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OFF team leader Winder released some information about OFF Phase 3 on the Sim-Outhouse OFF Forum.

To sum it up: Although the team is having a good progress a release before Christmas is not in the plans. In fact a release is still far away as Phase 3 has not even reached beta status according to Winder. That's the bad news. Read more about it.

The good news is that the team will include dynamical and historical weather modes in Phase 3 via the 'OFF manager', which is responsible for the dynamical changes to the underlying CFS3 game engine.

Winder explains: «What is important to understand about this 'dynamic weather' system for OFF P3 is that it is NOT utilising a set of predefined weather system files on a predefined grid.»

«The weather file is set up dynamically for every mission by the OFF manager - sometimes you may even find no weather variation as you fly...particularly on calmer days. The result is pretty much a unique weather feel on most missions. Sometimes you start out in the rain - and it clears or vice versa.»

That would add a lot to the immersion OFF has. Read more about this achievement on this OFF forum thread.