Update 5.504 is now live

[Aapje]

8 minutes ago, JMax said:

I am unclear as to why Amazon has anything to do with purchasing/ downloading IL2 products. I have always just purchased through the IL2 website store….Is Amazon just an option?

Amazon hosts the files. That makes more sense, since Amazon has huge servers and a big fat internet connection. These updates cause huge download-peaks and it would be very expensive for 1CGS to maintain the infrastructure to handle these peaks.

[Flashy]

This looks very promising! Finally, proper western front altitudes for Career mode! 

 

Anyone tried the new FM's for the DH2 and N28 yet? Can we actually fight in them now? Please give us good news... 

[jollyjack]

And them template makers must be getting busy right now !

[BladeMeister]

Someone please test out the N28 and tell me that she is a fighter now? I really hope they gave her some teeth so she can put up a good fight now.

Anyone???

 

S!Blade<><

[Avimimus]

33 minutes ago, JMax said:

I am unclear as to why Amazon has anything to do with purchasing/ downloading IL2 products. I have always just purchased through the IL2 website store….Is Amazon just an option?

 

It isn't on the user side - you can't buy the sim on Amazon. I gather, from what Sneaksie said, they are paying Amazon to provide additional servers (to allow for faster downloads on release day / update day). So it is entirely corporate side, and nothing you need to interact with (except that the updater might automatically use a mirror to download the patch from an Amazon webserver).

 

 

17 minutes ago, BladeMeister said:

Someone please test out the N28 and tell me that she is a fighter now? I really hope they gave her some teeth so she can put up a good fight now.

Anyone???

 

S!Blade<><

 

Download and find out  

[Trooper117]

This is just ridiculous... I've had to stop the download as it's ground to a halt and hasn't moved for ages, and I guess if I can't download stuff, I'll not be buying stuff either!

It also looks like MSFS 24 is having problems too... uncanny don't you think?

[Sandmarken]

The MiG-3 with the AM-38 has an impressive top speed! It seems from a quick Google search that only a handful of aircraft used that engine. Will we see the mod for it unlocked in career mode?

[Kapteeni]

2 hours ago, Shadowed said:

There was a bit of a delay (20m) with the game being unplayable (said update required) and Steam not letting us get the update in time. All sorted out now.

 

[sevenless]

Appreciate the various enhancements to career mode. 👍

[Kapteeni]

Perkele! As we say in Finland.. It is coming...slowly.. This remainds old Ubizoo times when IL 1946 was updated almost every month...and i did have a ISDN connection...

[JG4_Moltke1871]

Hmmm, sorry to hear there is a download issue…

I purchased FCIV on the website but I have mixed content by steam and Il2 with connected accounts (once I purchased BoS via steam because I didn’t know it better 😅😅).

Today it seems I am lucky with that because the update via steam was very quick 🍀

About the game: I only had time for a quick view but the new planes are very nice modelled. I saw Zeppelin bases on the updated map… targets for entente long range missions in career?😈

can’t wait the weekend to have more time for all this beautiful things❤️

 

Hopefully a solution for the RRR bug find a way in a later update 🙏🏻🙏🏻

[Sneaksie]

52 minutes ago, Iceni_Queen said:

If we purchase FC IV, will it show up in our regular game running off steam?

Yes if you link the Steam and IL2 accounts. If you haven't done it so far, you can click the auto generated username in the name menu and follow the prompts to enter your il2sturmovik.com credentials.

[AKA_Ramstein]

yay, d/l speed @3 baud

[Iceni_Queen]

2 minutes ago, Sneaksie said:

Yes if you link the Steam and IL2 accounts. If you haven't done it so far, you can click the auto generated username in the name menu and follow the prompts to enter your il2sturmovik.com credentials.

Yeah, I purchase all my stuff through the IL2 site not through Steam, but I play though steam. Been playing through Steam for many many many years

[=MERCS=JenkemJunkie]

F the tempest! This is officially the G.O.A.T. update <3.

