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EvilJoven posted:Sunday was a fairly low key session, all things considered. It didn't help that I was exhausted. That being said, playing early war RAF against the Germans proved to be pretty challenging. I'll want to keep that campaign. I am thinking that the French campaign was too small, and the French are at such a huge disadvantage, because E1s are baller. We had to get lend lease p39s just to compete and p39s in 40-41 are OP as poo poo. What would a Wake Island game look like if we played as the Japs?
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Mid-war eastern front could be really fun. 109 G-2 versus La-5 F or FN is a pretty even matchup with lots of varied altitude engagement. You could even justify throwing some TB-3's in for the hell of it. Another scenario I really like is the Sino-Japanese conflict. I-153 and I-16 versus A6M2-21 and Ki-43. Sounds lopsided, but once you realize the I-153 can out-turn a barn swallow it becomes a whole new ballgame. Also lol green laser MG's are fantastic for starting Japanese bonfires.
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wargames posted:I am thinking that the French campaign was too small, and the French are at such a huge disadvantage, because E1s are baller. We had to get lend lease p39s just to compete and p39s in 40-41 are OP as poo poo. What would a Wake Island game look like if we played as the Japs? You're looking at air starts towards the edge of the map with a long flight time to Wake Island, mostly. pixelbaron fucked around with this message at 17:29 on Oct 15, 2013 |
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Oct 15, 2013 17:21
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Breakfast Machine posted:I'm pretty sure this will work with DCG and respawning: http://il2statsweb.codeplex.com/ I was looking into this but it doesn't look like the link to the instructions on installing are linked properly, or they don't exist. 
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Oct 15, 2013 21:08
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I've put the Thursday night 7:30 CDT session up on the Steam group. For Sunday, I have a very open day. I have essentially the entire afternoon free, from 2:30 to 7:30 CDT. I don't think I'll want to dedicate that entire time to sims so I want people to chime in for what 2 hour slot works best for them. My solution is to leave it to you to vote. Here's my lovely voting method: Go to this spreadsheet . Put your username in on the left and then for each half hour time slot put in a 1 if you're available during that timeslot or a 0 if you aren't. At the end of Thursday's session, I'll look at the spreadsheet and pick at 2 hour window where the most people have said they're available. If anyone wants to take on hosting before or after, feel free. Hell, I might show up before or after the time slot to either play other spergtastic games like ARMA or just do an extended IL-2 session myself. If someone has a method of voting that's easier to do, let me know. The way I see it though is I can easily do a pattern by summing up each half hour slot and then bar graphing it. EvilJoven fucked around with this message at 04:22 on Oct 16, 2013 |
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Oct 16, 2013 04:10
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EvilJoven posted:I've put the Thursday night 7:30 CDT session up on the Steam group. Thanks for hosting Joven. Internet airplanes are a good break from my thesis. Out of curiosity, can the DCG create missions tasked to bomb like, factories (is that even something IL-2 can do?). It might be fun to do some bomber escort missions. Just throwing out an idea.
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Oct 16, 2013 14:44
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Yes, sorta. The thing is, it's hard to plan to intercept the friendly flight without assigned flight paths, something you don't get in dogfight/MDS mode. The fact that bomber targets are chosen automatically means we have no sure way of knowing where they're going. It works better in true coop mode but then we can't JIJO or respawn.
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Good flying folks, and thanks Joven for getting the server up. Same time same place Sunday?
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No worries, this is proving to be pretty damned fun. Ending things with PE-8s was hilarious, especially with some of us constantly exploding on spawn. As for Sunday, go a few posts up and fill out the time slots you're available on the spreadsheet. I'll be scheduling the Sunday session based on that.
