The plane was produced from 1940 to 1945 and withdrawn n 1954, but in the game Il-2 is available only in the Moscow campaign. Why ???
There are other IL models in Berlin and besides only flying ILs is boring.
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OK, I found the Il-2 in the Berling campaign, but why not in the Stalingrad ?
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Because there’s only so many vehicles in a campaign, so it’s a waste to use the same ones over and over when there are other options.
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Yes but yet there is Stuka and Bf 110 almost everywhere xD.
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Riiight… but giving the russians the A20 Boston on Stalingrad makes so much sense.
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well the one in Moscow is fun to fly, the ones in Berlin are crap, but that’s mainly because of the wind system that they sort of didn’t but actually sort of did add to the campaign making them hard to fly and shoot anything
Good question, as a f2p player my only option besides the Yak 7b is a US A20… In the most iconic battle on the eastern front of the war i get to fly a US bomber… awesome…
If you think about it, it would make more sense to give a f2p player a IL2 and give something new to full access players on the basis of “oww you want to play for free? you get the same old planes that you used before, you want something new and cool? get full access”
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I think they may have to overhaul the campaign system or something because we’ll eventually get situations where we’ll say X should be in Y campaign because it also served there
You tell me what German CAS plane can be added that A) has a balanced payload for anything outside of Normandy B) doesn’t have a completely fucked flight model (looking at you HS 129) and C) saw service in the German military between 1940 and 1945 that isn’t a Stuka, Bf 110 or ME 410. The only thing that might barely fit that description is the Do 335, and it has a bombload that makes it bad in Normandy, and a flight performance that would render it almost useless in Berlin. Blame this issue on Germany for wasting all their time developing heavy bombers that they could basically never use, and not the game devs.
I think they did the A-20 to as a way to try and avoid copy pasting too much in Stalingrad, which they still failed pretty miserably at but I suppose the effort is to be applauded. Furthermore, the Soviets did fly numerous A-20s from mid-1942 onwards, with the Soviets allegedly flying more A-20s than the Americans did by the end of the war.
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Also reminder that the Hs 129 was in the Tunisia beta, but it worked like shit.
Less because of the flight model and more because the gun isn’t very effective in the game.
Yeah the gun was pretty trash as well, but IIRC the thing would literally stall out if you tried to make any sort of turn.
Wait, Berlin had a wind system??
Look at the clouds. If they move from right to left then your plane will drift to the left, when you turn around 180 and they move from left to right, then your plane will drift to the right. Also if you fly against the “wind” then you won’t have any side drift but you’ll reach a lower TAS (220-240 in a IL2M-type3). If you fly with the wind from behind you’ll reach a higher TAS (340-360). TAS is relative to ground so this difference must be the plane fighting the wind or being pushed by it from behind.
Also i’ve encountered smth that felt like wind gusts where the plane would be suddenly jerked by something for helf a second then return to normal.
Also on maps where the clounds aren’t moving fast, the plane isn’t drifting as much
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