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We've been calling it the Odessa update or the Odessa/Finland Battle or other variations over these last several months while 1CGS has slowly rolled out their plans for another release in the IL-2 Sturmovik: Great Battles Series. Defense and Liberation is the name and we have new project information, a confirmed aircraft set, and more. Mostly Soviet, mix of early and late war…

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Some pretty big news coming in today with the reveal of the new Great Battles aircraft that 1CGS have been teasing for some time now. There are some unexpected selections in there so let's break that down. We've also got some great new gameplay footage that a few content creators have been showing off. Let's have a look. Future plans for Great Battles and IL-2 Series/Korea…

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The latest developer blog for IL-2 Korea is out and this one is focused on lighting. Great Battles dealt with lighting in a fairly limited way while Korea has more to deal with including cities with night lighting. Let's see how 1CGS plan to handle this in the new sim. New lighting and night flying Flight simulators have always struggled with night lighting and low lighting situations.

The developers at 1CGS are showing off their work on improving the look and animations that support their ground warfare simulation for IL-2 Korea. Let's have a quick look at what they are showing off. New artillery Several types of artillery are planned for IL-2 Korea. On the North Korean and Chinese side, we have the 76 mm ZIS-3, the 122 mm M-30, and the 152 mm ML-20 howitzer.

Last Friday, 1C Game Studios kicked off the Korea IL-2 Series pre-order with a pre-rendered cinematic trailer. Now the company is announcing that a gameplay demonstration is also on the way. Let's check out the latest announcement. Gameplay visuals on the way I was a bit surprised when the pre-oreder began for IL-2 Korea but no gameplay was shown off. Trailers are nice, engineering focused demonstrations of different technologies are nice, but the thing that really seals the deal is when all of that comes together.

The latest update from 1C Game Studios for IL-2 Series Korea is focused on clouds. Flight simmers are a bit obsessive about clouds and for good reason, they make up a good portion of the sky. In combat sims they also provide "landscape" with which to potentially ambush or escape the enemy. We have a lot of screenshots and a few details to go through.

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The next aircraft in 1C Game Studios ongoing developer updates for their upcoming IL-2 Korea flight sim is the Lavochkin La-11 fighter. This is an interesting piece of history as the aircraft is a descendent of the earlier Lavochkin fighters that are well known from WWII. The La-11, on the other hand, is relatively obscure (at least to Western audiences). Here's what we've seen of it so far.

We're learning about some big changes to the artificial intelligence in Korea IL-2 Series as well as some other planned updates coming in 1.004. Let's have a look! The changes that are coming soon... and a bit further out We've learned a fair bit about what AI changes are coming for IL-2 Series. The Korean War focused sim has launched to positive acclaim on most features except for the AI which has shown to be a significant weak spot for the series.