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#IL 2 STURMOVIK BATTLE OF STALINGRAD DELUXE DOWNLOAD MANUAL#
Presumably, at some point in the future we'll be able to consult a manual or participate in tutorial missions to learn about stuff like radiator etiquette and bombsight usage. Choose to fly without automated engine management, and then fail to monitor gauges conscientiously or adjust fuel mixtures and radiator apertures adroitly, and you can cook or chill your power plant in numerous erk-irking ways. Self-harm is simulated to a standard that should satisfy all but the most realism-ravenous CLOD and DCS World émigrés. I don't think I've ever seen a target flip onto its back, say, shed a propeller, or inadvertently lower an undercarriage leg. Inject lead into that slippery crucifix dancing in your gunsight and generally the crucifix starts streaming smoke. Wings shear off, fuel tanks flare, and oil spatters windscreens in an eyecatching fashion but - and this might be doing a disservice to the sim's under-the-hood ballistic calculations - it doesn't feel as if 777 are really pushing the envelope in this area. While IL2BOS handles stress-related damage and collisions with scenery and other aircraft with more finesse, I can't say I've detected significant progress in the way it treats shrapnel and shell strikes. steel sky salmon buoyed and buffeted by the swirling element in which they swim.īrutal and granular, damage simulation in the original IL2 was a revelation. Like ROF's Camels and Albatrosses, machines such as the Bf 109G and LaGG-3 feel alive and edgy. IL2BOS steeds feel weightier, pokier, and more robust than their ROF relations but like them they must be actively flown rather than just pointed in appropriate directions now and again.

When this project was announced some wondered if 777's depiction of the air war over Stalingrad would smell faintly of dope and castor oil. Thankfully, in the aerodynamics department there's no sign of anachronistic odours.

Where it matters most - in the flyables - FMs are charismatic and - going by the relatively light flak in various forum threads - essentially faithful. If the price of more target types was a few fudged flight models and simplified damage models, I suspect most punters wouldn't mind much. There are no run-ins with overloaded Ju 52s or Condors, no brushes with Bf 110s, Eagle Owls or Romanian exotica. Currently you always seem to be up against the ten types in the second image. Hopefully there'll be time before release to compliment the selection of cockpit-equipped warbirds with a sprinkle of AI-only machines. Both of the latecomers feature generic but evocative interactive bombsights for level bombing, a good selection of gunner perches, and - of course - the possibility of fraught single-engine aviation. Since the arrival of the twin-engined Pe-2 and He 111 the early focus on dogfighting and divebombing has blurred nicely. While the base aircraft set doesn't come with a bona fide Crap Plane - something antiquated and, ideally, bi-planed for those of us that enjoy sightseeing at snail speeds, and surprising sneerers - in most other respects it feels generous and well-rounded.
#IL 2 STURMOVIK BATTLE OF STALINGRAD DELUXE DOWNLOAD FULL#
Purchase the £40 ($55) Standard Edition* of this Digital Nature-powered Sturmovik sequel, and you get immediate access to eight flyables that are as feisty and full of fight/physics as they are fetching and flaw-free. Happily, it doesn't mean half-empty hangars and half-baked flight models.

In an effort to find out what '70% finished' means, I've spent the last few days yoyoing Yaks, pranging Peshki, and sending He 111s to He ll. 777 Studios and 1C Game Studios claim IL-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Stalingrad is now 70% finished. When it comes to incomplete flying machine simulations however, I'm a little less Beardmore Inflexible. Ever since witnessing an unfortunate accident involving a home-built Fieseler Storch and a cement works chimney, I've made it a rule never to go aloft in incomplete flying machines.
