dinosaurJR
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Hey guys - dinosaurJR here!
Lately, I have been gravitating away from my usual modeling / texturing work and have been experimenting more and more lately with the above mentioned IL-2 Sturmovik.
I guess a lot of you guys have either played / heard of / own this game?? I know Thunderfoot does, as he was the one that sik'd me onto it in the first place (good call mate, its probably the most fun Ive ever had with my clothes on... Swimming at the beach aside...
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For those who dont know, IL-2 Sturmovik started out around 10 years ago as a simple combat flight sim, based on the Eastern Front of WW2... Over the last decade, it has been patched to heck and back, then there once more for good measure, modded up the wazoo and generally made better and better in every possible way... Kind like our beloved Star Trek Armada Series...
And like Armada, it still has a strong following - there are still to this day modders, many, many modders and the humble sim that started out on the Eastern Front ca. 1941 has now taken us from desperate combat above the Somme, ca. 1916 through the Spanish Civil War, the Phoney War, The Battle and subsequent Fall of France, The Battle Of Britain, The Siege of Malta, The North Africa Campaign, The Invasion of Italy, The Balkan Campaign, Operation Overlord, The Advance into Germany and the Fall of the Third Reich... But it didnt stop there, no siree bob! The Pacific Fighters add on brought the Corsair, the Zero, The Wildcat, the Hell cat, The island hopping campaign and the fall of japan too!! We now have mods for the Korean War too; and rumored to be coming soon, the Vietnam war...
Yep - everything from the Humble Sopwith Pup - The Eindekker or the Dr1 through the Spitfire, Hurricane, Bf 109, MiG3, IL-2 (of course!) The Lancaster, The Catalina, the deadly Zero, the P-47, the Mustang, B-17, to the P-80, F-84, F-86 Sabre, the Sea Fury, the MiG9, the MiG15, MiG17... So many aircraft, all flyable (well, 99% at least...) And the maps! So many maps, with new ones coming all the time. Campaigns and missions too are easy to create yourself (much like mapping in A2...)
Anyways - enough of my gushing here... I was just wondering if y'all had heard of it... Its awesome and well worth the 9.00€ price right now on Steam...
Lately, I have been gravitating away from my usual modeling / texturing work and have been experimenting more and more lately with the above mentioned IL-2 Sturmovik.
I guess a lot of you guys have either played / heard of / own this game?? I know Thunderfoot does, as he was the one that sik'd me onto it in the first place (good call mate, its probably the most fun Ive ever had with my clothes on... Swimming at the beach aside...
)For those who dont know, IL-2 Sturmovik started out around 10 years ago as a simple combat flight sim, based on the Eastern Front of WW2... Over the last decade, it has been patched to heck and back, then there once more for good measure, modded up the wazoo and generally made better and better in every possible way... Kind like our beloved Star Trek Armada Series...
And like Armada, it still has a strong following - there are still to this day modders, many, many modders and the humble sim that started out on the Eastern Front ca. 1941 has now taken us from desperate combat above the Somme, ca. 1916 through the Spanish Civil War, the Phoney War, The Battle and subsequent Fall of France, The Battle Of Britain, The Siege of Malta, The North Africa Campaign, The Invasion of Italy, The Balkan Campaign, Operation Overlord, The Advance into Germany and the Fall of the Third Reich... But it didnt stop there, no siree bob! The Pacific Fighters add on brought the Corsair, the Zero, The Wildcat, the Hell cat, The island hopping campaign and the fall of japan too!! We now have mods for the Korean War too; and rumored to be coming soon, the Vietnam war...
Yep - everything from the Humble Sopwith Pup - The Eindekker or the Dr1 through the Spitfire, Hurricane, Bf 109, MiG3, IL-2 (of course!) The Lancaster, The Catalina, the deadly Zero, the P-47, the Mustang, B-17, to the P-80, F-84, F-86 Sabre, the Sea Fury, the MiG9, the MiG15, MiG17... So many aircraft, all flyable (well, 99% at least...) And the maps! So many maps, with new ones coming all the time. Campaigns and missions too are easy to create yourself (much like mapping in A2...)
Anyways - enough of my gushing here... I was just wondering if y'all had heard of it... Its awesome and well worth the 9.00€ price right now on Steam...
I can't even scrach his plane and he already shoot me down... I don't play it any more 