Since 09/2001 demo. Some pictures from these days.

First online kill, another 109, flown by "mr.bul".

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COOP with some friends, trying to take of in IL-2 with bombs and 100% of fuel. :P

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The guy in IL-2 with german mark shot its cannons and the plane slid backwards (notice by a -shut- in dialogue), a big surprise!

A Riva TNT 16MB barely handly the game in 800x600.


Sokol1

I first played on a date with my girlfriend at the time back in college in 2003-4 at the EAA Museum, they were having a "Flight Sim Day" there. (She thought this was cool, lucky me :)

I knew from reading many reviews that IL2 and Forgotten Battles was THE ww2 flight sim to get, but I was in college and at the time had a mid 90s pc I bought at a garage sale for $50 as my web browsing/homework computer.

I got a low end Dell computer around 2004, which allowed me to at least play some pc games at lower specs. I went to Gamestop and saw IL2 Forgotten battles "Gold" that came with the Aces Expansion Pack, I bought it used for $15 bucks. What a deal.

I've been hooked ever since, even thought now I've moved on to CloD.

Geez been playing since 2006, a bit of a late comer by IL-2 standards, I got it after I purchased blazing Angels. and while I did find it fun it was a little shallow, it also triggered in me a need to find something with a little more depth.

I saw IL-2 w/ The Aces Expansion pack at EB bought it and it promptly blew me away, I'm still trying to "master" it. Frikin Awesome :)

Since about 6 months after the original release, my son introduced me to it and I still haven't forgiven him.

Rick

April, 2007.

sice 2001 :) atm not actively though

Got into the sim in February 2002, mostly flying arcade settings offline. May 2002 I first went online. June 2002 first squad training. July 2002 oficially entered online squad. From 2002 to 2007 flying mostly coops and online war sorties. Quit in september 2007 I think, when the game code got cracked.

Never really got to try those 1945 LW planes out in campaigns.

Around 500 online war sorties flown, supposedly ~700 overall, counting in generic coops and not more than 50 hours in dogfight servers.

I started to play the beta when it was officially distributed to testers

Ive been playing IL2 from the demo release. BTW, I was the one "responsible" for the negative G fix on early Zero (in official version of the game)....Oleg listened then...now you know it....

gday

Since it was published one year, or nearly so.:-P
I am talking of COD IL2 from the beginig the release date of the demo with the P39 flyable plane my first flight I sill remember...thanks the game team.:-)
My firstairgame simulation was 1942 Battlehawk from Lucasfilms a all new experience on my 286 Amstrad PC.;-)