[Trooper117]

3 minutes ago, =MERCS=JenkemJunkie said:

F the tempest! This is officially the G.O.A.T. update <3.

 

Can someone please translate that for me as I only speak English...

[=MERCS=JenkemJunkie]

F is what happens when a boy likes a girl, G.O.A.T. = Greatest of all time, and <3 means ❤️ 

[Aapje]

3 minutes ago, =MERCS=JenkemJunkie said:

F is what happens when a boy likes a girl

 

Friendship

[Gunfreak]

Ok, there are no building is Paris, trees and flat textures, but no buildings, no Eiffel tower, no other buildings either

[Avimimus]

14 minutes ago, Gunfreak said:

Ok, there are no building is Paris, trees and flat textures, but no buildings, no Eiffel tower, no other buildings either

 

That shouldn't be the case.

 

What mode are you flying in?

 

I can attest: There should be a huge number of buildings and an Eiffel tower - which is surprisingly soothing to fly through!

[Gunfreak]

1 minute ago, Avimimus said:

 

That shouldn't be the case.

 

What mode are you flying in?

 

I can attest: There should be a huge number of buildings and an Eiffel tower - which is surprisingly soothing to fly through!

Just a self made mission.

 

Air start over paris

[Sneaksie]

Was it a single mission, QMB, or Career? Should be working fine in QMB or Career, can't say about single missions since they might be custom or made for earlier FC.

 

If you make a mission in mission editor you need to import the scenery since the map is empty by default. Do you see Paris when you run a mission in QMB mode?

[Avimimus]

Just now, Gunfreak said:

Just a self made mission.

 

Air start over paris

 

If it is in the full mission editor - you need to load in the right templates/object groups. The sim doesn't load all of the buildings by default, so that mission builders have the option of leaving some out and saving resources.

 

Should already work in QMB and Career though! Lower left-hand part of the map.

[Panzerlang]

That was painless, game updated within five minutes, bought FC IV and crashed the DH2 into a tent five minutes after that. Spiffing, what what! 😆

[Gunfreak]

11 minutes ago, Avimimus said:

 

If it is in the full mission editor - you need to load in the right templates/object groups. The sim doesn't load all of the buildings by default, so that mission builders have the option of leaving some out and saving resources.

 

Should already work in QMB and Career though! Lower left-hand part of the map.

Which template do I have to load for it to show up in the full mission editor?

[LukeFF]

1 hour ago, Sandmarken said:

The MiG-3 with the AM-38 has an impressive top speed! It seems from a quick Google search that only a handful of aircraft used that engine. Will we see the mod for it unlocked in career mode?

 

Yes, it's available beginning in November 1941 IIRC.
 

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Meanwhile, due to the shortage of AM-35A engines in some parts of the Air Force, they independently installed AM-38 engines on MiG-3 aircraft. So the technical staff of 402 IAP in November 1941 in the field installed AM-38 engines on two aircraft. The tests were carried out by the regiment commander, Major K.A. Gruzdev and squadron commander Captain B.G. Borodai. During one of the test flights, K.A. Gruzdev on the MiG-3 fighter No. 4184 with the AM-38 engine installed on it entered into battle with enemy bombers and shot down two aircraft.

https://airpages.ru/eng/ru/mig3_2.shtml

[Sneaksie]

7 minutes ago, Gunfreak said:

Which template do I have to load for it to show up in the full mission editor?

data\template\wfront_full_scene.Group

[Gunfreak]

11 minutes ago, Sneaksie said:

data\template\wfront_full_scene.Group

Can i do that after I've added aircraft? Or only at the start?

[Monksilver]

Paris looks great. Just had a dogfight in my DH2 against the Eiii. I just couldn't get a decent hit so instead I thought I'd try a trick. Flew through the middle tier of Eiffel Tower and when through pulled to the right, the Eiii tried to follow and slammed into the tower. Very pleasing.

