Dev Update 19 from the 1C Game Studios IL-2 Korea team looks back at the last year and then also reveals some of the things that are planned for 2025. We do get a few interesting pieces of information including talk about remaining aircraft in development for Korea, airships for Flying Circus and more! So let’s have a look at it.
IL-2 Korea development going into 2025
We’ve got both recap and a look forward with the latest developer update from the 1CGS team. Among their list of achievements for 2024 was the finalization of their game design for IL-2 Korea, completed external visual models for the F-86A Sabre, F-80C Shooting Star, F-51D Mustang, B-29 Super Fortress, C-47B Skytrain, MiG-15bis, Yak-9P, Tu-2 and Li-2T, new visualization technologies and finishing of the basic map of Korea. They also report that they’ve finished about half of the planned sound and visual effects for the new sim.
In 2025 they expect to work on the landscape, buildings, airfields, new trees, grass, bushes, cities, ports, factories, and night lighting. Cockpits for player controlled aircraft and the exteriors for the F-84E Thunderjet, F4U-4 Corsair, F9F-2 Panther, La-11 and the Il-10 are all expected to be completed. They will also be integrating missions and scenarios into their Regiment Commander mode and something called Museum Mode.
They report that they plan to complete the Korea project in 2025 and then begin work on follow-up content.
Great Battles plans
1CGS are reconfirming that they aren’t quite done with Great Battles yet either. They intend to finish Flying Circus’ Western Front 1918 map with some additional updates. They also plan to implement an interceptable airship into the sim for the first time – a long requested feature for the series.
For the WWII side of things, a new Great Battles release with eight aircraft and both the Karelia and Odessa maps are planned with career mode divided into 1941 and 1944 components to cover the battle from those perspectives. How exactly the aircraft set fit into that will be interesting but it will certainly draw heavily on what’s been released previously no doubt.
Coming up next
The next Dev Brief will be focused on what they are calling “the big boys.” The B-29, Tu-2, C-47B and Li-2T are the subject of the next updates. It should be interesting as we haven’t yet seen the C-47B or Li-T2 in the Korea engine so we’ll have to see what they are like and how they will fit into the mix.
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