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Rocksicles posted:I have a pretty great Beaufighter mission i made on my old HDD. Is flying formation, in the dark, over PNG for a slim chance at sinking a Japanese carrier and its escorts, too That sounds horrific.
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Finally got around to getting 1946 reinstalled and setup. Got some minor control issues I've gotta work out right now, and I haven't played in ages, but I should be able to join in this weekend.
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May 13, 2015 01:41
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Getting used to the robotic feel of 1946's flight model. Understandable that things would feel a simplified given the number of aircraft and the sim's age. The AI is shockingly good though. My first campaign mission in a Yak-1 involved an attack on our airbase by a half dozen Stukas and four 109s. Having my own wingman actually do something useful and blow away all the Stukas on their own was a nice change of pace from the usual in flight sims of your AI buddies flying off to bum gently caress Egypt while huffing av-gas. The 109s were doing combat manuevers in formation and only split up when I attacked them. Bounced the trailer from a dive and blew its wing off, the element buggered off immediately towards the Stukas and the flight leader BnZ'd my rear end to death. Utterly refused to get into a scissors where I would have murdered him with no trouble. Every time my nose came his way he'd gently caress off into space and come back down on top of me. It was like fighting a good human opponent. I don't remember the original IL-2 having AI like this, so kudos to whoever is doing the updating. Your wingmen also do these really aggressive rejoins that look pretty cool.  Any landing you can walk aw... etc...
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Pop Quiz: Q) How do you know you are flying an early war Soviet Fighter?  A) Your fuel tanks have been hit.
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What's the best way to make sure you kill your enemy? Get as close as possible. What's the best to do that? Don't do this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iu4PoWWR-vM Also the first time I've seen an AI spin. You see it at the start of this "dogfight" (more like chase and plink).
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May 17, 2015 09:15
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Sauer posted:What's the best way to make sure you kill your enemy? Get as close as possible. What's the best to do that? Don't do this: In '46 I see enemies spin all the goddamned time, or at least stall out one wing. I also see single cannon rounds reliably hurt a lot more than in BoS. Two or three 20mm shells hit your plane, it's gonna be pretty hosed most of the time in '46. Even a good burst from an MG has a good chance of crippling something. Possible exception for Japanese MGs there though. Trying to take out F2As with the two MGs in a Ki-27 is a bitch. edit: F2As, not F4Fs MohawkSatan fucked around with this message at 10:53 on May 17, 2015 |
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May 17, 2015 10:51
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Is there a setting or mod or something that can adjust the types of missions you get in IL-2 1946 campaigns? Fw-190s are cool and I want to fly them but I also don't want 2/3rds of my missions to be ground attacks where I drop one bomb on one thing and then fly back home.
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May 17, 2015 21:36
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Geisladisk posted:Is there a setting or mod or something that can adjust the types of missions you get in IL-2 1946 campaigns? Fw-190s are cool and I want to fly them but I also don't want 2/3rds of my missions to be ground attacks where I drop one bomb on one thing and then fly back home. The most popular seems to be IL-2 DCG, which lets you setup dynamic campaign templates and have it generate missions based on the sort of stuff you want to do and fly. I'm still figuring out that tool so that I can start hosting IL-2 sessions (also waiting for my Marvel Heroes kick to end). For simpler quick mission building, there's Mission Mate, which is easy to use but isn't as powerful. Pixelbaron, EJ and the other longtime IL-2 players probably have more tools/tips.
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May 17, 2015 21:51
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What is the latest patch, and where can I get it? My install I got from forever ago is 4.11m.
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May 17, 2015 21:57
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Wooper posted:What is the latest patch, and where can I get it? My install I got from forever ago is 4.11m. Latest is 4.12.2m Steam updates to it automatically, otherwise you can find links here.
