1C and Ubisoft Announce IL-2 Sturmovik: Cliffs of Dover
 

World famous IL-2 Sturmovik series of flight simulators roars over Britain. 1C Company and Ubisoft announced that IL-2 Sturmovik: Cliffs of Dover (for PC) will take off in March 2011.
IL-2 Sturmovik: Cliffs of Dover is the latest instalment in the acclaimed IL-2 Sturmovik series from award-winning developer 1C: Maddox Games.

IL-2 Sturmovik: Cliffs of Dover takes place in 1940 during the pivotal aerial battle for the skies over Britain between the British, the German and the Italian air forces.
Key Features:

• New aircraft: incredibly detailed true-to-life modeling of aircraft systems based on thousands of hours of dedicated research. Every single aircraft component can be damaged for realistic and immensely satisfying results.
  1. Flyable aircraft – Over a dozen famous and highly detailed English, German and Italian aircraft available, with all crew positions open to players. All flyable aircraft have been painstakingly researched, resulting in incredibly accurate cockpit interiors (including Spitfire, Hurricane, Messerschmitt and the Stuka).
  2. Non-flyable aircraft – 13 AI controlled additional aircraft are also available to allow an even more accurate and immersive experience thanks to a varied aircraft.
• Immersive game modes:
  1. Exciting Single-Player Campaign – The campaign thrusts the player into the middle of the battle. The player will join the British Air Force to fight the German forces and renegade pilots on his own side, or join the German Luftwaffe and take part in meticulously recreated historical battles.
  2. Massive multiplayer – Customizable modes range from simple deathmatch-style free-for-alls to epic, ongoing 128 player battles that can last hours, days, weeks, or even longer.
  3. Interactive training – Comprehensive interactive training for new players – fly a real WWII trainer plane with a computer controlled instructor through a series of training missions.

• Brand new setting – The battle will take place on a large area spanning London and southern England in the north, to Northern France and Belgium in the south. The huge map will contain thousands of historical cities, towns, roads, airfields, radar stations, ports, and industrial areas – all located exactly where they were in 1940.
• New 3D engine – Latest-gen graphics engine with DX10 and DX11 API support. Huge variety of photorealistic ground vehicles, buildings and other environmental elements recreate minute details of 1940s Europe.
• Customizable difficulty – dozens of realism options allow newcomers to the franchise to reduce the difficulty and focus on the fun while learning the ropes of being a pilot.

1C and Ubisoft also announced that IL-2 Sturmovik: Cliffs of Dover will be available in a special Collector’s Edition, along-side the standalone version.
This Collector’s Edition features the following collection of exclusive pilot material assets in a premium packaging:

• The Windows PC version of IL-2 Sturmovik: Cliffs of Dover
• A cloth pilot escape map showing The Battle of Britain strategic locations
• A replica of the Pilot’s Notes on the Spitfire I Aeroplane, provided to RAF pilots during The Battle of Britain and reprinted from the RAF Museum original document
• An in-depth 150-page ring binder pilot instructions

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MO35o8IRDz0

The official trailer in HD can be downloaded here.

Blimy...:grin::confused::eek::(:grin:

Awesome!!!! March 2011 Here I Come!!:grin:

hello birthday gift, nice to see you're official!

Hurrah
 

Well done Gentlemen ,I am sure there will be many smiling faces now we have a release date.Bird S!

So the March release date is true :) :grin: :) :grin:

What no German Campaign? That is not going to go well on the German market, but lets wait and see.

Top marks

25th according to the Ubisoft site: http://www.ubi.com/UK/Games/Info.aspx?pId=9329

Better two months than two weeks!

Looking forward.

Awesome but I hope it won't use Ubisoft's annoying DRM. I don't want to be on the internet everytime while playing the game. I know it is early to speak but can you give us an official response for it will use Ubisoft DRM or not? Thanks.

Nothing new... Only that we now know for a fact that there will be no German or Italian campaign, German trainer or German collector's box edition.

Somehow I do believe that that is a stupid decision. The guy in the store won't know that there is eventually a German campaign when it is not written on the box. Let alone that I am sure that you would sell more if you offered a German collector's box. A good number of people are drawn to the "evil" side of WWII. Oh well... It is Ubisoft through and through...

