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Anyone here playing IL2: Great Battles?

  • 20-05-2023 12:15pm
    #1
    banie01
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,430 ✭✭✭✭


    I picked up Stalingrad, Moscow, Kuban & Bodenplatte during the recent IC2 sale. The plan is to play VR via Quest 2 and a Thrustmaster HOTAS. I have a lot of setting up to do, particularly with HOTAS, Keybinds and keyboard layout.

    I'm hoping that there are some Boardsies playing? I need to put in quite a few hours before I join a server but if anyone knows where the most Irish play? Let me know, along with any tips or tricks you have learned the hard way playing this game?



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  • #2
    2011abc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,747 ✭✭✭2011abc


    IL2 1946 will never be surpassed .Crude-ish as ages but range of planes , maps , flight and damage models make it the king .Had a few goes in the one you mentioned years ago .Pitiful planeset .Arcade flight model .



  • #3
    banie01
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,430 ✭✭✭✭banie01


    IL2 1946 with the SAS, BAT and IL2GE mods really do make 1946 a wonderfully long lived game. Breathes new live into it.

    That said, I can't agree with you that IL2 great battles has a poor/arcade style flight model. I do agree with you on the plane set tho, it's miniscule compared to modded IL2 1946



  • #4
    z80CPU
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 962 ✭✭✭z80CPU
    Darth Randomer


    A YouTube Channel Showtime112 used IL2 1946 to make many of his videos. Very insightful and informative.



  • #5
    banie01
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,430 ✭✭✭✭banie01


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122096560#Comment_122096560

    Apologies for missing your reply until now. Thanks for the lead, I've got a plan for my weekend now 😂

    I'm flying in VR via a quest 2 and I'm really enjoying the sense of immersion & graphics. I'm seriously considering a new HOTAS now tho, something more compatible with VR than my old T.flight HOTAS.



  • #6
    banie01
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,430 ✭✭✭✭banie01


    I've picked up all the additional Great Battles expansion packs for this over the last year via various sales. The Normandy edition in particular is brilliant IMO.

    I haven't bothered with the WW1 expansion or tanks but the SIM quality is brilliant and I am really looking forward to seeing how their new Korea based sim turns out.

    I still fly IL2:1946 on occasion too but great battles really is a pet above.

    I do need to update from my thrustmaster HOTAS and have my eye on an x56 or if I stretch the budget a virpil set up.



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  • #7
    Flinty997
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,413 ✭✭✭✭Flinty997


    I picked them up but never found time to play them… I used to watch Taff in Exile on YouTube playing it though

    https://www.youtube.com/%40TaffinExile/playlists



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