r/il2sturmovik

Hi guys.

Basically as the title says, I'm pretty new. I've been tooling around in a Camel getting my headtracking sorted out and I'm getting keen to try MP out. I have Stalingrad, Normandy and Flying Circus Vol 1.

Not really worried about getting killed a lot, just don't want to be a burden more than anything else.

Ideally I'd like to stick with the Camel for now, but I'm keen for anything, just can't but more modules at the moment with my budget.

Thanks guys.

Am I just dumb, or is there a bug? I have an IL10. I have two 2 fab 250s and 4 M-13 132mm. At 100% fuel it is telling me my combat radius is 211km but I am overweight. If I drop it down to 56% fuel, marked as "STDMAX", my combat radius drops to 47km. I see similar stuff on the other side, like the f-84 only getting 80 miles at like, 60% fuel.

This is driving me nuts. I have tried a file restore, no change. I am considering re-installing. I cannot find anyone else talking about it online. It is persistent across sessions (it started about a week ago).

I've followed the exact steps in multiple guides, but when i try to export to the DDS file i get three errors. One is about drawable height, another is about width, and the other is about type. ive googled it but i either cant understand what people are talking about, or the fix doesnt work.

I'm lost at this point and dont know what to do. I want to learn, and I despise being a quitter, so I'm determined to figure this out.

How do i fix the error?

edit: Forgot to mention im using gimp 3.2.4

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So while I like IL2 Koreas existing and I am excited to see it expand I just wonder how long they will have this project be their new main focus due to lack of North Korean aircraft compared to the UN. Theres not many more left to be added. While Great battles has the variety to be an over 10 year project I don’t see Korea being more than 5 max probably less.

So being bored I wondered what could be next and what non probable things I could dream up. Tell me what random scenario you would like to dream about in the comments

They’ve talked about pacific but with Combat Pilot there would be competition theoretically. What if they moved forward to more jet age and that got me thinking of cool possibilities. Vietnam sadly has a similar Korea Problem with limited aircraft on one side so I present to you my random idea Ive been hyper focusing on this morning.

Behold a new series called MIG series instead of IL2 series that focuses on the 1967 Six Day War with 1970 War of Attrition and the 1973 Yom Kippur War as expansions. Could also be IL2 Six days or war or something like that.

But aircraft wise both sides have variety and its gun fights with early missiles

6 Day War has

Israel
Mirage IIICJ, Super Mystère B2, Mystère IVA, Vautour IIA, Ouragan, Fouga Magister

Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Iraq
MiG-21, MiG-19, MiG-17, Su-7, Il-28, Hawker Hunter, De Havilland Vampire, Tu-16

Then War of Attrition in 1970 has a soviet faction with newer MiG21MF’s while Israel Starts to get F4’s and A4’s plus more SAM networks start.

Then 1973 SAM’s become a very deal. Theres now Su 20’s, IAI Nesher, and even Egypt had Mirage IIIE’s.

So its a dream. A very cool fantasy but has a lot of potential honestly. And maybe after go back to WW2.

Anyway now that this is written down I am free. But comment what after IL2 Korea fantasies you would like.

Thank you and have a great day

Delete if discussion posts aren't allowed. But I have kind of been looking up stuff for the game here and there, and want the game to be good and for it to be well received even if I don't get it. How has it been flying the planes and the multiplayer experience? As an outsider looking in who doesn't really know plane history, these two concerns pop up.

1. Nobody plays the DPRK/USSR side because it seems like the UN side's planes are either better, or when you look at the roster altogether, their seems more well-rounded.

2. When people fly the Red side, no one wants to use the Il-10, Yak-9, and La-11. What are they supposed to do against non-F51 enemies? Just bend over and take what the jets have to impose on them? And can the Yak-9 and La-11 even do any ground attack missions or go for objectives even if pilots are willing?

Obviously this comes from a place of ignorance but am curious about the game and how the reception has been for it these days.

I know i could just look in the files, but i'm not gonna lie i kinda wanted to make a spreadsheet of them all for myself and its not exactly easy to do that from the files. So is there anywhere that has listed all aircraft in the mod + vanilla left in? Thanks.

I stated my opinion about the state of IL2 Korea ! AI is Worse than BOS. VR Implementation is Worse than BOS !....And IL2 Korea is Not optimised ......I GOT BANNED FROM STEAM !...Make your own mind up ???

I should be finishing up my first full career in GB as soviets running from leningrad all the way through the Liberation of Odessa shortly. It has been very enjoyable, but I am stupid sick of YAKs at this point.

I have experimented a bit with some axis planes, but I am curious what maps and planes you guys enjoy, if they are not the best.

I have found the MC 202 to actually be incredibly fun to fly and fight with, despite being pretty underpowered Armaments wise.

