![]() In the light of OMSI 2's release issues, it's good to hear that Oriolus have "learned a lot from these mistakes" and plan a "big beta test" to ensure Lotus isn't similarly blighted. The plan is to deliver the sim in two distinct stages, first a road/ reserved track segment, then the full-blown bus/tram/metro/rail mega-package. ![]() While Marcel focuses mainly on engine engineering and vehicles, the other half of Oriolus, Janine, will be handling communications and quality control, and busying herself with Lotus' GUI, character animations, and scenery. Marcel Kuhnt, one half of MR-Software, is now one half of Oriolus Software, a new outfit intent on seeing imitation trams, trains, and buses beetling about under the same skyboxes. If you've ever sped through Spandau in a canary-coloured OMSI omnibus, you'll understand why the peaceful regions of Simulatia are abuzz with talk of Lotus at present. I'd make some comment about the pencil being mightier than the sword/Schmeisser if I wasn't aware of the experiments conducted in the late 1940s by the Royal Armament Research and Development Establishment that proved the exact opposite. For every RPS reader keen to spend their Friday lunch hour reading about upcoming quadruplex transport sims, imminent Seven Years War strategy offerings, ill-conceived wargame patches, and my ongoing World of Warships dalliance, it seems there are three or four hungry for bite-sized drawing lessons. Going by the number of sketches arriving in the FP inbox at the moment, this column's recent foray into art tuition is going down extremely well. (Next week in The Flare Path: How to Draw a PMD-6 Anti-Personnel Mine) ![]()
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