The embargo is over for content creators to provide some early previews of IL-2 Series Korea as the sim works its way towards the early access launch on June 25. Here’s a round-up of the videos that we’ve seen so far.

Korea prepares for launch with creator videos

Creators from across YouTube are launching into IL-2 Series Korea just a little ahead of the early access date coming up next Thursday. Some of the creators have been busy on day one providing video content to have a look at.

We start the round-up with Wolfpack345 with both a first look video as well as some live streamed gameplay. Both give you a good overview of what the sim appears capable of doing.

Tricker takes to the skies with a nearly 4 hour stream. If you wanted a lot of gameplay running for quite a long time, this is it.

Growling Sidewinder intercepts some bombers in a “Black Thursday” styled scenario.

And we have Bullet4MyEnemy, best known for some of his DCS Cold War content, with a bomber interception mission.

More are likely to emerge in the coming days so look for that!


16 responses to “IL-2 Korea video round-up as the sim goes live on YouTube”

  1. Those vidéos are so impressive ! Kudo to 1C for such an awesome work done ! It’s just my personnal opinion but the map looks very nice, the viewing distance and variety of scenery is beautiful : mountains, valley, islands… I think cities and airbase look really convinving. I not a specialist of clouds benchmarks across sims but I look to me very pleasing. The sunset is beautiful. There is more eyecandies to explosion. Napalm and rockets are satisfying. I love the attention to small details : water effect behind the jet taking off on a wet airtrip, the shaking handle in the mig15 cockpit on TO… The bombers battle are impressive. It’s a nice change to see so many aircraft in the sky. The mig canon look so powerful ! I love how busy are the airbase. It really feels being part of a whole army. Personnal opinion, I like the very settle graphic design of the menu : there is a lot of information, so it’s nice to have an orderly and subbtle design. And so many thing to discover in those menus : controller settings, plane loadout, mission briefing, squadron symbols, etc. My head feels dizzy ! can’t wait for next week 😀

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  2. I watched most of the videos last night in bed. Compared to IL-2 GB the UI and menus seem very clean and easy to ready again which is great, but they appear even more snappy and quick.

    The world feels way more alive, it’s great seeing so many objects in the air and on the ground. This was a major nitpick of Great Battles.

    Not sure what PC specs were for the streamers, probably pretty beefy but the game looked and ran good for early access. It looked pretty polished and you know this dev team is going to keep working on the sim and making it better.

    Great start!

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    1. Growling Sidewinder and Wolfpack have a 5090. Tricker has a 4090. So not really representative for the average gamer.

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        ShamrockOneFive

        I’ve definitely lost perspective on hardware these days but I am wondering what the average setup is now. I know Steam has stats that they do but the average flight simmer probably has a bit more than the average gamer.

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      2. I really hope the 4080 being “Recommended” they mean VR.

        I have a 4080 Super and expect this to run well in VR.

        The game looks great but the textures are lacking in some areas. For example, the planes textures look better in DCS, so if Il2 doesn’t run well on a 4080 Super I would be concerned, because DCS runs flawlessly on it.

        Needless to say I am pumped to hop into the cockpit.

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      3. The 4080 is listed as being optimal for flat screen. You probably don’t really get any improvement in 2D when going beyond that.

        For VR I’m sure that a 4080 can be made to run well, but I expect that even a 5090 won’t be able to max out the game in VR.

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        ShamrockOneFive

        So I’ve just started up with the press preview today and my RTX 3080ti is producing steady 60fps frame rates at 4K so far. It seems well optimized.

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  3. MYSH and CommandT also : )

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    1. ShamrockOneFive Avatar
      ShamrockOneFive

      They keep coming out! I’m working on my own now 🙂

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  4. excellent

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  5. thats good way to market it, its all single player or they can do MP vs each other ?

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      ShamrockOneFive

      Multiplayer is possible!

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    2. People have been doing multiplayer already with the press build.

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  6. Urgent Siesta Avatar
    Urgent Siesta

    I watched all save the long form

    streams yesterday.

    To my eye, things are looking GOOD!

    Even Command T feels like they’ve done a very good job on the flight models. And he’s a picky, picky IRL pilot when it comes to things like that.

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  7. I’m interested in this sim, but I’m in the wait and see camp. Watching the video’s I don’t see that much improvement and at high altitude the terrain looks pretty blurry to me. Based on the short dev cycle for the title, I think we may be just getting a re-skinned GB with a few new features. I know people may strongly disagree and that’s fine, but I’m going to wait until the final release and make a choice then.

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  8. i thought the release date had been pushed out to Aug?

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