I am a Beta tester and I did some QMB work that was included in the patches.
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My friend “Hellbender” and I flew a couple of his missions. Weird but I must admit to thinking that this was the most fun I’ve had in a WW2 sim in ages. Part of it was that he’s just a fun guy to fly with. The other was that his missions were quite fun. But mainly I was wrong, 1946 holds up well. Flying Buffaloes over the channel between New Britain and PNG reminded me how good the game looks considering the technology it was built with. With water set to “perfect” it compares well with DCS at “medium”. For $4 on Steam this is sort of a no-brainer.
I flew a QMB mission last night for the first time in a few weeks. It was a Scramble mission on the Hawaii map with me in a P-39N1 against two A6M2-21’s. I figured I would be toast since I set it up for them to have the height advantage but one of those unexpected events that you almost never record, not this time though, happened to me last night. I was firing at Aircraft number 1 during a head on pass and I was sure I had missed him. About that time I got an unexpected Enemy Aircraft Destroyed message and I saw aircraft number 2 explode in the distance. What had happened was one of my cannon rounds I was firing at Aircraft number 1 hit Aircraft number 2 and blew it apart at a distance I would have never even attempted to take a shot.
Aircraft #1 close pass.
Aircraft #2
The view in these two screenshots below is the view I was using when the aircraft exploded. There is no way I would have taken a shot at the far aircraft at that distance with that view.
As always it is Better to be lucky than good.
For anyone interested this is the track of the flight. It was made using HSFX7.03 but to my knowledge there are no mod objects in the mission so it should work in just about any version of the game from v4.12.2 . forward.
quick0362.zip (1.9 MB)
The track from takeoff to landing runs for just about 9 minutes. Unzip into your records folders.
If you do view the track let me know if the custom skin on the P-39 shows in the track or if it just shows the default skin.
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I am not indicating this is anywhere near close to release. It is quite probably still a looooong way off.)
(Ju-52) Sea takeoff
Will anyone care when the Daidalos Team v4.15 patch is released?
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Very doubtful
Dang that was brutal!!!
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.* kicks the bot.
Buzz off you rusty hunk of scrap metal! Of course we do! Are they adding native VR to the old girl? :hopeful:
Ooh! Native VR… is that really a possibility?
I seriously doubt that’s going to happen without using a 3rd party app which have, a best, mixed results.
I do remember discussions regarding this idea but I have not seen any discussion recently.
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Was feeling nostalgic and I came across these gems once again.
Pacific Fighters trailer (v3.0m to v4.04m)
Pe-2 Peshka trailer (v4.05)
Sturmoviks over Manchuria trailer: (v4.06 - never released as a separate addon)
https://www.mission4today.com/index.php?name=Downloads&file=details&id=1631
46 trailer: (v4.07 - never released as a separate addon)
(I was surprised I was unable to find it uploaded at YouTube.)
https://www.mission4today.com/index.php?name=Downloads&file=details&id=1423
IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946 trailer: (v4.07m)
https://youtu.be/VuFMBT2VAA4
https://www.mission4today.com/index.php?name=Downloads&file=details&id=1604
IL-2 Sturmovik 1946 combined all prior content of Forgotten Battles, Forgotten Battles - Ace’s Expansion Pack, Pacific Fighters, Pe-2 Peshka, Sturmoviks over Manchuria, & 1946 into a single game.
I am unable to find the Pacific Fighters and PE-2 Peshka trailers uploaded at M4T but I am almost certain I have the files on a hard drive. Just can’t find them now that I want them and way too many dedicated IL-2 sites have closed up shop in the last 5 years.
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Found the Pacific Fighters Trailer again. It is still being hosted by Ubisoft,
http://ftp.ubi.com/emea/pf/video/PF_trailer_640x480_indeo.zip
Still looking for a good version of the Pe-2 trailer. You used to be able to directly access UBI’s ftp to download files but now you have to know the link to get the file. That is where the internet Archive comes in handy. The ftp was saved several times at the Internet Archive and with it you can find the file names to download the files they are still hosting for IL-2 and several other games.
https://web.archive.org/web/20051016142820/http://ftp.ubi.com/
Pick one of the sub folders and follow the folder for the game you like to find what DLC content may still be hosted by UBI. The files that were archived may be corrupt at times but the actual non Internet Archive link, if the file is still being hosted, tends to be good.
Another important thing to know is to check all the folders for the game you like. IL-2 has content in several of the folders and the content is unique in each of the folders. PF and pacificfighters are sub folders of other folders and IL-2 and all of its iterations follow the same type of file naming convention. I have no idea why they did not consolidate the content into one main folder with all the other sub folders in that main folder when it was setup but it has been that way since 2004.
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Doing some bomber formation setup.
The goal is to get 72 of them over the target at roughly the same time. That equates to 24 squadrons of three planes each.
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