Dear russian fellows..

[adonys]

Please help a brother in need!

The developers confirmed they'll fix the fps problem caused by the epilepsy filter.. yet..

I do not want to play the butchered western/UBI version of this game, because they'll solve the problem at the cost of removing all the potential seizure causing things from the game, one by one:
- the propellers arc (removed or replaced with a clean trans lucid one)
- debris/flying parts from mopped up airplanes
- flashes/explosions
and so on..

You would not want to play a game like that, and I do not want it neither.

As far as I understood, Luthier said they'll completly remove anything related with the epilepsy filter from the 1C's russian version of the game, so, I ask you..

I want to buy the real game, can someone from you help me with buying the russian version of IL2 CoD (a downloadable version would be just fine), please?

Thank you,
Dan Antonescu

[major_setback]

I don'y have it for you at the moment, but will be happy to sell it to you.
Also: would you be interested in a Toyota Ventris. Only 5 years old. Will seel for only 350 Euoro. No questions askt.

Dobrai vecher.

[adonys]

Just the russian Il2 COD please, nothing else. And it's "Dobre vecher" :P

So, anyone, please?

[WeReLex]

Just "dobroi nochi" now... :)
Downloadable russian version - no problem. Write in google: "купить ил2 битва за британию"...
Just to do with an activation key? Western key won't approach use for russian version... And russian key won't approach for use in European countries...

[adonys]

I've bought the russian version by myself (yuplay), thank you!

[MadBlaster]

If you don't live in russia, how will this work? You need steam to activate. Won't steam know that you don't live in russia? What about patching? Steam tries to patch e.g., english patch to russian game? That's not gonna work. Please clarify your logic. Thanks.

[Insuber]

Just "dobroi nochi" now... :)
Downloadable russian version - no problem. Write in google: "скачать ил2 битва за британию"... Or torrents... :)
Just to do with an activation key? Western key won't approach use for russian version... And russian key won't approach for use in European countries...

I've already contacted the calendar girl for an intensive, full-immersion, Russian course in Moscow, I'm confident that after a couple of nights ... Errr weeks with her I will master the language enough to play the Russian version... :)

[MadBlaster]

That sounds promising. I may end up doing that too. It would be nice if you could modify the language files for english.

[David198502]

The IL2 CoD russian (1C) version I've bought is Steam app 63950, confirmed by the steam_appid.txt from inside the install directory. The IL2 CoD international (UBI) version is Steam app 63970.

I've created another clean Steam account (while being in UK), on which I've registred it using the serial code I've bought from Russia. The game registered ok, downloaded and updates ok, and also started.

so you can play it now???

[MadBlaster]

I go to yuplay and it doesn't even show cliffs of dover. I don't get it. Maybe yuplay is blocking my region (U.S.).

[David198502]

I go to yuplay and it doesn't even show cliffs of dover. I don't get it. Maybe yuplay is blocking my region (U.S.).

on www.yuplay.com it doesnt show cliffs of dover neither battle of britain for me as well.btw im from austria

[BobTuck]

I got CloD blocked too on yuplay (im in UK)

BobTuck.

[MadBlaster]

adonys, you bought a steam app through yuplay?

[adonys]

Yes, I can play it now. Was tinkering with ini's in search of making the damn menu text in english.

I've bought it from yuplay's russian site (http://yuplay.ru/).

[David198502]

Yes, I can play it now. Was tinkering with ini's in search of making the damn menu text in english.

I've bought it from yuplay's russian site (http://yuplay.ru/).

are you serious???if so,can you please explain step by step how you achieved that.
i mean i can see it on that side, but with all that russian text, i wouldnt even know how to buy it from that side

[BobTuck]

Yes, I can play it now. Was tinkering with ini's in search of making the damn menu text in english.

I've bought it from yuplay's russian site (http://yuplay.ru/).

yes, found it thanks Adonys.

I will hold off from buying it until you tell us you've got it playing in english.

Thanks,
BobTuck.

[MadBlaster]

Yes. I need to know how to make russian letters with my keyboard to put into the russian search engine. And since I don't know russian...well you see the difficulty here!


edit
well i guess i can us google translator.

edit 2
found it, but have no idea how I would pay for this. its russian money. is it rubles?

edit 3
wow, if i have this correct. list price shows 395 rubles is only $14!! better double check that again.

edit 4
link to cod russian http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=ru&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fyuplay.ru%2Fstory.php%3Ftitle%3D%25 D0%2598%25D0%25BB-2-%25D0%25A8%25D1%2582%25D1%2583%25D1%2580%25D0%25BC %25D0%25BE%25D0%25B2%25D0%25B8%25D0%25BA-%25D0%2591%25D0%25B8%25D1%2582%25D0%25B2%25D0%25B0-%25D0%25B7%25D0%25B0-%25D0%2591%25D1%2580%25D0%25B8%25D1%2582%25D0%25B0 %25D0%25BD%25D0%25B8%25D1%258E-%2528Steam-%25D0%25B2%25D0%25B5%25D1%2580%25D1%2581%25D0%25B8 %25D1%258F%2529&act=url

[David198502]

if it really works, i dont understand why all the people are willing to wait at least another week to get their hands on, especially with this f..ing non removable filter in it.

[palvas]

oh my god!!! Please,tell us if it's possible to switch the game in english!!! :-P

[David198502]

im on the side now but dont know how to buy

[BobTuck]

I would imagine if you pay using credit card, it gets converted automatically from rubles to your currency.

By the sounds of things Adonys has already got it playing in english, in a secondary steam account.

I've got a real urge to jump in myself!

BobTuck.

[David198502]

well i dont have a steam account yet.so i would really appreciate a step by step tutorial to buy this and make it work!

[BobTuck]

This is where to download the steam software you need:

http://store.steampowered.com/

After that, I think you get prompted to creat a new account


BobTuck.

[David198502]

thx!so do i have to register in a special way to trick steam to get the russian version working?

[Extreme_One]

"Ил-2 Штурмовик: Битва за Британию (Steam-версия)" is area-dependent item. You can get it only if you are located in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus Republic, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Moldavia, Russian Federation, Tadjikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan. If you are located outside of these countries, please click button "Cancel".

Hmmm so what happens if we hit "Ok" anyway?

[MadBlaster]

Stuck. i double click on the "buy 395.08" tab and nothing happens.

edit
I move my mouse cursor over the tab and it changes like it is going to work, then I double click and nothing happens. I tried reloading page...etc. do I need to register or have steam installed?

[Targ]

Hmmm so what happens if we hit "Ok" anyway?

It than sends you to the check out screen where you enter your CC info.

[David198502]

Stuck. i double click on the "buy 395.08" tab and nothing happens.

i did and then the paying options are poping up.

[Extreme_One]

Crikey, every time I try and enter my CC details I get a "404 Not Found."

Think I'll have to stick to my Steam pre-order.

Pretty sure there will be a way for us to be able to convert our install to the Russian game version in time anyway. ;)

[MadBlaster]

If anyone from U.S. has success doing this, please post. I seemed to be blocked. Thanks.

[Sauf]

Maybe they dont recognise our banks? Adonys is from Romania I think, oh well was worth a shot.

Interesting to see the game rating on that site,
32 ppl = 5 stars
3 ppl = 4 stars
3 ppl = 1 star
So cant be all doom and gloom. (touch wood)

[BobTuck]

Yeah, the CC details messed up for me too :(

[David198502]

i doubt that it really works.would just be too good to be true.the clean version without filter and before official release in the west.

[David198502]

Yeah, the CC details messed up for me too :(

what are those cc details?

[Jarsalla]

I also got to the point where you need to tell you CC information. I don't dare to proceed. Those that are getting 404 error or something, are you sure aren't trying to order through the translated link? That might be a problem.

HINT!!
The site can be translated also by selecting english from a drop down menu in the upper right corner of yuplay.ru website. It's located next to the download yuplay client link! No need to use external translator!

[palvas]

Please,we need more confirmations before doing this.!!!
I'm one step before confirming the order: tell me if the game menu is switchable in english,how set steam properly as a russian account (it's enough to set the language in russian ? )

AND MORE IMPORTANT THING: a friend told me that there is an high risk that steam ban both your accounts.Can you confirm this ????

[Sauf]

What country are you from Palvas? It accepted your cc details?

[Extreme_One]

...

HINT!!
The site can be translated also by selecting english from a drop down menu in the upper right corner of yuplay.ru website. It's located next to the download yuplay client link! No need to use external translator!

Still getting the 404 errors when using the in-built translator.

[MadBlaster]

Maybe they dont recognise our banks? Adonys is from Romania I think, oh well was worth a shot.