So the rumors were true - no Luftwaffe campaign eh?

Still, I can't wait! :D

EDIT: Since creating a Luftwaffe campaign would most definitely involve creating a bomber campaign as well (most likely a formation training missions too), I would rather have a solid RAF campaign alone than rushed & unfinished game. If this was the decision Oleg, made I think it is a good one. Much better to include a proper campaign later on via patch or possibly add-on.

If on the other hand we get to pay for LW campaign - this presents a slightly different approach than the RoF, but on the other hand a very similar one. ;)

Quite frankly that sounds very strange, not to say it sounds like fried BS but it's close. Not only that a german campaign branch is missing (for the time being?) but that "renegade pilots" thingy sounds a lot more gamey than I'm comfortable with. But then I'm a stickler for historical accuracy ... :rolleyes:

I cant explain my happiness :grin:

Yes you could almost think they wish for customers only from the English speaking countries.....and that everyone is keen on flying a dweebfire.
We will see what happens.

Very exiting.


No german campaign though, is a glaring omission imo.

Uaoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.

:grin::grin::grin::grin::grin:

http://www.ubi.com/UK/Games/Info.aspx?pId=9329

Eh?
"take advantage of the AI flaws"


What's that supposed to mean?

:)jump-in/jump-out multiplayer mode

Maybe that the AI will in tight formation smash into the hill side like they do in IL2? :cool:

Omfg, this is so awesome.
Praise the lord wtf is going on this year, we're getting IL2, Duke Nukem Forever and Red Orchestra 2 !, I think hell just frose over and pigs started to fly!

:grin: Good news, but sad there isn't a German campaign. Can Oleg confirm that? It's sounds strange to me that there isn't a German campaign... And don't forget the Italians!

I call fake.

Kidding. Great news, thanks.

Really? Had a publisher already announced the date?

That would be nice, but they didn't need to offer a collector's box at all - so they offer one, and you complain that they don't offer two.

I agree, and you don't have to be a stickler to think that sounds ridiculous. Are we seriously going to be shooting at other RAF pilots that have gone bad?

Replace 'the AI' with 'your opponents' I reckon, bad translation or a misunderstanding probably.

no visual tidbits to an official anouncement? weak

This year can't go wrong anymore. Yeah!!!

1C: , this rocks!!:cool::cool:

A lot of us have been posting that we'd like the game to be released asap - some wanted it now, with whatever bugs it has. If we're getting it in March without a German campaign (that surely has to come later) or later with both, the feeling I get from the forum is that most would take it in March.

Tree is going to be so upset :( .....


LOL

I think it means "take advantage of an AI that makes human errors", but that is an unfortunate way to word it ;)

nope an add on more than likely money maker gimmick.

Ubi$oft?

must of needed a cash in flukes.

and anti piracy on line play only more then likely too.
thats crap, to many people out in the fields who kill time with no Internet connection cant play any games.
Suxs!

:D Would you care to make a more complete announcement now that Ubi have fluffed the official one up? :D

that's the good thing about being pessimistic

it's a win win situation

That made my day for the second time!

Yeah!!! rock on 1C!!

Campaigns
 

Im absolutely delighted to hear this. Can't wait, even if my PC can't run it I'll buy it.
EDITED: It's actually coming out!

edit: nevermind.

This is a really ominous start for the series if even the initial announcement is full of errors. :roll:

Ilya, could you please hurt the PR guys? They seem to be begging for some decent hiding. :roll:

Asked before I'm sure, sorry -

do we have any choice whom we buy the game from - 1C or Ubisoft?
And if it's released on steam and we buy it there, who gets the money?

+ ∞

I think its weak to see so many people whining about insignificant things, now when we're finally getting the game after years and years of waiting people find new things to complain about..
I can't wait be it without a German campaign at launch or not , i couldnt care less. About the name of the game itself and the tagline, its really irrelevant.. we all know its a simulator of the
highest degree and a PC exclusive, just drop it already and enjoy the news will ya?

zauii ... Everybody has different ideas how he wants to spend his time with the Sim. If there we´re no german campaign my main reason for playing flightsims would be gone so why should I bother with such a game? Just having it for the sake of having it would not give me a decent reason to actually play it ... :roll:

You'll never please everybody, if I was Oleg I'd make sure everybody has to tie their forum account to their activation and then force anybody who complained to fly around in Hello Kitty skins for a month or two ;)

Well Done Luthier (and Oleg)!
 

