#4609988 - 09/30/22 05:37 PM
Re: Normandy for beginners?
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PanzerMeyer
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I saw som videos of the IL-2 Normandy game and was wondering if it is something a beginner can/should try. There are a bunch of different difficulty/realism settings in this sim so anyone has the option to make it play like an arcade game all the way up to a hardcore high-fidelity sim. I myself play with all of the realism settings enabled except I allow external views and a couple of the map objective and waypoint markers.
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#4610980 - 10/12/22 02:27 PM
Re: Normandy for beginners?
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PanzerMeyer
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Purchased the premium version of game from IL-2 and downloaded it. Is anyone playing this online? I play it online quite often but only in Cooperative mode with a friend. He creates the missions via the in-game mission generator and it works quite well!
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#4610981 - 10/12/22 02:49 PM
Re: Normandy for beginners?
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Purchased the premium version of game from IL-2 and downloaded it. Is anyone playing this online? I play it online quite often but only in Cooperative mode with a friend. He creates the missions via the in-game mission generator and it works quite well! Tried this: https://forum.il2sturmovik.com/topic/43276-il2-great-battles-easy-mission-generator/It's pretty sweet
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#4611495 - 10/19/22 08:35 AM
Re: Normandy for beginners?
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BD-123
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I logged into the game yesterday offline, (due to a really poor internet connection), and was disappointed to find that there was no campaigns available. The only campaigns available required me to buy other games. I was really hoping to find a campaign that would allow me to follow the invasion of Normandy from both sides. While generating a mission and playing it is OK, I really wanted to follow the history. Are all the IL-2 Great Battles like this? This is why many veteran simmers, who had invested a lot of money in both uprgrading their PC, the game's different theatres plus the 'collectors' aircraft etc. at full price on issue, disillusioned by the gameplay reverted back to the '1946' version so enhanced and updated by the talented community. Or migrated to revised 'CLoD', 'WoFF' and 'WotR' to name a few alternatives.
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#4611668 - 10/21/22 07:20 AM
Re: Normandy for beginners?
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You're getting bad information Snow46. There is indeed a "Campaign" for Normandy, it's the Pilot Career. You can play British, American or German. Its been researched too, it uses a more dynamic mission generator. The static campaigns are almost always a separate purchase, a couple are free, but they are static so one play through and you've played it. They're nice, but once you've played it then you've played it. The Pilot Career, though, will have different missions each career.
A static campaign I'm sure will come out eventually, Normandy just released recently and static campaigns usually follow a good while after because they have to be hand built with all features in place from the module.
Last edited by NattyIced; 10/21/22 07:25 AM. Reason: info
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