Interesting to see the game rating on that site,
32 ppl = 5 stars
3 ppl = 4 stars
3 ppl = 1 star
So cant be all doom and gloom. (touch wood)

Not so good here:

http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http://www.sukhoi.ru/forum/showthread.php%3Ft%3D67837&prev=_t&rurl=translate.google.com&usg=ALkJrhg7SewY4mvWQk9Q7xctKB7QWHAVWA

[David198502]

Please,we need more confirmations before doing this.!!!
I'm one step before confirming the order: tell me if the game menu is switchable in english,how set steam properly as a russian account (it's enough to set the language in russian ? )

+1!
i would appreciate more information on this as well!!!!

[BobTuck]

i got to the point where it allowed me to enter my credit card details, but then it wanted a small test amount to check my account (2$), but that check failed and it locked my account!

[David198502]

so adonys tell us how it worked please!

[LegTaste]

Is there a Russian version of steam?

If so buying the steam version will be quite easy, subscribe to a vpn service that has russian servers (you should be able to just buy a week for a small amount), log into steam and you will see steam as the russians would even with your normal account.

It works for UK steam accounts accessed through a US server, gets you the cheaper prices.

Update:

Looks like the hidemyass VPN will do and can be purchased for cheap.

Just need people to confirm if cliffs of dover can be bought from steam when access from russia, then we're good to go.

[palvas]

Is there a Russian version of steam?

If so buying the steam version will be quite easy, subscribe to a vpn service that has russian servers, log into steam and you will see steam as the russians would even with your normal account.

It works for UK steam accounts accessed through a US server, gets you the cheaper prices.

Ok,but,as I said: it's a safe procedure ? Is there a risk of ban ? When i put the CC info,i put italy of course.I don't want to spend XXX rubles for playng 10 minutes of COD,thx.

[adonys]

I am a romanian, my cc is a romanian one from BRD bank, which is a french bank (Societe Generale), and it is a Mastercard.

I did all of this from London, UK (where I am atm).

1) I've bought the game from the russian yuplay site. I can confirm it was 14.something (under 15) USD, and another 1.6 USD the security payment.

I've used google translate (even if I know how to read russian, I don't understand all the words, it was a loong time ago when I was studying russian in highschool). You need an yuplay account to buy, just set up one (I've already had one on yuplay.com, from buying WoP on Steam as it was required, and it worked on yuplay.ru too)

I've browsed to the game, pressed the Buy (in russian) button, then went to checkout.

I've selected the VISA/MASTERCARD payment option, then I've added my cc details.

Then I've pressed buy.

As it is the first time I've added that cc on my acount, they've did a security payment from it, and asked me to check my bank account and enter the amount taken from them in that security payment. For me, it was 1.6 USD

All of this I did last night. I couldn't confirm the security amount, as my bank's online application wouldn't show recent transactions (it can take even 3 days to update)

This morning I've called the bank, and they've confirmed there were two payments made from y account to yuplay, the security one in amount of 1.6 USD, and the game's payment in 14.something USD amount.

After I've confirmed the security amount (1.6 USD for me), the trasaction was made, and I've received an email with the game's serial.

I've made a normal new account (from my UK appartment, using Steam app, marking it's country ass Romania), and then registered the serial on it (which appears as IL2 CoD russian retail, app 63650), then I've downloaded it, and started it.

All the text is in russian, but you can manage if you can read russian, or have a look at the english menu screenshots Oleg released a while ago in some updates. All the sounds are in english (radio chatter, etc).

PS: do NOT try to buy it through Steam, even if you'll use a VPN and a russian IP/russian Steam (by adding a ?cc=RU at the end of the application's link), your cc will not be russian, and you will not be allowed to buy it.

PPS: the game runs horribly for me, but well then, I am on a rather crappy laptop (Intel Core2 Duo 330M 2.13 GHz 1066 MHz, ATI Mobility Radeon 5470 500 MB VRAM, 4 GB DDR2 RAM, 5400 rotations HDD), with everythingset on medium I think. I'll start thinkering the video settings as soon as you guys let me :P

[Flanker15]

There's another way to buy the Russian release on steam just have someone who can buy the Russian version (e.g. a Russian) to gift you the game on steam. Of course you'll need someone who can buy the Russian version first.
The version you gift is the version you buy regardless of where it's being sent too.
Important thing to note is a game with one steamID can't play with another steamID game using steamworks so if you buy the Russian version you can't play against Ubi versions, it will missmatch.
This has been used for many steam games (usually to circumvent censorship) and if it doesn't work with this one I'd be shocked.

You should probably wait until the game comes out first though, I still have faith that the devs won't let us down.

[LegTaste]

is russian hard to learn?

I see myself doing that before i buy a fucked version of the game.

[palvas]

Well,if the game menu is still in Russian,sorry for me ,but i'll go (maybe) with West version.I cannot afford a game sim in a language that i can't read at all: briefings,menu,settings,keys. And still,we don't know if it steam allows this strange procedure.Maybe not now,but in a week our fakeaccounts could be banished.

[adonys]

Important thing to note is a game with one steamID can't play with another steamID game using steamworks so if you buy the Russian version you can't play against Ubi versions, it will missmatch.
This has been used for many steam games (usually to circumvent censorship) and if it doesn't work with this one I'd be shocked.

that's why I've setup a new id for it, I've not added it to my main Steam account, but to a new one.

You should probably wait until the game comes out first though, I still have faith that the devs won't let us down.

Well, Luthier said more than a couple of times that UBI international version will have the permanent (as in not optional) epilepsy preventing modifications (be them the epilepsy filter, or the tinkered graphics) no matter what. Is not about them, is about UBI's policy and the contract they've signed.

[adonys]

Well,if the game menu is still in Russian,sorry for me ,but i'll go (maybe) with West version.I cannot afford a game sim in a language that i can't read at all: briefings,menu,settings,keys. And still,we don't know if it steam allows this strange procedure.Maybe not now,but in a week our fakeaccounts could be banished.

I'm confident we'll find out how to turn on/force the english menu in the russian version pretty soon.

The account can not be banned, as there is nothing illegal in there. As someone said above, getting Steam games gifted from other countries is actually an official mechanism incorporated in Steam, and it works ok.

[norulz]

I do confirm it

It works at least till I get the application downloader and getting the serial in my mail (that's the step I am at)

I use ING bank and the home banking updates immediately so I've seen the "test" transaction instantly but... the transaction came in Romanian Currency so I had to cross finger that the convertor from RON to USD gave the same sum they expected... it did so the page switched from showing the price to showing the download links.

I have a steam account made here in Romania so I think it will work.

I'll post back.

OK... steam accepted the serial and now is downloading... although atm it says download paused... maybe it's doing maintenance or something...

adonys I'll contact you on PM... on our common language :)

[adonys]

Guys, just make sure you're adding the serial to a new sepparate Steam account made specially for this, to prevent messing up your main Steam account just in case (which should also allow you to eventually add the UBI version ot it, if UBI will ever provide an option for the ep filter, and won't damage the game graphics to pull the ep filter out).


It works at least till I get the application downloader and getting the serial in my mail (that's the step I am at)

You don't need that, just add the serial to the new Steam account, and you cna start download directly through Steam

I use ING bank and the home banking updates immediately so I've seen the "test" transaction instantly but... the transaction came in Romanian Currency so I had to cross finger that the convertor from RON to USD gave the same sum they expected...

My bank account displayed the transaction in the original currency it was made too, so it was simple for me.

[palvas]

@adyon
Well,receiving it as a gift is a thing,creating a fake account with fake infos is another one and in a forum told me you can't do this.

Well,when you (you as community) will be able to force english lang. and we all have the confirmation that it's a perfectly safe procedure also from other users,maybe i'll give it another chance :) Thanks anyway for your idea,hope this will work perfectly in the future!!;)

[swiss]

Well, Luthier said more than a couple of times that UBI international version will have the permanent (as in not optional) epilepsy preventing modifications (be them the epilepsy filter, or the tinkered graphics) no matter what. Is not about them, is about UBI's policy and the contract they've signed.

It seems a lot of people either haven't realized that fact yet or are just ignoring it.

[adonys]

@adyons
Well,receiving it as a gift is a thing,creating a fake account with fake infos is another one and in a forum told me you can't do this.

you don't need any fake account, or fill it with fake info, to do this. it is perfectly legal to have more than one Steam accounts, and it's perfectly legal to add games from no matter what country to it.

I've opted to add the serial to a new account exactly to allow my main account still have a chance to get the english version if UBI will step back and offer the ep preventing measure as an option.

also, there won't be any other community, the il2 russian players can play with western il2, and viceversa.

[palvas]

i thought you need to create a russian account on steam,maybe i misunderstood :) Well,if you say so,i'll just wait for the translation to try this process. Thanks again for your support :)

[David198502]

I'm confident we'll find out how to turn on/force the english menu in the russian version pretty soon.

