****** Official IL-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Stalingrad ******

A detailed review of Fokker DR1 physics in Flying Circus from current real life owner :D

https://forum.il2sturmovik.com/topic/38067-fokker-dri-discussion/

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See where this chap is taking off and landing from! Easy to go wrong with big trees and all :). Good show.
must have been "exciting" back in the WW1 days.
 
Boycey0211 said:
Only 33pc on Kuban which is annoying, only one I haven't got. Would have bought at 66pc
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Oh yea, sorry I didn't spot that Boycey.

I am a bit confused about the steam thing (which I have to start IL2 COD Blitz with), it says that if you use Kuban through steam you have to purchase Battle of Stalingrad for it to work. BOS is a cheap as chips either way.

Do you chaps run IL2 series through steam or stand alone? What do you recommend?

Btw, I also can no longer log into my steam account, tried password recovery but the email it wants to send it to is not mine. I have contacted technical support and waiting for reply.

I will be hanging out for some meatier discounts on Rise of Flight (I'm pretty skint at mo).
 
I use steam as it's identical to the standalone launcher and like it keeping updated for me, otherwise I forget and when I want to play have to wait hours for an update. I think you have to have BoS but can then have any comboof add-ons after that
 
Winter planes of Stalingrad and summer sea+mountains of Kuban are my favourite in IL2. Not a fan of IL2:Moscow at all, although Bf-109E, P-40 and I-16 are nice planes there.
 
The ME262 is out for those of us daft enough to have bought bodenplatte.

Its a nice change, displays the same silly ground handling as most aircraft (who knew twin jets would torque steer?) but is nice to fly and a nice change.

Unfortunately with that update came for me at least a ton of graphics glitches, in VR its gone from being one of the best looking and performing games to a massive resource hog.
 
Boycey0211 said:
Unfortunately with that update came for me at least a ton of graphics glitches, in VR its gone from being one of the best looking and performing games to a massive resource hog.
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Many thanks for the heads up, I will keep it in offline mode for a while! (Haven't bought the Bodenplatte just yet anyway, so no Me262 to miss out on)
And jets do torque steer btw, just to a lesser degree, from what I've read. But much depends on the jet in question, allegedly F-104 had very strong torque steer. DCS's A-10C needs some pedal correction during takeoff too.
 
Borsch said:
Many thanks for the heads up, I will keep it in offline mode for a while! (Haven't bought the Bodenplatte just yet anyway, so no Me262 to miss out on)
And jets do torque steer btw, just to a lesser degree, from what I've read. But much depends on the jet in question, allegedly F-104 had very strong torque steer. DCS's A-10C needs some pedal correction during takeoff too.
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Oh yeah there's some input required, but I've always found BoS torque on takeoff to be absolutely ridiculous. Absolutely hate taxiing and take off in this game because 70% of the time theres a ground loop and a mission restart involved
 
Boycey0211 said:
Oh yeah there's some input required, but I've always found BoS torque on takeoff to be absolutely ridiculous. Absolutely hate taxiing and take off in this game because 70% of the time theres a ground loop and a mission restart involved
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Considering 11000 of the total 33000 Bf-109 built were lost on take offs and landings https://books.google.co.uk/books?id...XEKHcC4A2kQ6AEwAHoECAwQAQ#v=onepage&q&f=false
I always thought that BOS was too forgiving :p

Yeah, I dunno, I love AFM physics in Rise of Flight, DCS, IL2 and tend to take their word for it. Tricycle gear on BOS P-39 Aircobra also fits the picture with all Cessnas being tricycle and never taildraggers... Although Me-262 is tricycle too of course :) Are you using a twisty joystick or pedals? My conversion to pedals was late, but I could never go back now - the only planes that I still spin from time to time are those that lack a tail wheel lock, like the P-40. Otherwise, lots of opposite rudder in the beginning of the run up and gently increasing power tends to do the trick.
 
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