Straight Up Question - IL-2 Purchase

[352ndOscar]

I’ve heard/read different responses, so, I’ll ask again.

 

Can I buy JUST IL-2 Bodenplatte and play Single/Coop/Multiplayer, with myself and others, WITHOUT having to do the “Steam Thing” AND/OR purchase BoS?

 

Thanks in advance....

[Mitthrawnuruodo]

Absolutely. You can buy Bodenplatte from the Il-2 store and play all game modes without needing to purchase any other modules or install Steam.

[Eisenfaustus]

yes - bodenplatte can be bought as standalone on the website

 

if you want it on steam you'd need BoS on steam - but without steam it's standalone

 

Mitthrawnuruodo beat me to it

Edited November 11, 2019 by Eisenfaustus

[Rjel]

I'd highly recommend buying it here and avoiding Steam. Mainly because it's more money for the developers to further the sim, but also that the releases happen come out here first. Sometimes days and even weeks before Steam.

[352ndOscar]

Thank You both.....

 

....All... LOL

Edited November 11, 2019 by 352ndOscar

[FeuerFliegen]

I agree that you should always try to make your purchases directly from IL2Sturmovik.com , as the developers don't have to give any of the profits to another middle man and we will eventually have more resources to put towards future projects.

 

Personally I have never made an IL-2 BoX purchase anywhere other than il2sturmovik.com

[Panzerlang]

A friend of mine bought BoS on steam a few days ago and has had nothing but grief trying to get it to run. First it was a couple of missing .dll files (fixed by installing Visual Studio), then he couldn't get past the "new account" choices on login (kept coming up with "disconnected from master server"). If I'd known before he bought it I would have advised him to order it direct.

[FeuerFliegen]

1 minute ago, J3Hetzer said:

A friend of mine bought BoS on steam a few days ago and has had nothing but grief trying to get it to run. First it was a couple of missing .dll files (fixed by installing Visual Studio), then he couldn't get past the "new account" choices on login (kept coming up with "disconnected from master server"). If I'd known before he bought it I would have advised him to order it direct.

 

Can he get a refund from Steam?  and then purchase it direct?

[MasserME262]

sadly Im one of the "BoS through Steam, >BoS through here" guys, I wish I knew before that I should get everything on here

[Mac_Messer]

I started from BoS activated through Steam. Not one problem, higher dl speeds for updates, and still I can buy any and all IL2 content through IL2 store.

[cardboard_killer]

There are economic advantages to having the game on Steam. I bought BoS on Steam before knowing it was available direct, mostly because I bought IL2-1946 there. I've since bought everything else here, except the recent 66% off sale where I bought two planes I'm actually not interested in flying, but thought at that price I'd go ahead and buy.

 

But it is important that BoX remain on Steam.

[Froddi_VR]

I run it on Steam! No troubles or anything, cant say i remember any trouble with Steam in my 12 years of using it.

[Panzerlang]

Just whatsapped him, he's already done exactly that (refunded the steam purchase and gone direct to IL2.com).