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Should be. Tried it in VR and its great. Simpler aircraft makes it more natural to run in VR over DCS.
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Aug 21, 2022 02:38
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I haven't bought it yet, but Battle of Normandy is officially out of early access. Looks like a good module for later-war German, British and US planes. They also advertise big changes to the damage modeling for all planes. At some point I'll stop being too old and tired to play this game.
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Sep 10, 2022 17:01
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I hope this brings the ability for a Battle of Britain scenario within Great Battles. It would be cool to do a full war scenario from start to finish. I know CoD exists but GB is superior imo if only for the UI and controls.
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Sep 10, 2022 18:21
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dialhforhero posted:I hope this brings the ability for a Battle of Britain scenario within Great Battles. It would be cool to do a full war scenario from start to finish. I wholly agree, but the devs have said it's not going to happen as they do not want to compete with CloD. 
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Sep 10, 2022 21:59
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This is the first IL-2 module I didn't buy early access. Idk I just really want them to do pacific theater at this point. I don't really need more German/American planes. I'll pick it up when it goes on sale.
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Sep 11, 2022 00:20
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Popete posted:This is the first IL-2 module I didn't buy early access. Idk I just really want them to do pacific theater at this point. I don't really need more German/American planes. While I did but it on early access, I echo your sentiments about the planeset and theater. I've had some fun with the razorback Thunderbolt, but the rest of it is really ho-hum. I just cannot seem to really get into this game. I go in spats where I'll play a bit, but then I drop it for ages. I didn't realize for three or four days that Normandy had dropped. I think the core issue is that single player is an afterthought and that's all I really play. Sure, they've added career modes and the advanced QMB, but the core SP gameplay is boring. The braindead AI, enemies with omniscient spotting, and the goddamn awful radio calls ("ROUGHMAN. 2IMONfirebailingout") all conspire to make me put the game away pretty quickly after dusting it off.
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Sep 11, 2022 01:12
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So the C-47 is a thing now 
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Nov 24, 2022 00:55
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Seems like they may be gearing up to announce the Pacific theater is coming next. Their recent dev blogs talk about spending a lot of time upgrading the engine to keep pace with other flight sims.
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Nov 24, 2022 01:11
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Popete posted:Seems like they may be gearing up to announce the Pacific theater is coming next. Their recent dev blogs talk about spending a lot of time upgrading the engine to keep pace with other flight sims. Didn't Jason just come out recently to adamantly denounce the idea of Pacific stuff? They've said for years that they don't have enough flight data on Japanese planes to develop them to their "exacting standards" or some such... and carriers are absolutely impossible™ right? I would absolutely love to see a Pacific campaign with or without carriers, but they've been pretty forthcoming in saying that they're not interested in it despite the fact that quite a few of the Allied a/c present in the early war Pacific campaign have already been modeled.
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Nov 24, 2022 01:57
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Honestly just replacing CoD by having it be in the Great Battles series would be fine by me. Massive bomber formations from early to late war would be rad as hell.
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Nov 24, 2022 03:21
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Gewehr 43 posted:Didn't Jason just come out recently to adamantly denounce the idea of Pacific stuff? They've said for years that they don't have enough flight data on Japanese planes to develop them to their "exacting standards" or some such... and carriers are absolutely impossible™ right? I would absolutely love to see a Pacific campaign with or without carriers, but they've been pretty forthcoming in saying that they're not interested in it despite the fact that quite a few of the Allied a/c present in the early war Pacific campaign have already been modeled. So this was from a recent devblog. I suppose it's probably not Pacific but I'm curios what the new theater will be if it needs to be refreshed in the public memory. quote:Fourth, we have already started the creation of the technical design documents for the new aircraft and one of these aircraft is already in development. The work on new pilots models is already underway. The pre-production of the new map has started - our designers are doing various research on the new area. This work is very extensive and complex because the chosen theatre of war is very interesting and visually appealing. But the reference documents and materials are not easy to come by. In fact, as it was before in our team experience, it looks like we'll not only create a new memorable realistic combat sim, but make a contribution to the history as a science by uncovering new data. At the very least we'll do our part in refreshing the public memory of these events.
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Nov 24, 2022 03:38
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Popete posted:So this was from a recent devblog. I suppose it's probably not Pacific but I'm curios what the new theater will be if it needs to be refreshed in the public memory. Maybe they're referring to the aerial combat depicted in the 2012 documentary 'Iron Sky'? I don't think the theatre has been touched by anyone else since then  (But yeah, hopefully the Pacific will get some attention sooner or later. Even if there aren't any carriers and it's just using island-based airfields, or something)
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Nov 24, 2022 03:41
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I'll hazard a guess and say I think it will be the air war over China. Wouldn't require carriers and they already have the P-40 and I-16 for China to use.
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Nov 24, 2022 03:43
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My guess is Italy. No one knows poo poo about Italy. Less than Africa. China sounds cool too though.
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Nov 24, 2022 03:45
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Popete posted:I'll hazard a guess and say I think it will be the air war over China. Wouldn't require carries and they already have the P-40 and I-16 for China to use. Yeah, I was wondering about that. Hopefully they do Spain at some point, too. I don't know about you, but I'd love to fly an I-16 over the streets of Madrid!
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Nov 24, 2022 03:47
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Why do they say it’s impossible to do carriers?
