Very new player question

[Valdengard]

Hey mates, i watched some videos on youtube, buyed a thrustmaster16000 and sturmovik normandy, i am interested by singleplayer mostly, but let me ask the question if its possible to start something like an "open world" against bots. just something like theres allies and enemys fighting against, but u are free to join a fight or fly through?

sorry for noobish question. would appreciate a warm answer ? ❤️

[Valdengard]

To be precise: is there a mode in which there is a front line where fighting
 takes place and you can intervene in the battles in the open world yourself
and this has an impact on the war

Edited July 21, 2023 by Valdengard

[DD_Crash]

Is this what you are looking for?

https://forum.il2sturmovik.com/forum/99-pat-wilson-campaign-generator/

[Valdengard]

holy shiiiiiet ? this needs to be analyzed for a while i think. ? im totally fresh to sturmovik, im struggling with controlls etc etc. but this is one of the best games ive ever played so i try to stick on this. this pat wilson think i need to take a closer look.

in short and precised: i just think about an "open" map, were u can land on ur spots, start on ur spots and fly around, meeting bots on the frontline to fight them, see battles, and give it a small impact by urself. dont know how to articulate this better.

[Valdengard]

well pretty sure i got a better articulation for what im searching ? i dont wanna do missions, just cruising around, searching fights at the frontline, backup at airport, coming back to fight again. ^^

[Rjel]

1 hour ago, Valdengard said:

well pretty sure i got a better articulation for what im searching ? i dont wanna do missions, just cruising around, searching fights at the frontline, backup at airport, coming back to fight again. ^^

If you're looking for random encounters, as in seeing different A/C in different places, the stock sim doesn't do that. If you fly a mission, either QMB or a stock scripted type mission, then your starting place along with the enemy's will always be the same. Same objective, same plane. The exception will be if you choose a Random enemy in the QMB. Then you might see some variation.

 

There is a Random Mission generator available but I've not used it much so I'm unfamiliar to how it might apply to your questions.

 

Edited July 21, 2023 by Rjel
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[SharpeXB]

3 hours ago, Valdengard said:

well pretty sure i got a better articulation for what im searching ? i dont wanna do missions, just cruising around, searching fights at the frontline, backup at airport, coming back to fight again. ^^

Try the Career Mode included with the game. I think that seems like what you’re looking for. 

[AEthelraedUnraed]

4 hours ago, Valdengard said:

well pretty sure i got a better articulation for what im searching ? i dont wanna do missions, just cruising around, searching fights at the frontline, backup at airport, coming back to fight again. ^^

Nope, there's no such thing. The Career and/or PWCG create missions with an objective that you're supposed to complete and a route that you're supposed to follow.

 

The closest to what you seem to be looking for are the Quick Missions. Just select one of the icons with multiple blue and multiple red aircraft. You can then select which friendlies and which enemies you want. This'll give a huge fight. You can just leave and land at a random airport whenever you want.

[von_Tom]

Or this 

 

 

You can put in your parameters and create missions.  If you create a dogfight mission you can host it yourself (withg a password so you stay on your own) and can fly around.

 

You may find that just flying around gets stale after a while and that you want more purpose, and that is where the campaigns come in.

 

von Tom

[Valdengard]

thank u all for ur good and helpfull advise and tips. i appreciated ur time and help ❤️

 

[Rjel]

5 hours ago, Valdengard said:

thank u all for ur good and helpfull advise and tips. i appreciated ur time and help ❤️

 

You'll find there are many helpful folks here. Enjoy learning the sim. Countless hours of entertainment are in store.

[FeuerFliegen]

Multiplayer, both Finnish Virtual Pilots and TAW (Tactical Air War) have dynamic campaigns where you can basically do what you mentioned, and it will have an effect on the overall map and war effort.

[Vishnu]

On 7/21/2023 at 4:28 AM, DD_Crash said:

Is this what you are looking for?

https://forum.il2sturmovik.com/forum/99-pat-wilson-campaign-generator/

Cannot recommend this enough!   Download this.   You won’t be disappointed.  

[R33GZ]

On 7/21/2023 at 10:19 PM, Valdengard said:

Hey mates, i watched some videos on youtube, buyed a thrustmaster16000 and sturmovik normandy, i am interested by singleplayer mostly, but let me ask the question if its possible to start something like an "open world" against bots. just something like theres allies and enemys fighting against, but u are free to join a fight or fly through?

sorry for noobish question. would appreciate a warm answer ? ❤️

It can be done, but not without a mind numbing amount of work. You essentially would need to create and populate a map with blue and red forces, create spawnable airfields for both and then create a full host of AI ground and air units that can be intercepted and interdicted. Then you would need to host it somehow so you could join it as an online server.

 

The above is basically what TAW and sometimes Combat Box is... but they are full realism servers with locked cockpits ie. no external views

[FeuerFliegen]

For single player, I think you might enjoy this.  I personally love it.

 

https://forum.il2sturmovik.com/topic/63267-released-the-kuban-wall-campaignmissions-version-2-part-1-update-500b/

Edited July 25, 2023 by LukeFF
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[SYN_Vander]

On 7/23/2023 at 12:26 AM, R33GZ said:

It can be done, but not without a mind numbing amount of work. You essentially would need to create and populate a map with blue and red forces, create spawnable airfields for both and then create a full host of AI ground and air units that can be intercepted and interdicted. Then you would need to host it somehow so you could join it as an online server.

 

The above is basically what TAW and sometimes Combat Box is... but they are full realism servers with locked cockpits ie. no external views

 

FYI, the Easy Mission Generator can do exactly this if you select "dogfight" MP mode and select a fair number of "ambient AI". You can also have multiple objectives.

Then, run the mission on you local machine and you can spawn and respawn at your leisure....

 

https://sites.google.com/view/il2-great-battles-emg/home?authuser=0

 

 

[IckyATLAS]

On 7/25/2023 at 3:14 AM, SCG_FeuerFliegen said:

For single player, I think you might enjoy this.  I personally love it.

 

https://forum.il2sturmovik.com/topic/63267-released-the-kuban-wall-campaignmissions-version-2-part-1-update-500b/

I am happy you liked it. A revamped version is still in the works, with some very interesting additional missions and one will be a prequel with the Stalingrad map.

The pilot starts from Stalingrad and then move to Kuban.

I am waiting also the Li2 to integrate it. It is a personal project so time is not a constraint.

Stay tuned ?