The account can not be banned, as there is nothing illegal in there. As someone said above, getting Steam games gifted from other countries is actually an official mechanism incorporated in Steam, and it works ok.

so you didnt achieve to play it in english yet?

[MadBlaster]

It sounds to me like if you ever want to play a russian, you have to do this. For only $14, I probably will. but not now, my eyes are tired. I feel a epi-spaz coming on from staring at this forum all day.

[Fansadox]

This all sounds very nice but i wont be buying it before we can translate it to English. I made this mistake before by buying DCS Blackshark in Russian and even though you could change the settings file and translate about half the game into English it was still unplayeble.

[LegTaste]

Well, Luthier said more than a couple of times that UBI international version will have the permanent (as in not optional) epilepsy preventing modifications (be them the epilepsy filter, or the tinkered graphics) no matter what. Is not about them, is about UBI's policy and the contract they've signed.

This should be a lesson in why they shouldn't have chosen ubisoft

[|ZUTI|]

Well, I just acquired the serial myself. Will have to install steam and that crap, but everything went smooth. The only problem that I had was the fact that from my mastercard account, the amount was in € so I had to recalculate that to $ in order to get the serial. :)

10€, come on. 10€... Even if I chucked that away... it's 10€. I will survive. Thanks adonys for the heads up.

PS: Oh, I also did this because from my understanding, that filter will be non-toggable for the west. If it will be toggable, even better. I don't mind.

[David198502]

Well, I just acquired the serial myself. Will have to install steam and that crap, but everything went smooth. The only problem that I had was the fact that from my mastercard account, the amount was in € so I had to recalculate that to $ in order to get the serial. :)

10€, come on. 10€... Even if I chucked that away... it's 10€. I will survive. Thanks adonys for the heads up.

PS: Oh, I also did this because from my understanding, that filter will be non-toggable for the west. If it will be toggable, even better. I don't mind.

what do you mean with recalculate??doesnt the bank do that automatically??

[|ZUTI|]

The "problem" is that yoplay site requires the amount that was taken from your account in $, but my account on ma e-bank showed the amount in €. That was the "problem".

Anyhow, installed steam to my D driver, entered the serial and is downloading it. At 250kbps. The max that my shitty connection can have. All good so far.

[Sauf]

Think when ive had a bit of sleep I'll get this version aswell, at least then I will have the ORIGINAL cod to compare the western release to. Never know, it might become a collectors piece, and its to cheap to pass up.

I'll also be able to belittle future generations, "when i was your age we used to play real mens games, not the crap you bunch of sun starved epileptic sponge muscled nancy boys fool around with!"

[David198502]

The "problem" is that yoplay site requires the amount that was taken from your account in $, but my account on ma e-bank showed the amount in €. That was the "problem".

Anyhow, installed steam to my D driver, entered the serial and is downloading it. At 250kbps. The max that my shitty connection can have. All good so far.

so how did you do it?why didnt you just insert the exact amount which is shown on the yuplay site in dollars

[fruitbat]

The "problem" is that yoplay site requires the amount that was taken from your account in $, but my account on ma e-bank showed the amount in €. That was the "problem".

Anyhow, installed steam to my D driver, entered the serial and is downloading it. At 250kbps. The max that my shitty connection can have. All good so far.

Hi Zuti, can you keep us posted of your results, very interested in this:cool:

[|ZUTI|]

"Educated" guess. The amount was 0.99€. Then I looked at the rate between € and US. Multiplied and rounded UP. It was original 1.38€ I think, so that made 1.4$. Entered that and it went through. I figured that it was one one decimal place from what adonys posted. And the amount on yuplay site is for the game. This amount that I am talking on is a "security" amount. Or something like that. Just to verify the buyer, I guess.

fruitbat: I will. It will take some time to download, but I will.

[fruitbat]

cheers mate:cool:

[palvas]

Lol,i made a stupid thing. I put twice the wrong $ amount and my account on yuplay.ru is frozen.
Suggestions ? Making a new account ?

[LegTaste]

we should have a game menu translation thread, where with the help of russian speakers translate screenshots so we know what we're doing when playing the game

Edit:

Actually people like me can just forget the game, i never mastered or even came close to being any good at il2, no chance learning with a russian version.

I'm just going to start from today, pretending this game doesn't exist.

[Triggaaar]

What game?

[highness]

Lol,i made a stupid thing. I put twice the wrong $ amount and my account on yuplay.ru is frozen.
Suggestions ? Making a new account ?

i just got the same !!! :-x

i tried again, but i got this: "Attempt to use a card that has been blocked"

i got doomed because of their stupid security amount check

ive sent them an email:evil:

[Gromit GR1 UK]

Just to confirm - the Yuplay / new steam account method works for me. (Peterborough - UK) Download finished 20 minutes ago through steam, and have managed a couple of flights. The russian menus are extremely difficult to navigate though.

[palvas]

i just got the same !!! :-x

i tried again, but i got this: "Attempt to use a card that has been blocked"

i got doomed because of their stupid security amount check

ive sent them an email:evil:

Let me know if you have success and if they block your account or the credit card number (it would be useless to create a new account).

[highness]

Let me know if you have success and if they block your account or the credit card number (it would be useless to create a new account).

i have just successfully purchased it and received the serial number in my email!

i used another credit card and i could provide the correct security amount!

now , knowingly that i already have STEAM account registered with other games and in a western country? what should i do exactly?

enter this serial into my existing steam account or create a new one?

[highness]

Just to confirm - the Yuplay / new steam account method works for me. (Peterborough - UK) Download finished 20 minutes ago through steam, and have managed a couple of flights. The russian menus are extremely difficult to navigate though.

what country did you put for the new steam account you created?

[Gromit GR1 UK]

what country did you put for the new steam account you created?

I didnt specify which country for the new steam account - It doesnt ask

[highness]

ok! i have SUCCESSFULLY activated my russian version of il-2 purchased from yuplay.ru in my existing STEAM account, and it started downloading it now!

I was using a visa debit card i have with my US Chase account, and the transactions are being updated in real time on your account when you log in on chase.com, thats how i could confirm that stupid security amount check with yuplay.ru nearly instantly!

:grin:

[Biggs]

how will you find the update that the russians got the other day? (the filter removal update)

[highness]

how will you find the update that the russians got the other day? (the filter removal update)

that should be done automatically through steam no?

[Biggs]

that should be done automatically through steam no?

idk.. that's why i asked you.

trying to navigate through all that russian seems a bit too much of a hassle to me.

[adonys]

guys, again, if you'll add the IL2 CoD russian 1C version to a Steam account, you CAN'T have any other version of the IL2 CoD added to that account.

that's why it would be better to add it to a secondary/new Steam account, and not to your main.

the updates will be normally made through Steam, as with any Steam game. And, of course, they will be the russian version updates.

[highness]

guys, again, if you'll add the IL2 CoD russian 1C version to a Steam account, you CAN'T have any other version of the IL2 CoD added to that account.

that's why it would be better to add it to a secondary/new Steam account, and not to your main.

the updates will be normally made through Steam, as with any Steam game. And, of course, they will be the russian version updates.

what do you mean? this il2 cod russian version is the only one i have purchased, and added to my existing steam account, it is being downloaded now. i havent got any error messages etc

im bilingual and i have no plans to get any other version of il2 cod

[David198502]

did anybody actually manage to get the russian version and making the menus in english?

[norulz]

how will you find the update that the russians got the other day? (the filter removal update)

did they got such update already?

[David198502]

how can one know this small test amount they on ones bank account?

[highness]

how can one know this small test amount they on ones bank account?

check your bank statements!

[Geronimo989]

Thank you guys for this, I bought it too!
It is a triple win:
No waiting till 31.
No money goes to ubi
10 euro instead of 50 euro

Man i am so happy now cant wait to start it up!!!!

[David198502]

check your bank statements!

i dont have online banking

[norulz]

then you have to go to the bank and get a transaction report within next ten days.

[SG1_Lud]

Here is how I passed the security check:

Noted down the price of the sim in $ : 14.41 usd
Continued all the proccess of buying with credit card.
Noted down the final price charged in euros: 10.63 euros

Calculated the exchange rate used: 14.41/10.63 = 1.3555

Took the security amount charged (1,06 euros) multiplied by the exchabge rate calculated before: 1,06 x 1.3555 = 1.4363

Rounded up to 1.44 and success.

Important to use a dot as decimal separator (instead of a comma)

Good luck!

[highness]

Here is how I passed the security check:

Noted down the price of the sim in $ : 14.41 usd
Continued all the proccess of buying with credit card.
Noted down the final price charged in euros: 10.63 euros

Calculated the exchange rate used: 14.41/10.63 = 1.3555

Took the security amount charged (1,06 euros) multiplied by the exchabge rate calculated before: 1,06 x 1.3555 = 1.4363

Rounded up to 1.44 and success.

