IL-2 Sturmovik: "Battle of Bodenplatte" and Flying Circus Vol. 1 (RoF II)

[Krupinski]

It's not my intention to "advertise" or drag players away from AH, I just thought I'd share this news as this is a major announcement if you're a true flight sim enthusiast. (pls no flamerino)

https://forum.il2sturmovik.com/topic/32254-announcing-battle-bodenplatte-flying-circus-tank-crew-and-mo/#entry532738

Enjoy 

[Kanth]

I think many of us have or still do also fly IL2.

Bodenplatte will have the A8, that's reason enough for me

oh wait and Flying Circus will have the Dr1...holy cow..thanks for the heads up!!!! 

[AAIK]

<3 anything WW1.   

[oboe]

Looks great, but so many fewer aircraft available than AH.

I thought IL-2 was working on a Pacific Theater title?  But no news of that here?

Finally, what is match play?  Same thing as War Thunder where you wait for a game to start and then are thrown in at random with 31 other players roughly at your own Battle Rating level?

[Krupinski]

Looks great, but so many fewer aircraft available than AH.

I thought IL-2 was working on a Pacific Theater title?  But no news of that here?

Finally, what is match play?  Same thing as War Thunder where you wait for a game to start and then are thrown in at random with 31 other players roughly at your own Battle Rating level?

They still plan on doing the Pacific, it's not cancelled, simply saved for a later date. When they have better resources and funding to properly recreate the Japanese side of the battle to their standards, it'll be out. https://forum.il2sturmovik.com/topic/32257-my-comments-delay-pto-development/

That's also why they don't release a huge amount of aircraft, they set their standards extremely high... you can't have everything at once and expect it to be top tier quality. It's a relatively small dev team just like AH with limited funding from their publisher. If everything goes to plan, and people keep buying the game, it could very well have as many aircraft as AH and the old IL2 1946 one day.

I don't know where you got "Match Play" from, there will be no such thing... their goal is to make multiplayer more like the old hyperlobby where you can join a server/lobby or easily create your own with friends. It's server based up to 84+ players, not join a qeue and wait.

[zack1234]

I play Stalingrad offline,the multiplayer is garbage

ROF is very good even the online

[Kanth]

Ya its completely different imo.  You go there to fly some unique planes and it does also have pretty graphics but the multiplayer (at least back when i played it last) was super weak.

It's by no means a replacement or even in the same league as AH for multiplayer...but that doesn't mean it's not fun in it's own right.
Like most games it's fun to mess with for a period of time.

For me it's just something else to mess with in the variety of games out there.

Looks great, but so many fewer aircraft available than AH.

[Krupinski]

The multiplayer used to have horrible performance, but its really come a long way since then... it's not as bad as you think now, but yes it could still use some improvement, and that's the goal to eventually make it just as good as RoF multiplayer/co-op was.

ROF is very good even the online

[BFOOT1]

So first off I'm super excited about this. I played IL2 1946, and Cliffs of Dover, and loved them both.

I believe I read this correctly, and I quote, " On Steam, customers must first purchase Battle of Stalingrad if they wish to purchase Battle of Bodenplatte."

So for the digital copy I have to have BOS?

Also 1946 used to have the Dynamic Campaign Generator where it kept track of kills, medals, and a record of your fellow pilots who were KIA, or MIA. Is that still a thing? 

[Krupinski]

So first off I'm super excited about this. I played IL2 1946, and Cliffs of Dover, and loved them both.

I believe I read this correctly, and I quote, " On Steam, customers must first purchase Battle of Stalingrad if they wish to purchase Battle of Bodenplatte."

So for the digital copy I have to have BOS?

Also 1946 used to have the Dynamic Campaign Generator where it kept track of kills, medals, and a record of your fellow pilots who were KIA, or MIA. Is that still a thing?

You don't have to own Battle of Stalingrad, you can buy the expansions individually off their website, but the best way to do it IMO is to buy Battle of Stalingrad on Steam, then buy anything else you want off the website to support the devs. Everything is saved to your user account so you can access it all by launching BoS on Steam.

A completed Dynamic Campaign system just like 1946/RoF is going to release end of December in the Battle of Kuban update.

[BFOOT1]

You don't have to own Battle of Stalingrad, you can buy the expansions individually off their website, but the best way to do it IMO is to buy Battle of Stalingrad on Steam, then buy anything else you want off the website to support the devs. Everything is saved to your user account so you can access it all by launching BoS on Steam.

A completed Dynamic Campaign system just like 1946/RoF is going to release end of December in the Battle of Kuban update.

Thanks Krup! For those of you that have steam, shoot me a pm with your ID, I at least want to play this game with you guys.

[Krupinski]

I'll just post it here in case anybody else picks it up and wants to play sometime.

www.steamcommunity.com/id/krupnski

[oboe]

They still plan on doing the Pacific, it's not cancelled, simply saved for a later date. When they have better resources and funding to properly recreate the Japanese side of the battle to their standards, it'll be out. https://forum.il2sturmovik.com/topic/32257-my-comments-delay-pto-development/

That's also why they don't release a huge amount of aircraft, they set their standards extremely high... you can't have everything at once and expect it to be top tier quality. It's a relatively small dev team just like AH with limited funding from their publisher. If everything goes to plan, and people keep buying the game, it could very well have as many aircraft as AH and the old IL2 1946 one day.

I don't know where you got "Match Play" from, there will be no such thing... their goal is to make multiplayer more like the old hyperlobby where you can join a server/lobby or easily create your own with friends. It's server based up to 84+ players, not join a qeue and wait.

Thanks Krupinsky -

Further down on the page in the link you gave it talks about a new "matchmaking" system:

As you can see we have ambitious plans for Sturmovik. No doubt you will have many questions and concerns about what we have announced. The bigger picture is that are now ready to try making parallel products for our WW2 fans, WW1 fans and possible new customers who enjoy tank battles. But beyond that, we hope to accomplish the following in our next development cycle.
 
-          New MP matchmaking system and lobby with chat
-          Improvements to aircraft fuel systems and add drop tanks
-          Oxygen masks for pilots at high attitude
-          Jet engine technology and associated physics of higher Mach numbers
-          Improvements to AI
-          Option for 4K skins by default and preview pics in the GUI for Custom skins
-          In-Game Model Viewer (hold over from Kuban)
-          Mods On/Off (hold over from Kuban)
-          More attractive GUI and better GUI optimization
…. and many other small, medium and large improvements to usability, functionality and performance.

4K skins - need a drooling emoticon...

[Krupinski]

Thanks Krupinsky -

Further down on the page in the link you gave it talks about a new "matchmaking" system:

4K skins - need a drooling emoticon...

"Matchmaking" probably isn't the correct wording, I think what Jason meant is that they're going to add a lobby to each server, and have it flow more smoothly as the mission/map rotates. I can't be certain tho I guess we'll find out in the upcoming dev diary's or when it releases. I can assure you it won't be anything like WT's garbage matchmaking.

As of right now when the mission ends it just kicks you out like AH does and you have to rejoin.

[bozon]

No mosquitoes.... pfffff 

When DCS or some other company comes out with a full blown, high detail, combat simulator for Mosquito VI, or Mirage IIIc, my credit card is going to come out so fast that the sonic boom will be heard all the way to the developers studio!