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Nov 24, 2022 03:52
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Major Isoor posted:Yeah, I was wondering about that. Hopefully they do Spain at some point, too. I don't know about you, but I'd love to fly an I-16 over the streets of Madrid! Spain would be very cool! Not so hot on Italy myself but I think that's also a likely candidate. I really just want to get back into the Pacific even if it starts with China and no carriers. Get me into a zero again. I wonder if they're worried about doing carrier battles properly with the maps just being large stretches of open water and not very conducive to making a campaign. I think if they did something centered around Guadalcanal that could be really neat too and maybe you don't need carriers? Although Rabaul is pretty far away so I doubt you fit all that on one map. Popete fucked around with this message at 04:07 on Nov 24, 2022 |
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Nov 24, 2022 04:04
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Not implementing carriers is just a means to hide from having to code a carrier working properly.
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Nov 24, 2022 05:32
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MrMojok posted:Why do they say it’s impossible to do carriers? because waves iirc
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Nov 24, 2022 12:59
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MrMojok posted:Why do they say it’s impossible to do carriers? "~x#reasons#x~" to paraphrase.
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Nov 24, 2022 19:09
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Given DCS implementation of carriers they could be right
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Nov 24, 2022 19:45
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After much hype IL-2 has announced it's next big project. Operation Overlord quote:At the player’s disposal is a map measuring 346 by 311 kilometers (the area, therefore, is almost 108 thousand square kilometers), on which there are about a hundred unique airfields. The British coast, a significant piece of Normandy, and the strait between them are completely accessible for flights. Chronologically, the career mode covers the period from April 15 to August 22, 1944. That is, it will be possible to take part in preparations for the landing, and in D-Day itself, and in subsequent battles until the actual completion of the Normandy operation, and the assault of allied troops deep into the continent. The situation at the front and the appearance of the terrain will change as the game time moves in accordance with how real historical events developed. For example, flying over the beaches after landing, you will notice how temporary wharves are being built on them to help the transfer of the bulk of the troops. The weather also, where possible, repeats the real one, according to archival data. In other words, the game offers the maximum historically reliable immersion in the era, achievable with the currently existing technologies. Gotta say, I was really hoping for a new theater. Not sure why they went with another D-Day expansion after they just put out Normandy. Kinda disappointing.
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Jan 16, 2023 19:45
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How many BF-109 variants are even left? I'm pretty sure they're just making up new ones at this point.
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Jan 16, 2023 19:52
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Bf109 Q7 with 50mm cannon and RATO pods
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Jan 16, 2023 20:06
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I'll leave it up as a monument to me being bad at reading but apparently that was just an ad for Battle of Normandy and not a newly announced expansion.
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Jan 16, 2023 20:08
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There's no way this is the poo poo they were talking about before right?
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Jan 16, 2023 20:58
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Popete posted:I'll leave it up as a monument to me being bad at reading but apparently that was just an ad for Battle of Normandy and not a newly announced expansion. Man, I don't blame you, because I read that fuckin thing three times to figure out what they were actually announcing, if anything.
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Jan 16, 2023 21:36
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Squiggle posted:Man, I don't blame you, because I read that fuckin thing three times to figure out what they were actually announcing, if anything. Glad I'm not the only one. Also didn't Battle of Normandy come out months ago? Kinda odd to put out a press release announcing it now and then give it an alternate name.
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Jan 16, 2023 23:03
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Honestly? I STILL don't know if that's announcing something new or not
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Jan 17, 2023 00:07
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That is Paradise Garage levels of "hella words about nothing." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5laG1E0Q4b8
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Jan 17, 2023 01:22
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Squiggle posted:Honestly? I STILL don't know if that's announcing something new or not I asked on their forums and a moderator confirmed it was just a Battle of Normandy ad. Kind of funny cause everyone has been waiting for them to announce their hyped up next theater/battle/project.
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Jan 17, 2023 02:23
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I don't have high hopes for the future of the series since it was bought out and the new owners drove Jason out.
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Jan 17, 2023 02:29
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Popete posted:How many BF-109 variants are even left? I'm pretty sure they're just making up new ones at this point. Sadly we got like forty to go. Some of them just had a different radio.
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Jan 17, 2023 02:42
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Probably going to get back into this for a bit since I decided to gently caress around and buy a couple throttle quadrants and a yoke so I can fully immerse myself in a c-47. Anyone want to do some bombers/sky-truckers with me soon? Would be cool to have about 3-4 A-20s or HE-111s or just massively resupply all airfields in Finnish with cargo and then some fighter escorts, too.
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Mar 3, 2023 21:55
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Popete posted:Glad I'm not the only one. Also didn't Battle of Normandy come out months ago? Kinda odd to put out a press release announcing it now and then give it an alternate name. the most significant thing about the announcement is that they seem to be focusing on making a campaign thats similar to the ones in Rise of Flight but iirc the devs did an interview and didnt want to say what the next major theater was until they were sure they could do it itll be another decade before we see pacific campaign probably even though that'd be the easiest thing ever to map once they figure out carriers lol
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Mar 4, 2023 05:37
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Assuming they won’t do a BoFrance or BoBritain or North Africa so they don’t compete with CloD, that leaves Italy, the Balkans, and China. I would assume Italy first since it may be less new assets to create and it is more known and fits with the EuroTheater. And there are those weirdos who like Italian planes.
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Mar 4, 2023 12:53
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Italian planes ate like Italian cars and if you don't like them you just don't like planes or cars 
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ThisIsJohnWayne posted:Italian planes ate like Italian cars and if you don't like them you just don't like planes or cars Tell me more about the love for, and quality of, Fiat.
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dialhforhero posted:Tell me more about the love for, and quality of, Fiat. Fix... it... again...
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