Windows 10 has finally been certified ready to be released to the greater public, but is it really ready for prime time? A glance around the internet gives mostly positive ‘reviews’ of Microsoft’s new operating system, but reviewing something as ubiquitous as a Microsoft OS is tricky at best and pointless at worse. Unlike iOS, […]
A new breath of life for IL-2 Sturmovik: Cliffs of Dover “Keeping the dream alive” is the slogan of the modders Team Fusion, who have just released a major update to their IL-2 Sturmovik: Cliffs of Dover mod. Dreams aside, the reality for those who aren’t already flying Cliffs of Dover is whether or not […]
In this final article for our IL-2 retrospective, we look at the last chapter in the series, IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946 and what came afterwards – the unique collaboration with a group of modders, Team Daidalos. IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946 (2006) Tom Cofield once again leapt bravely into dark waters predicting in 2006 that IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946 […]
So far we have looked at the first chapters of the IL-2 legend, IL-2 Sturmovik and Forgotten Battles. Now we move from Europe to the Pacific. Fighting the Publisher: IL-2 Pacific Fighters (2004) “…in what has to be the final utilization for the IL-2 engine, Oleg Maddox, Ilya Shevchenko and company have released Pacific Fighters, […]
In our first retrospective article on IL-2 we covered the release of the original IL-2 Sturmovik and took a walk down Oleg Maddox’s memory lane. Gone, But Not Forgotten Following hot on the heels of the successful IL-2 Sturmovik, came the Forgotten Battles release in 2003. This stand-alone title in the series came slightly more […]
Back to Page 1 Microsoft Flight 2012 saw the stillbirth of Microsoft Flight, the supposed successor to the Flight Simulator legacy. Chris “BeachAV8R” gave us a review of Flight here and it was pretty clear that Microsoft’s free-to-play experiment wasn’t exactly going to thrive. Interestingly enough, although the simulation-lite features of Flight were hailed as making Flight more “gamey”, thus more approachable to the average […]
by Erik “EinsteinEP” Pierce 2012 was a turbulent year for the Air Combat and Civil Aviation sim enthusiast. We had plenty of ups (Lunar Flight, IL-2 Sturmovik 4.11m, Falcon 4.0 BMS 4.32, Take On Helicopters) and plenty of downs (IL-2: Cliffs of Dover, Microsoft Flight, DCS World multiplayer), but, overall, a very fulfilling year with lots of new developments to […]
Back to Page 2 A second seat, a second gun From Day One, gunners in RoF seem overpowered. Against the AI (and most beginner players), the exchange ratio is, well, totally devastating to attackers. Of course, historically, there were many unmodeled challenges facing a gunner who as trying to aim a gun (or even rotate it) in […]
New Ground Units Additional ground units are available for mission designers to create even more authentic missions. 6DoF Native 6DoF view support, finally! No more bandits hiding behind struts or tail feathers. True 6DoF is only available to NaturalPoint TrackIR controllers. Other controllers will not be able to roll the camera, hardly a serious handicap. […]
by Erik “EinsteinEP” Pierce Introduction 2011 was a banner year for the simulation industry, especially for the flight sim community. Team Daidalos, the group chosen to officially continue development and support of the IL-2legacy, has set 2012 off to a good start by releasing 4.11m for IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946 that includes a number of features that bring the aging […]
A Second Opinion by FearlessFrog Ah, IL-2 Sturmovik: Cliffs of Dover, so many things to say. I’ve been eagerly following this title since the day of its release back in April 2011, where even buying the game came with the adventure of guessing whatever the Russian for “credit card” was. Since that day I’ve played about […]
Opinion by Tom “WKLINK” Cofield It is amazing how ten years change things. I started writing this opinion piece covering Ubisoft and 1C’s roll out (if you want to call it that) of the new IL-2 Sturmovik: Cliffs of Doverquite a while back. As most of us already know the development and release of the follow […]
