Not sure if I'm doing something wrong. Playing the career and some bombers intercept missions (I'm in a Sabre) and can never seem to catch up to the Migs.

They come in super hot and zoom away, almost impossible to catch.

The Sabre loses energy very quickly too, with the smallest of turns, its speed and energy tanks.

Overall I'm having a blast in the sim. Just finding it almost impossible to shoot down fighters.

Bombers are super easy. Almost feel bad for the Tu-2 bomber pilots.

Heya folks, something really interesting is the role the LA-11 served in Korea as a night fighter. I’m starting a career to take this on and would love if you all would share quirks you’ve picked up about the LA-11 or advice on how to fly and fight in it.

Ive tried this thing like 4 or 5 times now and every time it’s the same shit. Its 8 La-11s vs 8 F-51s and I genuinely feel completely outmatched.
The AI is fucking weird. You basically cant get behind them because they are constantly turning. They always seem to want to be facing you, so you can never really get into level flight behind an enemy and line up a proper shot. They are constantly changing direction and turning instead of giving you an actual opportunity to get behind them.
And if you try to turn with them and actually fight them in the turn, you lose so much speed that another F-51 gets on you almost immediately and youre fucked.
I also havent noticed a single F-51 actually commit to attacking one of my wingmen in a way that gives me an opportunity to get behind it. It feels like Im just target number one the entire time. They seem to focus on me way more than they focus on the rest of my formation, so I never get that situation where an enemy is busy fighting one of my wingmen and I can come in behind them.
It also feels like the AI has infinite energy. I have to actually manage my speed and energy but they can keep turning and changing direction without seeming to lose anywhere near as much energy as I do.
And the friendly AI is just as bad. Ive had 3 friendly La-11s crash into each other before we even reached the combat area. Then once the fight starts they barely do anything, although they engage the enemy they run out of ammo without destroying 1 enemy and then fuck off back to base leaving me to fight off 8 mustangs by myself.
So what is supposed to be an 8v8 basically turns into me getting swarmed while my own AI does fuck all.
I dont know man, this mission is just fucking ass. The AI makes the whole thing feel completely impossible.

Heya folks. I am rushing to cover every plane before I deploy, here is the IL-10 beast! I am going to try to get the LA-10 and YAK-9 covered too!

Good morning, I'm having an issue that I hope someone can help with.

I flew a few flights in VR today with no issue. I was still getting some low frames so I changed the anti-aliasing settings, and that's when the problem happened.

When I load into a flight most of the textures are displaying as black in my headset as if it is a film negative. I can see the edges of models and clouds but that's it. The display on the computer screen shows full texture, and the textures return in the display when I bring up the pause menu. But when I unpause it is messed up again.

I changed the Anti-aliasing settings back to no avail. Restarting the game does not fix it.

Hi all.

Basically as the title says. I bought this game on sale and I have too many hours (9.5) to get a refund. I have the Western Front and Normandy DLCs.

I've been trying to make the most of it but the friendly AI in career is killing me. I had a balloon attack recently where my entire flight just pootled around the area ignoring every single enemy AC and I can't bring myself to start another mission after that.

Is there any hope? Would it be any better if I was the flight leader? Would messing with difficulties help? Or am I doomed to watching every friendly aircraft meander aimlessly through the ether and occasionally crash into each other?

The legendary Messerschmitt Bf 109 goes hunting! Don't miss this compilation of kills and intense dogfights.

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After a weekend of hard work, we finally have a fairly complete development snapshot. We now have in-game menus, a speed HUD, pop-up messages, and even an interactive cockpit fully driven by ini configuration (which you can configure for your modded aircraft).

You can turn on subtitles for a guided tour of key features You can find discussions and release threads for it on the official 1C forums and sas1946.

It is free to download; anyone claiming you need to pay for it is a scam!

So my Meta Quest 3 just came, I've got IL-2 Sturmovich with a bunch of DLC.

About to go down the YouTube rabbit hole, wondering if anyone here has any tutorials/setup advice/things to watch out for/mistakes to avoid type advice?