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Oct 18, 2013 13:42
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IL-2 Battle of Stalingrad preorders are closing on November 11th, and the alpha (for premium preorders only) will begin soon after. A preorder of either Standard or Premium will save you $10 compared to buying the same edition after release (Spring 2014), or $5 compared to buying during alpha. If you buy Premium during alpha (and presumably Standard during beta) you'll still get immediate early access, but you won't get the 'founder' title ingame or the 20mm gunpods for the Bf109 F-4 (unless they change their minds and make those generally available). Aside: I'm not filling in anything on the Sunday sheet because literally any time is good for me.
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I can't play IL-2 right now since my X-52 is out of commission and I can't comfortably fit my massive hand in the X-45 joystick. Plus I still don't have trackir.
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Ralith posted:IL-2 Battle of Stalingrad preorders are closing on November 11th Fffffffff. I so want in on this but after getting hosed over last time I just cant do it. If they have a cancelation policy though, I might just go for it.
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Bumping this because I've gone ahead and picked Sunday's game time. IL-2 This Sunday at 5 PM CDT This is the official start of IL-2 missions. That being said, I'll probably be available to goof off and/or play other games starting around 3 PM. If you see me on Mumble, Steam or IRC feel free to bug me. I might take some of that time to do DCS, ArmA, FSX, RoF or some other spergtastic game I haven't had much time to play.
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Oct 19, 2013 04:05
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Level bombing the other night was fun. I want to practice more of that. What's everyone's favorite downloadable missions for practicing various types of combat? Air, ground etc?
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Oct 19, 2013 17:56
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The full mission editor is great for practicing combat. You can put yourself and your target wherever you want. There are tutorials on youtube if you've never used it. It's not a very complicated program. Probably be faster than searching for premade training missions. Edit: I made a level bombing practice mission if anyone wants to try it. It's technically a dogfight mission, so it goes in your NET/DOGFIGHT folder and you can respawn. Link: http://sharesend.com/1sr9a647 Breakfast Machine fucked around with this message at 22:57 on Oct 19, 2013 |
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Oct 19, 2013 21:24
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The Ferret King posted:Level bombing the other night was fun. I want to practice more of that. Try the ATMG (Attack Mission Generator) on M4T. You can generate bombing missions with targets and approaches of your choice (bridges, factories, ships, level bombing, skip bombing, dive bombing, etc). It's pretty neat.
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Tonight EvilJoven played IL2 all by himself and nobody cared. Actually I was able to kill some ground units tonight. Died a shitload in the first two missions, then I survived to the end in the last mission, so I guess that's improvement. Breakfast Machine posted:Edit: I made a level bombing practice mission if anyone wants to try it. It's technically a dogfight mission, so it goes in your NET/DOGFIGHT folder and you can respawn. I've played around with this very briefly in the Pe-8, which is what we were flying in the other night. Something I'm not able to do yet is figure out my true airspeed in these aircraft. There are a couple youtube videos by a guy that uses an add-on program to do it. I may give it a try. Also without knowing the terrain elevation of the target, there's no way to know if the altitude is set correctly. I guess this isn't much of an exact science is it, even historically? The Ferret King fucked around with this message at 02:08 on Oct 21, 2013 |
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Oct 21, 2013 01:59
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La-5 vs. 109 campaign is pretty fun. Looking forward to continuing this next session.
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The Ferret King posted:Tonight EvilJoven played IL2 all by himself and nobody cared. LOL. Anyway, ya, never run a Leningrad campaign because the city causes everyone's games to crash. Other than that, Russian planes are proving to be just as fun as I remembered and we mopped the floor against both air and ground targets. That being said, even when there's over half a dozen of us playing, maybe we should all stick together in an AA role the first few sorties or we'll have a rough start like last time. The next session is going to be Sunday October 27 at Noon CDT EDIT: Also, does anyone know if running a dedicated server is a huge PITA? I'm thinking it might be nice to host the server on a separate computer so I can do things like exit out without screwing anyone over. EvilJoven fucked around with this message at 02:11 on Oct 21, 2013 |
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Tonight was a lot of fun. Had three or so airplanes just explode in front of me, which was absolutely great. Fear the P-39! 
