WW2 fighters tend to have very powerful engines for their weight, so slamming the throttle can do some “interesting” things, all the way up to rolling over a fighter with a narrow wheel base. Not only does it slow the rate at which you need to fuss with the rudder, it cuts down on the torque skew. Everything helps.Īnother takeoff tip is to throttle up slowly. I want to like the game, but if I don’t attain a bare minimum of skill soon, my brain is likely to give up on the thing forever.Īnd if you want to talk about non-beginner concepts, or just anything IL-2 related at all, that’s cool too. In the meantime, though, if anyone has any advice (or links) to get a newb off the ground, that’d be great. I don’t know how to land, though for now that’s purely an academic question: I’ve yet to reach the end of a mission in one piece, and even if I did I have no doubt I’d be unable to locate the airfield.Īt the moment I’m scouring Google for any beginner’s guides and walkthroughs, and YouTube for videos of people playing the game without sucking, and even the game manual for basic info. I stall out with alarming regularity, and can’t hit the near side of a barn with my guns, though I imagine these are just a matter of getting some more experience. On my map, locating myself, let alone my objectives or other planes in the sky, is often problematic.

Once in the air, I have trouble locating other planes and, when I do, identifying friend or foe is near impossible. After a few tries I managed to take off successfully, but as soon as I throttle up my plane wants to veer off to one side, and compensating with the rudder is difficult, so I almost always wind up taxiing off the runway entirely, eventually lifting off with my ass a-bumpin’ on the ground (if I don’t slam into an airplane hangar before I get airborne). A couple of days ago I bought IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946 from Steam – basically, it’s the whole IL-2 series for $10, I’ve always heard good things, and it’s old enough to be gentle on my wimpy video card, so why not?īut, problems.

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