[Game] IL2 sturmovik Cliffs of Dover Press Release/Video

The Masta · Feb 19, 2011

More screenshots http://simhq.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/3210141/Some_new_screens_at_oz_by.html#Post3210141

hockeywarrior · Feb 19, 2011

Huzzah these new screenshots are perfect for my IL2 desktop background theme.

NoxNoctum · Feb 22, 2011

Grobut said:
I hope AI gunners are more reasonable this time, in later IL2 builds they seemed to have this uncanny abillity to either utterly fail (missed by a mile), or totally pwn (emptying a whole belt into your pilot), with very little middle ground.

Something about them was just really off.. and i don't recall it beeing that bad in the earliest builds of the game, but somewhere along the way they got worse and more annoying, and harder to kill aswell.

Here's hoping that won't carry over to the new game..

They also fire when a bomber pilot is pulling a really high g turn which of course would not be possible in real life.

And I agree with you about the AI gunner accuracy. I was hitting a pack of B-17s in a 262, attacking at speeds of 800Kph+ coming at a 45 degree angle from the front and got nailed after I passed them instantly. 262's fragile cause of the jet engines but cmon... when you're going 900kph at a steep angle there's no way a human gunner's gonna get you.

Oldih · Feb 22, 2011

I also hope the AI follows some laws of physics and aircraft performance beter this time. As much as I can understand some AI limitations and probably stuff done to get around them, seeing AI planes constantly diving ridiculous speeds or getting shot down at 9km altitude because random AI Zeke flies beter there than human controlled Bf-109K eventually gets more or less annoying.

The Masta · Feb 25, 2011

Loadsa screenshots
http://simhq.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/3218117/1.html
http://fooblog.mexxoft.com/il2cod-screenshots-24-02-2011/

Merin Redplate · Feb 25, 2011

Looks amazing.

heady89 · Feb 25, 2011

http://spread-wings.ru/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=371&Itemid=1

A completely random video at the bottom of the article, but it shows some hurricane footage.

Britney Federline · Feb 26, 2011

Looks very nice, but those pilots need to lay off the cheeseburgers. I think 7 should be enough for anyone at breakfast.

hockeywarrior · Feb 26, 2011

Britney Federline said:
Looks very nice, but those pilots need to lay off the cheeseburgers. I think 7 should be enough for anyone at breakfast.

Lol I find more problems with their tiny heads myself ... (the in-game pilots, that is

)

The random piano jazz is also a completely inappropriate music choice for that video. Just sayin'.

Pvt.pile · Feb 26, 2011

Yeah becaues ill have time to look at their heads or even player models when im diving in on them at 400 kph trying to hit them before they turn and blow me out of the sky or i stall

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hockeywarrior · Feb 26, 2011

Pvt.pile said:
Yeah becaues ill have time to look at their heads or even player models when im diving in on them at 400 kph trying to hit them before they turn and blow me out of the sky or i stall .

I know I honestly don't give a **** about it, but you'd be amazed at what those rivet counters on the IL2 forums are worried about

...

Gee, that sounds kind of familiar ... lol.

Merin Redplate · Feb 27, 2011

hockeywarrior said:
I know I honestly don't give a **** about it, but you'd be amazed at what those rivet counters on the IL2 forums are worried about ...

Gee, that sounds kind of familiar ... lol.

haha yeah. I couldn't even imagine what it would be like to be a simulation dev.

Oldih · Feb 27, 2011

hockeywarrior said:
I know I honestly don't give a **** about it, but you'd be amazed at what those rivet counters on the IL2 forums are worried about ...

Gee, that sounds kind of familiar ... lol.

Slightly off topic but actually it's quite ironic that while flight sim people love to bring tons of diffrent stuff up or complain about them, since they added bomb safety fuses in one recent patch in 1946 -- meaning bomb has to fall for two seconds before it's armed, aka bombing requires bit more skill than just flying at treetop level and banking your aircraft for a nanosecond and hit 'perfectly' -- there's been so much crying and howling how it makes low level bombing too hard, is 'unrealistic', ruins the game etc

ductape3 · Mar 2, 2011

Ive always had a soft spot for flight sims, many of my early games being such, and I am considering getting this, although it would be an investment because my joystick has long since gone missing. How is IL-2 multiplayer, (dogfights, full missions?, gameplay in general), and singleplayer (decent? campaign or just individual missions?). Im assuming Ciffs will be pretty similar...

Reddog · Mar 2, 2011

Oldih said:
Slightly off topic but actually it's quite ironic that while flight sim people love to bring tons of diffrent stuff up or complain about them, since they added bomb safety fuses in one recent patch in 1946 -- meaning bomb has to fall for two seconds before it's armed, aka bombing requires bit more skill than just flying at treetop level and banking your aircraft for a nanosecond and hit 'perfectly' -- there's been so much crying and howling how it makes low level bombing too hard, is 'unrealistic', ruins the game etc

Low level bombing is for girls anyway, real hairy chested men dive bomb.

ductape3 said:
Ive always had a soft spot for flight sims, many of my early games being such, and I am considering getting this, although it would be an investment because my joystick has long since gone missing. How is IL-2 multiplayer, (dogfights, full missions?, gameplay in general), and singleplayer (decent? campaign or just individual missions?). Im assuming Ciffs will be pretty similar...

It's great, even these days it is still a very popular game, Cliffs of Dover will be no exception every flightophile out there is waiting for this one (it's an instabuy for me).

heady89 · Mar 4, 2011

Merin Redplate · Mar 4, 2011

Beautiful.

NoxNoctum · Mar 4, 2011

Ya there's still like 300+ people online at any given moment in IL-2 on the servers via Hyperlobby.

hockeywarrior · Mar 4, 2011

NoxNoctum said:
Ya there's still like 300+ people online at any given moment in IL-2 on the servers via Hyperlobby.

I have the Steam version of IL2 1946. Can I still play online?

NoxNoctum · Mar 4, 2011

Pretty sure you can. If it doesn't let you connect through hyperlobby you can always just get the ip of the server you want to join off hyperlobby and then direct connect in-game.

Be aware though quite a few of the servers have the UP2.01 mod. There's a few others but that's the most used ones. Other than that most servers are the latest version vanilla 4.10.

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