IL-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Stalingrad Discussion

[Tuna]

I think I got the original through Steam (courtesy of Nef, guess he felt bad for me cause I was laid off  O0). Then I bought Moscow when it was on sale through their site. Even though I got the original through Steam, you don't have to run it through Steam, you can fire it up right off the executable without Steam (because it makes you logon to their site anyways).

[Skoop]

I switched my key to steam and prefer it that way.  You can buy the EA expansions from their site and it automatically activates in steam.  There are no delays or separation like DCS and DCS Steam, it's all one system in IL2. 

The SP career mode is a blast.  It would be great if you could run the career missions in the new coop mode with buddies as wingmen. 

To use the new coop mode, I have to create a quick mission or download a mission and host it with the new interface with in the game.  It's pretty easy to do there's an auto template set with the coop mode and the community already has a running library of coop scenarios to use.

[sandman2575]

The SP career mode is a blast. 

Is the new SP career mode available if you just have Battle of Stalingrad (me) -- or do you need Battle of Moscow as well (not me)?

[Grim.Reaper]

I switched my key to steam and prefer it that way.  You can buy the EA expansions from their site and it automatically activates in steam.  There are no delays or separation like DCS and DCS Steam, it's all one system in IL2. 

The SP career mode is a blast.  It would be great if you could run the career missions in the new coop mode with buddies as wingmen. 

To use the new coop mode, I have to create a quick mission or download a mission and host it with the new interface with in the game.  It's pretty easy to do there's an auto template set with the coop mode and the community already has a running library of coop scenarios to use.

Interesting....so that must mean the expansions are built into some update that is applied to Steam at the same time so that you can play those.  I would prefer getting through steam myself, but was just concerned I wouldn't be able to use the expansions if I ever bought.

[PanzersEast]

The SP career mode is a blast. 

Is the new SP career mode available if you just have Battle of Stalingrad (me) -- or do you need Battle of Moscow as well (not me)?

Available with both through the latest update 3.001.  The patch puts the dynamic campaign career mode in all versions.

[sandman2575]

Available with both through the latest update 3.001.  The patch puts the dynamic campaign career mode in all versions.

Thanks. Dynamic campaign seems to be getting pretty good reviews/feedback.  Am going to have to reinstall this.  And probably buy the P-40 on sale while I'm at it...

[jomni]

Nice. And yet DCS can't pull this off.

[Skoop]

It's not dynamic in the falcon sense where there's a strategy game going on that you control and you jump in and fly missions that affect the outcome.

It's more like the career mode for rise of flight or even the classic IL2.

  The missions are dynamically generated based on the situation depicted on the campaign map, but those maps reflect unchangeable history.  It definitely adds to the flavor and immersion which is a huge improvement over the previous SP content. 

It's more like a WWII pilot RPG than a dynamic campaign.

[Jarhead0331]

Nice. And yet DCS can't pull this off.

Why the need to knock another great game in order to acknowledge something noteworthy of another? BoS used to resemble a mmo console arcade game with unlockables. Nobody compared it unfavorably to DCS then...it took the BoS team years and three separate releases to start to get their act together.

DCS has many campaigns available and a very powerful mission builder and editor. Yes, a dynamic campaign would be nice, but even BoS doesn't have that.

[Silent Disapproval Robot]

Just finished my first Ironman campaign.  More specifically, a Bf-109G-4 finished it for me with a few 20mm shells to the back of my noggin.  I was playing as a Soviet pilot in the Kuban campaign.  I started in P-39s flying for the 16th GIAP.  Racked up a good number of kills but we got stood down for a few days due to losses.  We got resupplied with P-40Es and I got a promotion.  First mission as a P-40 pilot was to escort a flight of Sturmoviks to their target.  They got bounced by some 109s and 190s.  I got target fixated on a 109 going after the IL-2s and never saw his wingman drop in behind me.  Dead on the first burst of fire.  8 missions completed over 14 game days, 15 air-to-air kills, zero ground kills, two bailouts, and a flaming crater for a grave.  Good times!



I think I'll take up a Sturmovik next.  I've always been more partial to ground pounding.  Slow moving targets are easier for me to hit (sadly, so are trees...)

[Jarhead0331]

Just finished my first Ironman campaign.  More specifically, a Bf-109G-4 finished it for me with a few 20mm shells to the back of my noggin.  I was playing as a Soviet pilot in the Kuban campaign.  I started in P-39s flying for the 16th GIAP.  Racked up a good number of kills but we got stood down for a few days due to losses.  We got resupplied with P-40Es and I got a promotion.  First mission as a P-40 pilot was to escort a flight of Sturmoviks to their target.  They got bounced by some 109s and 190s.  I got target fixated on a 109 going after the IL-2s and never saw his wingman drop in behind me.  Dead on the first burst of fire.  8 missions completed over 14 game days, 15 air-to-air kills, zero ground kills, two bailouts, and a flaming crater for a grave.  Good times!



I think I'll take up a Sturmovik next.  I've always been more partial to ground pounding.  Slow moving targets are easier for me to hit (sadly, so are trees...)

Awesome.

I'm going in tonight. Going to fly for the Jerrys.

[JudgeDredd]

I had to buy the Fw-190 and the P-40  :'(

[Tuna]

Just finished my first Ironman campaign.  More specifically, a Bf-109G-4 finished it for me with a few 20mm shells to the back of my noggin.  I was playing as a Soviet pilot in the Kuban campaign.  I started in P-39s flying for the 16th GIAP.  Racked up a good number of kills but we got stood down for a few days due to losses.  We got resupplied with P-40Es and I got a promotion.  First mission as a P-40 pilot was to escort a flight of Sturmoviks to their target.  They got bounced by some 109s and 190s.  I got target fixated on a 109 going after the IL-2s and never saw his wingman drop in behind me.  Dead on the first burst of fire.  8 missions completed over 14 game days, 15 air-to-air kills, zero ground kills, two bailouts, and a flaming crater for a grave.  Good times!



I think I'll take up a Sturmovik next.  I've always been more partial to ground pounding.  Slow moving targets are easier for me to hit (sadly, so are trees...)

Part of getting older.. bad eyes.. slower reflexes.. Ground Pounding still fun!  O0

[Tuna]

I had to buy the Fw-190 and the P-40  :'(

When the FW-190 first came out, I really struggled just taking off.. I think they made it a lil easier after a few patches. Every plane has little idiosyncrasies to make em different. HE 111 is a beast and slow climber.. Russians have those pneumatic brakes that are totally different. JU 88 just takes love taps on the tow brakes. I think I enjoyed the PE2 and JU88 the most of the planes I owned (but I don' have Kuban yet. and I haven't given the IL2 a serious try yet).

[Silent Disapproval Robot]

I didn't have too many problems taking off in the 190 but taxiing to the runway was a bitch.  The one that really gave me fits was the Hs 129.  I must've wrecked two dozen planes ground looping while trying to take off before I got the hang of it.