Ok Im convinced: The IL-2 is WAY too over spec.
 

Seriously, its near impossible to take down. I play on "realistic" I have played three matches of team battle in a row in which the IL-2 has led everyone in kills.

In real life the rear gunner casualty rates on these things were appaling. There was ZERO armor to protect the gunner. Yet in the game it seems to have more armor than a King Tiger tank.

Just because its the games name sake doesnt mean it should be invincible.

People that use a rear gunner in a dogfight match aren't really dogfighting they are flying in a straight line.

They should put a over heat on the rear gunners like the main front guns of all the aircraft.

you sir, are talking about the aircraft i just talked about.

that aircraft is just all out of wack and im not here to point fingers or blame. or even say the developers screwed up. and im not going to call them racist like the one i will not speak of. but wait by speaking of which i dont speak of havnt i already spoken of that wich i dont speak? screw it..

so the IL2 is over powerd. that guy meangunner... its just insane. try hitting it with a rocket. see if it goes down. if not then there reall is not anything to hold against it (not) being speced wrong.


some one get a friend go into a set up game and launch a rocket ot two at it, and see what happens, shoot it right in the ass. haha

Seems to me performances for most of the Allied planes are padded a bit, and/or the reverse is true for most of the German planes.

Maybe this is a by-product of the Allied/Soviet-only single player campaign. Make the German planes a little lacking so you can stock a level full of them and still have it be beatable.

well i understand what u mean. but the plane does not have to suffer. just put a bunch of pilots in them like.. i dunno helen keller flying it or somthing. that would fix the whole (dificulty) and also keep the plane in good shape if you wanted to use it.

Hardly. The games Ive played online the BF109 is pretty damn tough and well armoured. The IL's are much much tougher but they are inline with what I would expect them to be, since they were called "the flying tank".

The problem seems to be that people expect them to be easy to kill and crap to fly because they are Russian, but in RL they were actually damn good aircraft and tough as nails to boot. Also people are not attacking them in the correct manner. You should never ever try and sit on an IL's 6, it will get you with its turret (as it should do). BnZ attacks, raking passes at speed, and belly attacks are all effective attacks against them. Hell I can take them out in 2 passes at most on Arcade, where the planes are super tough.

Last night I made a BnZ attack at an IL10 on my first pass I snapped its wing clean off with my Spit. Why? Because while the wings are tough, if you get some cannon shells in the right place it WILL disintegrate the same as any other plane.

Perhaps you misred my opening post? Im talking about the IL-2 NOT the IL-10. I am talking about the INVINCIBLE rear gunner on a plane that had NO protection for the rear gunner. You dont believe me...Look it up. And lay off the Kool Aid.

Here is a link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilyushi...e_sacrifice.3F check out the section on the rear gunner.

So? All the IL's are the same to me, damn easy to kill when you use your noodle. I have played plenty of games against players who use the various IL's available. I had a real good game Friday vs 2 IL2/ 1 IL10, with me in the Spit, a friendly in a 109 and the 3rd player in a Hurricane. We won the round with ease, because we didnt get target fixation, attacked each target from multiple angles, and used our brains.

Frankly your manner suggests one of someone who got spanked by a good pilot in a IL2 and you cant take it. Plus wtf are you doing trying to kill the rear gunner? Its 10x harder to kill the pilot/gunner than it is to attack and destroy the aircrafts wings or even its engines.

And I dont need nor want any kind of "cool aid". And to be honest those kinds of moronic internet meme's dont even make me bat an eyelid since Im from the UK and I really dont care.

You're from the UK? I'd never have guessed.

Was it the Spitfire picture, or was it my well reasoned and contructed argument that gave it away ? lol