 

Also got to love the evil clown stickers on the DH2.

 

[Sneaksie]

We've put up another fast mirror server. If your launcher is still struggling with downloading the update, please close it and run again - it should download the remaining data from the new server fast.

[Hanu]

And so it did. Thanks!

Edited November 19, 2024 by Hanu

[LF_Mark_Krieger]

3 hours ago, easterling77 said:

Does this also apply to the later models like G6 Late without MW-50 and G6-AS wtihout MW-50?

It does not. Their emergency timer is still 1 min. Strange? 🫤

Edited November 19, 2024 by LF_Mark_Krieger

[JMax]

1 hour ago, Avimimus said:

 

It isn't on the user side - you can't buy the sim on Amazon. I gather, from what Sneaksie said, they are paying Amazon to provide additional servers (to allow for faster downloads on release day / update day). So it is entirely corporate side, and nothing you need to interact with (except that the updater might automatically use a mirror to download the patch from an Amazon webserver).

 

 

 

Download and find out  

Thank you.✅

2 hours ago, Aapje said:

Amazon hosts the files. That makes more sense, since Amazon has huge servers and a big fat internet connection. These updates cause huge download-peaks and it would be very expensive for 1CGS to maintain the infrastructure to handle these peaks.

Thanks!👍

[BMA_FlyingShark]

Yeah, for me too it works now, it suddenly downloaded real fast.

Great update.

 

Have a nice day.

 

[migmadmarine]

2 hours ago, JMax said:

I am unclear as to why Amazon has anything to do with purchasing/ downloading IL2 products. I have always just purchased through the IL2 website store….Is Amazon just an option?

Amazon is one of the largest webpage and storage housing services in the world. While you are buying from the IL-2 website, the files are being downloaded from an Amazon server most likely. 

[Aapje]

@GSHWK_Houndstone_Hawk

 

They are working on the new game engine to improve the graphics, so they are doing exactly what you want, but they can't release modules for that engine before it is done.

[AKA_Ramstein]

it is still 300/kbs here... West Coast USA

[GSHWK_Houndstone_Hawk]

I have to finally detail disappointment in the extremely below par levels to the credibility of believable inland rivers, waterways & coastal shores graphics & while I'm apologetic of using another very well known WW2 sim that now does the river graphics much better, in my personal opinion I feel my unwavering support to this sim has allowed me to express my opinion.

If I may be allowed to use the word 'atrocious' in my opinions to describe every single map's interpretaion of rivers & lakes with a simple 'shiny' 2-dimensional 'ribbon' merely draped over a pizza-flat terrain with zero river band indentation to create a believable rendition of a river cut into the landscape.

I now only return to use IL-2 for WW1 because other certain sims are missing in this criteria & as WW1 combat is 'low & slow' the terrain has to be an important factor.

I envy anyone who flies this sim who isn't bitterly disappointed when they overfly inland water at zero altitude, maybe flying down the water to challenge a mate to an under-bridge pass etc.

I've never been able to use this sim for cinematics in my sim movie-making because of this reason & it's my own personal opinion as a customer of old (with 3 accounts of purchases for my server), that these 2-dimensional inland river graphics were spectularly out-of-date 20 years ago & it's such a great shame to see that this just does not change with every new product.

Hopefully I am allowed to aire my bitter disappointment.

Edited November 19, 2024 by GSHWK_Houndstone_Hawk

[OG__Iceman_VR]

For a possible update, fix the scoring to remove kills for AA when players have damaged the fighter. If you like new players not putting down the game due to the feature that takes the fun out of multi-player. For the sales team. lol This Feature of AA stealing your kills is like rewarding Trees for killing fighters vs the player. 

Edited November 19, 2024 by OG__Iceman_VR

[Rustedgun]

My download went from about 50kbps on first try to 100mbps on the second try. Thanks so much. What a rare treat... someone recognizes a problem and does something immediately. Good on you guys!!