Important to use a dot as decimal separator (instead of a comma)

Good luck!

nice, but risky!

i was lucky to have 2 different creditcards though.. one got doomed the first time when i tried to fool the security check, had to do it with the second one.

[SG1_Lud]

nice, but risky!

i was lucky to have 2 different creditcards though.. one got doomed the first time when i tried to fool the security check, had to do it with the second one.

actually is less risky than the way I did it the first time :) that was looking for the exchange rate in the internet. The only problem was to guess if I had to round up to one decimal like Zuti suggested or two. In my case I needed two decimals.

Now , downloading. Can I count on you mate to figure where I will have to click to enter the sim ? :D

[David198502]

well i just messed up!it was my second try and 1.44 didnt work either!

[SG1_Lud]

well i just messed up!it was my second try and 1.44 didnt work either!

Sorry to hear that mate.

You have to do the maths. In my case was 1.44 but that will not be the same for everyone.

[David198502]

Sorry to hear that mate.

You have to do the maths. In my case was 1.44 but that will not be the same for everyone.

i dont get it!souldnt it be the same for me?the price and the rate between euros and dollars is the same.

[BigPickle]

They said the filter was temporary untill they create a proper fix that put the game back how the game was ment to be features wise, they arnt gonna leave the game be without all the major features missing.
Think about how it would effect multiplayer if the Russian version had a load of advantages over the rest of the world, like being able to see when you have hit the enemy aircraft.
In time guys all will be fine.

[|ZUTI|]

Well, got the game. Did fiddle settings via conf.ini... started her up and well, sideshows :D But did not change that much ATM, no time. And got me cyrilics alphabet :D

Oh, and there is no trace of dedicated server anywhere. That was said to be included in the original release too. Guess not :)

PS: Sideshows with antiepileptic filter disabled in conf.ini
[BOB]
AntiEpilepcy=0

[SG1_Lud]

i dont get it!souldnt it be the same for me?the price and the rate between euros and dollars is the same.

.... but NOT the security amount that was charged into your account. In every case this amount is different.

Beside that, I cannot assure that the exchange ratio is the same. Should be, but....

Again, is safer to do the maths!

[SG1_Lud]

Well, got the game. Did fiddle settings via conf.ini... started her up and well, sideshows :D But did not change that much ATM, no time. And got me cyrilics alphabet :D

Oh, and there is no trace of dedicated server anywhere. That was said to be included in the original release too. Guess not :)

PS: Sideshows with antiepileptic filter disabled in conf.ini
[BOB]
AntiEpilepcy=0


Downloading here... yuplay.ru gave me a warning about not being able to activate outside Russia and CIS, but the game activated fine in Steam.

One drawback, is that it seems that the game is going to be installed where steam is installed. I guess that if I want a dedicated hard disk for COD, I will need to move the steam account to that drive before.

[Sauf]

What are your pc specs Zuti?

[highness]

have to reconfirm here

everything went smoothly, payment, download and activation ! :grin: great "tripple bargain" of the day here! thanks to the original poster who recommended yuplay.ru :-D

i have managed to fool around with the trainer and did some small flights, i didn't do the conf.ini edit trick yet, so far it looked nearly as a slideshow with all settings to MEDIUM...

(i got i7-875k, GTX295 and 8gb of ram ddrIII, win7 64bit)

[cato_larsen]

well, my account got closed and I tried to re-open it. Got caught red handed buying a game that I really should not buy as I was not in the region...
OOOOOPS :)

Ah well, I still have the steam pre- bought :)

[|ZUTI|]

Ah, yes, my specs:
- Core2Duo @3.0Ghz
- 4GB of DDR2 @ 1100Mhz
- Geforce 8800GT
- W7 64bit SP1

About sums it up. I'll try fiddling with the config/menus when I have some time, probably tomorrow :)

[norulz]

almost same hardware with ZUTI here just the VGA is GT460

here are some pics... sized down they can fool you all is OK :D ..still much to do

all were under 20FPS (1920x1080, all maxed up... I think :D )
http://img140.imageshack.us/img140/1333/launcher201103262125244.jpg

http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/8391/launcher201103262125561.jpg

http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/2850/launcher201103262127559.jpg

http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/9881/launcher201103262128189.jpg


How can we turn off that chat window?

Antialiasing... is working only partially... is anyone managed to make it work via driver settings or something?

[BigPickle]

Ah, yes, my specs:
- Core2Duo @3.0Ghz
- 4GB of DDR2 @ 1100Mhz
- Geforce 8800GT
- W7 64bit SP1

About sums it up. I'll try fiddling with the config/menus when I have some time, probably tomorrow :)

Did it behave laggy or did it seem quite smooth

[SEE]

Zuti, is your 4Gb RAM with Win7 64bit mean you are only addressing 2Gb?

There seems to be a lot of contradictory info at the moment with some saying on the Russian forums that RAM and Video Ram seem to have a larger impact on FPS rather than the processor.

[|ZUTI|]

SEE: Well, I think that the game can use all the available RAM as system sees it all. I'll check next time around when I run the game with task manager. I know I'll be getting at least 1GB GFX in some foreseeable future. But not just now :)

BigPickle: Well, FPS were alrays under 10, so :D It was not responsive or it perhaps was, but with such framerate, who cares.

[highness]

well, my account got closed and I tried to re-open it. Got caught red handed buying a game that I really should not buy as I was not in the region...
OOOOOPS :)

Ah well, I still have the steam pre- bought :)

when that happened??

everything is fine with my account , at the moment

can anyone else repport that?

[cato_larsen]

when that happened??

everything is fine with my account , at the moment

can anyone else repport that?

No worries. I failed the money check...... You did not right?

[highness]

No worries. I failed the money check...... You did not right?

lol i thought u were talking about your STEAM account!

everything went smoothly here. i have 4 or 5 other games i have purchased with steam, no way they can close my account like that.

[cato_larsen]

No of course not. I am using a steam account just for this if I get it :) I have another for all my usual Steam games :)

[Geronimo989]

Well it doesnt work for me, just black where graphics should be. It goes ingame (I can hear the engine when I increase throttle) but it displays nothing...
I am so pissed off now...

Core2Duo 3ghz
8gb DDR2
9800GT 1gb RAM
Windows 7 64bit

[cato_larsen]

latest driver update?

[Sauf]

Well it doesnt work for me, just black where graphics should be. It goes ingame (I can hear the engine when I increase throttle) but it displays nothing...
I am so pissed off now...

Core2Duo 3ghz
8gb DDR2
9800GT 1gb RAM
Windows 7 64bit

Is game running in taskmaster? Sounds like a graphic's prob

[Geronimo989]

Yea I updated all the drivers. It wont even display the pilot or the plane in options where you customize them. Just black screen where pilot/plane should be, but I can select cap and uniform and stuff.

[Sauf]

Yea I updated all the drivers. It wont even display the pilot or the plane in options where you customize them. Just black screen where pilot/plane should be, but I can select cap and uniform and stuff.

Damm mate I feel for you, had a quick look to see if i could find anything on the russian forums, but google translate is not my friend :(

[highness]

everything is lagging and stuttering.. everywhere :-x

[Sauf]

think I read on russian forums they turned all but water and objects to low, know its hard when its all in russian, but you guys are the first western guinea pi__ srry players so keep the info coming

[Meusli]

Try older drivers if the new ones don't work, maybe these will help.

[Hunden]

we should have a game menu translation thread, where with the help of russian speakers translate screenshots so we know what we're doing when playing the game

Edit:

Actually people like me can just forget the game, i never mastered or even came close to being any good at il2, no chance learning with a russian version.

I'm just going to start from today, pretending this game doesn't exist.

LMAO.... I was having the same feeling. I may just go away for a year or so and stick to my il2 UP 2.01 and not be so damned depressed watching this nightmare unfold.

[adonys]

I told you guys to use the english menu screenshots as referrence..

The struggle for FPS should bring the AntiEpilepcy=0 setting in the conf.ini file (after deactivating game's Steam Cloud option). The biggest FPS gain from settings can be gained by deactivating the shadows/roads/clouds/landscape details/visual effects/clickable cockpit(on/off with F10). Resolution doesn't give much of a difference, which actually means the bottleneck is not on the graphic card.

The game is not optimized at all. It's enough to watch the Pilot and Plane menu, which are only displaying a single pilot/plane, and see how poor (performance wise) is the rendering done.

[Geronimo989]

Try older drivers if the new ones don't work, maybe these will help.

Thanks man this helped! It works now, and it doesn't lag as terrible as I thought it would.

[TUSA/TX-Gunslinger]

Downloading in my new Russian Steam account right now.

I didn't get the security check. I just selected pay by credit card in YuPlay and off she went.

14 mins 11 secs left.

