Multiplayer Details and New Trailer
 

1C Company and 505 Games have today revealed more information on the multiplayer modes available in forthcoming World War II flight combat title, IL-2 Sturmovik: Birds of Prey. As well as boasting over 50 single player missions, the multiplayer experience featured in IL-2 delivers even more thrilling aerial combat action. IL-2 Sturmovik: Birds of Prey will be available from 4th September for Xbox 360, PS3, Nintendo DS and PSP.

The official website now hosts the new multiplayer trailer where allied and axis forces go head to head in ferocious aerial dog fights and bombing raids over war torn Europe. Also featured is an exclusive community update from Pavel Kulikov, Game Designer of the multiplayer modes and maps at Gaijin Entertainment in which he shares some behind the scenes stories from the making of IL-2 Sturmovik: Birds of Prey as well as tips to becoming a multiplayer ace. Details on the modes featured in the game are as follows:


Dog Fight

Dog fight is a traditional "free-for-all" mode. After selecting initial game settings (number of players, difficulty level, planes available, game play map, time limit, points limits etc) players engage in aerial dogfights earning points for every downed enemy aircraft.

The winner is the first pilot to reach the point limit or the pilot with the most points when the allotted time runs out.


Team Dog Fight

After selecting initial settings, players are divided into two teams. Like Dog fight, points are earned for every downed aircraft in the enemy’s team.

The winner is the team that reaches the point limit first or has the most points when the allotted time runs out.

Strike

Strike is a multiplayer mode where teams attempt to destroy as many of the enemy’s ground targets as possible, while defending their own. The winner is the team with either the most points when the timer runs out, the team that reaches the points limit first or the team who wipes out all of their opponent’s ground targets. Points are awarded for both aerial and ground targets, although ground targets are worth more points than those in the air.


Capture the Airfield

In Capture the Airfield, players attempt to capture and hold as many opposition airfields as possible. An airfield is considered captured once a player lands and spends a specified amount of time on the ground without being destroyed. All airfields in this mode being the game as neutral, so securing airfields quickly is crucial.
Each team is granted a specified number of team tickets at the beginning of the game. Each time a player respawns, one team ticket is used up. Once a team has no tickets left, it cannot return to the battlefield.
The team controlling the lowest number of airfields suffers a penalty of their ticket pool being depleted second by second. The bigger this disadvantage, the quicker the ticket pool is depleted.
The winner is the team that has the most tickets left either at the end of the match or when an enemy team loses all tickets and planes.

IL-2 Sturmovik: Birds of Prey gives you the chance to participate in the most famous confrontations of the era piloting fighters, battle planes or heavy bombers across a range of daring and action packed missions. There are 6 theatres of war to engage – The Battle of Britain, Stalingrad, Berlin, Sicily, the Battle of the Bulge and Korsun – representing the main airborne battles of World War II in Europe.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKnl6jTAep0

thanks for that
nice vid

There is much more information on site.

i cant view site on my ps3 and my pc has no net

And I can't re-post here, because site always shows me Russian version :(
Let's hope, someone will repost.

The site is asking me for a username and password. I can't even view it.

Wow, I was lucky - just 5 minutes ago I could read a developer blog in the community section. Now I wanted to repost it here but I also get a password screen :confused:

[EDIT: The password screen is gone; but I noticed that I have only access to the German version of the website, so I will refrain from posting the german dev blog here. Actually it's funny how the site automatically selected a language for me. German is my mothertongue, but still I love to make such decisions myself - thanks for consideration if the webmaster is reading this...]

Wow, I've been gone awhile, and I gotta say, the game looks and plays better than I expected by far. Simply awesome. I do hope we'll see some DLC and a sequel!:grin:

Yeah.
I can see only Russian version myself :(

The funny thing is that I'm looking at the website from my workplace in Czech Republic, so going by my location I'd rather expect that I'd see a Czech or English version. But obviously the website recognizes my German Vista version.

Anyway the update is great and it's nice to seem more planes added! :grin: