IL-2 Sturmovik VR is Incredible!

In this video we will take a look at the state of IL-2 Sturmovik in VR in 2024. After all these years, this is still the best ww2 VR fligth simulator out there!
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[@joncoughlin_dev]

It's the best VR flight sim by a long shot. Always runs, even on old hardware, and the airplanes in VR are like a history museum. Happy you are enjoying it!

[@phunkaeg]

Agreed! IL-2 is super fun! Got into it through covid and was playing on multiplayer servers with my dad and brother in law. Remember IL2 also has the Tank Crew modules. Which can have some special moments all of its own. But I do need to call you out on something; you mention that this game is often on sale for $8, and mention all the planes available to fly. However, a very important thing that you forgot to mention was that not all the planes are available when buying the base game. To fly the mossie, you need to buy a module, to fly ww1 planes you need to buy a module, some campaigns need to be purchased etc. To own all content at full price you'd need to spend USD $1,272.60. Getting things during sales is obviously WAY better, but it's still a considerable investment.

[@laubox]

Hi mate! Thank you for your detailed answer, love it! You are right! IL2 has many modules and you will have to put your wallet upside down to get all of them:D my friend had bought 2 modules when on sale for 16 dollars and can fly quite some planes in multiplayer servers. But yeah, people should take in mind that there are some collector planes too etc. Totally forgot about the tank gameplay! I haven't tried it myself. Is it any good in vr?

[@phunkaeg]

@@laubox Yeah, the tank gameplay is good. Not sure how it compares to that other tank game which you checked out a while back, in this you have no motion control hands. It's fun to play through the campaign but the learning curve is steep, there is a lot of tension being in the tank crew compared to in a plane. You're slow and have terrible visibility. Tactics are all about knowing the capability of your tank, and studying the map to know how to get information without giving it away. It just feels like a different game. When playing in a multiplayer server you can look up, and see all the fighter planes dogfighting overhead. THAT is pretty cool getting that sense of scale and knowing you can be targeted by those same planes. Oh, caveat. Because you're so close to the ground, most maps don't look great that close up, but the Tank Crew specific map Prokhorovka looks great, and has some other features like destructable buildings. Wolfpack345 had a good playthrough if you wanted to see how it played. Another fun distraction from planes is driving one of the collectable vehicles, the AA trucks. They're HARD to master, but satisfying when you do lead a target properly. I'd watch the tutorial videos done by Requiem to see how its done.

[@paulsaunders6536]

The WW1 stuff is very, very good. Feels like you’re trying to aim whilst bouncing on a bungee cord. Totally different to the WW2 aircraft.

[@haltux]

Flying Circus, so IL2-WW1, is especially amazing. As planes are slower, the whole battle happens in much smaller spaces, enemies are closer, and you get a much better view of the enemy and sense of scale. In my opinion Flying Circus is one of the best, if not the best VR experience. I have to admit even after a decade casually playing this game I mainly do "instant fight" and never gotten much into single player content. Missions are often very long and difficult to follow, you easily get lost, you don't find your target, well generally speaking nothing is done to make it player friendly it seems. I always had the feeling the the game was primarily aimed at multi-player and single player was just a side feature.

[@scratchsescape1978]

I have DCS, MSFS and IL2. Each of us has different interest and preferences. For mine, IL2 is the preferred solution. Now if you prefer more modern military aircraft then DCS would probably suit you better. If you want to fly a 747 into JFK or LHR then MSFS is a great choice. I'm into WWII history especially the Eastern Front. For WWII nothing currently available comes close to IL2. I've used it with monitors along with head tracking and in VR. If you're going to use a monitor I can't recommend a head tracker enough. In VR I've used a Reverb G2 and Varjo Aero. For VR you will have to have a computer with a powerful graphics card. I personally have experienced fewer challenges operating VR with IL2 than I have with DCS or MSFS. Others may have had different experiences. IL2 is currently working on a new battle series and initial reports indicate it will be Korea. This new series also appears to be built around an improved game engine that will be better suited to the capabilities of the current graphic cards.

[@AngelusFromHell]

Do you think that a RTX 4070 (coupled with a Ryzen 7 7800x3D) has enough power?

[@scratchsescape1978]

@@AngelusFromHell I can't say for sure. For the more demanding headsets I would say no. I'm struggling to get the settings right with a 4090 in DCS and MSFS with the Varjo Aero. I once had everything dialed in with MSFS and it was great. Back when I was flying real stuff I had flown in and out of JFK. A300 and 777 but never a 747. I got to do some MSFS flying in the 747 into JFK and it was like old times. I unfortunately I tried to tweak the settings and everything went down hill and I haven't been able to restore it. You might have better luck with something like a G2. In IL2 you might get by with lower settings. I have the settings high and I get 40-50 fps in IL2. Remember though I have zero experience with the RTX 4070 and have never used a Ryzen processor. I'm using an I9-12900k plus a 2TB m.2 and 32 gigs of DDR5. Liquid cooled with EKWB components. I'm not overclocked.

[@AngelusFromHell]

@@scratchsescape1978 Thanks! I forgot to say I use an Oculus Rift S.

[@gomersimpson777ram]

@@AngelusFromHelluse quest 3

[@davidwaVR]

I've been playing the il-2 series for 20 plus years. The latest version came out in 2011 and has being continually updated and improved. Great VR fighter game and player vs player.

[@Twisted_Throttle77]

This is IL-2 Great battles, not the original IL-2 for $6 on steam. It cost alot more depending on what packages and collector planes you get

[@KaiDon1]

I played it everyday 10 years ago in realistic mode. 7-8 years with my team squad.

[@laubox]

That's a lot! What you play now?

[@KaiDon1]

@@laubox I like playing Prop. WW2 plane, after IL2 , other games are so much arcade to me except graphics .so,I didn't play any sim. now.

[@SalvageCitizen]

@@KaiDon1 Prop? What is this?

[@KaiDon1]

@@SalvageCitizen oh.. it's propeller plane

[@gnak6525]

IL-2 is the best performing and easily the best VR experience!

[@paulsaunders6536]

IL2 is brilliant in VR. Utterly brilliant.

[@deandoucette7206]

You will need a wingman to have a competitive chance on the Combat Box server.

[@budyutube]

Just got on sale especially for VR. Just waiting on my joystick to turn up for the weekend!

[@MrLolof1]

Hi it’s not the first IL2 Sturmovik but IL2 Battle Of Stalingrad Thank you so much with this test iL2 Bob + Pimax Crystal . I’ve too a Crystal and this headset in IL2 Bob ,IL2 Flying Circus 1-2-3 and IL2 Tank is AMAZING. IL2 Bob have more shaders 4k since 3-4 years and it’s a beautiful Ww1/2 simulator. And the fly- Physics are very very good . Aplushhsss 😇👍🏻👍🏻

[@speedspeederspeedest]

I play dcs, msfs and bms, but il2 is by far my most played flight sim, both ww2 and ww1, (cant wait for Korea to release..) good performance, great visuals, "dynamic" campaigns, etc. I only play in vr btw.

[@charlyvictoria62]

un simulador excelente . no veo la hora en que salga el de Korea

[@jbnb3342]

Great video. I am curious how you get the game to look so good. My computers GPU specs exceed yours,yet I dont get the clarity and sharpness that you have. Would love to know your settings. Thanks!

[@jacobscott2473]

I recently got a good deal on a X52 hotas and a psvr2 (the adaptor doesn't come out until august though) in the hopes of being able to experience a game like IL2 in VR. Also keen to try out VTOL VR

[@Kopplin382]

It's really good, I have an oculus quest 3 and it's amazing. The only thing i have to complain is that in dogfights the planes tend to have ghosting. I don't think it's because hardware issues, it might be because of vr configuration.

[@loganrichert4299]

IL-2 in general is probably the best flight sim out there

[@user-mx1nf5rf5y]

You should have mentioned that it is much cheaper than DCS.

[@MarvinCZ]

Just DCS is free but yeah, if you want the super realistic aircraft, you will have to pay.

[@stefanoloda5281]

⁠@@MarvinCZ. DCS not super realistic… in Many case…modern o wwii ….and early access forever modules 🤣🤣….with poor VR performance ( with maximun details and top high end PC) I have both since start and I think DCS is to many overrated …I mean to many fun boys ( youngs and olds) Who Never flown a plane in real life that judge “realistic” DCS and “semi realistic “ il-2 …only for the price and clickable cockpit 😂

[@MarvinCZ]

@@stefanoloda5281 Nothing is 100% realistic, but I can't see how anyone could argue that Il-2 is more realistic. But that wasn't even my argument at all, I was just answering someone's comment on price.

[@glenbrooks2269]

I am new to all this , can you please give me some names of VR sets that work with this game ?

[@aaroncronin2607]

10 years old lol just bought it for my son 2024

[@low_sky9]

so... no one is going to talk about how horrendous the sun is in IL-2 VR?

[@AlexGorskin]

Top game and video!😎👍

[@SurfVR]

All this goodness, but DCS FM just makes the choice easy. I wish they merged the games/sims

[@ilguitaro]

I have a VR question - how does the resolution/clarity compare to that of a HD television when playing this game?

[@skanskar]

if you got a headset on how do you use the keyboard commands

[@ImGrootSimulations]

how do you get it to look so good? i have the HP v2 Im running almost max setting and mine dont look this good! Now it runs really good but i still have a hArd time spottin. i do better in DCS

[@AngelusFromHell]

I have a Ryzen 7 7800x3D, 32 gb of ram, SSD and a RTX 4070 for a Oculus Rift S. Do you think I could use it with good graphics quality at 80 fps?

[@thomas1988de1]

Love the game but I struggled to dial down my graphic settings because the performance varies so much depending on the scenario. Also some of the missions where simply too boring for me with endless flights towards the objective and back to the base but that’s my personal preference.

[@Avetorro]

You can use fast forward on the boring bits ….use the [ ] keys

[@HoboTango]

These boring bits are interesting for people who control their planes 100%. If you play on arcadish settings, then yeah it can be boring. I play on arcadish settings but personally I love seeing the real terrain from world war 2 battles.

[@thekindpenguin7497]

​@@HoboTango this is something i didnt realize until i started playing Actual flight sim games. Ive been playing MSFS on the xbox and just coasting along gets pretty boring naturally. Then you naturally want to crank it up to Realistic and see how hard it actually is. Then, naturally, you crash. Then either you quit or you become obsessed with planes

[@Avetorro]

Haha welcome to my world😊

[@davidwaVR]

Well, if they are supporting VR, maybe they can fix the Sun so it doesn't cause physical pain to the human eye😎

[@TheSchreckse]

why would there be performance loss when playing multiplayer ? that´s literally not how anything works :D

[@adamo1139]

I need a hotas for this, right?

[@laubox]

To play IL2 you indeed need a hotas. I mean keyboard is possible, but super hard

[@brzijoe6700]

You need at least joystick to be copetitive, the rest ist ok on keyboard,/mouse. With full HOTAS and rudder pedals, + some throttle quadrant with levers and buttons you can develop muscle memory and play it easy as driving a car.

[@Shinobi117]

It’s my favorite but I have to disagree with it being the best performer in vr.

[@WORELOF]

IL-2 Vr is years ahead of DCS. DCS Vr is unplayable, unless you want to have really bad graphics.

