IL-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Stalingrad Press Previews after 1C Event

[TexasJG]

It's the machines and engineering of the time period for me. Incredible works of art! The more detailed the replications of the aircraft's and their systems the more I can get into it.
Engines, armaments, avionics, all of it!!
Wish we could open up the engine cowlings and such, that would be cool...

BTW, I'm horrible at combat....

(and yes, I very much like DCS also).

[Janosch]

While the planes in Il-2 are many and different, they are not that unique. For example, all fighters can be divided into 4 different categories:
1. Slow but maneuverable
2. Fast but not maneuverable
3. Fast and maneuverable
4. ...back to the drawing board, comrades!

When you consider whether or not a specific plane has good armament or not, you have 8 archetypes. And by golly, there will be at least 8 different fighters in BoS! This is not to say that the good'ol Il-2 ever becomes boring, it's just that it's possible that BoS will compensate the smaller number of planes with things like complex engine start, improved flight models and graphics. And by the end of the day, the focus will be in combat!

What may sink BoS is not the business model, smaller day 1 content or such, but the policies concerning custom paintschemes. I posted about this on the BoS forums... long story short, imho using your personal paintchemes should always be allowed, even on "ranked servers", whatever the grobbendonk that means, and the choice to download others' skins should be left to the players.

One user pointed out that the filesize of paintschemes will be much larger than in Il-2. So, it might affect gameplay, if 30 players are online and using 9 megabyte - weighing paintschemes. I wonder if there's a way around that - advanded packing and unpacking on the fly (pun intended) ? Slower and flexible upload/download rate of paintschemes, so as not to compromise online gameplay? Ingame torrent paintscheme sharing technology? Let's hope for the best.