We’ve got a few updates from the IL-2 team this week with a Q&A done between parts of the team and YouTuber Enigma who asked them some questions about the future, about four-engine bombers, and more. We also have couple of looks at the IAR and a work in progress vehicle. Let’s go!
Q&A with Engima
The big news item this week is that parts of the IL-2 team did a Q&A with YouTuber Engima and they had some interesting things to say. Enigma was joined by Han, Andrey (Sneaksie), and Anatoly. Enigma talked about several different items including the business side of the project, talk about the future of the series and even some talk about Pacific and about four engine bombers.
I encourage you to visit Enigma’s channel and listen to the whole thing if you want. If you’re pressed for time, here’s a short summary of just the key points:
- Sales of the various battles over the years have been surprisingly even except for Battle of Stalingrad which has sold more.
- When asked about a new simulation engine, the answer was that they are always upgrading the engine and that they don’t see the need for a completely new engine.
- Four engine bombers are possible in the engine. Han joked that sixteen engine bombers are possible technically. The issue remains the need to model the whole bomber including the different stations and that the work involved is equivalent to several one or two seat airplanes or maybe an entire ‘battle’ product release.
- The next product has been chosen and the team is beginning to work on it. The next product will not feature a major urban area, it will still feature piston aircraft and be historical, it will push the state of the art, and it will feature something new in the Great Battles series.
- On issues with the Pacific and carriers, they’ve said in the past that carriers are a risk and that land battles like New Guinea are possible.
IAR and M8 Greyhound
We’ve got a new update featuring the third party IAR 80/81 project. The new images show the aircraft fully textured and in the sim engine for the first time. This is a key moment for the project as it means that it’s starting to be integrated. This project does incorporate several modifications and versions so we should be on the lookout for more there before we start counting the days. Still, it’s good news.
We also see an M8 Greyhound in its constituent pieces.
This is an interesting update because we’ve already seen the M8 in renders so I’m not sure this is an intermediate step before integration or not.
Read about all of this and more over on the IL-2 forums.
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