Official Fulqrum Publishing forum - IL-2 CoD without STEAM

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Originally Posted by Avala (Post 237165)

Would be good also if single player wouldn't need steam to activate and play . . .

According to the community manager in the ubi forums it's not needed with the boxed editions. She said boxed editions will activate with Solidshield, not with Steam, so as long as her information is valid you are good to go.

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Originally Posted by =WF=RAW (Post 237213)

for single player steam will be need only once. to activate your copy of game. then you can set steam into mode "work offline"-like, and forget about internet connections. But if you'll need online play, then you must to resume steam from offline mode.

See above, the boxed editions will not need Steam to activate. That means you can install, activate and fly in single-player without steam.