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May 17, 2015 22:21
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Yeah, you'll want to mess around with Lowengrin's DCG if you want to get more out of the mission generator in 1946 it's cool and worth it. If you want to be closer to action change the Action Radius Setting in the General Campaign Settings. If you want to get a different mix of missions there's a whole section for Custom Missions Selection, though depending on the campaign and the situation some may not be available and you might not always get it to generate exactly what you want. For example I just tried to suggest a shipping attack in my Finland 1939 campaign and it told me that ain't gonna happen. Beyond the General Campaign Settings and Custom Mission stuff I don't really touch the thing too much. If you have it replace the default mission generators in the Il-2 directory you can set it and forget it once you start a DCG campaign and only have to open the program up if you want to tweak something. pixelbaron fucked around with this message at 00:00 on May 18, 2015 |
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May 17, 2015 23:55
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Opentrack works in normal play Opentrack does not work when starting a 1946 exe via Hyperlobby pc gaming 
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May 20, 2015 19:27
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Any idea why this keeps happening when I use DCG? (click for big) Look at the bottom-left corner. The start and waypoints are "off the map," and when I spawn into the mission I can't see my cockpit and I'm surrounded by nothingness, with mountains and trees and such way off in the distance (the actual map, I assume).  DCG was working just fine last weekend but now it's doing this stuff and I have no idea why. A fresh DCG install didn't fix it, and it's happening with every nation. Shine fucked around with this message at 02:07 on May 21, 2015 |
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May 21, 2015 02:04
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Shine posted:Any idea why this keeps happening when I use DCG? Turn off air starts.
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May 21, 2015 04:54
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EvilJoven posted:Turn off air starts. That didn't fix it  . It appears to have something to do with using DCG as a DGen replacement. When I manually make campaigns within DCG, it works fine. When I replace DGen, it gets wonky. For now I'll just leave DGen alone.
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May 21, 2015 09:13
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Went back to BoS for a bit today after having fun with 1946 cuz I missed the pretty engine and the flight model (and for some reason I'm godawful at landing in 46) Generated an intercept mission that consisted of a 10 minute flight out to find a single IL-2 which immediately died to AAA, flew back without seeing a single other aircraft. Mission complete 
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May 25, 2015 22:59
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Reztes posted:Went back to BoS for a bit today after having fun with 1946 cuz I missed the pretty engine and the flight model (and for some reason I'm godawful at landing in 46) Generated an intercept mission that consisted of a 10 minute flight out to find a single IL-2 which immediately died to AAA, flew back without seeing a single other aircraft. Mission complete Sounds like an Epic 777 Studios Campaign to me
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May 25, 2015 23:08
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And to think, you not being able to have friends join you for such an epic journey is considered feature complete. Don't forget to support them further by preordering Battle of Moscow for $80, friend.
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May 25, 2015 23:17
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Ya I feel ripped off and theres no way in hell I'm buying anything else from these people
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May 25, 2015 23:32
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It's sad because they could have just taken Rise of Flight, added WW2 planes and a new map, and it would have been nearly perfect. Come out with $20 packs of like five planes once in a while. I would have paid for it. But no, lifeless empty enviroment with a single bland featureless map.
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May 25, 2015 23:37
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Yeah, I dunno how it managed to have less features and stuff than RoF.
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May 25, 2015 23:39
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I thought these dudes were suppose to be the savior of IL-2. What happened?
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May 25, 2015 23:41
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Russian-dev-itis happened.
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May 25, 2015 23:48
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They forgot that they were making a game. Which seems to be an issue with everyone still developing sims these days.
