noob patching from stock game

[PurpeAtome]

Hey!
Thanks for your quick response.

I don't have the Il2 sturmovik 1946 CD, I have the original Il2 Sturmovik game.

1. Does this mean i'm on the wrong forum?! (
2. What is the last patch for the original game?

[Bat*21]

1. No, not in the wrong place, wrong time maybe!
and 2. I may be wrong (and someone will be quick enough to point it out I'm sure!) but I think the original IL2 patches up to v1.2

You need to apply patch v1.1 first, then v1.2 over that.
http://www.fileplanet.com/87086/8000...vik-v1.1-Patch

[Artist]

Hi PurpeAtome,

the reason you've been offered that version of IL-2 for only 75p is that this is the 1.0(?) version from 2001 and there's no way to patch that to the current 4.10.1....

You'll get IL-2 1946 for say USD 5, Euro 2,99 or something similiar somewhere (check the big store round the corner). Invest that, install it, and then follow the update/patch-path (at no cost) I described.

Where are you located? Maybe somone here can point you to a source.

Artist

[Bat*21]

Amazon is the way forward, only £5 + P&P! (Assuming he's in the UK...)

[Artist]

Hi Bat,

Originally Posted by Bat*21

Amazon is the way forward, only £5 + P&P! (Assuming he's in the UK...)

Probably you're right - but IL-2 1946 has long become pyramid-ware (correct idiom?) in the big stores, so it should be much cheaper there - and no P&P...

Artist

PS: When I bought it at Amazon.de it was 9,99 Euro plus a 5 Euro fee for personal age-verification by the postman. No joke: It had/has a 12+ youth protection...

[Bat*21]

Originally Posted by Artist

Hi Bat,


Probably you're right - but IL-2 1946 has long become pyramid-ware (correct idiom?) in the big stores, so it should be much cheaper there - and no P&P...

I suppose one of the big computer stores may have copies of it still, but I doubt they'll be cheaper. My local PC World still has copies of Forgotten Battles for £5!

Artist

Originally Posted by Artist

PS: When I bought it at Amazon.de it was 9,99 Euro plus a 5 Euro fee for personal age-verification by the postman. No joke: It had/has a 12+ youth protection...

Haha that sucks.

[Gribbers]

Game and Gamestation still sell'em cheap;

http://www.game.co.uk/Games/PC-Games...329699/?s=1946

You can download, or just pop into the store and have a look in the "2 games for £10" section...that's were I picked mine up a few years back. I'm old school and have always preferred to have physical CD/DVD in my hand, but each to their own.

You can get IL2:1946 just as cheap on Amazon or Ebay...it has tonnes more maps, aircraft, missions, and playable via Hyperlobby for online gaming.

My mate just did exactly the same thing and bought the original IL2: Sturmovik, even though I told him not to ...the main aim of us playing was to play online together...he sold his older copy and downloaded 1946 problem free from Gamestation, which is version 4.07m out of the box.

Then, as the guys have written above, you'll have to patch to v4.08m, then 4.09, then 4.10m, and finally v4.10.1m (there is a mega patch out there but I've never tried it).

Best advice is to download the patches and Hyperlobby client (hyperlobby will be the first answer when googled)...and burn them all to disc to save you having to do it all again in future.

Next bit of advice (which some may disagree with) is to play around with the Full Mission Builder (FMB)...this will save you flying for 25mins to target practice, or just to get shot down at the first sign of the enemy. This is a helpful site:

http://www.il2-fullmissionbuilder.com/index.php


Then you've got mods and extras, but I wouldn't worry about them until you're bored of the original content, which will be in about another 10 years

Happy flying.