If you don't have an IRC client there is a web client that you can use here.
If you want to play with goons you'll need to hop on the IRC channel.
If you do want to install them we reccomend that you back up a clean installation of your game in case something goes wrong.
We usually don't play with mods but there are a lot out there, including the 2 most popular mod compilations UltraPak and HSFX. IL-2 Sturmovik 1946 is now completely up to date with all Team Daidalos patches on both Steam and GOG How do I get my game updated to play with everyone else? I recommend getting it from GoG, if only because you'll get a completely unrestricted game which makes dealing with mods and the inevitable reinstall when things go wrong. When we host multiplayer campaigns we use this more often than not. It works for both single player and all multiplayer modes. It's a little finicky and still gives you the occasional boring, unbalanced or just plain strange mission with a flight path that makes no sense but overall it's the best at quickly running a more flushed out campaign. There's also a great third party utility called Lowengrin's Dynamic Campaign Generator. You get to respawn and select from a variety of different aircraft, just like dogfight servers.įor general online play, the most popular game matching service for Il-2 is Hyperlobby which can be found at
There's also AI aircraft, moving ships and vehicle columns to blow up. MDS missions generally are one side VS AI but can have players on both. There's no respawning which leads to more realistic fighting. In addition to stellar single-player, we have the extremely popular multiplayer modes:ĭogfight mode, which is just a general free-for-all, on servers with up to 128 people.Ĭo-op mode, where people fly more organized missions, usually against AI. Even after getting past these technical issues, the gameplay issues such as target visibility issues, a lack of a dynamic campaign, a very limited selection of planes and a UI that is somehow worse than IL-2 1196 have kept a lot of people from bothering to play it even if it runs well on their PC.
The game is full of glaring technical issues preventing a lot of people from playing. Everything else about the game, to be honest, is a disaster. What about IL-2: Sturmovik Cliffs of Dover? Why aren't you playing the sequel instead?Ĭliffs of Dover is incredible, visually. It's a compilation of all previously released Il-2 Sturmovik content (Il-2 Sturmovik, Forgotten Battles, Ace Expansion Pack, and Pacific Fighters), plus new content separated into three large chunks: Pe-2 Peshka, focusing on the most famous Russian medium / dive bomber of the war Sturmoviks over Manchuria, focusing on the Soviet Far East and the Japanese defense of Okinawa, Iwo Jima and the home islands and 1946, a what-if add-on focusing on experimental Soviet and German jet and rocket fighters. But don't let the numbers fool you all of them are modeled with incredible precision and attention to detail, and no other sim to this day is anywhere close to us in terms of accuracy in both the visuals and the flight performance. Three major releases and innumerable add-ons later, it is the most realistic, most complex WWII flight simulation in the world, with, as of this moment, 229 flyable and over 300 total aircraft. Il-2 Sturmovik series is the award-winning family of flight simulation that started in 2001 with the release of the original Il-2 Sturmovik. Better bomb fusing (with the option to turn it off all together and go old school) and most importantly, 6DOF support for TrackIR users. Vision limitations on AI so they can't see through clouds and their line of sight is blocked by their cockpit, wings etc.
The 4.11 patch adds a ton of new features including AI that are worse pilots but better shots. Despite being over a decade old it still offers the best all around simulation of fighting on all fronts of WWII as well as the conflicts between Finland and Soviet Russia. IL-2 is still the all around best WWII flight simulator available.