I would like to know if there are other Elite Dangerous space pilots out there who like to go into WW2 SIM Battles?
I just might. Managed to snatch Il2 BoM right at the end of their sale yesterday. Is there any regular online play going on among ED players in these sims?
I'm generally looking to play more flight sims now that the HOTAS/mount/pedal setup is finally completed and I've upgraded to triple monitor (absolute treat...). But I'm still undecided as to where to start. Ideal for me would be coop-missions. The type of structured and varied mission content I can fit into sporadic two hour evening sessions, while not letting a whole team down in PvP and not dying of brain dead grind-om without having had experienced any compelling game mechanics beyond basic craft control, but wasting 20 minutes on instance and loading transitions before anything worthwhile happens (looking at you, Elite Dangerous...).
On the singleplayer side, I've got Il2 1946 lying around from a bargain bin sale about 10 years ago and would like to
finally give it the time it deserves. Playing one mission yesterday with the full setup was a revelation. The view's no longer as horribly limited due to the triple screen and the head tracking. The HOTAS makes actual craft control a joy, rather than a frustrating fight and my PC is also for once, up to the task. No comparison to "back in the day", when I tried to play the original Il2 Sturmovik and later the Forgotten Battles standalone expansion with a crappy gameport Joystick (Saitek Cyborg 3D), that resulted in an experience so jittery, I slowed down time to actually get a shot on target. A later attempt at playing the 1946 variant with a gamepad wasn't much more successful, which is why I never went beyond trying to map the general control axis. A gamepad's analogue sticks just don't offer enough fine control, not to mention the lack of axis on the gamepad.
Rambling aside, anybody from the Elite Dangerous crowd still up for some Il2? Edit: @Lysander / @Komemiute mind giving me a shout as well? Steam name should be the same as my forum name.