il2 sturmovik
 

I just ordered il2 today and was wondering a little about it. All I know is that its supposably pretty good and has a good modding community. Is there any big mods that are a "must have" such as GWX is to sh3? And whats the campaign mode like if you were playing as a german officer. Do you start in the beginning on the war and does it end at the end with Germany untimately losing?

Thanks in advance

*fanfare*

"IL2 isnt really moddable. Been playing it from the first game "IL2-Sturmovik". Which version you did order? The 'IL2-Sturmovik' or something else? IL2: 1946 is the latest and contains every payware official addons, so I'd recommend you order that

From the pile of potatoes with love,
Dowly"

I got the 1946 edition

I downloaded a free trial of IL-2 Sturmovik (the first game) and thought it was great. I am also thinking about getting 1946, mainly because there are about 296 flyable aircraft! And the game is about 2947 times better than the MS Combat Flight Sim series lol. Let us know if it's worth it!

296 ? isnt it around 229* or something ?

I now have IL-2 1946! and it's very good, in fact it's phenominaly good. It's not very clear how many planes there actually are (there's a lot!) but you get even more with the patches ubi are releasing.:D

Is it like CFS3 and you can change the outcome of the war? I hated that about cfs3

No, the built-in campaign generator can be affected but in a small way by your actions...scripted (a few are included as well) campaigns not at all.

nice. glad to hear that. Is there any modding sites or community sites like subsim for il2?

Not really, though you should check out the official ubi forums for it. IL-2 is not moddable per se, BUT you can find a lot of very good skins for it, along with some very nice user-made scripted campaigns. Otherwise most of the IL-2 data is closed, which means you'll find nothing like realism mods, add-on units or new maps, because they don't exist.

If you plan to play random/dynamic campaigns, I highly suggest you get IL2DCG however, a sort of SHIII Commander of IL-2 campaign generation (as in, a real must-have):

http://www.lowengrin.com/news.php

I have dbg and having a hard time with it. Also I can't get anyone to authorize me for the dcg forums

I guess i will get IL2 1946 for bday

Best thing that happened to IL2 is the hyperlobby client that connects everyone to coop, online campaigns, and join-in-progress team on team missions.

You can download it here:
http://hyperfighter.sk/

Other than that the only modding you can do is collect and replace aircraft and pilot skins.

Sites with skins:
http://forums.ubi.com/eve/ubb.x?a=fr...102&f=45410763
http://www.1java.org
http://www.simmerspaintshop.com/
http://www.flying-legends.net/
http://members.cox.net/cx570578a/_htmdir/_HomePg.html
http://www.cptfarrels.com/
http://www.gavca.com/
http://www.flugzeugwerk.net/
http://www.nnavirex.com/
http://www.il2-skins.de/index.html
http://zargos-skins.checksix-fr.com/home_gb.htm
http://www.rowlinson.ca/il2/FB_Skins.shtml
http://il2skins.free.fr/
http://personal.telefonica.terra.es...asasa/index.htm
www.freewebs.com/il2skins
www.warwingsart.com
http://www.warcry.hu/
http://www.vpmedia.hu/il2/
http://rafiger.de/
http://sturmoajosse.free.fr/
http://www.robert-stuart.me.uk/il2/downloads/
http://www.theafsg.com/
http://www.netwings.org/library/For...ns/index-3.html
http://www.canons-skins.com/
http://www.777avg.com/skins/
http://pavlac.free.fr/
http://www.checksix-fr.com/
http://foobarskins.mexxoft.com?lan=en
http://www.web-wings.co.uk/chrisbroad/VWA/
http://www.virtualwarbirdart.co.uk/

Instructional Videos on how to high-altitude level bomb, dive bomb, skip bomb, and avoid AA defenses.
http://www.darts-page.com/

Other Utilities I use:
http://www.uberdemon.com/ (Single and Multiplayer Mission Generator)
http://www.lowengrin.com (Single and Multiplayer Campaign Generator)
IL2 Manager (for tweaking the game)
Hardball's Aircraft Viewer (to compare stats of one plane with another)
IL2 Stab (for tweaking the game)

This is currently the popular site for updated downloads:
http://mission4today.com/index.php?name=Downloads&c=1

this game is beautiful on perfect settings. Thanks for the tips guys, im gonna spend the next couple days learning this. Whooo, what a curve for someone who knows so little about aviation

Ooh, then you chose a nice place to start :up:

IL-2 is very intuitive, I'm sure you'll be flying high and landing upright in no time :yep:

http://www.mission4today.com/

there you go, on that site you can download many cool stuff, like campaigns, and skins etc. I'll link to some of my favourites:

http://mission4today.com/index.php?n...etails&id=1856
Campaign where you fly as a pilot of the Peruvian airforce.

http://www.mission4today.com/index.p...details&id=309
Campaign where you play as an english fighter pilot at Malta (Map:Okinawa)

http://www.mission4today.com/index.p...details&id=116
This one is very good. A campaign where you fly as an greek fighter pilot during the italian invasion, and then later the german invasion.