Luthier,

Many thanks for your huge contribution! We all appreciate your work.

Cheers,
Insuber

Sorry for letting doubts creep in :)

Check our Youtube channel for Official Trailer!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MO35o8IRDz0

That's not an error, that's an omission, and the PR guys have nothing to do with it.

It's entirely my fault.

:grin: Thanks for the answer about the campaign.
That trailer makes me smile:cool:

Fantastic news guys, you've made my year.:grin:

Please do give the marketing guys a kick though. Forgetting the German campaign and suggesting the AI has flaws isn't great for sales. LOL

Well, I have not the greatest trust in the innate intelligence of PR people. Kinda burnt by past experiences. :roll:

haven't I seen this trailer weeks ago already?

They have Hello Kitty skins now? Where can I get them?

Seriously, though, this is great. I am excited. I just hope that getting into another flight sim doesn't jeopardize my marriage.

Please please please tell me that the sounds in the trailer are from in game? :)

What a silly kids comment, totally agree with csThor.

Luthier, now it's official,

can you tell us which system the trailer was made on?

At Last!!!! I would have waited two weeks before though!! ;)

WELL DONE OLEG AND TEAM!!!!

SJ

Yeeees ! Soon, you'll fear the 110 that you had not noticed in your 6 !

Most of the footage was taken on my own crap PC months ago in an early beta.

So the sound was added later from sampled recordings and nothing to do with how the sim itself will sound?

That's the very first official trailer I've seen on earth which was not made on a high end system to show the people the full glory of the upcoming product.
:cool:

lol :P, love you guys

Thanks Nike-it and luthier, great news...go get Oleg to join in on these festivities with us.:grin:

Not having a bunch of campaigns included is no problem it has a mission builder, and Wutz I bet you can count on one hand all the uberscmitts (originals not buchon) left in the world, how many dweebfires do you think there are hmm...?

Good.. now we wait for the activation surprise - the maker or breaker of the game :!:

Not.. how can anyone be so lame to consider the DRM a gamebreaker..

And what pray tell does that have to do with the game? Planes only available in relation to existing examples? :rolleyes:

seeing that the Ju88 has both bombbaydoors open (to improve range, the forward one was most times used to carry an additional fueltank), i conat wait to see the armament option screen of CoD................

i hope that there will be a "maximum startweight" and that you have to balance the fuel (=range) with your bombload :)

Luthier, Oleg wrote that you've got an ati crossfire, it works well in Cliffs of Dover??

Did someone forget to add the system requirments too???
I thought that when the release date was announced we would also get some basic system specs.

Congratulations to all members of the dev team, counting the days now! :)

+1 for that. Now that the cat's out of the bag, how about releasing the system requirements. Or has that still to be sorted out?
Flyby out

luthier,

Many thanks for clearing the campaign issue up.

Amazes me that the game we are all waiting for is announced, and within minutes people are moaning about it, talk about impatiant and (possibly) ungratefull :confused:

Not even to mention the first complaints when they will own the game....

So a lot of scenes of the trailer are taken from the igromir presentation video.

Great News...
 

Did I hear some new engine sounds in the official trailer??? If so, I think they sounded pretty good.

Very Good News!!!

Great to finally have an official announcement and pass the last corner before the finnish line. :-P

Could you maybe add to this announcement any bomber that will be flyable, like the He111. It looks weird not having any flyable multi engine bomeber in the official announcement. Specially if they are going to be flyable. :o


Thank you Oleg Ilya and all that took part in this project!

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Thanks 1c, OM Team, and luthier.
I hope you show us hardware requirements
Thanks

I can relate. I'm just going to have mine done in time..... WEW!

I wonder how much of the trailer's sound will be left in the final product ;) For the 110's sound I would sell my mother-in-law.

My birthday in March! FANTASTIC!!!

