IL-2 1946 KEY COMMANDS THAT WORK

warbirdlover

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I bought a copy after Huub mentioned it's cheap at Steam ($10) and kinda like it EXCEPT I've got the key commands in the game, two from an internet search and one other one and some agree on some key commands and some but are completely different on others. Example open/close canopy. O or alt + C and on and on. Is there anyone here that has THE correct key strokes?
 
Never mind. I found them in the game folder and the ones I couldn't get to work had to be assigned. All is well. Now if I can figure out how to fly these skitterish planes. If the real planes flew like these do we wouldn't have had any of our pilots return from WWII. And neither would our enemies.
 
You're right about the planes in IL2. Their philosophy, which has carried over into their current products, is to make the planes authentically demanding, without taking into account that the sim player has so much less sensory feedback than an actual pilot, and doesn't fly the same plane every day with dozens or hundreds of hours of experience. The only way to compensate for this is to dial back the skittishness, which most of the FSX/P3D/MSFS and even DCS devs do, but they don't. Still, the IL2 planes are fun once mastered.

Once you're set up, duplicate your install and then go to sas1946.com to install B.A.T., the mother of all mods for this game, which expands it to all eras with almost every conceivable warplane to fly. The quality of the planes varies but some are very good. It ends up being like War Thunder but without having to grind for good planes or get griefed by jerks. It's the only shooty sim that I still play in shooty mode, a worthy successor to European Air War.

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warbirdlover said:
Never mind. I found them in the game folder and the ones I couldn't get to work had to be assigned. All is well. Now if I can figure out how to fly these skitterish planes. If the real planes flew like these do we wouldn't have had any of our pilots return from WWII. And neither would our enemies.
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An old friend and I used to run IL-2 1946 and its predecessor Pacific Fighters along with CFS2. I could never get used to the way the IL-2/PF airplanes flew whereas my friend loved it. He stuck with IL-2 and I went back to CFS2.
 
They fly terribly. if they REALLY flew like that none of our pilots would have returned home. And neither would the enemies.
 
warbirdlover said:
They fly terribly
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Quite often that short coming in IL-2 1946 comes down to joystick profiles or bad habits picked up flying sims with easier flight models.

I am not discounting your personal experience with 1946 at all but I personally have flown planes in all the Aces series: Red Baron, A-10 tank killer, Aces over Europe, Aces of the Pacific, most of the Microsoft Flight Simulator series, European Air War, IL-2 1946, Rowan's Battle of Britain, Rise of Flight, IL-2 Sturmovik: Cliffs of Dover, DCS & the IL-2 Sturmovik: Great Battle series of aircraft and none of them have been all that hard to fly when using my MSFFB 1 & MSFFB 2 joystick. Even a couple of off brands of joysticks gave me no issues with the flight model in any of the sims I listed.

Calibrating your joystick tends to mitigate most issues.

Wheels
 
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