Author Topic: Pacific Fighters Goes Gold! (Read 1703 times)

Wotan · « **on:** October 07, 2004, 05:48:52 AM »

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Ubisoft, one of the world’s largest videogame publishers today announced that the Pacific Fighters gold master has gone into production. From the creators of the critically acclaimed IL-2 series, Pacific Fighters will ship for PC at the end of October with an ESRB rating of Teen for Mild Language and Violence.

Re-create some of the most decisive air battles of WW II and experience famous locations like Midway, Guadalcanal and Iwo Jima, where the courage of a single pilot could turn the tide of war. Fly more than 40 combat aircraft including the deadly Japanese Zero, the UK’s Supermarine Seafire and the U.S.-made Corsair. In addition to 16 huge single-player maps, Pacific Fighters offers an unparalleled online multiplayer option. For the first time in any retail combat flight simulation, virtual pilots can take part in massive aerial dogfights on the same dedicated server for up to 128 players. A 32-player option is also available in Cooperative mode. For the first time in the IL-2 series, players can engage aircraft carriers in combat and utilize them to take off and land. As with every product developed by IL-2 creator Oleg Maddox, Pacific Fighters offers unsurpassed attention to detail. The smart AI, unequaled damage model and sense of realism combine to immerse players like no other combat flight simulation.

Game Features:

* Over 40 flyable WWII fighters and bombers.

A partial list includes: Aichi D3A1 Val, Bristol Beaufighter, Douglas A-20 Havoc, Grumman F6f Hellcat, Mitsubishi A6M Zero, Kawasaki Ki-61 Tony, North American B-25 Mitchell, and Vought F4U-1 Corsair.

* Legendary Pacific Theater locations.

Fly in huge maps of famous battle sites, such as Pearl Harbor, Midway, Singapore and Okinawa.

* New large-scale multiplayer engagements.

Join squadrons in a variety of online modes such as free-for-all dogfights for up to 128 players and cooperative campaigns for up to 32 players.

* A vast array of targets ranging from railroads to battleships.

Ground objects such as trains, trucks and tanks can all be pounded from the air. Torpedo historically accurate ships, drop parafrags on enemy airfields, and encounter more than 100 other targets on the ground and at sea.

Gixer · « **Reply #1 on:** October 07, 2004, 06:56:05 AM »

Damn,

And Damn Rome Total War for being so excellent!

~~...-Gixer~~

Chaos68 · « **Reply #2 on:** October 07, 2004, 07:21:46 AM »

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Originally posted by Gixer
Damn,

And Damn Rome Total War for being so excellent!

~~...-Gixer~~

~~amen! too many good games comming out and too little time to play them!!~~

AKS\/\/ulfe · « **Reply #3 on:** October 07, 2004, 11:40:41 AM »

Yeah, nice it went Gold. After being promised all four B25s flyable, hell I'd have settled for two, we only get one.

The level bomber version - just great. That's going to be worthless. If they had done the H model with the 75mm cannon, atleast we'd have the anti-shipping version that was used quite a bit.

And I'm pretty sure these are the exact same planes, just different markings.

F4U-1A - Corsair MK.I
F4U-1D Corsair MK.II

P-40B - Tomahawk Mk. IIa
P-40C - Tomahawk Mk. IIb

The only mention of planes that were promised in the release that will be in the patch are these two:

F2A-2
G4M1-11

No Avenger, 3 other B25s only AI...

Don't get me wrong, I'll have fun with it - but I'm extremely disappointed they skipped on the Avenger and 3 other B25s.

I HATE level bombing.

EDIT: Found list here
-SW

Lizking · « **Reply #4 on:** October 07, 2004, 11:42:54 AM »

J model is a strafing machine! I'll take it.

AKS\/\/ulfe · « **Reply #5 on:** October 07, 2004, 11:49:12 AM »

That depends Liz, if it's the solid nose - it's a strafing machine.

If we get the glass nose, may as well take a P38.
-SW

Lizking · « **Reply #6 on:** October 07, 2004, 11:53:27 AM »

Even the glass nose has 8- 50's firing forward.

AKS\/\/ulfe · « **Reply #7 on:** October 07, 2004, 11:57:57 AM »

The glass nose only has 4. Two guns on each side of the fuselage.
-SW

Lizking · « **Reply #8 on:** October 07, 2004, 12:06:35 PM »

It also has 2 up top, and I thought it had one flex and one fixed in the nose?

Lizking · « **Reply #9 on:** October 07, 2004, 12:07:42 PM »

Nope, I was wrong, none up top and only 1 flex in the nose.

AKS\/\/ulfe · « **Reply #10 on:** October 07, 2004, 12:15:58 PM »

The one fixed is dependent, it can have up to two... but I think one and/or two are field mods.

The two on top, top turret gunner, and the flexible mount will more than likely be AI controlled and AI gunners haven't been firing on ground objects since the original Il2.

Two things I was really looking forward to with this release: Lobbing 75mm rounds during attack runs, and dodging flak on torpedo rounds.

What's even stranger is the abundance of early American planes while the absence of a two early Japanese planes - Ki27 Nate, A6M5 Claude.

And the Hawk 81 A 2 is just a P40B/Tomahawk IIA.
-SW

Lizking · « **Reply #11 on:** October 07, 2004, 12:25:04 PM »

Yeah, the only time I fly WB is when I need my -H fix, I go into the main and blow watermelon up with the 75mm.

Wotan · « **Reply #12 on:** October 08, 2004, 12:13:03 PM »

Some cockpit screens:

Beaufighter

Ki-61

F6F

Another F6F but this one just looks good...

RTSigma · « **Reply #13 on:** October 08, 2004, 02:01:41 PM »

Yeah I'll probably be buying this...damn PF for dipping into my alcohol fund!

Octavius · « **Reply #14 on:** October 08, 2004, 02:07:21 PM »

So the great looking water is still considered 'perfect' mode right? If not, "excellent" landscape settings will have the flat, reflective water... same as FB/AEP right?

32 co-op campaign sounds awesome