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The Ferret King posted:I've played around with this very briefly in the Pe-8, which is what we were flying in the other night. Something I'm not able to do yet is figure out my true airspeed in these aircraft. There are a couple youtube videos by a guy that uses an add-on program to do it. I may give it a try. Also without knowing the terrain elevation of the target, there's no way to know if the altitude is set correctly. I guess this isn't much of an exact science is it, even historically? IAS->TAS conversion is just a quick formula based on static air pressure (i.e. altitude) and temperature (can be guessed from altitude), and elevation comes from elevation maps. Weather conditions can affect the former in multiple ways - wind, reference pressure for the altimeter, etc. The instruments in no-cockpit view display TAS if you're lazy. KcDohl fucked around with this message at 16:48 on Oct 21, 2013 |
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Does the PE-8 have a gauge for outside air temperature? I fly with the cockpit on but if the server lets me cheat that way I could use it. Can I read terrain elevation off the in game maps? The Ferret King fucked around with this message at 19:06 on Oct 21, 2013 |
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Oct 21, 2013 19:03
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I think there's a ground elevation and OAT chart buried somewhere in the various patch FAQ and readmes. If I come across one I'll post it and update the OP with where to find it.
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So a new patch dropped, 4.12.2. Looks like fixes for a couple of things, but I'm looking for patch notes. 1c forum post Hav fucked around with this message at 05:59 on Oct 25, 2013 |
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Hav posted:So a new patch dropped, 4.12.2. Looks like fixes for a couple of things, but I'm looking for patch notes. I don't know how fast this will get to Steam but if it doesn't I'm not sure if we should download it. I'd rather keep everyone on the straight Steam version unless there's a big reason to upgrade by hand and I don't think this is that reason. EDIT: In case this does drop on Steam, here's a reminder to back up your conf.ini and Users folder. These are the two places with all your settings and IIRC Steam wiped them out the last time it updated. EvilJoven fucked around with this message at 13:12 on Oct 25, 2013 |
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EvilJoven posted:EDIT: In case this does drop on Steam, here's a reminder to back up your conf.ini and Users folder. These are the two places with all your settings and IIRC Steam wiped them out the last time it updated. Thank you for that, I just backed mine up. EDIT: Apparently it updated last night or something. Lost my config. It kept the binds but reset all my settings and axes sensitivities. Anyone messed with the 6dof settings for use with TrackIR? Could you share if you've found something better than the default slider positions? The Ferret King fucked around with this message at 20:18 on Oct 25, 2013 |
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I should be flying with goons today after I get home from work. Also, I bit the bullet and downloaded the Bombsight Table 2 add on for IL2 after seeing it used in a couple of tutorial videos for level bombing. It seems to do the trick. Definitely follow the video's example of directly reading IAS from the dial in the cockpit instead of the overlayed speed tape, since it's more accurate. I've been hitting factories with pinpoint accuracy from 10,000ft or so with both the OPB-1 and Norden bombsights. I can't get it to run over the maximized IL2 window like the following videos show, but I have two monitors so I just have it visible on my secondary screen and it works fine. The videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ls6C5rpkmpE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BY3i7BlCPo
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Another thing you can do with the norden is if you are lazy and have the sight locked on the target and it drifts you can adjust the speed and altitude so it stable for a more precise bombing run if I am making any sense.
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Yeah for the Norden I use the calculator to get it ballparked then make small corrections to the bombsight speed. For the OPB-1 I just try to make sure I'm as specific as possible with the numbers and re-check everything just prior to reaching the target. It's a lot more workload.