Let me know what you guys all like and why. I need some new stuff to try!

When asked about his work on the Battle of Britain campaign and Adler Tag, ATAG_Lenny replied:

"I've forgotten when I last posted.

It's been a slow couple of months due to parental health issues (non-life threatening) and work stuff. But... I'm putting the finishing touches on Adlertag this weekend (August 13, 1940.... my goodness, 86 years today, EDT). So far about 750 individual sorties starting July 2, 1940 (Luftschlacht um England declared) to date. About 180 Blue Bomber sorties, 300 Blue fighter sorties, 25 Red bomber sorties (I am including Bomber Command and Coastal Command historical missions) and 250 Red fighter sorites, give or take.

I see it right now as 4 DLC complete (July 2-9 Luftschlact um England beginnt, July 10-22 The Battle of Britain Begins, July 23-29 Kanalkampf Part 1 and July 30-August 8 Kanalkampf Part 2).

Currently I see this next phase as being named the obvious Adlerangriff. It's interesting to myself that I keep finding the correct naming convention as being the German definition of the phase. To overstate the obvious, these DLC include almost every known historical combat encounter, be it Fighter Command, Bomber Command, Coastal Command or Luftwaffe, that occurred on the Channel map.

I press on. I think I'm driving to replicate beyond October 31st all the way to December 31 as we do have an Autumn and winter map and John Foreman wrote an interesting book on this time period. Next might be Operation Compass on the Tobruk map.

Right now sorties are organized in subfolders under Single Missions by Phase, then Day, then Time, then Combat Encounter, with available sorties from either side listed by aircraft, squadron/staffel and mission type. So you would be free to experience the Battle of Britain any way you want. But it would be pretty daunting for anyone to figure out where to start and where to go next, given it is over 750 sorties right now and likely to be in the thousands before I am done..

So there will at least be a compendium list of all missions available with key information that may allow the player to filter and choose. But... we are experimenting with a custom interface that would allow the player to do the filtering for themselves. For example, maybe you just want to just fly the Me-109 E-1. Then you could filter all current 750 sorties for just that aircraft.

Maybe you want to experience the Battle of Britain from the perspective of a particular squadron/staffel. Then you could find and fly all of those missions.

Whether the experiments will work is not fully determined yet. There are a number of quantitative criteria that we could use to filter but also a number of qualitative criteria.

So head on over the Singleplayer thread and I'll post some of my thoughts there as I would really like to get some community feedback on this topic.

https://discord.com/channels/1262268671926206484/1341554271300092017/1537833443273084959

Hi all

Total newb here about to jump into flight simming, specifically il2, and I’m coming over from the sim racing world. I can’t really picture what driving would be like without FFB so wanted to ask the experts here if FFB is really all that in the flight sim world?

TLDR: novice who hasn’t done any actual flight simming since the 20th century is wondering if he should splurge for FFB on his first HOTAS.

Thanks y’all…

help me

Have you ever wanted to play your Task Editor missions in Cooperative mode? Now you can!

With this system, you can create missions directly in the Task Editor and convert them into fully playable cooperative missions with just a few clicks. No need to open the editor or even close the game.

The simulator generates a _gen mission file every time you create a mission, automatically overwriting the previous one. This makes the process incredibly simple:

• Create a mission in the Task Editor.
• Open the application and select the generated mission.
• Select the aircraft available to players (currently, only one player aircraft type is supported).
• Give your mission a name.
• Click Accept.

And that's it! Your mission is automatically converted into a cooperative mission, ready to be played with your friends — without having to manually edit anything in the Task Editor.

Create as many missions as you want and enjoy virtually unlimited cooperative content!

What it does

- Forces `MissionType = 1` so the sim treats it as a cooperative mission.
- Sets (or adds, if it's missing) the `MultiplayerPlaneConfig` line to the flyable aircraft you picked, so the sim knows what plane is available.
- Finds every aircraft flagged `PLAYERSQUAD` and forces `CoopStart = 1` on all of them — whether the line was already there with a different value, or missing entirely.
- Saves everything as a **new** `.mission` file with a proper name (no leading underscore, no `_gen`), so the sim actually loads it. Your original `_gen` file is never touched.

How to use it

1. Open the app, click **Browse...** and select your `..._gen.mission` file ( in `data/missions`).
2. Pick the flyable plane you chose for the mission from the dropdown.
3. Click **Save as...** and choose a name/location — it defaults to `data/multiplayer/cooperative` with the `_gen` stripped from the filename.
4. Click **Convert to cooperative**. That's it — the new mission is ready to fly.

https://forum.il2-series.com/topic/4902-il-2-series-task-editor-coop-converter-play-with-your-friends/#comment-33815