IL 2 BOS, why is it so hard to fly?

Kenadian

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I've never been 00ber in any of these flight sims but I really don't remember being this bad lol. I've tried the same quick mission where 4 Lagg's or 4 Yaks (of which I'm flying one) have to shoot down 2 flights of 4 Heinkel HE-111's.

I've literally shot down maybe one or two per session and had my engine sniped out every single time.

Admittedly, I've been coming in on steep rearward dives (not ideal) and aiming for the engines and wing roots. The problem is, both Russian fighters seem completely incapable of removing a wing from this thing and the engine sniping (while cool looking) allows the plane to carry on all be it crash later.

Also is it me or do the Russian planes stall incredibly easy?

I have not had near this many issues in the BF-109 but being Russian means I gotta stick to my roots :)

I suck so badly that I've had to go online and research the best way to take down an HE-111 which is apparently head on (the plexi does not protect the cockpit), steep angle wing root or cockpit or from wing root below which seems odd as there's not much of a speed advantage there.

Oh and btw, when your cockpit takes damage and the glass has been shot out, the wind sounds are utterly terrific! It literally becomes nearly deafening in the cockpit depending on the maneuver you're trying to pull off.

They do need to tweak gun and cannon sounds because there a bit weak IMHO but other than that the sound is pretty good.

...and thank God for the long gone low-fi mp3 sounding planes in IL2FB.
 
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ElektroVodka

Bought the special edition today and i am sold to il2 again!

Had a go in one of the missions where i was in an IL2 supposed to do something against the luftwaffles i guess.
But i never reached any of the targets tho :)
Before starting the mission i had set the graphics to ultra and got lost looking at the scenery (once i had managed to take off without leaving essential parts on the ground that is)

After my unsuccesfull attempt of delivering my care packages i had a go at the multiplayer part of the game.
The servers didn't have many people on and seeing it was my first go i went for a normal server, which i guess means you don't have the extended engine controls.
The first take off was abruptly disturbed by a guy named Shady, he kept strafing our airfield killing about everyone that thought of taking off.
People started complaining and left, so i decided to switch servers and ended up in a pretty unbalanced game with about a 3:1 ratio in favor of the russians.
Eager to try i hopped in a bf109 and started taking care of flaps while increasing throttle only to be kamikazed by i guess an IL2....

Went for a smoke after that and decided to look into some tutorials so i'll have another try tomorrow and see if i can engage in some real df's.
 

Kenadian

Staff member
Site Admin
It's good to see you guys having the game and flying it :)
I really enjoyed IL2 with the 332 when I was able to attend so this is something I've been missing for a few years now.

Quick, I wonder if perhaps we can have a Coop and play against some bots or perhaps try and shoot each other down? It'll certainly be a lot more fun with a few players and probably makes improving overall that much easier.

If it works in iRacing I don't see why it wouldn't work here?
 

Wotan

Hardcore
That would be most welcome, but coop is not an option in this sim. Maybe they'll add it in a later version.
 

Kenadian

Staff member
Site Admin
Well we could always hop into an empty server and try to shoot each other down.

...or would I be able to just host my own server locally for dogfighting purposes?
 
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ElektroVodka

I have seen some servers beside the official BoS servers but couldn't find a thing about hosting it sadly :(
 

Kenadian

Staff member
Site Admin
I'll check tonight when I get home because there is an MP option in the game, I just never thought to look in there.

This is a pretty big install so the chances are good that the Server files are included in the game.
 

Kenadian

Staff member
Site Admin
I've run quick mission servers from IL2 FB so if this is anything like it I should be able to figure it out pretty quickly.
 
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ElektroVodka

I've hopped in a MP game today expecting to get slaughtered by the pilot that was already flying around there.
He did live up to that part of my expectations but not in the way i expected.

While getting ready for take off, this guy comes flying in with all his guns seemingly firing all their rounds at once and possibly even hit me a bit to.
Amazed i am wondering what he's going to do next but all he did was probably release the controls hoping to take me out in the go.
He smacked his plane several inches next to me in the snow, only slightly damaging me.
I wanted to try and take off in the state my plane was in and before i could increase the throttle the entire AA company responsible for that airfield started firing at the wreckage of the russian plane ripping through mine in the process :)

Also there seems to be no difference in AA when you are chasing an enemy fighter over your airfield, they don't seem to stop firing because there's a friendly plane danger close behind an enemy plane.
It's just a bit disturbing if you try to go after the strafers while the odds of you even taking off unharmed already are smaller than an ant's weewee.

Anyway, after all that had finished i managed to take off and found 2 russian fighters roaming around while staying in their AA coverage.
Being the noob i am i didn't think of the consequences of me flying in that same space so i went after one.
Only focusing on the plane i didn't notice all the black clouds popping up around me but did wonder what all the banging and heavy rain sound was.
Coming close to him he started to do some evasive maneuvers and almost losing me just before i hit the trigger and probably mess up his engine as multicolour smoke came blurting out his plane while going down.

Amazed by the fact that i had my first MP kill i make a celebrative barrel roll and switch to outside view only to notice about 40% of the plating was gone and you could see trough several parts of the plane :)

In short: This shit is covered in awesomesauce!
 

Kenadian

Staff member
Site Admin
Nice :)

If you want we can hop into a Dogfight Server this weekend and give it a go.

I'm going to have to clean my monitor though because any little spec can be you.

One thing about flight sims over any other game is they really ensure you keep your monitor spotless.
 
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ElektroVodka

Sure i'd like that.
Maybe we can get some other guys to join us if they happen to be around :)
 

Kenadian

Staff member
Site Admin
We didn't get a chance to hook up last weekend so this weekend would be great, at least for me :)
 
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ElektroVodka

That would be awesome, last weekend didn't work out sadly but the upcoming weekend shouldn't pose a problem
 

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