r/il2sturmovik

Batman delivers justice in a Bat-47.

The Ju-52 with feet was the straw that broke this camels back, my child is beautiful the way he is!

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I just bought several planes, the Battle for Britain, I'm a huge WW1 aviation fan and have been since Red Baron 2. I stopped playing pretty much all flight sims after Hurricane Florence destroyed my home and my stick and pedals, monitor... my whole setup.

I got a cheap stick and am ready to fire her up again. I was a pretty good Fokker Dr. VIII and BF-109G6 pilot years and years ago but all I remember is having my ass kicked over and over again. I had VR and at the time there was a real problem telling friends from for, but it didn't matter. Even before my kids destroyed my VR beyond repair, I flew and flew and seemed to keep getting zonked out of the sky. Now I'm excited but almost don't want to play because I've been gone so long I'll suck even more. I love playing single player but it is *nothing* like getting a kill from a real human player. Also, sometimes I feel like the AI in game creates bad habits.

Anyway I'm wondering if anyone sucks as bad as me, especially spending 40 minutes getting up to altitude only to be blindsided up against some 67-year-old irl Macedonian air force reserve pilot who spends 16 hours a day shooting down Americans in IL2... but still loves the game enough to keep flying?

What am I missing here? Just started playing FC today.

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IL2Shaker is a bass shaker driver for IL2 Great Battles designed for Buttkickers, Daytons, or any shaker device that accepts an audio input.

I built v1 and released it for free 3 years ago now but was significantly limited in what I could do by the undocumented and sparse telemetry data. The latest update augments the existing telemetry with a whole host of new data to generate highly detailed output in real time with no canned FX.

For example, it now detects engine RPM, torque, cylinder count, gearbox reduction ratio, prop blade count, ignition state, and damage level to drive a multipart vibration simulation includes crankshaft, combustion, propshaft, blade pass, and special handling for frequencies that fall below shaker output range. This all works completely automatically and each engine will have a unique signature that varies in response to load, RPM, and damage condition.

There are also new pressure wave effects so you can feel nearby bomb blasts and flak bursts, terrain contact that's calculated using all the aircraft contact points, and much better handled gunfire due to directly polling the guns at 500hz. This direct polling means the gun cadence is accurately represented, including when firing through props or during overheating or misfiring events.

A whole host of audio balancing tricks, a built-in equaliser to adjust for your gear and resonance frequency, and a heap of parameters have been exposed if you want to dial in certain effects.

You can read more about it and grab a completely unlocked 3-day trial over here:
https://sicsix.itch.io/il2shaker

Also picked up the glider! Towing a glider and getting towed was pretty fun.

Picture taken by my friend gutholz. Not sure who’s who in this one