First thing I'm doing is looking for the file with flag that enables English. I did it in BS - maybe I can get lucky and find it here.....

On the other hand - it might not be setup that way. We will see....

Thanks to the Adonys!

S!

Gunny

[adonys]

yuplay is asking for the security check only if you never used your cc with them before.

[TUSA/TX-Gunslinger]

Well, to be honest - hate to admit it - but I did buy WOP from YuPlay so I already had an account.

I'm pretty sure though I used a different card than the one I bought WOP with.

S!

Gunny

[F19_lacrits]

SEE: Well, I think that the game can use all the available RAM as system sees it all. I'll check next time around when I run the game with task manager. I know I'll be getting at least 1GB GFX in some foreseeable future. But not just now :)

BigPickle: Well, FPS were alrays under 10, so :D It was not responsive or it perhaps was, but with such framerate, who cares.

I understand you haven't spent so much time... But, when you do, how does the fps change if you go up high or far away from larger villiages/cities/object heavy areas? The claim from Oleg and Co. was that the game was very memory hogging thanks to size of map and the number of objects.. If the number of objects in the vicinity of flight can be reduced, then fps should bump up if Oleg and Co.s claim is true. :???:

[lupus]

Wow, for the price difference alone it might be worth the frustration of playing with Russian menu's. . . nah.

Anyone got that translation working yet? Given that its written by the same guys that did IL-2 have any of you tried the same method we used to use before when 'modding' was brand new? Renaming the 'menu.eng' files 'menu.rus' or something like that?

[Thee_oddball]

Downloading in my new Russian Steam account right now.

I didn't get the security check. I just selected pay by credit card in YuPlay and off she went.

14 mins 11 secs left.

First thing I'm doing is looking for the file with flag that enables English. I did it in BS - maybe I can get lucky and find it here.....

On the other hand - it might not be setup that way. We will see....

Thanks to the Adonys!

S!

Gunny

same here Gunny :) ..ill race you to the hanger...ready..set..GO! :)

[Thee_oddball]

the price is great but i am also going to the buy the regular version...im not trying to jip Oleg , i just want the Stallion not the Gelding Version :)

[Sauf]

the price is great but i am also going to the buy the regular version...im not trying to jip Oleg , i just want the Stallion not the Gelding Version :)

Same mate, this will be my 3rd copy, when my bank gets its sh#t into gear

[adonys]

You can buy them both (I haven't cancelled my CE pre-order.. yet, I'm waiting for a sign from UBI, probably on monday).

[lupus]

Amen. To be honest, I'd pay Oleg what he's askin for the US version for the Russian version with english menu's. Can I do that?

[Thee_oddball]

http://www.freetranslation.com/

example:
С вашего счёта была оплачена покупка "Ил-2 Штурмовик: Битва за Британию (Steam-версия)" стоимостью 46.48 yum
Ваш текущий баланс составляет 0.00 yum

results
From your account purchase " Ил-2 Штурмовик has been paid: Fight for Britain (Steam-version) " in cost 46.48 yum
Your current balance makes 0.00 yum

i think this should help us :)

[Sauf]

And if we are lucky we will be just able to copy/paste menu/text files to rus version and have the best of both worlds

[adonys]

menu files are embedded into the SFS protected archive files.

[Sauf]

menu files are embedded into the sfs protected archive files.

doh!

[lupus]

Maybe there is a way to overwrite one of the files from the english version with one of the files from the russian version or vice versa, not that it will do any good just yet, although give the hackers and crackers a month with both versions and we'll have a solution I"m sure.

[Thee_oddball]

adonys check your PM plz

[Thee_oddball]

Maybe there is a way to overwrite one of the files from the english version with one of the files from the russian version or vice versa, not that it will do any good just yet, although give the hackers and crackers a month with both versions and we'll have a solution I"m sure.

lupus..Hackers is such a...unfriendly designation...i think we should call them "augmentation specialists" :)

[fearlessfrog]

I told you guys to use the english menu screenshots as referrence..

The struggle for FPS should bring the AntiEpilepcy=0 setting in the conf.ini file (after deactivating game's Steam Cloud option). The biggest FPS gain from settings can be gained by deactivating the shadows/roads/clouds/landscape details/visual effects/clickable cockpit(on/off with F10). Resolution doesn't give much of a difference, which actually means the bottleneck is not on the graphic card.

The game is not optimized at all. It's enough to watch the Pilot and Plane menu, which are only displaying a single pilot/plane, and see how poor (performance wise) is the rendering done.

Anyone got any experience setting up a joystick? My Russian is poor :)

[adonys]

Told you guys to use Oleg's english menu screenshots as referrence..

In the top left, the first button is Keys, and the one next to it is Axes. To setup a joystick, you obviously have to go to the Axis part of controls.

- in there, the first three on top are X, Y and Z (screenshot 24)
- throttle is underneath, under engine control series (SHIFT +1, SHIFT +2, etc) (screenshot 25)
- autorudder can be found by looking for the default keys as displayed on english menu screens (screenshot 19)

F10 key is used to switch between muse looking/mouse clickable cockpit (which is also draining some FPS), so use it to switch into mouse looking mode once in the game.

There is also a setting in ini named something like CockpitOnePass=0, setting it on 1 should force render the cockpit in just one pass, with a lower graphic quality but greater performance. should, considering the name, I can't test it on my laptop, it takes like 3 minutes just to start the damn game.

[fearlessfrog]

Told you guys to use Oleg's english menu screenshots as referrence..

In the top left, the first button is Keys, and the one next to it is Axes. To setup a joystick, you obviously have to go to the Axis part of controls.

- in there, the first three on top are X, Y and Z (screenshot 24)
- throttle is underneath, under engine control series (SHIFT +1, SHIFT +2, etc) (screenshot 25)
- autorudder can be found by looking for the default keys as displayed on english menu screens (screenshot 19)

F10 key is used to switch between muse looking/mouse clickable cockpit (which is also draining some FPS), so use it to switch into mouse looking mode once in the game.

There is also a setting in ini named something like CockpitOnePass=0, setting it on 1 should force render the cockpit in just one pass, with a lower graphic quality but greater performance. should, considering the name, I can't test it on my laptop, it takes like 3 minutes just to start the damn game.

Ah - thank you!

Also, how did you disable Steam Cloud saving. I turned if off in the Properties part of the Steam game library but my local conf/userConf settings don't seem to stick?

Edit: Ah, wrong place - looks like C:\Users\(user)\Documents\1C SoftClub\il-2 sturmovik cliffs of dover

[adonys]

exactly the same, but mine's are sticking..

just disable cloud, log out from steam, then log in again and restart game.

also, i hope you are talking about the conf.ini from user/name/documents/1C/il2, not the one from steam game's install folder.. right?!! 'cause that one is just a default reference one.

PS: frog, please post a link in the first post of the other thread to here, babysitting two threads on the same subjects is too much for my little free time. thanks

[Thee_oddball]

adonys are there anymore of those screenshots in english? i have started to translate but it will take a few days :(

[z0ttel]

Hi guys,

I didn't read all the pages before, but did anyone try to add following line to the conf.ini file?

[rts]
locale=EN

This parameter has been used in IL2 to set the game language and many settings of the CoD conf.ini look very familiar... ;)


Also one question to the ones who bought at yuplay: when trying to buy via CC, a https-connection is established, but my browser complains that the validity of the certificate can't be checked. Did you also have seen this?

[BobTuck]

I've just joined the mad rush through the russian gateway too! :)

Now successfully downloading russian version into second steam account (at 5% downloaded)

Woot! :grin:

BobTuck.

p.s. just for the record, my small checking amount turned out to be $1.44

[BadAim]

ACK! I got jammed up at the money check because I used a CC linked to a checking account and I don't get updated for a couple of days. I tried a few guesses and got locked out, oh, well I sent an e-mail to tech support, hopefully we can all get along. Hopefully the language thing won't be a problem, but I've very fortunately been studying Olegish for more than a decade, so I should be all set.

[SG1_Lud]

at 95% download.

I forgot to thank the guy who started this, thank you Adonys!!!

[Thee_oddball]

Hi guys,

I didn't read all the pages before, but did anyone try to add following line to the conf.ini file?

[rts]
locale=EN

This parameter has been used in IL2 to set the game language and many settings of the CoD conf.ini look very familiar... ;)


Also one question to the ones who bought at yuplay: when trying to buy via CC, a https-connection is established, but my browser complains that the validity of the certificate can't be checked. Did you also have seen this?

i was just thinking the same thing,,,il give it a try as for the certificate i got the same thing ...just allow it :)

[Extreme_One]

You can't apply language like other Steam games?

Right click on the game icon the Steam Games list and select Properties and then switch to the language tab?


http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/attachment.php?attachmentid=4926&d=1301186419

[BobTuck]

at 95% download.