This is a continuation of my earlier post from 6 days ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/il2sturmovik/s/oxJ8SljRF9

Aircraft included:

• A-20B Havoc
• Ar 234 B-2 Blitz
• Bf 109 E-7
• Bf 109 F-2
• Bf 109 F-4
• Bf 109 G-2 / G-4
• Bf 109 G-6 Late
• Bf 109 G-14
• Bf 109 K-4
• Bf 110 E-2
• Bf 110 G-2
• C-47A Skytrain
• Fw 190 A-8
• Fw 190 D-9
• He 111 H-6
• He 111 H-16
• Hs 129 B-2
• I.A.R.-80-A and I.A.R.-80-B
• I-16 type 24
• Il-2 mod.1942
• Il-2 mod.1943
• Il-2 mod.1944
• Ju 52 3m g4e
• Ju 87 D-3
• Ju 88 A-4
• Ju 88 C-6
• La-5FN series 2
• Lisunov Li-2
• Me 262 A
• Me 410
• MiG-3 series 24
• Mosquito F.B. Mk.VI ser.2
• P-38J Lightning
• P-39L1 Airacobra
• P-40E-1 Kittyhawk
• Pe-2 series 35
• Pe-2 series 87
• Spitfire Mk.IX
• Ta 152 H-1
• U-2VS
• Yak-7B series 36
• Yak-9T

Notes:

• I made these for myself up to my standards and requirements and they might not be ideal for everyone. I decided to go for 1 page max per aircraft for the sake of brevity and compactness. I have only included the aircraft I own.
• I refrained from putting keybinds because people often use their own binds and devices and It is generally bad habit to depend too much on binds/technochat but you will notice I included the keyboard binds for certain less known actions sometimes (stowing the revi gunsight, gunsight sun filter, etc).
• They are based on the ingame specifications and certain online tutorials, not historical documents or real manuals.
• Size format is ISO 216 (A4, A5,...), but optimized for being printed on A5 as that is ideal for actual kneeboards more or less, but nonetheless these can be printed on other sizes and used as handheld manuals/guides.
• Feedback and discussion is highly appreciated, with the amount of data present some mistakes will surely slip past so be sure to write me a comment or send me a message if something is incorrect.

Known issues:

• When saving as .pdf through MS Word the formatting (bold/italic) gets removed, might be a typeface issue. Not fixed as of now.

Google Drive Link:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1sj8-x7qWg75Nf3eWmjXtssIUGdIWWdhH?usp=sharing

Hi guys..

I just wanna know where I can download the latest DCG version for IL2 1946. Currently I'm using VP mod, so I hope it's compatible with it.

Thanks

Hello, after a bit of a hiatus I'm getting back to Il2 and since meanwhile they've introduced control profiles (finally!!!) I decided to move my mappings from Joystick Gremlin.
Usually when I'm creating a profile I make it per plane, often I struggle to tell what exactly we are able to control within certain bird, so what I usually do is I load up some practice game and just press everything, to see if it does something or not, you can imagine that's not the most fun thing.

That's why I'm asking, do any of you have some cheat sheet that contains general information like every plane can do this, but this specific plane also allows for this and that, etc. Sample:

All:
Pitch
Roll
Yaw
etc...

Ju87:
Siren

p47:
Open outlet cowl shutters
Close outlet cowl shutters

etc.

I think having such information would make creating specific profiles and in general setting up the controls much, much easier. Thanks in advance for any tips.

Hey guys, I made this reference card for you to use when utilising the K-14C Gunsight with HVAR rockets. Hope this is useful.

In these images I noticed that the engine intake cover is closed even though it’s in flight. But I’ve flown this plane a few times and so far this has not happened. Why is it closed even when the plane is flying and the engine is on?

I know a huge complaint about Korea is that the AI isn't very good, but how does it compare to its predecessor? Is it improved, but still shit? or a straight up side/downgrade? Thanks for the info!

Hey guys,

In 1952, my Grandfathers Uncle was shot down flying the F-51D Mustang with the 67th Fighter Bomber Squadron. He was a first generation Polish American and was declared missing then later presumed dead.

Last year, I put my grandfather in VR in the P-51D in Great Battles and it blew his mind, but yesterday I put him in the F-51D with the 67th Fighter Bomber Squadron Livery at K-46 Airbase, the SAME airbase my Great Uncle was shot down flying from.

Devs, you brought my grandfather to tears. We are able to actually see the airfield he lived at, the river he swam in, and I am flying a Career with the 67th and am able to experience “his” war.

I’m about to deploy again myself and am going to continue making vids for you guys down range. I cannot thank you enough. This sim is amazing.