Author Topic: Il2 (Read 992 times)

SirLoin · « **on:** July 19, 2006, 11:22:16 PM »

Just dustin this sim off the shelf(Ubisoft)...Where do you log in for fites?(Hyperlobby ?)

DiabloTX · « **Reply #1 on:** July 19, 2006, 11:26:03 PM »

Other than the eye candy, why?

Russian · « **Reply #2 on:** July 19, 2006, 11:59:00 PM »

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Yeager · « **Reply #3 on:** July 20, 2006, 12:06:09 AM »

the browning .50 has no lethality in IL2. Cant stand it. Beautiful atmospherics for sure......

Russian · « **Reply #4 on:** July 20, 2006, 12:14:02 AM »

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Russian · « **Reply #5 on:** July 20, 2006, 12:17:41 AM »

See Rule #7

Yeager · « **Reply #6 on:** July 20, 2006, 12:19:11 AM »

Russian · « **Reply #7 on:** July 20, 2006, 12:28:53 AM »

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I know you're MP4....eventhough I had quite alot of vodka,,.....so stop it......m8,....err I mean mp4

Bruno · « **Reply #8 on:** July 20, 2006, 12:29:44 AM »

Compared to AH the .50s in FB are crap, no D800 smack downs. However, if you get in close and fire at convergence they do all right over there. They shred Japanese planes well enough. Last night I flew a few Pacific coops in the F6F and the Jap planes fell a part with short aimed bursts. The Hogs aren't as easy mode as AH but fun enough...

I fly mostly LW aircraft and its easy enough to avoid the instant death from most Ami planes (.50 cals). As long as you don't sit still they may ping you but nothing major will fall off.

Hispanos, aka Hizookas, shred over there just like in AH. If a Spit or Tempest or Hurri IIC gets saddled up on your 6 you might as well just bale. SvHaks are far more deadly there then in AH. So is the MGFF/M and Type 99 MK I and IIs.

3cm there is a little less lethal. Some times planes like a spit can take 3 or 4 3cm hits before falling apart. Just tonight on the Warclouds server my wingman drug a temp and a Spit up vertical and from 50m I landed 2 3cm hits on the cowling of a Spit and he flew home and landed. Heavily damaged but able to fly. I had to deal with the Temp and couldn't finish him.

MG151/2cm is about the same just the hit sprites are prettier in FB. The smaller caliber mgs (.303s, 7.6mm etc...) are in general more lethal in FB then AH.

All this may just be due to the different approaches to the respective damage models. FB is basically a box game with an online component and as such it can't compete with AH in terms of a 'just logging on for a quick furball' but it has other attributes that make up for it. It all depends on what you are looking for. There's a greater variety of planes and most of the better servers cap out at about 32-50. There's a few 64 and 100 player servers as well.

Unless you have FB/AEP/PF (the original Il-2 is long dead) patched up to 4.04m or 4.05m (Pe-2 add-on) you won't find any servers.

Hyperlobby is what a good portion of those who fly FB online hang out but you can use, ASE, gamespy etc...

DiabloTX · « **Reply #9 on:** July 20, 2006, 12:36:08 AM »

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Tarmac · « **Reply #10 on:** July 20, 2006, 01:43:11 AM »

IL2 is worth it for the damage model and eye candy, but that's about it. I don't care too much about the eye candy, but I really hope AH comes out with a new aircraft damage model soon after TOD.

It's soooo much fun attacking bombers in FB though... having to actually aim for certain parts of the airplane beats the heck out of AH's "aim for the wingtip" kill method.

SunKing · « **Reply #11 on:** July 20, 2006, 08:15:25 AM »

I actually dug it out this week. I wanted to see it on the perfect setting. Pretty game. I'm having fun just watching the tracks. I don't want to spend 2 hours trying to map my IL-2 joystick settings to that of my AH2 settings.

edit. I read over on another site there are 2 new expansions coming. 1945 experimental planes.

SunKing · « **Reply #12 on:** July 25, 2006, 03:48:09 PM »

Last night I got to play IL-2 seriously for the 1st time in years. ( Never got my sticks setup right).What a difference coming from AH2. The biggest thing I noticed was the planes feeling really heavy, like I was actually controlling an object. It's hard to explain but it was an awesome illusion. I didn't care for the gun flashes, they seemed overdone.

A couple more times with the box and I'll try my luck on HL.

Bruno · « **Reply #13 on:** July 25, 2006, 04:51:14 PM »

Sunking are you playing the original Il-2 or do you have FB-AEP-PF merged?

Misfit, Scot and I hook up with JG14 and play against the 4th fighter group on Thursdays on HL (private coops). The only thing is were all have FB-AEP-PF merged (4.05m or 4.04m).

It later patches the muzzle explosions have been redone so you don't have that huge flash.

If you, or Tarmac, or any one are up to giving it a go let me know (either here or on the JG2 forum or our unused JV 44 Würger-Staffel Forums .

I have a TS server as well.

Tarmac · « **Reply #14 on:** July 25, 2006, 05:06:00 PM »

Sounds like fun, but I never got around to buying PF. I didn't play FB with the Aces expansion that much, and couldn't bring myself to put more money into it for the blue planes... they aren't really my thing.

Plus my machine struggled enough with FB/AEP, I don't know what PF would do to it.