IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946

Il-2 1946 includes all of the original IL-2 series content: IL-2 Sturmovik™: Forgotten Battles, Ace Expansion Pack, Pacific Fighters™ and alternate histry campaigns of year 1946. What was years ago began as a one-aircraft study sim is now an astonishing anthology, with a whopping 229 flyable aircraft and over 300 aircraft total!

IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946 is a simulation, flight and world war ii game developed by 1C: Maddox Games and published by Fulqrum Publishing.
Released on June 13th 2008 is available only on Windows in 2 languages: English and Russian.

It has received 2,912 reviews of which 2,577 were positive and 335 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.5 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 9.99€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946 into these genres:

Simulation Flight World War II Military Historical Realistic Multiplayer TrackIR Action Classic Singleplayer Jet Moddable War VR Open World

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Requirements

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Windows

OS *: Windows® XP/2000 (only)
Processor: Pentium® III or AMD Athlon™ 1 GHz (Pentium 4 2.4 GHz recommended)
Memory: 512 MB (1 GB recommended)
Graphics: DirectX® 9 compliant with 64 MB RAM (128 recommended)(see supported list*)
DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0 or higher
Sound: DirectX 9 compliant
Hard Drive: 1.1+ GB
Multiplay: Broadband Internet connection
* Supported Video Cards at Time of Release: ATI® Radeon™ 7000/8000/9000/X families, NVIDIA® GeForce™ 256/2/3/4/FX/6 families, Matrox Parhelia™, Intel® GMA 925X/915P/915G chipsets
(Laptop models of these cards not fully supported.)
These chipsets are the only ones that will run this game. Additional chipsets may be supported after release. For an up-to-date list of supported chipsets, please visit the FAQ for this game on our support website at:

Reviews

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Jan. 2025

This game is really really good, and it kinda reminds me of Tiny Combat Arena, also the damage system in this game feels far less broken than in IL-2 Sturmovik. The missions & customisability is really good too. But holy shit it is a hassle to get this game to first work, took i think almost an hour just to get the first mission loaded & the game running.

Sept. 2024

fun game but definitely get a purpose made controller for this game using just keyboard is a pain

June 2024

I remember playing this years ago, It truly is an amazing game for the price. Its weirdly nostalgic. And i love everything about it. Only bad part, is that it takes a while to work on your prefered controls. But the graphics are not bad. And are in fact, very good for the time period this was first made.

June 2024

The best WW2 aircraft simulation ever. Rate this 9.5/10 I recommend you play this with mod (Either SAS, BAT, etc.) since mode can improve your gameplay experience

Jan. 2024

Still the best combat simulator in 2024, and still going with some community! 2024 graphics config To configure it to max graphics and sound, drop the conf.ini from here: https://github.com/raven-intheclouds/il2-1946-dotfiles Multiplayer servers If you are a newcomer, I recommend "JaegerOne", one of the Steam vanilla unmodded ones, which is more than enough. See it here: https://www.gs4u.net/en/s/319892.html http://jagerone.weebly.com/ http://il2.com.ru/en/server.php?id=71 For a list of known servers, majority modded, see here: https://www.gs4u.net/en/il2/ http://il2.com.ru/en/links.php Apart from that list, communities spawn add-hoc servers to join the specific event when it happens. Review Good [*] Contrary to others, it runs great and in a potato. [*] It doesn't go for full fidelity (everything modeled perfectly, clickable, etc). But it doesn't need to. It has a great game loop: one can apply combat flight principles, do multiplayer and coordinate, do complex missions. [*] Provides a great list of content: planes, missions, campaigns. Newer simulators can't deal with formations of 100s of B-17s. [*] AI is GREAT. They know about all the usual concepts (see https://www.youtube.com/c/TheAirCombatTutorialLibrary). They know ~40 different maneuvers and the trade-offs of their machines: they try to go into parallel or spiral scissors to have you pass them, know how to boom and zoom, they go into engine economy mode and climbing mode, etc etc. On newer simulators (like IL-2 Battle Of Stalingrad) they only know about flying in circles. [*] Good campaigns. [*] While vanilla is great and maybe all you need, there's also great mods that make the flight dynamic models more realist while keeping compatiblity with vanilla planes, missions and campaigns (see HSFX, and its HSFX Expert Dode). Beware, other mainstream mods are just buggy, even if newer. [*] Community still makes events from time to time. [*] Documentation of plane characteristics, features in the game folder pdfs. [*] Supports TrackIR or Opentrack. [*] Works fine on Linux, Proton, with Opentrack. Bad [*] Small community, split into incompatible mods, and some people to avoid. [*] Vanilla version only supports up to 4 joystick devices (USB HID), and 32 buttons each. Workaround: remember to disconnect joysticks if you need, or split them into several "virtual joysticks" if they have more than 32 buttons each (via joystick gremlin or configuring their specific firmware).

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