questions on IL-2 "Forgotten Battles"

[Batz]

Ju 87g is flyable.

If you cant beat a russian plane flying a 109 in Fb you just suck.

Its fun game. I avoid DF servers with the scripts running. Those are the only ones that real give me "pauses".

The online wars are fun.

Fb still has some issues after the last patch, none are game killers.

Il2/Fb isnt necesarily an online game. Its a box sim with an online aspect. Like any box game that you play online you need to find servers and groups of people to fly with. I believe Oleg said only about 10% of those who bought IL2/Fb did so to play online.

90% of the problems folks have online is because of a crappy host.

I guess i missed joes post

[Siaf__csf]

Akswulf: It's jilted because the A.I. doesnt give any challenge whatsoever they fly mostly passive even with max difficulty settings.

It's jilted because I saw half of wartime FAF go down in a single battle.. If the casualties would have been that bad airwar would have ended in 3 days. The wingmen are total cannonfood. The wingmen are the only thing flying worse than a.i. enemy.

"If you can't beat down a human controlled Russian plane, I'd venture a guess its because you have no idea what you are doing. "

I guess I have an idea with a few thousand kills on AH under my belt, one tour ranked 1 on both fighter and jabo.

[AKS\/\/ulfe]

Historic aspect being jilted has nothing to do with AI, in fact the two are not mutual... especially since the AI is a global construct. Saying the historic aspect being jilted indicates you believe there is a bias, which you have yet to actually prove... or anyone who has claimed that anywhere has yet to prove.

Hate to break it to ya, but there is no bias with the AI... all AI sucks, regardless of the game. FBv1.0 they were too hard, now they are too soft. You win some, you lose some.

I guess I have an idea with a few thousand kills on AH under my belt, one tour ranked 1 on both fighter and jabo.

Good for you! I mean it, maybe with that you can go out and get a high paying job someday... but it still doesn't mean you know what you are doing, except that you know how to play the scores to your favor. Ranking means nothing.
-SW

[udet]

Originally posted by Ike 2K#
Before I buy IL-2 "Forgotten Battles", I need to ask a question... What do you think about IL-2 FB?

if your system is not top-notch, I suggest you buy the original Il2 Sturmovik. If you haven't played either, there's some pretty good demos to download for Il2, it'll give an idea what FB will look and feel like.
In fact, the demos have a bunch of aircraft and the option to set up dogfights so u might not need to buy the game after all.

[Ike 2K#]

Does it take too much effort to operate a plane in IL-2 FB? I heard that you have to set up the supercharger to the next stage manualy.

[AKS\/\/ulfe]

You can turn that option off if you don't want to mess with it, or you can fly German which has everything automatic.
-SW

[Batz]

Ai isnt possive except on the lower settings. Even so this is new since the patch. Vet and higher AI flies exactly the same as before the patch.

Ai would ho you quicker then a chog pilot in the main.  And snipe you off with incredible shots. That was a huge complaint after FB  1st was released.

Either you are flying IL2 original or the demo.

I guess you could make us a track of you of killing one of the aces.

[AKS\/\/ulfe]

Just for the heck of it, I ran a QMB setup at 2000 meters on the Smolensk map. Me in 109G2 vs Ace level Pokryshkin (or however thats spelled) in his P39N-1.

You may have to copy the link below into the Address bar to download the file. Its about 40kb zipped.
http://www.geocities.com/weissdr1/QMB109G2vsP39.zip
-SW

[SunKing]

Originally posted by Ike 2K#
Before I buy IL-2 "Forgotten Battles", I need to ask a question... What do you think about IL-2 FB?

All the threads posted on Il-2 and you still have to ask this question?

[Bartok]

Athlon XP 1700
Radeon 9500 pro
512mb RAM

The game runs well at the highest settings in 1024x768.  It can run with "perfect" setting (that was added in a recent patch) easily, but ground textures get all screwed up, so I just have it on excellent.

[SKurj]

Originally posted by Siaf__csf
It's unplayable with 512Mb. It can take 1-2 second pauses in the middle of a turnfight (loading textures..)

I played it a dozen times after I got it, it's not good enough to validate another 512mb of ram (insert WW2OL joke here.)

And finally, it's made by russians so the historical aspect is how should I say, 'jilted' a little bit.

Hmm runs lovely for me with 512mb...

Ran great with XP1900+ 512mb SDRam and a gf4 mx, runs even better with a GF4ti 4200


SKurj

[Bluedog]

Runs pretty good on my crappy geforce2 32 meg and 256meg of ram, 1800 Athlon.
Everything set on maximum flashiness except terain on excellant, not perfect.

Cool game, best boxed sim out there to date, bar none.IMHO
Loads of planes, heaps of differant loadouts, and LOTS of stuff to shoot at on the ground, in the water, and in the air.
Great sound, awesome damage model and graphics, realistic cockpits. SEARCHLIGHTS and a reasonably good mission builder/ editor (the FMB that is, the QMB is about as good as there has ever been for whacking up a quick fight to order)
More planes OTW too.

Try the demo for IL2 if you like what you find, you will love FB.

[Dowding]

Il-2 FB bored me after a couple of days, as most boxed sims do. Shame it isn't massively multiplayer.

[Pei]

Il2:FB is a great game. The attention to detail is amazing.
I especially like the damage model: it feals very "real" to me.
It has it's dodgy points of course and it is difficult to find a good online game unless you get involved in the online wars. A lot of people find gunnery difficult, and it is harder than AH, but you need to remeber to trim your a/c correclty (no combat trim): that makes shooting amuch easier.

Generally speaking I play il2:FB when I feel like flying but don't feel up to the effort of playing AH

[Pooh21]

What about that funky gyration? I cant hit anything past 500 cause of it. But when I jump in the tail position of my Il-2 or Stuka, I can track the bad guy all they way in from 600.