IL-2 Sturmovik: Great Battles most recent patch has brought a significant new feature to the sim and for single player virtual pilots, this feature is likely to have attracted a fair bit of attention. Now that the new system is available, I want to dig into the features, talk about what it offers, and see…
Tag: Gameplay
Ever been in a combat flight sim slump?
When it happens and why it happens is a bit of a mystery but I can now definitively say that I’m in a bit of a combat flight sim slump. For a few weeks now my tactics have been all wrong, my aiming worse, and my luck has run out. Oh, I’ve had a few…
Flight Journal: Flying the dusty skies in Desert Wings – Tobruk’s Cr.42!
Taking to the skies in the last great bi-plane fighter, this flight journal features the Fiat Cr.42 and the dusty skies of IL-2: Sturmovik Desert Wings – Tobruk. Team Fusion Simulations was nice enough to hook me up with a pre-release version of the forthcoming release and I wanted to share some of my experiences…
Gameplay for StarWars Squadrons is promising
Being more of a space sim pilot in the past, it’s been a while since I picked up something new but Star Wars Squadrons might just be the thing that gets use as close to something as good as X-Wing or TIE Fighter were back in the 90’s. New gameplay footage and several articles posted…
Flight Journal: Two superb, GCI guided, flights on PGAW
Hoggit’s Persian Gulf at War server is a PvE (player vs environment or player versus AI) driven experience with a requirement for SRS and some challenging tactical scenarios for DCS pilots to face off against. After several training flights with the DCS: F-16 I decided to put my newfound knowledge to the test and take…
In Deadstick, the ‘weather is the enemy’
In a traditional video game, there’s always an antagonist – the enemy that you must somehow defeat to win the day. Even in combat flight simulators you are more often then not confronted by enemy forces. In Deadstick, however, there is no enemy army to confront so this flight simulator has chosen to make the…
Up in the deep blue. Bomber formation experience on IL-2’s Combat Box!
Multiplayer scenarios tend to be centered around objectives on the ground with each team attacking or defending a target. This is a straightforward multiplayer experience for most flight simulations. What you don’t see very much of is a bomber formation around which a lot of challenging flying and combat situations evolve – but you do…
IL-2's Tactical Air War went western front and it's been fun
IL-2: Great Battles multiplayer server Tactical Air War (TAW) is one of the most intense and also likely the most challenging server in the IL-2 multiplayer universe. Flying there usually favours teamwork, definitely requires a little planning, and this season has been unique as it is the first time the server has gone west to…
Mission one of the Epsom Campaign for DCS: Spitfire IX
Flying warbirds in DCS World is an interesting experience for me as I had purposely separated the modern jets from the warbirds infavour of IL-2: Great Battles Series. Now with both WWII experiences now available to me it’s been a fun journey adapting to a sim that I know so well but with a subject…
An epic new trailer for Microsoft Flight Simulator!
X019 in London, a celebration of all things XBox (and XBox gamepass on PC) is kicking off this weekend and along with it we’ve got a brand new Microsoft Flight Simulator trailer. It’s a big one focusing a lot on the aircraft that are coming to the sim and there’s one big reveal that I…
Stormbirds 