Announced this morning, the IL-2 Sturmovik spring sale is now underway with sales of a variety of products on their webstore. What’s on sale? Unlike in past sales, we don’t have a detailed breakdown of everything that they have on offer but clicking through the online store gives us a sense of what they are…
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1CGS upgrading single player campaigns, announce new ones for IL-2
Over the years, 1CGS have put out a number of scripted campaigns both freely available with certain products and sold separately on their webstore and on Steam. In the most recent Developer Diary, they are reporting that they are going back and providing updates to many of these to take advantage of new features and…
IL-2 devs talk Flying Circus career mode, Vol 3
Developer updates from the 1CGS team haven’t been as frequent as of late but this one helps fill in some details on Flying Circus with some big updates and news on Career mode as well as a bit of talk about a potential volume 3. Career mode beta test begins The big headline here is…
1CGS announces Typhoon campaign: Wings over Caen
A new free campaign for IL-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Normandy is on the way. Titled ‘Wings over Caen,’ this historically-based scripted campaign is intended to give us a thrilling experience with the Typhoon over the Normandy map during the heyday of its use as a close air support aircraft. Let’s have a look! Typhoon triumphant…
2022 in flight simulation: A look back at the last year and a look forward
This year has been yet another tumultuous one both in the real world and in the world of flight simulation. To end out the year, I want to take a broad look at flight sims in 2022 and think a little bit about what’s coming for 2023. This year was quite the year and so…
IL-2 dev diary looks back, looks forward
In what will probably be the final developer diary for the IL-2 series in 2022, we have a wrap up post from IL-2 Producer “Han” on the IL-2 forums with both a look back and a look forward. There are some priorities outlined for the new year that continue to hint at new directions for…
IL-2 winter sale has kicked off plus Tank Crew early adopter update deal
The annual winter sale for the IL-2 Sturmovik series has just started and there are great deals on just about everything in this sale. There’s also a special exclusive for Tank Crew early adopters so if you’re one of those you’ll want to read about the offer. The sale! The Winter Sale is on and…
Community Q&A: Catching up with Jason Williams
If you’ve been around combat flight sims at any point over the last decade, you’ll probably know the name Jason Williams. For the last several years and up until late October of this year, Jason was the Executive Producer for the IL-2 Sturmovik series. I’ve had him on the Stormbirds podcast, I’ve quoted him many…
IL-2 update 5.004 brings Sopwith Snipe, West Front map improvements
Western Front map improvements and the release of the Sopwith Snipe Collector Plane for IL-2 Great Battles are the headlining features of update 5.004. A nice early Christmas present for those waiting on both of those items along with dozens of other updates including new built in missions for the StuG III and Churchill Mark…
Bf109G-6A/S Collector Plane coming to IL-2
Two 1CGS IL-2 developer diary updates in one week is a bit unusual but we’ll take it! Today we’re learning about one of the Collector Planes that the developers are going to be making available for pre-order sometime down the road. This time its the Bf109G-6A/S. I’m sure there will be strong thoughts about this…
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