a few newbie questions

[dazz1971]

hi guys since ive got 1946 ordered ive been looking at some of the videos you guys have been posting :grin::grin:

one guy posted a video of a couple of RAF sabers that just blew me away :grin:

is there a korean air war mod for this game and if so do you have missiles or just guns the reason i ask is im not keen on missiles i think it spoils the fun of dogfighting i much prefer using cannons and getting in close

also do many of you guys fly the jets online ?? or is it used only for single player/video making ???

many thanks
dazz

[KOM.Nausicaa]

As far as I know the Korean one isn't available yet. Could be wrong. But there are jets in the 1946 release too. Overall though IL2 1946 is a prop sim - you get more of those than you could ever hope to master ;-)

[dazz1971]

As far as I know the Korean one isn't available yet. Could be wrong. But there are jets in the 1946 release too. Overall though IL2 1946 is a prop sim - you get more of those than you could ever hope to master ;-)

thanks mate :)
yea most of the time i will be flying props too
but now and then i would like to have a go in some early jets as they are my fav i like mainly the earlyer jets ie sabers, vampire ,voodoo phantoms that sort of thing :grin:

not so keen on the modern jets well in games anyway it gets boring fast shooting missiles at black specs from 5 miles away :(

[Igo kyu]

it gets boring fast shooting missiles at black specs from 5 miles away :(
Black specs? luxury. </four yorkshiremen>

I remember F16 Combat Pilot on the ST, frequently you launched at nothing but a lock-on.

[Foo'bar]

...even more boring ;)

[LoyalNine]

thanks mate :)
it gets boring fast shooting missiles at black specs from 5 miles away :(

If thats your feeling you should give Falcon:4 a try... you may get a chance to shoot at a black speck 5 miles away but you have FAR more items to keep you overloaded at the same time. The one thing you dont have to worry about in IL2 is other planes seeing YOU as a black speck or the opfor shooting Mach2 exploding telephone poles at your crate. Vey different styles of sim but for anyone to say its boring is someone who has not immersed themselves and worked to learn the game.

S!

[dazz1971]

If thats your feeling you should give Falcon:4 a try... you may get a chance to shoot at a black speck 5 miles away but you have FAR more items to keep you overloaded at the same time. The one thing you dont have to worry about in IL2 is other planes seeing YOU as a black speck or the opfor shooting Mach2 exploding telephone poles at your crate. Vey different styles of sim but for anyone to say its boring is someone who has not immersed themselves and worked to learn the game.

S!

sorry mate i think you miss understood me what i was trying to say was that i enjoy close up dogfighting where you can see the other plane etc like a game i once had called mig alley

i didnt mean to offend anyone and i apoligise if i have:(

[LoyalNine]

oh amn no offense at all.. did not mean to write it up like that at all. I was just sayin it totally not boring that there is more to it than just firing a rocket.


although I do recall a game I used to play called MicroProse:F117 that really was just kinda firing a missile from miles away. But damn I was hooked on that game for the longest time.

I enjoy the close in fight too. Maybe thats why I have always liked the Korea War era jets. Still cool fast jets yet they had to mix it up...

[tagTaken2]

sorry mate i think you miss understood me what i was trying to say was that i enjoy close up dogfighting where you can see the other plane etc like a game i once had called mig alley


MiG Alley is the main reason that I'm looking forward to SoW: Korea more than anything. I was going to reinstall MA for playing around in (could never get it stable enough for a full campaign), but if the pics above are flyable, might take another look at mods.

[hiro]

MiG Alley is the main reason that I'm looking forward to SoW: Korea more than anything. I was going to reinstall MA for playing around in (could never get it stable enough for a full campaign), but if the pics above are flyable, might take another look at mods.



I remember Mig Alley . . . the AI was better than IL-2's and missions were pretty good + campaigns.

I do remember the MiGs cannon really tore stuff up, one puff ball and that was it . . . the Saber you had to hose a MiG down.

Good game. But yes very finicky. It worked on only one computer (and they was build to exceed max specs) I built but not on any others.


I can agree, I do like modern aircraft, but for some reason, WW 2 and Korea really draw me in. Like "There is no kill like a guns kill . . . " really fits my style.

Maybe its just the old nostalgic knights of the air where you had to get close and saw what damage you did and other other guy did. Where you are fighting for your own, its difficult to get a kill, and you can see your opponent.

Not like Modern air combat you can just go BVR and shoot your missile. . . or space warfare where you can be off the charts, push a button, and something goes boom far away and suddenly you got killionaire.

[nearmiss]

There has been quite abit of talk about a Korean war theatre. Like yourself I always enjoy the contact of WW2 air combat. The Korean war would be similar to playing IL2 on 2X, which is very attractive to me as well.

I've always got a kick out of doing portions of missions in 2X, just for the challenge. Naturally, the sim isn't the same at 2X, but you can get a taste for faster combat.

I enjoyed MigAlley as well. I thought for a while the team at BOB II WOV would take it on as a project, but it never was popular enough to push it.

Also, as I recall I even have the source code for MA. Rowan's released both Mig Alley and BOB.

[dazz1971]

yeah i loved moig alley just a shame it never ran that good on the pc i had at the time :(

oh and my copy of 1946 came today i just got to download all the patches and figure out how to get my av8r to work ???
the hatswitch dont work and the throttle etc so i got some tweeking todo then ill se you guys in the skys :grin:

[Letum]

The Korean war would be similar to playing IL2 on 2X.

That's not the experiance I have of flying jets in IL2.
Sure, the planes are faster, but the combat is much, much slower paced.