[@phillea708]

Hi I cannot see this game for 8 dollars, on steam it's 22dollars, it's over stalingrad, no other game supports vr

[@laubox]

It's 8 dollars when it is on sale. Think it's called IL2 battle of Stalingrad in steam. I however bought the game on the official il 2 website.

[@phunkaeg]

@@laubox Yep! You *can* mix and match though. I originally purchased Battle of Stalingrad on steam, but have purchased everything else from their official website. I like that Steam will keep it all up to date for me. It's fairly straight forward to link the accounts.

[@HoboTango]

its cheaper on their website

[@juankaramirez]

​@HoboTango do you buy the base game and then the different battles?

[@phunkaeg]

@@juankaramirez depends on the approach - either via steam or their website. On Steam, you need Battle of Stalingrad as the "base game" - and all other modules act as DLC for this base game. If you buy on their website, you can buy any of the modules at any time, and you don't need a base game.

[@pickle4474]

Best settings for VR?

[@Avetorro]

That depends on a LOT of things, especially hardware and software. You’d need to share your rig specs for an answer to that.

[@pickle4474]

@@Avetorro Ryzen 3 with 32 gig and a 1080ti. I know it's pushing it a bit.

[@Avetorro]

@@pickle4474 what vram does the card have, that’s an old one!

[@pickle4474]

@@Avetorro 11 gig. It's like an old super car now.

[@Avetorro]

@@pickle4474 probably equates to the 3060 but drivers will be discontinued for it soon I’d imagine. I used a 3070 for a year or so and 8GB was a bit restrictive so upgraded to a 3090ti which gives me 60fps with most graphics settings on med or high. You’d have to dial everything down on yours, clouds, trees, buildings etc. You don’t say which HMD you use or if you run it on Steam or OpeXR, these also affect the image quality. I use OpenXR with Open Composite on a Reverb G2 to bypass steam and then use OpenXR Toolkit to up the res and sharpness. Spotting distant planes in VR is always a little harder than flat screens due to the lower res so you need to try and increase that as much as your gpu will allow. There are no magic ‘best settings’ as every rig is different , so you just start with everything on the lowest settings and change them one at a time to see how it affects performance. I’ve never changed anything in the Nvidia control panel, everything is on default except power settings set to maximum performance.

[@christophed4579]

VR without a pilot in the cockpit looks so fake

[@michalbelko5676]

my problem whit IL in vr is that it is so demanding i got rx 6700 xt and it is not posiblle to play ! it is wired becose newer games has no problem whot so ever ...

[@MTEditz]

I don't have any issues on my 2070 super and I run high settings with default quest 3 link cable resolution. Dial your settings down. Or change the settings for your headset itself and turn down your resolution. If i can maintain stable frames then you definitely can. Unless you bottlenecked yourself with your cpu. This game isn't graphically demanding at all. Of course VR makes it more demanding by default, but its not bad since the game isn't graphically demanding in the first place. Its cpu intensive. So if your cpu isn't good then you won't get the best performance. Newer games aren't cpu demanding unless you're using raytracing and pathtracing. You can test this by going into missions with no AAA vs many AAA. the models are low poly and very basic animation. Not gpu heavy in the slightest. But it can tank your frames. Why? because they eat up the cpu since its a sim and every asset is doing and calculating something. You can also test your bottleneck by using the time compression. If you use it and your game doesn't speed up or isn't properly speeding up to your selected time compression (x2 is all that matters, most of the community can't go past x2 successfully) then the culprit is most likely your cpu

[@michalbelko5676]

Thanks for reply :3 i use vrfps and seems cpu has no problem whot so ever a will try lower setting today @@MTEditz

[@HoboTango]

I have an 7 yrs old computer and it plays fine in VR. I mean, the graphics arent the greatest but I only get stutter on scenarios with like....15 bombers and 8 P-51. In MP I dont get any stutter.

[@V081WLBlue]

You review this as though it was one game for all the content you mention at discount price, if you buy all the content you mentioned it will cost you hundreds of pounds, very misleading.