I forgot to thank the guy who started this, thank you Adonys!!!

Yes, thanks Adonys, this has really brightened my day!

BobTuck.

[lupus]

Any luck with either of those?

[Thee_oddball]

ok so far what i have found out is that we are missing the en-GB subfolders :( if you look in the conf there is a line that says "culture=en-GB" but the game is still in russian ...and if you look in the "launcher.exe" config file you will see a line that says :
maddox.Properties.Settings" type="System.Configuration.ClientSettingsSection, System, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral

now i went and changed that to "Culture=en-GB" and the game would not start :( i reverted it back to neutral and it started right up :) i did some diging and found the following
For example, a satellite with the UK English resources will have a .NET name of "lib.resources Version=0.0.0.0 Culture=en-GB PublicKeyToken=null", a PE file name of lib.resources.dll, and will be stored in a subfolder called en-GB

at this point i am guessing we are missing the subfolder :( good news is if i am right once we buy the western version we will have the folder to use :)

[Bryan21cag]

followed the steps listed in this thread and keep getting 404 error upon entering the test amount. Im in the US is anyone else stuck here?

[Thee_oddball]

followed the steps listed in this thread and keep getting 404 error upon entering the test amount. Im in the US is anyone else stuck here?

IE or fire fox? turn off ALL your AV and fire walls..it worked fine for me :)

[Blackdog_kt]

I appreciate all the tinkering on your behalf, but i have a small and very simple question:

instead of doing the whole back-and-forth thing to enable English in the Russian version, wouldn't it be possible to just overwrite the effects files on the western version with those of the Russian one? ;)

[Bryan21cag]

DOWNLOADING

WWOOOTTTT

you guys are the best:)

thanks black dog that last bit was the sticker had to turn off AV and use Internet explorer

[lupus]

I appreciate all the tinkering on your behalf, but i have a small and very simple question:

instead of doing the whole back-and-forth thing to enable English in the Russian version, wouldn't it be possible to just overwrite the effects files on the western version with those of the Russian one? ;)

That was my most recent thought with the comment from Oddball.

[Thee_oddball]

I appreciate all the tinkering on your behalf, but i have a small and very simple question:

instead of doing the whole back-and-forth thing to enable English in the Russian version, wouldn't it be possible to just overwrite the effects files on the western version with those of the Russian one? ;)


i think changing the language will be ALOT easier that what you propose :)...but i might be wrong :)

[dreamofire]

so you can play it now???

will this work?

[matsher]

God I love you guys,

1. We are willing to learn another language to get the goods.
Now thats dedication.

2. The game isn't even released and we're finding ways to mod it already.

I say... VIVA LA REVOLUTION.

To Adonys and the rest of the brave VANGUARD.
You are the first HERO's of the war on that fascist dictatorship we call UBISOFT
You should get a frikkin' medal.

Oleg & Luther would be proud. I know I am.

[Bryan21cag]

but and a really big BUT this game is almost unplayable lol. It should be said that i have a a crossfire set up which may be causing all of the glitches but there is such huge potential here. anyway

i managed to get myself through the training flights but not being able to map the keys and the constant stuttering is just unbearable and this is overlooking the fact that i cant read a lick of Russian. lol

the voices are in English but impossible for me to understand what the guy is saying except for a couple of words here and there since its so garbled. again might be an audio setting that i can not read to change.

LOL for 14 bucks it is well worth it to potentially have in my possession what might be the only unaltered version of the game to release ever. ill still buy the US version now when it comes but will also be editing this one when and if that becomes possible.

I have never dabbled with the video capture so im sorry for not posting a video but this will have to do.

with all the graphics turned all the way up (i think) lol the performance was playable if the filter would have been able to be turned off. there were however LOTS of visual type weird things going on all over the place clipping and just chaos except for the cockpit itself. but as stated this could be because of the crossfire set up.

verdict is this game has the potential to be the best ever if we can somehow put it back to the way it was. But even if everything was in English for this version with all the problems it still has a very long way to go


my cpu specs

WIN7 64
Asus M4A89TD 890FX Chipset
AMD Phenom II X4 970 Black Edition
2x AMD Radeon HD 6870 1GB GDDR5
8GB (2GBx4) Corsair generic 1600Mhz (CPU caps at 1333)
30GB Kingston 2.5 inch SATA Gaming MLC Solid State (boot)
2x 1TB SATA III 6.0 Gb/s 64MB Cash 7200RPM HDD (Raid 0)(data)

and some good cooling :) built just for IL2 lol will see if it ends up being enough rofl

[adonys]

adonys are there anymore of those screenshots in english? i have started to translate but it will take a few days :(

Here are all thescreenshots I have regarding the english menu.

Of course when the english version is out, we can grab the english resource files from there and drop them into the russian version. It might work as well :P

The russian text resources list of the game are stored in the il-2 sturmovik cliffs of dover russian.ncf in the steamapps folder. For example, I think you can modify it to link to the GB ones, but you'll have to do some file renaming for that (for example, modify the name of the english files by adding _ru to them, and drop them over the russian ones). Or you might try to modify the names from inside .ncf file, but as the file is binary, you can't just delete the _ru suffix of the files, but change it in _gb for example, then again modify all the english files by adding a _gb to them.

main menu, training, single, campaign, quick mission

[adonys]

quick mission, airplane, plane loadouts, pilot

[adonys]

video settings, realism settings, joystick axis and autorudder

[KAMI_1]

no creditcard here ...only paypal...any suggestions??

Possible if i send a friend money via PP and he bought for me with his CC??

[norulz]

Thanks Adonys for info on steamcloud and "working" conf.ini location

Did you guys manage to make Antialiasing work properly?

Also... how do you turn off the chat window?... is not like in IL2 apparently.

[|ZUTI|]

Hm, I was messing around with this and, well, I think you have to press ALT key and then right click when you are over chat window. Then you should see context menu with two entries. Last one closes it :D

Something like that.

[desastersoft]

Is there maybe a STEP BY STEP solution to get it work in English?

I followed your instruction but it dont work!

Thnxx in advance
Thomas

[adonys]

the instructions do work, and are actually step by step. Try disabling your antivirus and use Internet Explorer if you have any problems. Also, saying what is actually not working for you might help you getting helped :)

PS: i thought you were actually talking about buying the game

[adonys]

no creditcard here ...only paypal...any suggestions??

Possible if i send a friend money via PP and he bought for me with his CC??

Can't help you with this, mate, as I do not have paypal, and have a cc with a bad internet service (which is not updating the transactions situation in real time) and closed today (as it is sunday).

[KAMI_1]

Can't help you with this, mate, as I do not have paypal, and have a cc with a bad internet service (which is not updating the transactions situation in real time) and closed today (as it is sunday).

THis will not your problem. I have a friend with CC and he used Yuplay to buy the game and he will buy for me if i send hem money via paypal. But is it possible?? can i use the activationcode that he gets to install the game on my steam account?

[desastersoft]

Here are all thescreenshots I have regarding the english menu.

Of course when the english version is out, we can grab the english resource files from there and drop them into the russian version. It might work as well :P

The russian text resources list of the game are stored in the il-2 sturmovik cliffs of dover russian.ncf in the steamapps folder. For example, I think you can modify it to link to the GB ones, but you'll have to do some file renaming for that (for example, modify the name of the english files by adding _ru to them, and drop them over the russian ones). Or you might try to modify the names from inside .ncf file, but as the file is binary, you can't just delete the _ru suffix of the files, but change it in _gb for example, then again modify all the english files by adding a _gb to them.

main menu, training, single, campaign, quick mission

I Did exactly this things you wrote here and it dont work :(... and no, that had nothing to do with antivirus or such things. changes where in and saved

Maybe a list of the important files to change and where they are=? That would help realy.

[Bryan21cag]

THis will not your problem. I have a friend with CC and he used Yuplay to buy the game and he will buy for me if i send hem money via paypal. But is it possible?? can i use the activationcode that he gets to install the game on my steam account?

I highly recommend that you create another steam account with a separate email so that you can still buy and activate the Western version if you want when it comes out. I now have two steam accounts one just for the Russian version of the game and the other for everything else.

I think adonys recommended this and i completely agree as once you activate one version of the game on a given steam account it will not let you activate the other version on that same account.

[Bryan21cag]

I Did exactly this things you wrote here and it dont work :(... and no, that had nothing to do with antivirus or such things. changes where in and saved

oh.. i think he thought you meant that you couldn't download the game.

We still dont have the file that we will need to use to get the english to work with the game yet:) it will be inside of the western version when it comes out. Now once this happens hopefully we can use the process that adonys is pioneering to change the Russian to English and then once the filter is removed in theory we should be left with an English version of the original version of the game with all of its epileptic fit causing glory:) in theory that is :)

[Tomahawko]

For those receiving the 401 error try changing the site's language back to Russian. It made a difference in my case.

