IL-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Stalingrad Pre-Order Program Start

RTA_Cappy a écrit:oui c'est très courant maintenant :)

Au faite sur un point de vue historique avez vous connaissance des escadrilles qui opéraient sur le front Russe à part le célèbre Normandie Niemen ?

300St_Tempesta a écrit:Même pas l'ombre d'un G-50... ^^
De retour en 190, comme au bon vieux temps...

Hi everyone.

I feel I need to answer at least some of the questions that became topical recently. There are quite a lot of them and I’m going to give answers only to the most important ones, not to each and every one of course.

Speaking of the development in general, we’re on a long and hard track that ends with a new build and the beginning of the early access period. The first pair of fighters is practically complete and the next planes in the queue are already being worked on. The IL-2 is now being tested and Pe-2 will follow. Now it’s time to create an all new GUI and implement some game modes. What’s also on the top of the list is a bunch of graphical improvements, FX, AI tweaking and massive AI performance. We’ve got a lot do as you can see. So he we go! :)

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Here come the answers.

1. Question is, how can people unlock mods for the FW 190? Or will that plane be available in the campaign, or will that plane not get any modifications at all, or will you be able to unlock mods for the FW190 by flying the Bf.109 (or other German planes)?

All mods for premium aircraft are obtained the exactly same way as it’s designed for all other planes – they are earned in Historical campaign. Since this aircraft did not take part in the Battle of Stalingrad, it won’t be available in any regiment – only you (and possibly your AI squad mates) will be able to fly FW in campaign.

Basically, we chose it for the following reasons: “this plane could be there, it was capable to fight in these circumstances and combat situation, thus the FW-190 is by all means a machine of that period”. This also goes for the early La-5. And we decided to make both planes because in some ways they depict the technical progress of the BOS era and they should be interesting to so many players. BUT since we refuse to misrepresent the history, we made them only available in the Premium pre-order edition.

Note that both planes will be available for multiplayer at launch.

2. In autumn when the early access begins, will players be offered multiplayer servers and TS, or will it be all up to them? Or beta is for offliners only?

We’ll prepare everything for you.

3. What do you mean by “sessions” of early access? Does it mean that it’s going to be time-limited or opened for short periods?

Possibly. This early access is also the very first public test. It’s for you to enjoy it and for us to analyze and examine it. We’ll plan everything with maximum precision to achieve these two goals. For starters, there will definitely be events. Some systems need to be tested, so there’ll be a program for every session: we’ll ask you to try this or taste that feature and to pay a bit of attention to something, etc. New versions will be frequently deployed, new content and gameplay variations will be shown: we’re creating a new Universe with you and it’s quite a complicated thingJ

4. Has it been decided yet, what’s to be offered during early access this autumn?

Yes and these plans are already being worked at. All details will be released later by mid-autumn.

5. Can one buy Yak separately without leveling to get it?

Nope. We encourage players to progress in the game and we believe the pay-to-win approach could harm the community. That’s why planes are separated into Standard and Premium ones from the start. First cannot be bought, second cannot be earned. However, we receive enormous amount of requests from players who seek for a way to speed up the process of unlocking items, they point to other projects and complain about how short a life is. J So we’re thinking. Those who believe that there must be some content as a certain award for their skill are the majority at this moment, but we hope to find a way to satisfy both camps and keep them in peace.

6. Will the first early access release in autumn already include an early version of the single-player campaign? If so: can unlockable items already be unlocked by playing it? If so: will players keep their unlocked items or will there be a reset at the full release in spring?

Maybe, but we haven’t set any particular dates yet. Surely it’s not new bugs that we invite you to see. Some early access events will let you test and try unlocks, some will be all about earning them in a pre-determined way. Of course, we won’t save all your progress, but to those especially active and helpful players some presents and bonuses may be given: unlocks or even something totally exclusive.

7. My squad is toо afraid to commit to a pre-order due to system requirements not being posted, when will system requirements be up for display? so we know whose PC will or will not play this game, as it is we all can fly ROF with minimum problems. Please show system requirements soon, so we know, and then know to pre order or not.

