27.10.2015
Today we reach a major milestone in IL-2 Sturmovik project and we sincerely hope you'll enjoy the new stuff.
First of all, we added the long awaited summer and autumn seasons along with the new campaign that covers early stages of Stalingrad battle from last days of flaming August to the middle of November when first snowflakes started to fall on the ruins of the city. In the new campaign we've tried to implement some of your requests and it contains static scenarios in addition to regular dynamically generated ones. Each one of them is a short story of a Russian or German pilot, a small episode of the world war.
23.10.2015
We're glad to tell you that our work on update 1.104 is nearly finished. Completing the beta stage, today we begin the testing of release candidate version. We plan to publish it in the middle of the next week and hope that nothing will hamper these plans.
Today we'll show you a couple of new screenshots of the new Stalingrad campaign set during Summer and Autumn of 1942 and additional video showing new level of ground contact modeling between wheels of an aircraft and different terrain types.
03.07.2015
Hello Everybody!
In this diary I'd like to tell you about how we're changing the Campaign in the nearest future.
We've been thinking a lot about improving this game mode and making it more like the campaign you wish to have. We are 100% aware about all drawbacks and weeks spots of what we have right now (including fictional awards that annoy some of you too). But trust me when I tell you that with the time limits and budgeting that we had for our project we've chosen the best opportunity possible. And now, a year after release we're going to answer the question if anything can be done to make the campaign better.
26.06.2015
As a virtual pilot you might be interested in what we, the developers at 1CGS, are doing these days to keep PC combat flight sims alive? Well, let us share with you what we are working on as hard as a human possibly could.
First of all, a moment of your attention to IL2:BOS, our one year old son who’s being so generously favored this summer. If you missed the last Developer’s Diary update then here’s the list of features that were expected by many and that will be added:
Adjustable SSAO and HDR setting
Distant landscape textures quality setting
Server capacity increased to 64 players
Free F11 camera and a set of various action cameras.
And much more is coming soon to IL-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Stalingrad within less than a month...
19.06.2015
DD #100 is here to bring good news which it does! Let’s start with Battle of Stalingrad.
First of all, BOS is becoming more affordable as soon as the sale is over. Starting June 22nd the Standard Edition will cost $49.99 and $79.99 for Premium. The next big thing is that BOS will get a map expansion this Fall. It will contain seasonal maps for the earlier stages of the battle along with corresponding Campaign Chapters. So you can see that we are actually are working on the two projects heavily. Furthermore, BOM development allows us to retroactively improve BOS. Upcoming features and changes we will be revealed in future dev diaries...