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May 25, 2015 23:59
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Galaga Galaxian posted:Yeah, I dunno how it managed to have less features and stuff than RoF. RoF at least manages to be interesting. The career mode is actually interesting. Seeing how long you'll survive the air war, what new planes get assigned to your squadron and eventually running the thing? Well, hey, that's interesting. Not to mention there's always balloons/planes/ground units and such doing things. That you can shoot down/chase/avoid/intercept/strafe/bomb/rocket/whatever else. Instead you've got 10 planes(2 of which you have to pay extra for), a choice of Intercept/Escort/Ground Attack/Ground Support/Bombing missions(each of which is incredibly predictable, to the point where you do nearly the same thing every single time for each mission type), no career mode to speak of, a really bloody boring map, and a campaign which is actually just choosing which of the 10 planes/6 missions you want to fly. There is nothing in the world outside of your planned route. There is a max of 16(IIRC) planes on each side in existence on a 358 х 230 km map. So in a 82340 EIGHTY TWO THOUSAND THREE HUNDRED AND FORTY SQUARE KILOMETRE MAP OF WHITE AND GREY BLANDNESS, you can have approximately 0.0004 planes per square kilometre! pixelbaron posted:They forgot that they were making a game. Which seems to be an issue with everyone still developing sims these days. Except it's not even that great at being a sim, because there were a lot loving more than 32 planes in the air at a time around Stalingrad.
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MohawkSatan posted:Except it's not even that great at being a sim, because there were a lot loving more than 32 planes in the air at a time around Stalingrad. What I am getting at is they focus so much on the handful of planes and their performance everything else suffers. All they care about is the flight part of the sim and gently caress everything else.
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pixelbaron posted:What I am getting at is they focus so much on the handful of planes and their performance everything else suffers. All they care about is the flight part of the sim and gently caress everything else. Oh yeah, this is entirely true. And don't get me wrong, the planes are a loving fantastic. Except there's nothing else there. At all. Just a void an white noise. I still refuse to buy the extra 'premium' planes, because why the hell would I spend like $20 on a single plane when I could spend $16 and get two plane packs for Rise of Flight? Edit: note that Rise of Flight stuff is currently on sale and cheap as balls. $8 Canadian for a bunch of planes? Yes please.
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May 26, 2015 00:31
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fly in ww2ol, it is ugly but incredibly fun.
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May 26, 2015 00:39
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MohawkSatan posted:Except it's not even that great at being a sim, because there were a lot loving more than 32 planes in the air at a time around Stalingrad. 
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EvilJoven posted:Ya I feel ripped off and theres no way in hell I'm buying anything else from these people You said this after CLOD too, I think. 
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May 26, 2015 05:39
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777 WAS SUPPOSED TO NOT REPEAT ALL THE loving STUPID MISTAKES THAT 1C MADE WITH CLOD AND THEY DIDN'T! They made different mistakes.
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May 26, 2015 06:27
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EvilJoven posted:777 WAS SUPPOSED TO NOT REPEAT ALL THE loving STUPID MISTAKES THAT 1C MADE WITH CLOD AND THEY DIDN'T! And its breaking my loving heart.
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May 26, 2015 06:28
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If EDGE doesn't come out for DCS and IL-2 doesn't turn in to something fun it's a big rear end Welp all the way down.
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May 26, 2015 06:35
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BMS and 1946 4 lyfe son
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May 26, 2015 06:59
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BOS doesn't even support mods does it? So there's no way for the community to fix it like they did for CLOD.
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May 26, 2015 07:54
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I think you can publish mods if someone at 777 manually reviews and signs off on your work. So basically, yeah, no support. I guess they were really scared of someone making porn mods for a flight sim or something? 
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May 26, 2015 08:12
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It would be a huge no-no if anyone were to draw lewd things on their otherwise historically-accurate internet airplanes!
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May 26, 2015 13:34
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There is nothing stopping from making a "Big Dicks Everywhere!" Skin for your favourite plane. Its just that no one else will see it. Skin downloads when you join a server were a feature of previous IL2 games and hence had to be cut... Along with the game part.
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MohawkSatan posted:Except it's not even that great at being a sim, because there were a lot loving more than 32 planes in the air at a time around Stalingrad. Right but by limiting plane count we can properly render period smoke stack emissions and church fences, which I need for ~my immersion~.
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Gotta have that super high-poly canopy with actual 3D scratches that realistically refract light according to the time of day and atmospheric conditions for that location interpolated from real Soviet weather data!!
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