[David198502]

hey guys!although last night i got the error message at youplay for this small test amount,today i looked into my email account and i got the code.im now downloading it from steam!!!!yehaa!

[adonys]

I Did exactly this things you wrote here and it dont work :(... and no, that had nothing to do with antivirus or such things. changes where in and saved

Maybe a list of the important files to change and where they are=? That would help realy.

If you want, you can change the missions from russian into english ones (not the menu's, though).

You can go to the missions folder, get the simple mission's briefing file (for example Bomber Intercept - Ships.briefing), modify its name and replace the russian briefing file (Bomber Intercept - Ships_ru.briefing). That way you should have english briefings to those missions. Yet, the training missions are not in there, so either those are only some updated ones which didn't got into a SFS, or the inside missions texts are stored in some other place.

[desastersoft]

oh.. i think he thought you meant that you couldn't download the game.

We still dont have the file that we will need to use to get the english to work with the game yet:) it will be inside of the western version when it comes out. Now once this happens hopefully we can use the process that adonys is pioneering to change the Russian to English and then once the filter is removed in theory we should be left with an English version of the original version of the game with all of its epileptic fit causing glory:) in theory that is :)
Okay, for Clearance:

adonys meens: Use the Screenshots as reference and rename the Mission and Briefing files.
He meens not: With this the game can be changed to English Language.

Is tht correct?

[desastersoft]

If you want, you can change the missions from russian into english ones (not the menu's, though).

You can go to the missions folder, get the simple mission's briefing file (for example Bomber Intercept - Ships.briefing), modify its name and replace the russian briefing file (Bomber Intercept - Ships_ru.briefing). That way you should have english briefings to those missions. Yet, the training missions are not in there, so either those are only some updated ones which didn't got into a SFS, or the inside missions texts are stored in some other place.

Arrrgh... Okay, now i understand what you meened. That i found yesterday also, but i wanted the Menues in English. That what i talked about ;).

[Raggz]

Any other russian shops selling the download version?

[Targ]

Shoot,

all we really need now is a key map or something showing all the key bindings :)

[adonys]

no, the first one was an ideea after I saw the content of the ncf file, which is a steam file. Changing names of resources in there might have allowed the game to load the english oneas instead.. yet, now thinking again, it should only be related with Steam's update/game files maintenance.

the second post was about what can you do right now, and have it working until a complete solution will appear (probably once the english version is out, and we can get files from there).

[adonys]

Any other russian shops selling the download version?

Here, on 1C's russian site, I've just picked up yuplay from their shop list (http://games.1c.ru/?type=sales). But you need to find online version selling ones. Looking at it again, I see there's a 1C direct online shope in there, at the top of the list, you can try that for a change :)

[BadAim]

9 minutes to go! (but no time to play until this afternoon) :) :(

[Helrza]

adony, the training missions and campaing missions are all in the folder program files>steam>steamapps>common>il2 sturmovik cliff of dover>parts>bob, u can do the same as what uve outlined before with changing the names ;) they will be in english then. Still looking for the main menu's thou rofl. Big thanks to you also for showing us the yuplay light :D

[Triggaaar]

Adonys, thanks for all your efforts and ingenuity it getting the game to work without the game killing filter.

The devs are obviously doing their best to make the game work for ubi, but at this early stage it sounds like we basically won't be happy with the result (because the filter will deliberately stop the game looking as it should). I can see people here ending up with a cracked pirate version of the game, and donating their money to whichever organisation the developers would prefer.

[David198502]

yes adonys from me too a BIG THANK YOU!
downloading right now from steam 10 minutes to hit the skies or better to say: start the slide show.

[Storm of When]

Good call Adonys, are you the Adonis that comes on Battle-fields mate?. Anyway i`ve got the game running via the Russian download and so has my friend, neither of us had to enter a $ figure to get the activation code, I left it for an hour after purchasing, went back and they`d given me the code, same for me mate. If you get a way to get the menus up in English i`d be very grateful to hear it, short of getting myself a Russian bride who`s technically gifted (as well as other things!!!) , i think i`ll be blundering round for hours with this.

Smurf

[Sauf]

Good call Adonys, are you the Adonis that comes on Battle-fields mate?. Anyway i`ve got the game running via the Russian download and so has my friend, neither of us had to enter a $ figure to get the activation code, I left it for an hour after purchasing, went back and they`d given me the code, same for me mate. If you get a way to get the menus up in English i`d be very grateful to hear it, short of getting myself a Russian bride who`s technically gifted (as well as other things!!!) , i think i`ll be blundering round for hours with this.

Smurf

Can you get your "bride" to bring me a calendar? Its all I'm missing now :(

[David198502]

i tried to fly!not that much of a slideshow!but my joystick(ch fighterstick)seems not work properly!the throttle works but the axis for elevators and ailerons not!any help to find the menu where i can adjust them?

[Fansadox]

Hoora! Got my version through the 1c online shop since i messed up the little amount 3 times on yuplay.

Downloading now and UBISOFT go to hell !

[Sauf]

i tried to fly!not that much of a slideshow!but my joystick(ch fighterstick)seems not work properly!the throttle works but the axis for elevators and ailerons not!any help to find the menu where i can adjust them?

Page 17 on this thread mate, Adonys posted pic's

[Storm of When]

I`m not getting a slideshow, I have a Phenom2 X4 at 3.5 , 4gb Ram, a 4870x2 (not crossfiring though) and Win7 64 on a 21" Dell CRT at 1280x?x32. At what I perceive to be mid range settings i`m getting between 25 - 40 fps over water and land, not been near London yet. Can`t stop blowing the engines up though lol, need to assign a rads key possibly.

[David198502]

i tried to find the axis option menu.i think i did but dont know how to make my ch fighterstick to work properly.the only thing that works is still the throttle-wheel.the stick itself doesnt work.but i recognized that i can fly with the keyboard arrow-buttons.

besides:where is the epilepsy filter in the conf. file???

[BigPickle]

Are you sure your problems are not releated to runing on your western systems? All the vids i see on you tube of russians running the game dont seem to behave as badly as your saying yours does.
Can any of the russian guys confirm there systems are saying the game is poorly optimised?
Also remember Arma2 in the begining, it was a nightmare now its way better. :)

@ David - in the config file, find the line in section [BOB]
AntiEpilepcy =
and change to AntiEpilepcy = 0,

If this line is not - then insert.
save config

This is what I heard on SIMHQ. Dont blame me if you start frothing at the mouth !

[David198502]

Are you sure your problems are not releated to runing on your western systems? All the vids i see on you tube of russians running the game dont seem to behave as badly as your saying yours does.
Can any of the russian guys confirm there systems are saying the game is poorly optimised?
Also remember Arma2 in the begining, it was a nightmare now its way better. :)

@ David - in the config file, find the line in section [BOB]
AntiEpilepcy =
and change to AntiEpilepcy = 0,

If this line is not - then insert.
save config

This is what I heard on SIMHQ. Dont blame me if you start frothing at the mouth !

well in the section [BOB]
there is nothing!

:
[BOB]

[window]
DepthBits =24
StencilBits=8
DrawIfNotFocused=0
SaveAspect=0

[NET]
speed=100000
localPort=27015
serverName=My Server
serverDescription=IL-2 Sturmovik: Cliffs of Dover
serverInfo1=
serverInfo2=
serverInfo3=
serverInfo4=
VAC=1
maxPlayers=16
socksEnable=0
socksHost=
socksPort=1080
socksUser=
socksPwd=

[Console]
IP=20001
UseStartLog=1
WRAP=1
PAUSE=1
HISTORY=1024
HISTORYCMD=1024
PAGE=20
LOG=0
LOGTIME=0
LOAD=console.cmd
SAVE=console.cmd
LOGFILE=log.txt
LOGKEEP=0

[rts]
tickLen=30
;ProcessAffinityMask=2
maxTimerTicksInRealTick=20
; 0 - not use, 1 - show cursor and not capture, 2 - not show cursor, and capture
mouseUse=2
; 0 - not use, 1 - use if hardware exist
joyUse=1
; 0 - not use, 1 - use if hardware exist
trackIRUse=1
DisableIME=0
culture=en-GB

[rts_mouse]
SensitivityX=1.0
SensitivityY=1.0
SensitivityZ=1.0
Invert=0
SwapButtons = 0

[rts_joystick]
FF=1

[core]
RandSeed = 0
TexQual=3

[Tree_UK]

well in the section [BOB]
there is nothing!