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Yesterdays session had a few less people than previous sessions but was still pretty awesome. Next time I'll make sure that the right time gets put on the IRC channel topics. We've stuck with the Russian scinerio pretty long. The 109s are good at killing our poo poo when we let them outnumber us but even in IL-2s we're managing to not get slaughtered if we work together to keep each other covered. Some of this level bombing stuff might come in to play, soon. We're about to push out and start capturing airfields and move on to their staging area. A few carpet bombing sorties might speed things up a little. The next session will be Sunday November 3rd at 11 am CST remember that daylight saving time ends on this day so despite it being early you should still have time to get out of your footie pajamas and in to your big boy pants!There will also most likely be a weeknight session Thursday November 7th at 7:30 PM CST EvilJoven fucked around with this message at 03:28 on Oct 29, 2013 |
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I don't get dressed to sim. Hell I don't usually sober up to sim. I might be able to make the Thursday game if it happens. I work day shifts on Sunday though so I won't be around for those. Also, new IRC Topic Event Reminder Method in place in both channels. This way, if you need to update anything you can edit your post and it will still be correct! And now I can't mess it up!
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EvilJoven posted:Yesterdays session had a few less people than previous sessions but was still pretty awesome. Next time I'll make sure that the right time gets put on the IRC channel topics. I was at the end of a 72 horror film festival that I entered, otherwise I totally would have been there. On the plus side, my film won!  I'll be there Sunday.
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I've just put up another scheduled night. There are now TWO! Sunday November 3rd at 11 am CST AND Thursday November 7th at 7:30 PM CST I may also be free Friday the 8th but if I am I'll probably looking to jump in to an ArmA session or something.
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Battle of Stalingrad alpha tentatively scheduled to begin on the 12th, will only be up 3 days a week, and initially contains only a test map, the LaGG 3, and disabled guns. e: VV Yeah, looks like it'll be prudent to wait for beta at minimum for more reasons than one. Not that people don't spend a comparable amount of money on less detailed WWII aircraft for civilian sims where you are comparably unarmed... Ralith fucked around with this message at 04:10 on Nov 2, 2013 |
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LOL. Glad I didn't drop almost a hundred bux on a preorder then.
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Ralith posted:Battle of Stalingrad alpha tentatively scheduled to begin on the 12th, will only be up 3 days a week, and initially contains only a test map, the LaGG 3, and disabled guns. I think it's a matter of expectation. I generally don't start a Cessna flight thinking I'm going to encounter a flight of bombers. That said I hope we get some videos of it to see how the flight model performs. This could be a reaction to the problems with BoB, trying to nail down the flight engine before anything else.
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JerikTelorian posted:That said I hope we get some videos of it to see how the flight model performs. This could be a reaction to the problems with BoB, trying to nail down the flight engine before anything else. That's it in a nutshell. To quote a dev, "We don't want another CloD disaster."
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Good times IL2ing today. Here's my steam thing http://steamcommunity.com/id/gerblederp
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I'm pretty sure Urcinius is right and the Germans are fleeing Kiev. Also, that big patch of German land cut off from the front lines was being held solely by a cluster of fascist sand bags. EDIT: Don't forget, the next session is Thursday at 7:30 CST. I also may be able to game on Friday at around 9 but I'm not going to be doing any IL-2. I'm thinking ArmA 3, if anything. EvilJoven fucked around with this message at 21:40 on Nov 3, 2013 |
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EvilJoven posted:Also, that big patch of German land cut off from the front lines was being held solely by a cluster of fascist sand bags.  What makes you think the Germans are bailing out of Kiev (I'm not saying you're wrong, I just didn't know the simulation went that deep). Are they using cargo planes or something, and can we shoot them the gently caress down to benefit our mission? Also, is there a way to put a bit more pressure on us for future DCGs? It seems the AI ground attack sucks and isn't really putting much pressure on us; we're completing every objective and then some pretty handily. I think we're pretty much square for air combat (we're not winning by that much), but we are just really good at ground attack and I don't think the AI has so much as managed to put a column in our territory, or successfully take out any of our columns. I'd say part of this is because we can respawn but the AI fields a whole fuckload more planes than we do.
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