IL-2 Sturmovik: Cliffs of Dover Anounnced with 128 player multiplayer

Supposedly we're getting an official announcement from UBI sometime this week in regards to the sim.
 
Ok, we have an official release date of March :)

http://www.1cpublishing.eu/news/1c-and-ubisoft-announce-il-2-sturmovik-cliffs-of-dover

1C and Ubisoft Announce IL-2 Sturmovik: Cliffs of Dover
World famous IL-2 Sturmovik series of flight simulators roars over Britain. 1C Company and Ubisoft announced that IL-2 Sturmovik: Cliffs of Dover (for PC) will take off in March 2011.
IL-2 Sturmovik: Cliffs of Dover is the latest instalment in the acclaimed IL-2 Sturmovik series from award-winning developer 1C: Maddox Games.

IL-2 Sturmovik: Cliffs of Dover takes place in 1940 during the pivotal aerial battle for the skies over Britain between the British, the German and the Italian air forces.
Key Features:
• New aircraft: incredibly detailed true-to-life modeling of aircraft systems based on thousands of hours of dedicated research. Every single aircraft component can be damaged for realistic and immensely satisfying results.
- Flyable aircraft – Over a dozen famous and highly detailed English, German and Italian aircraft available, with all crew positions open to players. All flyable aircraft have been painstakingly researched, resulting in incredibly accurate cockpit interiors (including Spitfire, Hurricane, Messerschmitt and the Stuka).
- Non-flyable aircraft – 13 AI controlled additional aircraft are also available to allow an even more accurate and immersive experience thanks to a varied aircraft.
• Immersive game modes:
- Exciting Single-Player Campaign – The campaign thrusts the player into the middle of the battle. The player will join the British Air Force to fight the German forces and renegade pilots on his own side.
- Massive multiplayer – Customizable modes range from simple deathmatch-style free-for-alls to epic, ongoing 128 player battles that can last hours, days, weeks, or even longer.
- Interactive training – Comprehensive interactive training for new players – fly a real WWII trainer plane with a computer controlled instructor through a series of training missions.

• Brand new setting – The battle will take place on a large area spanning London and southern England in the north, to Northern France and Belgium in the south. The huge map will contain thousands of historical cities, towns, roads, airfields, radar stations, ports, and industrial areas – all located exactly where they were in 1940.
• New 3D engine – Latest-gen graphics engine with DX10 and DX11 API support. Huge variety of photorealistic ground vehicles, buildings and other environmental elements recreate minute details of 1940s Europe.
• Customizable difficulty – dozens of realism options allow newcomers to the franchise to reduce the difficulty and focus on the fun while learning the ropes of being a pilot.

1C and Ubisoft also announced that IL-2 Sturmovik: Cliffs of Dover will be available in a special Collector’s Edition, along-side the standalone version.
This Collector’s Edition features the following collection of exclusive pilot material assets in a premium packaging:
- The Windows PC version of IL-2 Sturmovik: Cliffs of Dover
- A cloth pilot escape map showing The Battle of Britain strategic locations
- A replica of the Pilot’s Notes on the Spitfire I Aeroplane, provided to RAF pilots during The Battle of Britain and reprinted from the RAF Museum original document
- An in-depth 150-page ring binder pilot instructions
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One time activation via internet for DRM according to a german UBI rep, no constant connection required.
 
Eames said:
Is this game going to be as hardcore as the original il2?

Well I guess il2 was adjustable to how hardcore you wanted it, will this game be hardcore if you turn all the help off?
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It'll be configurable again, hopefully the UI will be a bit easier to use this time around though.
 
S! Slap :)

Definite upgrade on the cards for me, waiting until after release though as I want to see just how it'll run on my current rig, I feel like a kid at xmas and we've still got two months to go, not sure I can handle it lol :D
 
Official requirements:

IL-2 Sturmovik: Cliffs of Dover system requirements


OPERATING SYSTEM: Windows® 7 / Vista SP2 / Windows XP SP3
PROCESSOR: Pentium® Dual-Core 2.0GHz or Athlon™ X2 3800+ (Intel Core i5 2.66GHz or AMD Phenom II X4 2.6GHz recommended)
RAM: 2GB (4GB recommended)
VIDEO CARD: DirectX® 9.0c compliant, 512Mb Video Card (1GB DirectX® 10 recommended) - See supported List*
DIRECT X®: DirectX® 9.0c or DirectX® 10 (included on disc)
DVD-ROM DRIVE: 8X
SOUND CARD: DirectX 9.0c compatible
HARD DISK: 10GB
PERIPHERALS: Mouse, keyboard (joystick with throttle and rudder control recommended)
MULTIPLAY: Broadband connection with 128 kbps upstream or faster

*SUPPORTED VIDEO CARDS AT TIME OF RELEASE:
ATI® 4850/4870/5830/5850/5770/5870/6870/6950/6970
NVidia®: 8800/9800/250/260/275/285/460/465/470/480
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Uther said:
Well some known names in here lol!
System specs are nowhere near as high as I thought they would be luckily!
Now,if only there was somewhere other than ubi to buy it.
I will if I have to,but the two usual suspects don't have it yet,so I am starting to think ubi might have tied up the market in the UK. :(
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I take it you missed this post over at the banana forum then :)

http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showpost.php?p=217266&postcount=11
 
Well... it looks like Steam is required so we can only speculate that it'll be available to purchase on Steam at some point. To be honest, UBI is doing a bloody poor job of giving us any decent information.
 
XRAY said:
Is this what became of "Storm of War: Battle of Britain"?
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Yes, name change by the publishers.

Joystick not required but will make a massive difference.

Copy protection, whine to UBI, it's not that bad compared to lots of stuff out there.
 
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