A 1946 addon will be fun, its something thats not been done for a while. Consimpossible to play without a joystickvery difficult if you are new to flight simsalso, tricky to install if you run windows 7. There are not a lot of flyable planes to choose from but so far the game play has been excellent, ive been playing it every night for a week now. Il2 1946 includes all of the original il2 series content. Ill buy it to maintain online compatibility though ill probably wait for the dvd version rather than download the addons separately even though i have everything to date. You also get to use some of the historical paint schemes for the planes which depict the squadrons they belonged to. The ai has gotten better substantially in the last couple of patches and i suspect. Once youve tried every combination of a few planes, theres not much new.
That 5 games in 1 thing meens that you get the stuff that is new in il2 1946 plus all the stuff that came before in il2, fb, the ace expansion pack, and pf without having to buy them all individualy. Tech help other than bat or il2 great battles get your issues solved and questions answered here, as long as they dont deal with bat or il2 great battles, which have their own tech help boards. Recommended for unmodded installations onlycheck compatibility with mod suppliers before installingwarningthe current version 4. Single engined planes are not going to explode completely and multi engined planes like p38 are no. Sturmovik and the sim continues to be a strong presence. The original version of the game featured 31 flyable soviet, german, american, british, french and polish planes and an additional 40 nonflyable planes available as opponents. Is talk of il2 modding taboo on this site aircraft of.
So you maybe already noticed that you cant fly all the planes in the game. Considering all the free content weve had in patches im happy to pay for these addons. This is a solution to install the most important mods found on the aaa forums. Il2 sturmovik is a flight combat simulation game that takes you into the dangerous skies of world war ii. Incredibly accurate, all the planes are true to the real model and the cockpits are all how the are on proper planes. It does not work with the newer and much better team fusion 4. Each has been an addon to the one that came before, so youve saved a bit of money by arriving late to the party. Are there any servers that are populated for il2 1946. With that being said, il2 1946 offers the most content for your buck, if you want a hundred planes or so, that is probably the title for you and while some of them are good enough in terms of realism and authenticity, it is very much a quantity over quality situation. Both the server and client must have the appropriate versions.
A dedicated team of enthusiasts is slowly but surely fixing all that was wrong with the sim on release. Forgotten battles, ace expansion pack, pacific fighters and alternate histry campaigns of year 1946. Now ubisoft and oleg mattox brings another gaggle of planes to the gaming table for our enjoyment. Along with its sequels, it is considered one of the leading world war ii flight simulators. For ten bucks, i think you will get a flight simgame that. The game is designed to recreate the events that took place on the eastern front, offering 36 planes to choose from, four immense maps, plenty of ground objects to bombard and an extensive campaign.
Over 16 years from the release of the original il2. Ive always enjoyed the what if idea that pitted planes which never met in combat against each other. Select your homebase and chose a flyable plane in the arming section and spawn into the world. It finally loaded and came up on the screen, i was amazed how beautiful the graphics are on this game. The worlds largest aircraft full documentary duration. Steam community guide how to fly every plane in il2. The first game in the series, il2 sturmovik, was first released on 18 november 2001. New flyable planes b5n2 hawk 75a3 hawk 75a4 ki45 kai ko ki45 kai otsu ki45 kai hei. Items in italics are collector planes only available individually or in premium editions. Despite concentrating on the eastern front theatre of war, il2 1946 presents a very complete history of ww2 aircraft and beyond, with the theoretical 1946 aircraft and their relative performace. Il2 sturmovik and the sequels forgotten battles, forgotten battles ace expansion pack, pacific fighters, pe2 addon, manchuria and 1946 now contain 347 aircraft, with 256 being flyable.
Lucasarts secret weapons of the luftwaffe did it first and so did aces over the pacific later. The helldiver and ryusei are not included in the game. Page 1 the planes of il2 part i by jim twitch tittle article type. The game is currently distributed as the il2 sturmovik. Team fusion is as good or better than any other mod team ive ever seen. Get it though, it is a worthy successor, but bear in mind the time went into different places in this sim. Il2 sturmovik is the flight simulator video game longest supported by its developer with the demo released. Graphics and sound have been marginally updated with the latest 4. Whats more they are currently adding more planes, ships, vehicles, making ai planes flyable with unique cockpits, and even creating a new theater to use them in. Although il2 1946 is by far a better package all way around, its hard to go back to it after sitting in a photorealistic cod cockpit with the shadows from the canopy frame flitting about. The patches for this game not only contain minor fixes, but a wealth of realism and balance tweaks, and new free content including dozens of new planes. The latest edition that includes all sequels and patches is version 4.
Team daidalos, the group chosen to officially continue development and support of the il2legacy, has set 2012 off to a good start by releasing 4. I found a realy easy way to fly em all without any downloads or mods. If you have installed thirdparty dynamic campaigns dgen addons, either freeware true pacific, disaster on the frontiers, etc or payware battle over europe, ostfront, the last days, you certainly faced some minor bugs or compatibility issues. Cliffs of dover aircraft of world war ii ww2aircraft. The featured aircraft cover most major aircraft deployed during world war ii as. Although interest in il2 1946 for me is slowly drying up, as a pc simulator, il2 1946 still represents the most complete collection of wwii warbirds available. Both the server and client must have the appropriate versions in order to connect. The reason i fly il2 box is the servers are populated. And one thing all of us applaud is the fact that oleg maddox is working with third party developers to add even more. Most though not all of the major combatant aircraft in the pacific are included in the game. Ww1 allied flyable medium zeppelin ff1 grumman ff1, 1933 do17 z dornier ww2 german bomber. Aircraft lie at the heart of il2 sturmovik, replicated and simulated with great care.
How to fly unflyable planes in il2 sturmovik 1946 youtube. For players of offline dynamic campaigns with dgen. Check the official td patch notes for the latest content including a couple of new planes and a new black sea map that combines the old crimea and kuban maps together. You can use the base hsfx as is and still have a great time with more planes and maps then in the base il2 game. August 21, 2001 it may change some but these planes will surly be in 1c.
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