]

B-17 Redux is definitely a day 1 purchase for me as well. 

[Skoop]

I'll get the B17 redux as well.  The original was too early in my sim flight sim career, feel like I could do it way more justice now.

[JasonPratt]

Rimmy Downunder did a somewhat humorous campaign for Microprose's preceding B-17 game a couple of years ago here:

He wanted to do a campaign on The Mighty 8th, too, but the game was totally broken on his system and couldn't be recorded. Thus the Redux might be a Day 1 purchase for him, too!

To be honest, I may skip Early Access for this game (meaning the Mighty 8th). The original had enough unpatchable bugs for me, I'd rather not go through being a beta tester for it again. {g}

[em2nought]

A B-24 variant with the digitized voice of Jimmy Stewart as the pilot would be an awesome thing.  Maybe put Clark Gable's voice in there as a waist gunner as well. 

[Silent Disapproval Robot]

I suspect they set a hard release deadline to coincide with the airing of the Masters of the Air miniseries.

[Grim.Reaper]

Early access release date confirmed to be January 24th.....two days ahead of masters of the air series:)

[Grim.Reaper]

Couple of things, early access date is now January 23rd and just read in latest blog that they plan to release bomber 3 at the same time, although the actual steam page doesn't say it.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2142920/Bomber_3/

[Father Ted]

A scan of the Steam page shows this Bomber 3 thing to be just a port of a 25 year old game for modern OS, or am I missing something?