Same here. :)

Indeed, sounds more like Crimson Skies, but since the "French chick" pics from Igromir I was more or less expecting that ;) While my own interest in this kind of campaign is quite limited, I see two upsides here:

- This should go well with general review sites, who usually criticize most sims as too dry and not exciting enough.
- A dedicated single player campaign system is there, instead of generic and repetetive furball action as an appendix to online gameplay.

Thanks to Luthier for clearing up the German campaign situation; would have indeed been a major omission for obvious reasons.

Congrats to the team and I'm looking forward to March!

Nice! Finally!

From the texters point of view, some oil ready to catch flames, but I'm glad we're finally heading for an official date.



Things alerting the professional texters eyes:

First time I read AI flaws are a feature :D

http://www.ubi.com/UK/Games/Info.aspx?pId=9329

Sad the map doesn't include them already ;)

I'll take one of each....Standalone to play and Collectors Edition to immerse myself.
Hope they are both readily available.

Sooo true.
How can you promote a brand new sim with a months old video on a crappy system?
Was there nobody around to make something decent on a high end system? Even IL2 Youtube clips from years ago look better than this.
Amazing.

Hi Oleg!!

And Now the questions are:

1.- System features

2.- Price

Thx!!!

Good question.

I guess and hope that we will see more videos the closer we get to the date.

goodbye 4.10, hello cliffs of dover, last time this excited i had on a game i had just bought il2 grey box edition

So many years, just waiting, waiting... I still can't believe it. :)

Great news! I'll start saving up.. new rig and new exciting WWII sim for March! :) Now if we could just see the system specs recommendation as well. ;)

Rofl, no they don't.. its only the first scene which looks abit odd.. if you find anything in IL2 even remotely close to the later parts in the video i'll bow to you as my god, and i am atheist.
And besides, since when did the Sim community become graphic whores? There's just so much depth here when it comes to realism, that we dont know even where to begin..

Do you include the unofficial pack? :rolleyes:

nice :)

Thanks 1C. It's amazing that we are now so close to the release. I can only imagine the stress level there while trying to meet the final deadline.

Maybe we'll meet in the skies over London. Would be nice. It would give you a chance to flame me...... or any other of the forum posters here.

Folks, this is just the beginning. I'm looking forward to where IL2:CoD takes us with developer and 3rd party updates.

Congrats to everyone involved. May your work be rewarded. I also hope CoD and this new engine take you where you and the company want to go.

Great news! I see that the first page announcement now mentions the German campaign.

This is a bit cheeky - but lets think of absent friends - Tree must be sick as a parrot today - wrong on 3 big issues:

1. DX11 - confirmed.
2. Ubisoft as publisher - confirmed.
3. Release date - March - confirmed......Spring 2012 my arse!

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Feb 11th - decided to revisit this piece of ancient history in the interests of fair play, justice, and a nagging guilty conscience :) - or maybe it's just masochistic self-indulgence? Probably I'm just bored. No-one's probably going to read it anyway - bit like a tabloid issuing the retraction to their front-page headline on page 34 in very small print....

Anyway, hindsight (which, as we all know, is a 'wonderful thing') has revealed Tree not to have been as wrong as I made out.

A re-evalution shows:

1. DX11 - Tree was right, though God knows how, when Ubi didn't even know? Lucky guess, esp?, or sleuth-like powers of deduction (or is it induction?).

2. Ubisoft as publisher - Wrong - debates about when they got involved not withstanding.

3. Release date - Wrong, though arguably only because the devs left out half the game :) [deliberate overstatement before anyone takes offense]. Arguably if DX11, dynamic weather and dynamic campaign had been included, we may not have seen the game to 2012.

So there you have it. Tune in next week to see me whip myself with stinging nettles...

Yeah, but that was for "Storm of War".... NOT "Cliffs of Dover." :D

Please Oleg or Luthier, could you clarify that "fight against renegade pilots" thing about the British campaign?
I´m sure it´s some kind of mistake, because doesn´t look like anything that Maddox games works before.
I mean,you always look compromised with historical accuracy and the way it´s written is really strange...
But what I really want to do is compliment Oleg , Luthier and all the staff for the years of hard work that finally are coming for
the end.
Years of good historical battles are coming for the community starting March 2011...

WHOOOO HOOO cant wait OMG looks excellent

does sound strange, any history of such a thing in rl bob


good news on release, can't wait