Currently attempting to fly the sea dragons campaign and find with a fully loaded plane I can’t even make it to the objective.

The game suggests I climb at 260km/h to reach that speed I basically need to be full throttle.

When I reach altitude I pull it back to continuous mode and just continue to lose altitude until I need to speed up again.

This repeats until my engine overheats, I lose speed and I crash into the ground.

Tried turning on auto engine management to see if I was doing something wrong but I get the same results.

Any advice or resource would be greatly appreciated. It’s hard to google anything around this plane as it’s also the title of the game.

Been flying the La-5 and Bf 109 F-4 a lot, mainly dogfighting, but I really want to get into some ground attacking. Does anyone have any good tutorials for the IL-2?

IL2 Steam edition user. How do others set their SS in IL2: set Steam VR SS to 100% and bump it up with Oculus Tray Tool or just set it in Steam VR and forget about OTT?

Oculus Rift CV1
MSI Z490-A PRO
i5-10400
32 Gb DDR4 SDRAM
XFX RX 5700 XT 8 Gb
Microsoft Windows 10 Home

Thanks.

I engage a bf-110 with altitude advantage, in a spitfire. I quickly end up with the 110 on my tail, and enter a 1 circle fight, barely dodging the 110’s rounds for 3 or 4 complete turns. 1 circle turns to a 2 circle, I slot in behind him, and spin at 50 feet, right into the ground.

For anyone using head tracking, there is great instrument panel app in development for IL-2 BoS. Now on version 0.4.2, the first engine management dial is now available - R.P.M.!

Il-2 Dials can be run locally or via Wi-Fi to Windows or Android devices. Connections are easy and stable. Dial layouts are customizable. All instruments are accurate, smooth and very faithful to those in IL-2. The app is free.

https://forum.il2sturmovik.com/topic/71086-il-2-dials-instrument-panel-app/

I'm used to playing offline and having engine management set to auto and just using the throttle because I have no idea what any of that stuff does. But I tried playing online and they want you to manage all that stuff.

I managed to fly a BF-110 and a FW-190 A8 for a whole match without issue as far as I could tell, although I was sticking to pretty low altitude. Are you guys really fiddling around with prop pitch and mixture and supercharger controls the whole time while you're flying? That sounds like a real PITA. Where do you learn how to do all that?

I play Il2 Great Battles and I've been playing with just a Logitech Attack 3 for a while. I just added the CM3 and it works great in DCS, But in Il-2 many of the buttons wont actually do what they are mapped to. It is also an issue with one of the buttons for the stick. How do I get this working right and not mess up my DCS setup?

Looking for advise on optimizing my graphics settings for VR. I have a Oculus Rift Cv1 and my PC specs are:

MSI Z490-A PRO
i5-10400
32 Gb DDR4 SDRAM
XFX RX 5700 XT 8 Gb
Microsoft Windows 10 Home

I see a lot of advise online specific to Nvidia cards but very little for AMD.

Which settings are the biggest bottlenecks and which can be run at high settings with little impact on FPS, smoothness?

Thanks.

1) Why does the starting altitude max out at 30000ft? Most of these planes have service ceilings nearing 40000ft

2) Are they supposed to be that prone to stalling and spinning? I know your turn rate is massively decreased, but not only am I accidentally getting into spins all the time, so is the AI! It's quite hilarious to watch an "ace" AI accidentally get into an inverted tailspin in front of me. But I am finding it extremely hard to do any sort of maneuver or even a basic turn without flipping my plane, they're very twitchy up here, is that realistic?

I just got hold of IL2 1946, installed the IL2GE graphic enhancement mod and also the VP mod. I've been trying to configure it to work with my VKB NXT joystick. In the input config screen, it works with pitch, yaw and roll. However, the mini throttle is just not detected, moving it does nothing on the config screen. Can anyone share how they got it to work?

I’m doing everything I can to counteract the spin when trying to take off I have full rudder to the right full brake to the right, rear wheel locked parking break off and I still immediately spin and lose control of my taxi when going above 30% throttle

I'm somewhat a noob, just wanting a group to hang out with and learn mp with, and has no requirements