Live Il-2 Demo Broadcast on Thursday
 

...I´ve just noticed some interessting news. I don´t know if this has been already posted here ;-) :


Milton Keynes, 11th August 2009 – On Thursday 13 August, 505 Games, in collaboration with 1C Company, will give fans eagerly awaiting the 3 September release of IL-2 Sturmovik: Birds Of Prey the chance to watch the game being demoed live by members of the team through popular social networking site Twitter via UStream.

The demo session will be hosted by Mark Allen, European Communications Manager for 505 Games, who will guide viewers through a selection of some of the fifty missions available in the game that take place in locations as diverse as Battle of Britain, Stalingrad and the Battle of the Bulge. An exclusive UStream channel (http://www.ustream.tv) has been created to broadcast the demo to attendees who will be able to engage in live chat with other viewers throughout.

A Q&A session will also follow the demonstration to give fans the chance to pose questions to the developers on the inner workings of the title. For anyone who misses the event as it happens, all chat posts, questions and answers will include the hashtag #IL2LiveDemo for easy reference. The demo session will go live from 9:30pm AEST on Thursday 13 August. For further updates and details on how to view the live stream please refer to http://twitter.com/IL2BirdsOfPrey

source

The Q&A session might be interesting, as we are wondering about the cockpitthing...

Hi,

there's already a thread concerning the live demo: http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthread.php?t=8750

Yes! if someone can do not hesitate to ask about the cockpit view on the german planes. during the Q&A session.

What time will this be for EST?

I think that 12h30 BST is 13h30 CEST.

Hope someone posts the Cliff's Notes, that's too early for me to be in game mode. LOL

here is the link
 

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/il-2-s...ey---live-demo

Enjoy! :-P

I hope the first thing they do is to jump into a 109 and show us whether or not it has a cockpit. Time to put the rumour to bed.

You can go and ask it here :-P:

http://www.forums-xbox.com/showthrea...=5454#post5454

I am still wondering why that kind of event is exclusive to an XBOX forum....
Don't you like ps3 also?

Whishfull thinking.........:(

It starts!

Why show the same mission everyone played in the demo? So stupid.

Why stupid? The name states Live Il-2 Demo Broadcast, no words about additional missions.

As I cant access the chat area of the stream, can anyone tell me if someone already asked about the "virtual cockpit only" horror-story?

I don't think chat is working at all.

I thought that by "Demo broadcast" they meant demoing the full version of the game, which they're finally doing. Finally, they're showing something relatively new, the Berlin level, although I saw this in one of the earlier videos.

The framerate feels really choppy. I hope it is caused the streaming and compression and not by the game..

Honi soit qui mal y pense - comes to mind...:cool:
I think we are in for a nasty piece of news...

Chat is working, but it seems not in all broswers

Okay. Probably my dodgy old browser then! I can see the Twitter feed though.

I also can't see the chat in recent firefox, only in opera. Strange.

Please let me know if theres an answer to the cockpit question ;)

Will do. They've just said that the video is being recorded and will be posted on the net at some point.

That makes me a happy Kraut. Thanks mate.

PS3 Demo - 20th August!!!

With german cockpits that would make me very happy indeed. At the moment I cant realy feel happy about that. :(

Recorded video of the LIVE DEMO
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/1976329

Hoorray!
 

2:24 danneale: ok here goes
2:25 danneale: Mark from 505 Games here
2:25 danneale: fire questions(not all at once!)
2:25 MARTIANS: yeh, go ahead, ask me
2:25 MARTIANS: ;-)
2:25 H_Lecter: is there a cockpit view for the german planes or not?2:25 spunkyrakune: What game modes will be availaboe in MP?
2:26 elneilios84: will there be a flightstick bundle?
2:26 MARTIANS: do you have freeflight on all the maps?
2:26 danneale: Yes there is a cockpit view for German planes
2:26 H_Lecter: real or virtual cockpit..?2:27 danneale: IN MP - Dogfight, team dogfight, strike, capture the airfield, up to 16 players
2:27 danneale: flightsticks are avilable, and supported... it will depend on individual retailers
2:27 Spotter5: Can we pilot the ME262 in multiplayer/singleplayer?
2:27 danneale: real cockpits2:27 RawKryptonite: In ground strike, will each team be set to use a certain number of full sized bombers? assign player(s) to it? are there "slots" for bombers to fill so teams have equal number of them?
2:28 danneale: (almost every plane historically correct)
2:28 danneale: a couple without cockpit views
2:28 H_Lecter: *hugs mark and everyone else*
2:28 H_Lecter: it must be xmas, thanks guys!
2:28 elneilios84: that is very good news about real cockpits

Somehow i still have firm doubts, sounds great but I guess I will rather hear what Anton has to say. Thanks mate!!

