IL-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Stalingrad Discussion

[Gusington]

Eastern Front of WWII (and WWI incidentally) has always been the most fascinating to me.

Just to be certain here: there is a solid SP campaign for Battle of Stalingrad, right? Everything I have read indicates that there is.

[Silent Disapproval Robot]

Similar in look and feel to how the campaign system from Rise of Flight works.

[Gusington]

Good enough. Just the fact that it is the Battle of Stalingrad is the draw.

[JasonPratt]

Good enough. Just the fact that it is the Battle of Stalingrad is the draw.

"Blazing Steppes" (which is cheap right now) has its own narrative IL-2 campaign, too, over Stalingrad.

[Gusington]

^Yeah I saw that but before I dive that deep I want to just dip my toe in the original campaign. The last ten years have not been proud ones for me for flight sims...I have such excitement and high hopes but then they become very difficult for me to learn. I have read on Steam that BoS is less unforgiving for n00bs, thus my interest (besides it being on the Eastern Front, etc.)

That said, I am planning on getting the Hs129 DLC for some tank killin'.

[Skoop]

Love the Hs129 too, but it was historically a bust.  Not as good at tank killing as it was suppose to be.  Tank killing improved when they modded antitank rockets to the wings and tungsten rounds to the belly gun.  The late war model with the 75mm AT gun mounted in the belly was a beast in original IL2, but historically never saw combat.  Most pilots saw it as a death trap with no defensive gunners.

Rudel, Germany's ground attack ace, preferred the twin cannon 37mm stuka with tungsten rounds for tank killing.


The 1943 IL2 model that drops PTAB AT mass bomblets from the bomb bays was game changer for killing entire columns of vehicles.

[Gusington]

 :dreamer:

[Silent Disapproval Robot]

I find the Hs129 to be the hardest plane to fly in the game.  Taxi and take-off is very difficult.  It's really hard to keep the thing from ground looping.  Once you do get it up in the air, it feels very under-powered.  It takes a long time to climb and it feels nose heavy no matter how you trim it.  The damn thing just wants to crash.  Strafing with it is hard because it sucks so badly at climbing.  After 2-3 passes, you've lost so much energy that you have to bugger off and spend a few minutes climbing back up high enough to be able to make a few more passes.

[Yskonyn]

Is there a difference between ordering at their site or over at Steam (like DCS)? Or does one buy Steam keys at their website as well?

[JasonPratt]

Those reviews are equivalent to Steam reviews for "the flying Duck", too. It's fun to play as a piece of history and a challenge, but isn't as effective as the Stuka or BF-110. (The latter of which is stock for one of the DLC operations, I forget which, Moscow I think. But which you can't buy as DLC, through Steam anyway.)

[Pete Dero]

Is there a difference between ordering at their site or over at Steam (like DCS)? Or does one buy Steam keys at their website as well?

https://forum.il2sturmovik.com/topic/37142-heads-up-changes-coming-to-il-2-steam-integration/?tab=comments#comment-626889

[Gusington]

Bf110 and the Stuka are some of my favorite aircraft, since I was a kid playing LucasArts Battle of Britain. I even enjoyed being the gunner in both.

[Yskonyn]

Thanks Pete!  :bd:

[Gusington]

OK so I bought the base game and fired it up.

It was in windowed mode to I put it in to full screen mode and futzed around with the resolution. I maxed it out, so much so that the options menu on the intro screen was inaccessible. To get it back I modified the startup .cfg file and put the resolution back down to 1920 x 1080.

Only issue now is the menu text and Steam comes up with blurry text. I tried changing the resolution and a couple of other graphics changes but I can't get ride of this blurry text. I even re-installed but it didn't work. No other games have this issue.

Any idea on how to get crisp text back? It was fine when I booted the game up the very first time. Graphics appear to be fine...no blur.

[JasonPratt]

REEEFUNNNDDD!

>:D

I don't know the answer, but my bet would be on some problem interfacing with Windows' dot-per-inch text modifier.