A POLE: How long have you been flying IL-2

[BGs_Ricky]

Started playing Il-2 with the release of the demo. Joined a squad in 2004 and we kept playing until 2008.
Interest started to drop for most of us then, also due to mod packs incompatibility between us and other squads we were playing with.

Started playing ROF at the end of 2009 and CLOD when it came out.

On hiatus with flight sims since the beginning of the year, waiting for the next patch.

Enjoying other games ATM, I even re-installed SHIII and I'm having a blast sinking ships all over the Atlantic

[Bewolf]

"Waves Demo Club Card"

Have been following IL2 development back then for over a year after seeing the very first screenshots in a games mag.


This is one of those =)

I think back then Il2 was supposed to be published not by UBI, but Blue Byte.
Oleg regularily posted on the UBI forums and was open to Q&A's, good times.
Wondered if IL2 had birds coming from the trees like in Red Baron 3D and smoke on the runway upon landing and take off. Talk about priorities, lol. Back then it was still and only about the IL2 as a flyable.

Then the demo came out, and with it this darn mission where you had to hunt that 88 in the storm. Taking of the P39 required a whole new level of expertise. Never looked back from that day on.

[VO101_Tom]

I found some pictures. Dev update pictures from 1999















Demo (or 1.0?)

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Originally Posted by VO101_Tom

I found some pictures. Dev update pictures from 1999

Yeah, I can remember these pics! I couldn't believe it at that time. Good, I was still so young

[No1 Cheese]

Flown it since the demo.My Squad at the time(No74(v)Squadron)moved from EAW,great game and great community to fly IL2.
Squad im in now http://www.tangmerepilots.co.uk/ are waiting for it to get ironed out before we move over to it.
Cheese