Il2 -Sturmovik

[smiggy]

Anyone played this sim?

Have just bought it and the 'Forgotten Battles' on ebay and wordered if it is as good as the write-ups and the hype?

Has online options also!

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Smiggy.

[ra]

Never heard of it.

[Grits]

Isnt that an Xbox/Play Station game?

[sling322]

Online options arent what you think.  They arent massively multiplayer like AH or even WB or AW.  The number allowed online in a game at one time is limited.

[simshell]

iv heard it read reviews and its your Game that only plays to the high end PC's  makes AH2 demands look like a joke

[Eagler]

its a good game - enjoy it

[Wotan]

I play online exclusively, its great game online or off.

Last night Scot and I were winging on the warclouds server. 1 sortie we bounced 2 51s, a Jug a p38 and a spit and killed them all. We then got bounced in return by another 51. I pulled a "Hartmann" and neg g'd out and away. The 51 couldnt follow and went to Scot who drug him around into my guns. Realizing death was near the p51 tried to run but my speed (760 kph) was great and my aim true. He exploded after having 3cm of Rheinmetall shoved up his arse.

1000 times more fun then fighting the same planes in AH.

However, the curent version of Forgotten battles is FB Aces Expansion Pack 2.04. Not many folks still play FB or the original Il2.

[Fruda]

It's a good game, but the flight models are what I call "Light". They're very detailed, such as having the ability to change fuel mixtures, but the feel of flight is like you're on the moon. Added to that, the sense of speed is too high. It feels like you're in a jet, even in a Hurricane. The cockpits look like they're made of cardboard, but they're historically accurate.

Graphics and sound effects seem to be the top priorities in Il-2.

[Tumor]

IL-2FB is awesome.  Flight models feel better (harder), graphix way better, engine management etc.  If Oleg ever figures out how to combine massive multiplay with his eye candy and flight models (for realists).. HTC is history.

Tumor

[Fruda]

To make Il-2 an MMO, Mr. Maddox would have to seriously degrade the graphics quality. It isn't gonna happen.

[Pei]

Originally posted by Tumor
IL-2FB is awesome.  Flight models feel better (harder), graphix way better, engine management etc.  If Oleg ever figures out how to combine massive multiplay with his eye candy and flight models (for realists).. HTC is history.

Tumor

I don't fly real aircraft so I can't comment on whether the FM is  more real. Take offs and landings are harder and trimming your plane is more difficult (see below).

In some things Il2 are much worse than AH: flaps for example (virtually all a/c have combat flaps and you can deploy them at pretty much any speed). Il2 trim is also strange: you used be able to trim your a/c  in  such a way as to vastly increase rate of turn: in order to fix this (instead of fixing how trim affected the FM) they changed it so the application of trim was delayed - consequently trimming the a/c is difficult as you are always chasing your own input. Also the FMs keep changing, usually in response to whoever whinges loudest and longest, though I do admit that the unremitting uberness of russian a/c needed fixing.

The graphics are, of course,  excellent and I don't find it's performance on my PC much different from AH (which IMHO doesn't look as good).

Overall it's good game and is the current state of the art in flight sims. You can find some good online play if you are picky with your servers.

[B17Skull12]

I have and play Il2 online.  it is a truly awesome game that takes time to learn the ins and outs of flying planes.  email if ya wanna play on hyperlobby sometime.  swa2467@hotmail.com  there is usually a few euro people on around noon pst.

[_Schadenfreude_]

Try it for yourself....bring lots of computer...

[hogenbor]

Barely have the time to play AHII and don't want to invest in a new computer yet.

But the first pic schadenfreude shows, I would have no trouble believing it was an oil painting. Awesome!

[_Schadenfreude_]

Makes good wallpaper...