A new developer blog for the IL-2 Great Battles Series has just come out and with it news on what the series is going to be doing over the next several months as the 1C Game Studios team works to release Odessa and Leningrad theatres to the sim. We’ve got Siege and Liberation information so let’s go.
Early access begins next week
Earlier in the week, the IL-2 team released a 30-minute video detailing some of the aircraft and the setting of the Siege and Liberation release. Now we’re learning what their plans are for the release of this new title. Odessa career mode will cover June-October 1941 and April to August 1944. Leningrad will similarly cover September 1941 to April 1942 and then January to September 1944.
Pre-order and early access is set to begin as early as next week with those purchasing early getting a “significant” discount on the final price. That discount will reduce as more content is released.
The update reports that initial content on offer in the next few days will be the Odessa map, the I-153 and the LaGG-3 Series 4.
The I-153 and LaGG-3 Series 4, as we learned earlier in the week, come with a few different modifications and fit into the early time period for both maps as well as others in the series. The I-153 is an entirely new aircraft for the series while the LaGG-3 represents a model much earlier than the Series 29. You can see the cockpit represents a significant improvement over the earlier release.
Coming later on down the line
The plan is to then roll out additional content over the remainder of the year. After the initial release next week, a summer update will add the Yak-1 (Series 23) and Yak-3 (Series 9).
Then, in the “first half of fall” we’ll see the Bf109E-4 and Ju87D-5.
Finally, the end product is slated to release by winter and here we’ll see the Gulf of Finland map release together with the pilot career mode, the La-7 (Series 1) and IL-2 Model 1944. The IL-2 model 1944 will help round out the titular aircraft of the series with the definitive arrow-wing variant so common in the later part of the war.
As you can see from the released images, these aircraft haven’t yet progressed into the texturing or move into the sim engine just yet and the map of Lenningrad is still having buildings populated across the cityscape.
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