Il-2 thread

[Slashbot_427]

No kidding man. I paid 29 bucks for the first iteration waaaay back, dropped it for a while, then paid 39 for FB gold pack, and 19 for Pacific fighters a few years ago. DOH!

Well you got your moneys worth at least

I bought forgtten battles(AUS$69.95), then Aces (AUS49.95,which i gave away), now ive bought pacific fighters gold last year(AUS$49.95), and I've still got to go buy 1946. Cant wait for those jets tho.

 

[Sigurd]

Your gonna love the jets.
Its so nice when the engine explodes mid-air without warning because you werent gently enough on the throttle...

edit: and climbing to 30,000 meters just to run out of fuel and dive down at > mach 2.

 

[JoshuaC]

Your gonna love the jets.
Its so nice when the engine explodes mid-air without warning because you werent gently enough on the throttle...

edit: and climbing to 30,000 meters just to run out of fuel and dive down at > mach 2.

Heheh I think for the first week of playing all I would do is over throttle a ME 262 up and down to get the engines to pop and watch the plane bust apart and see the engines fly off in different directions.

 

[blkmgc]

Well you got your moneys worth at least

No,sadly, I really dont feel that I did.

 

[stoneyHSL-48]

IL-2 Sturmovik group on steam

IL-2 Sturmovik group on steam

Just to let everyone know, I started an IL-2 Sturmovik group on steam. I hope to see all of you there.

 

[SgtH3nry3]

I've been looking for IL-2 tweakguides everywhere.
Can't find the ones with detailed enough information to get started though.

Anyway, which file should I open?

I've heard you could set various settings like water detail, effects and forest to use newer graphical technologies?

Oh btw, this isn't for me but for a friend of mine...

 

[Britney Federline]

I just went through this last week, so I can help you out.

First off, switch to OpenGL rendering, not DirectX. The game is supposedly optimized for OpenGL, and the better effects are all OpenGL only.

To access the "perfect" settings, find a config file description (you'll need to look for yourself) or use the program IL-2 Sturmovik Stab (google it). That program allows you to set the perfect water settings (totally amazing!), the perfect forests, the dynamic lighting, etc.

I now fly at 10 meters over rivers whenever possible because the water looks so great.

 

[Britney Federline]

By the way, is there any way to turn on the targeting reticule when it's blank as you enter the plane? About 1/3 of the planes that I pick when I join a multiplayer game have no reticule, and it's annoying. I don't see a key setting for it, but I'm hoping that there's a way to do it.

 

[R1G4M0RT1Z]

I dont understand - are you using hacked planes, or, do you need to press shift F1?

 

[[3.SA]Vladislav]

I have IL2 sturmovik. Anyone play this? lets get a team, eh?

Quite like the game, i mean decent graphics for a 2001 game...

 

[Kipper]

If you're used to il2 with DirectX, switching to OpenGL is going to amaze you.

Brit, you need to map a key to "toggle gunsight view" or whatnot.

 

[[3.SA]Vladislav]

Alright, I'll keep that in mind. anyone play the original-i tried yesterday and saw no servers...

 

[Makabi]

if you were using the in-game browser, you'll find none no matter what version you have. there's a small possibility that there might be a few active servers for the original on Hyperlobby, but the majority of the community is playing 1946.

 

[[3.SA]Vladislav]

Oh..dang it...am i able to get that on a cd rom? or something as I dont own a dvd rom...

 

[Makabi]

nope, you're going to need a DVD-ROM drive if you plan on getting it.

 

[R1G4M0RT1Z]

You can download it from ubi, I think.

 

[R1G4M0RT1Z]

New composite I just made.

 

[Darkseed]

They seem to be flying extremely low for just having dropped the gear, but that doesn't really matter much. Very nice!

 

[[3.SA]Vladislav]

You can download it from ubi, I think.

We can download what? AN IL2 game, lol, I dont think we could, not even for free...

 

[R1G4M0RT1Z]

I'm pretty sure you can... Not for free, for the price specified by ubi, but, as far as I'm aware, thats what some <RTR> did, and it came fully patched and everything.