A POLE: How long have you been flying IL-2

FFCW_Urizen · #1 02-26-2012, 10:24 PM

Got IL-2 2005 and a bit later on Pacific Fighters. Played the latter for atleast 500+ hours.
But after playing CloD i´ve never touched it again.

_79_dev · #2 02-26-2012, 10:41 PM

Since demo... By the way the very first flight sim I was using was ACE on my commodore C64

LcSummers · #3 02-27-2012, 12:58 PM

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Originally Posted by _79_dev

Since demo... By the way the very first flight sim I was using was ACE on my commodore C64

The same for me!!

ACE on Commodore C64

IL2 since demo

JG52Uther · #4 02-26-2012, 10:44 PM

2001 I think, long time anyway. Thousands of hours over the years, in its heyday, with the online wars, I spent around 40 hours a week flying missions.
It was a complete and utter obsession, and I have not touched it since CoD was released.
I hope the new series will keep me going for the next decade.

Chivas · #5 02-26-2012, 10:52 PM

I've flown IL-2 since the first beta test days. To long ago to remember exact date. I haven't flown IL-2 too much for the last few years, at it has gotten old. Still waiting for COD to be completed to get back into flying alot. I really like the new game engines features and it should eventually develop into the next benchmark in WW2 aircombat simming.

6BL Bird-Dog · #6 02-26-2012, 10:53 PM

Since the Demo,Dawn of Aces before that.

kendo65 · #7 02-26-2012, 11:01 PM

I was quite a late-comer. I was aware of the game when it came out and desperately wanted to play it - I couldn't because my computer was below spec - it only had a 4MB videocard (recommended 16MB I think) !!

I spent a really frustrating couple of years as I wasn't able to upgrade the PC. Finally got into it when 1946 came out and then seemed to do without sleep for 2 years as I investigated every facet of the game and made up for lost time!

Dano · #8 02-26-2012, 11:08 PM

Since the demo, I remember buying the game in my local John Menzies on the day of release, those were the days when even small town branches of newsagent/office supply/media stores still carried pc games. Remember struggling to get the IL2 off the ground and keep it airbourne as it had a very limited ground speed I seem to recall.

III/JG53_Don · #9 02-26-2012, 11:16 PM

I'm into the series since the Il2 Demo 2001 as many others obviously.
I was around 13 and installed it from a pc games magazine CD together with a school mate from mine.
Funny enough I had a pretty crappy joystick without rudder control and we were at first wondering why the Il2 keeps steering right during the takeoff.
We thought it was a wrong calibration issue from my joystick and after this didn't help, we thought that the game has still some bugs

Anyway soon after that I bought the full version and we spent hundreds of hundreds of hours flying il2 with my class mates (I convinced three other guys to fly with us) online after school.

SlipBall · #10 02-26-2012, 11:39 PM

For me, it was early 2003 or so...Oleg was like some type of guru to me. Tried to read all that he wrote, to get a sense of the future developement plans that he had in his mind...I don't mind saying that I miss him being with us, but I hope his child become's what he dreamed it would be.