:
[BOB]

[window]
DepthBits =24
StencilBits=8
DrawIfNotFocused=0
SaveAspect=0

[NET]
speed=100000
localPort=27015
serverName=My Server
serverDescription=IL-2 Sturmovik: Cliffs of Dover
serverInfo1=
serverInfo2=
serverInfo3=
serverInfo4=
VAC=1
maxPlayers=16
socksEnable=0
socksHost=
socksPort=1080
socksUser=
socksPwd=

[Console]
IP=20001
UseStartLog=1
WRAP=1
PAUSE=1
HISTORY=1024
HISTORYCMD=1024
PAGE=20
LOG=0
LOGTIME=0
LOAD=console.cmd
SAVE=console.cmd
LOGFILE=log.txt
LOGKEEP=0

[rts]
tickLen=30
;ProcessAffinityMask=2
maxTimerTicksInRealTick=20
; 0 - not use, 1 - show cursor and not capture, 2 - not show cursor, and capture
mouseUse=2
; 0 - not use, 1 - use if hardware exist
joyUse=1
; 0 - not use, 1 - use if hardware exist
trackIRUse=1
DisableIME=0
culture=en-GB

[rts_mouse]
SensitivityX=1.0
SensitivityY=1.0
SensitivityZ=1.0
Invert=0
SwapButtons = 0

[rts_joystick]
FF=1

[core]
RandSeed = 0
TexQual=3

Excuse my complete ignorance here, but if it is an entire new game engine would the conf.ini not be... er... well different. This looks pretty much identical to that of Il2 apart from a few add in's. It looks like you could take an Il2 conf add a few lines take a few bits out and your good to go.

[David198502]

well it seems a bit strange to me too

[Devastat]

Does anyone know how to get Joystick to control the airplane?

[adonys]

from settings - axis

[norulz]

Hm, I was messing around with this and, well, I think you have to press ALT key and then right click when you are over chat window. Then you should see context menu with two entries. Last one closes it :D

Something like that.

thanks... it worked after first I started another 2 windows :D

[svanen]

I got the activation code without entering the security amount, the same second I pressed on the Submit button I got the mail with the steam code. I'm stuck at the security code page at yuplay but I got the code and it is activated in steam, it's downloading....

I did fake anything when bying, just pretended stupid user and got it. :)

Will still buy the european steam version and perhaps also the dvd, this was just for fun and I Love 2 Cash Oleg Dollars.... :)

[Baron]

Excuse my complete ignorance here, but if it is an entire new game engine would the conf.ini not be... er... well different. This looks pretty much identical to that of Il2 apart from a few add in's. It looks like you could take an Il2 conf add a few lines take a few bits out and your good to go.


Yep, shame on them for not creating a entirely new computer language (at the very least) because we all know that, how the Confini looks define if the engine is new or not.


Or maby, just maby, its for the benefit of US so we dont have to learn something completely useless (how to navigate the freeking Confini)

Mind u, thats just WILD stab in the dark.

Im of to e-mail Oleg asking him if they can reinvent the wheel for my benefit only.

Now, back on topic.

[adonys]

Does anyone know how to get Joystick to control the airplane?

New IL2 BoB settings thread (http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthread.php?t=19566).

[norulz]

Freetrack is working (6dof)... needs tweaking I think but at these FPS... is last on my list :) .

Another quick question...

how we turn of the chat text from top of window? the one the instructor says in russian.

thx

[Storm of When]

Been monitoring the system as it plays:

Only 1 cpu out of 4 is doing any work (PhenomII X4 3.5)
Only 1 gpu out of 2 is doing any work and is not auto switching to max settings when the game starts (i know X-Fire isnt enabled yet so no surprise here) 4870x2

So where`s the multi-core support??, my FF2 isn`t working either, no force feedback.

[Oldschool61]

Excuse my complete ignorance here, but if it is an entire new game engine would the conf.ini not be... er... well different. This looks pretty much identical to that of Il2 apart from a few add in's. It looks like you could take an Il2 conf add a few lines take a few bits out and your good to go.

This "ini" is more or less just a text file so i dont think a different engine is going to matter.

[apollo01]

Hi,
a long time lurker here who just registered to say "Thanks, adonys". :)
I'm downloading from Steam right now.

BTW, when purchasing I discovered something that makes at least the purchasing process much less of a headache for non-russian speakers. Yuplay have their own in-store currency called "yum". These yums can be purchased on the english yuplay.com site and will be valid for yuplay.ru, as well.
I bought yums for USD14.50 using a german credit card that was never used with Yuplay before and I didn't have to go through the whole small charge/amount confirmation process, so no currency conversion hassles at all.

If anyone wants to try this, here's what I did:
Register with yuplay.com and buy 46.5 yums. Once you've got those, log into yuplay.ru using the same credentials; the yums you've bought on the international site will show up at the top. Find Cliffs of Dover's product page and put your mouse pointer on the button that says "Купить 395.08". A list of different currencies and payment options will pop up, the first one is "46.48 yum". Click that and you will get a popup - as far as I can tell this informs you that Steam is required. Tick the checkbox and press Ok. Another page will come up, press the button and presto - a Steam activation code will be in your mailbox.

Hope this helps!

Cheers,
apollo

[JG52Uther]

The above works perfectly (apparently... ;) )

[vicinity]

Am I the only one who's game wouldn't start up after the steam install?

I just get a launcher error message.

[Bryan21cag]

Am I the only one who's game wouldn't start up after the steam install?

I just get a launcher error message.

sry mate you just might be:( first i have heard of it stopping at that point. make sure that you let it auto download and install some Microsoft thingy after it finishes the main download i believe that is required to run it.

if it did that then im not sure.....

[fireflyerz]

Am I the only one who's game wouldn't start up after the steam install?

I just get a launcher error message.

No, im getting it Too , have tried updating drivers, reinstalling cod and steam , nothing seems to work.
Was worth a shot for the price.

[vicinity]

Yeah think they must have caught on and stopped it now. Bought the code last night but only got it this morning. Everything seemed to install Ok but when it wasn't working I deactivated and reinstalled it just to make sure.

Well I would have been getting the English version as well anyway so guess I just have to wait a little longer. Aw, and I was looking forward to learning some Russian...

[adonys]

Make sure you have installed the redist programs needed for Il2 BoB to run (DirectX, VC 2008 controls, DotNetFx 4.0 - they can all be found in IL2 BoB's install folder/redist), and that you actually rebooted your computer after installing them.

Also update your video and soundcard's drivers, disable antiviruses and eventually run steam in administrator mode.

[vicinity]

Yeah, tried all of that already but no luck. Thanks for the suggestions though.

[Storm of When]

Me and me mate got Birds of Prey for free when we bought it off Yuplay, did anyone else?

[fireflyerz]

Make sure you have installed the redist programs needed for Il2 BoB to run (DirectX, VC 2008 controls, DotNetFx 4.0 - they can all be found in IL2 BoB's install folder/redist), and that you actually rebooted your computer after installing them.

Also update your video and soundcard's drivers, disable antiviruses and eventually run steam in administrator mode.

Awsome...working....must now learn ruski....thanks mate:grin:

[Kikuchiyo]

Yeah, tried all of that already but no luck. Thanks for the suggestions though.

In the Steam library try right clicking on the game title > Properties > local files > Verify Integrity of Game Cache.

[vicinity]

Yeah, also tried that before the complete redownloading and install. Hmm, must be doing something wrong if no one else is having problems.

[Biggs]

UGH I caved....

downloading now...It seems Apollos YUM trick worked perfectly.

[Devastat]

@Biggs Welcome to the team, comrade!

[Il2Pongo]

how do I create a different steam account?

[Il2Pongo]

DOH, google is my friend, I looked arround steam for quite a while with no luck lol

[MD_Wild_Weasel]

sorry guys im having real difficulty actually finding the game on yuplay. Is it called something else or have they took it off the lists? sorry if im blind for looking..

[MD_Wild_Weasel]

sorry guys, needed to go to yuplay.ru/ :)

[matsher]

Can anyone who's downloaded the game please tell me how big the Download is?

I have a very limited ADSL line and want to estimate how long it will take.

I wil try the YUM money route cause the visa transaction is not being accepted.
i have a fresh STEAM account ready to accept IL2 bliss.

Please revert soonest. thx

[Axel]

Can anyone who's downloaded the game please tell me how big the Download is?

I have a very limited ADSL line and want to estimate how long it will take.

I wil try the YUM money route cause the visa transaction is not being accepted.
i have a fresh STEAM account ready to accept IL2 bliss.

Please revert soonest. thx


4 GB or so.

and yea, I got that game free as well (Birds of Prey)

[Il2Pongo]

downloading, seems to be starting pretty slow though.

[lupus]

Suggestion to 1C company.

Next time, tell Ubisoft to stick it and publish straight to steam yourself in the Western market. You can double your profit, ignore their knee jerk reactions that caused a lot of us to cancel pre-orders, and all us IL-2 and other sim fans will love you all the more for it.

Just my $.02