I agree that system requirements are really important. We’ll announce them shortly. We are trying to make them reasonable and similar to what we currently have for ROF, but not all effects and programming are completed so a final set of specs is premature to announce. Thank you for your trust and enthusiasm.

• Windows® XP (SP2) / Vista (SP1) / Windows® 7 (SP1) / Windows® 8
• CPU: Intel® Core™ 2 Quad 2.6 GHz+ or Intel® Core™ i5/i7 2.6 GHz+
• GPU: 1024 Mb+, GeForce GTX 260+/Radeon HD5850+
• RAM: 4 Gb+
• Sound: DirectX 9.0c/11 compatible
• Free Hard Drive space: 10 Gb+
• Internet Connection for Registration, Career Mode, Statistics Tracking - 256 Kb/s; for Multiplayer - 1 Mb/s and faster.

8. I know that future theaters of operation depend entirely on the success and sales of BoS. With that in mind would you consider making a Korean War expansion?

Korea is broadly discussed and asked about. We’d be happy to make it someday but speculating on it now is like seeing the future, but we’re not into magic here. Just real motors, gasoline and steel interest us at the moment. However, we do have dreams and Korean theatre of war holds a solid position among them.

9. Are you using the Russian documents to model German aircraft?

We use every document we can find. The Soviet docs that have been discussed recently have just been released from top secret archives, which make them a uniquely important source of data and we’re happy to have them. These papers definitely add to the overall picture.

10. How come there is no section "About us..." or "IL2-BoS Team", so we can see who works on what, and how many of people work on this project and so on... like it is on web page for RoF?

The website is still being designed and more info along these lines will follow.

11. A few people have asked this a number of times but I still don't think we have had a clear answer yet... Will BOS have IL2 style CO-OPs?

Obviously, it’s just hard to believe our answer, but it is no. And we hear your roar of indignation, but please let me explain everything first. Yes, we have all necessary technologies and yes, they work perfectly, but we have made a conscious decision not to release co-op at launch. The reason is because we want to make it good. And it’s much more than just technologies; it’s a certain level of service – convenient, reliable, and inviting. And this level of service we can’t provide at launch. It may become possible someday if the project is popular and develops with a positive dynamic. The good news is that the MP environment that will be available at launch can support squadron based missions and objectives easily and missions can be flown with your friends in a co-op style without much difficulty with just a little coordination between pilots.

12. Since single-player has the priority will AI pilots fight for energy?

As every patriotic AI does, our bots will fight for Motherland with a variety of techniques.


13. ROF has fancy FX with oil stains on pilot’s goggles when the engine is damaged. But in BOS there are proper canopies on planes. The question is will there be similar FX on the glass triggered by oil sprays, soot, hoarfrost, etc?

We’ll have it all.

14. Will Pe-2 and He.111 have cockpits? For the navigating officer and gunners?

Yes, every substantial member of the crew will have their own cockpit.

15. Can you provide unlockable field mods table/ladder along with requirements for every unlock?

They will be published pretty soon, stay in touch.

16. Will BOS feature pilot’s equipment customization as it is in CLOD?

No.

17. How will flaps function on Bf.109? Some suggest to make the system similar to one used for I-16 in “IL-2 1946”

Every aircraft will have individual scheme and functionality for all mechanical systems. For instance, raising and releasing flaps will happen in real time and you’ll notice soon that LaGG’s flaps move significantly faster than Friedrich’s.

18. Please tell more about modeling engines for the first two fighters (LaGG-3 and Bf.109F)

Later, when there’s enough time our engineers will do so, and they are way more competent in these questions than I am.

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Pour les coops, je suis assez partagé au vu des nombreuses déconvenues sur les campagnes, le dog est plus souple si on peut simplement limiter les appareils disponibles et spawner sur des statiques.
D'un autre côté les coops çà garde un goût particulier. Et quand on perd pas un gars avec un petit ping, un mec pas à jour, un autre avec bug matos, çà le fait.