Can't imagine that they would lie in that Q&A session.

2:28 danneale: a couple without cockpit views

That worries me - I want to read something like "some german planes will have cockpits in MP mode" - a couple without could mean all german planes without. Chats are confusing sometimes.

Hmm thought I'd ask just to see what they'd say...

1:46 elneilios84: ah sorry missed your reply. Can the buttons, sticks be remapped to some extent? E.g. flip the function of the analog sticks?
1:47 Spotter5: Does the game reuire a HDD install, and does it have trophies?
1:48 danneale: a definitive graphic layout of the Aviator would be helpful, in both arcade/realistic as well as sim. especially sim LOL --- we will look inot that :)
1:49 danneale: elneilios84: - Yes they can be

This is controversial isn't it?

Yeah, found that quite interesting. I always take the latest peace of info that I get from a publisher as up to date and reliable info until proven otherwise. If I found out that someone lied to me I will not bother asking in the future.

We will see when the game comes out. I'll buy it anyway and will post here about my experience especially regarding those sensitive topics like controls and cockpit views.

We should realy wait for a comment from Anton. And that he does not answer worries me enough to cancel my preorder until I get feedback.

Grüße nach Österreich!

Rob

Jup, servus nach Deutschland :)

Martin

Actually re-reading my question, I don't think I was clear enough... I asked if the analog stick functions can be flipped. This could easily be misconstrued to mean "can the X/Y axis be inverted" and we all know that they can even in the demo. I'm betting this is why he answered yes.

Well, honestly it's a non-issue for me. The AV8R standard button layout works (not all buttons are perfectly located but I got used even to the trim button).

The question and answer about cockpit view was very clear, so if I don't see German cockpits in the finished version I will ignore any further game coming from Gaijin/1C/505. Spending 60 Euros on that game will not leave me broke, so I'll simply take the risk and trust them for once.

That's my understanding. I think he answered that twice, saying inverting the axis.

We did see I think 2 other missions. The one with the IL-2 looked like a ton of fun. Rear gunning and all.

Same here, I'm not that bothered about the control layout - I asked on behalf of the many that it does bother. Full German cockpits is a much bigger issue for me so I'm quite pleased with the answer.

Right, I continued watching and I saw the other 2. I wonder how much more maps/environments are there in game?

'Strike' sounds like a great MP mode but does anyone know if MP servers are skill restricted i.e. only sim players, only realistic players etc.

I know it sounds like a no-brainer but in my experience gaming on console MP leaves a lot to be desired.

The quality of gaming on pc or console is limited by the people you game with. You need a good friends list.
The game is hosted by a player, not game servers. Host has control over what type of room it is.

People seem to be getting confused over the term virtual cockpit, I've always understood virtual cockpit to be the type of view where you see the interior of the plane rendered in 3D. So the question "real or virtual" is absolutely meaningless. Who knows what the developer meant when he answered that way?

Well, it's not me who invented those terms. It's the language of the developers and those terms are being used in game.

[EDIT:

2:28 danneale: (almost every plane historically correct)
2:28 danneale: a couple without cockpit views

This should point out that the guy answering the questions (Mark?) knew what was meant by real vs. virtual cockpits]

I find it funny that a gaming website enjoys higher credibility among the community than the word of the developers.

I rather tend to believe the makers of the game...

I highly recommend anybody to watch the recorded broadcast if you haven't done so yet and switch the audio on. There's lots of interesting background info about game modes and other details.

+1 ;-)

I'm aware of that. But even after the question was answered, there were people saying that the devs lie and Micromania was right. That's what I was referring to - and I know that you were not one of them. :)

If we could just get an answer from Anton about whether the 109/190 have the proper cockpit views, then I would be happy, or unhappy, depending on the response, but at least we wouldn't have all this speculation. With all the fuss you would have thought he would answer, since he can apparently spare the time to answer the question of whether the German planes will have swastikas on them.

And that is exactly what keeps me worried. Days pass, no reaction at all. So I am quite sure there is something to those rumors.

:(