After Jason’s update on the current status of the IL-2 Sturmovik: Great Battles Series, I’ve started wondering (again) about what’s just a little beyond the horizon. I’m not alone as I’ve seen several conversations pop-up all across the community about what the longer range plans for Great Battles. It seems it is long past time…
Tag: Future
What we know about the next generation of X-Plane
Last week, Austin Meyer, the founder of X-Plane, did a webinar with the Flight Sim Association from the Oshkosh Air Show. He talked quite a bit about the next generation of X-Plane and what their team has been busy doing. It was an interesting presentation and while it doesn’t fully let the cat out of…
A future for Tank Crew?
I’ve seen some questions recently about the future of Tank Crew and I thought it’d be good to revisit the future of the series as we can see it right now. With Tank Crew – Clash at Prokhorovka essentially complete and one Collector Vehicle on the way, inevitably, everyone wants to know what comes next….
DCS: Mirage 2000C update shows new features
The DCS: M-2000C module was one of the first third party jet fighters to arrive in DCS World and it’s been through a lot of updates over the years. It’s going to be going through a few more and we have some new insights on what is planned by the RAZBAM team for the future….
Thoughts on the future of Flying Circus in the IL-2: Great Battles Series
Now that we’ve put a few days between the full announcement for Flying Circus Vol 2 I wanted to offer up a few more thoughts on the franchise and address some of the different opinions in the community. Let’s talk the future of Flying Circus! Renewing the excitement levels Flying Circus Vol 1 was a…
VR for MSFS coming this month as Asobo looks ahead to 2021
Not having VR in Microsoft Flight Simulator was considered something of a miss when the title was announced, however, news quickly came out that Asobo Studios was working towards a VR implementation for the new sim and we now know that it will be coming this December 2020 in a significant update. Asobo is also…
FJP podcast interviews Simon Pearson from ED on future of DCS
Eagle Dynamics’ Business Director for DCS World, Simon Pearson, appeared on a live stream put on by the Fast Jet Performance podcast. We’ve learned some useful nuggets of information during the podcast that everyone might find interesting. Let’s have a look. Link and summary The interview with Simon Pearson has plenty of chit-chat and banter,…
What I hope to see in Flying Circus Vol 2
Flying Circus Vol 1 has been out for long enough that I’ve started to give some more though towards what the future might hold for this series within the IL-2: Great Battles collection of titles. Although Flying Circus Vol 1 isn’t perfect (read my full review here), nearly every time I fly it, I am…
More talk of the Yak-9, Hurricane, future for IL-2: Great Battles
Many of you will recall that we had information come out about two new Collector Planes for the IL-2: Great Battle Series and that the two aircraft would be the Hurricane and Yak-9. We haven’t heard much following that initial leak of information, however, we have new chatter from the developers and there’s lots of…
A short message from Jason about IL-2’s future, plus more speculation
As much hype as there is about Il-2: Battle of Bodenplatte’s next big patch and the release of the P-51D Mustang, P-38J Lightning and Tempest Mark V (plus the Rhineland map – probably), there’s also plenty of talk about what the series is going to do next and where they want to go. Today we…
Stormbirds 