This Game Has Never Looked Better | Pacific Theater Mod P-40E | Oculus Quest 2 | Il-2: Great Battles

[@ThunderBatSims]

The VR footage was recorded while playing, using an OBS plugin to record the Headset video instead of monitor video. Usually I have to replay the track files and sync and replace the low quality video with rerecorded, 1440p res footage in the edit. That's also why the frame rate for the VR footage gets super choppy. There's slight desync between left and right eye images while this hapens, and my gunsight becomes a 20 fps kaleidascope

[@nikosanastasiadis2876]

If am not wrong the zero looks more like the Russian La5 than a Japanese zero

[@ThunderBatSims]

That's because it is

[@hansidiehm3269]

And the bombers are German Ju 88.. Lol

[@ThunderBatSims]

@@hansidiehm3269 there's no way to mod in 3d models to the game, so if you want a pacific theater simulator in VR.... this is the ONLY option until Combat Pilot comes out.

[@neletg]

Ju 88, MC 202 and La 5? No way

[@berndhofmann8785]

German JU 88 Bombers and russian La 5 fighters for the japanese,oooookay😂

[@jonqueller4444]

Fun fact: The RAAF and the RAF did not use the normal roundel in with the red circle in the Pacific as it was misidentified with the Japanese one. Instead, the normal roundel was removed for a white rice with a dark blue outline.

[@TheDidgerideuces]

The RNZAF and the Fleet Air Arm roundels for the Royal Navy were slightly different too.

[@ThunderBatSims]

Do you have any P-40 skins with the proper roundel? I think I made the choice to pick this skin to differentiate between me and my wingmen. The skins bundled with the mod may have the proper roundel on it

[@Cuccos19]

Also red dot was removed about within 6 month after Pearl Harbor from US insignas for the same reson. With that the red-white stripes on the rudder was also removed.

[@ThunderBatSims]

@@Cuccos19 So that's how we got the White start on the blue circle with wings

[@callsignnictmere465]

@@ThunderBatSims kzbin.info/www/bejne/oqO6opxvr5yjpZo

[@xXE4GLEyEXx]

I wish we had a built in Pacific theatre of war. Carrier landings. Navigation over the open sea, would love it all.

[@ThunderBatSims]

I've been testing missions for Kuban and Normandy that involve accurately locating ships that are 200 miles out on the water. In bad weather

[@thegreatdominion949]

More proof that IL-2 1946 still rules!

[@hunormagyar1843]

0:36 - Oh yes the famous Junkers JuM1 Type88 Bomber

[@conservativemike3768]

I guess they’ll program actual Japanese planes into the Pacific mod at some point.. or not.

[@ThunderBatSims]

Unfortunately that is not possible for Great Battle :(

[@callsignnictmere465]

The skin downloader has the RAAF 75 squadron most likely they flew in your mission time line. Really good stuff thumbs up video.👍

[@ThunderBatSims]

Do you know which airfield they were based at?

[@callsignnictmere465]

@@ThunderBatSims The 75 squadron initially deployed to Port Morseby then later moved to the Milne Bay air strip. Later on in the conflict the Japanese navy landed troops at Milne Bay. Their planes destroyed enemy landing barges heading for Milne Bay during daylight. At night the Japanese successfuly landed troops. The 75 squadron was famous for taking off and using their guns within seconds after lifting off on ground forces. The 75 squadron withdrew back to Port Morseby untill the naval landing was repulsed. Their P40's played a big role in that conducting numerous strikes on enemy ground forces. The 75 squadron was moved to Goodenough Island in October 1943 to support the Allied offensive in the Louisiade Archipelago and New Britain. They were known for fighting epic battles against Japanese planes flying out of Rabaul.

[@ThunderBatSims]

Did 75 squadron do ground attack on the kokoda track, and are there dates of their sorties? I'm hoping the RAAF records are searchable like the RAF records tend to be

[@callsignnictmere465]

@@ThunderBatSims They were operational during that battle there should be some reference on the internet. They were quite a good squadron with a high win to loss ratio over the Zero. Their pilots used the P40's strong points versus the A6M.

[@genuinsanity]

It's cool and everything , but the "Bettys" are not ...they are JU-88s with Jap regalia... what's up with that ?

[@madigorfkgoogle9349]

No no, you are wrong, it is a well known Betty-Ju, same as the La5M Zero and Tony is Tony (Italian...)

[@ericsissenwein3601]

Why did u stay in the fight with a heavily damaged aircraft over water? Bring it home and fly another one later. Aircraft are easier to replace than fighter pilots.

[@ThunderBatSims]

In single missions I fight to the death and try to make as much air combat happen as I can, to get more footage to use. You'll get to see me running away from fights the second I take damage in an upcoming P-51 Iron man campaign I'm playing and recording currently

[@weasel6535]

You tricked me, I thought this was for '46. The La5 makes for a good zero.

[@ThunderBatSims]

If IL-2 1946 had decent VR, I'd be playing that a ton

[@andrewbranch4075]

Ju88 MC202 and La5. When did the Japanese use those aircraft?

[@ThunderBatSims]

never. That's how modding in Great battles works

[@jjjo69-e8q]

We are all waiting for combat pilot the new pacific flight sim in the making

[@ThunderBatSims]

seriously. The only VR pacific theater is war thunder and that isn't even a sim

[@cyberfutur5000]

ouuf, I've been watching your stuff for a few days now and was shocked to see how little subs you have, hope this will change soon, you'd deserve it. Great work, I really enjoy how you do things, and think that ,besides Taff in Exile, you're making the most watchable il2 videos out there. It seems to be difficult to struck the balance between cinematics and gameplay but you and Taff nail it. Good job, chab :) (Also I really enjoyed the mission with the Mossy and the Uboot commander, may I ask if there is like a central place where one can find your missions and so on without navigating the whole IL2 forum? Either way, great job, I wish all the best for your channels future.)

[@ThunderBatSims]

That's good to hear, the whole reason I started making videos was because I wanted to make raw gameplay watchable. Quick cut gameplay videos are too much for me these days, I like the pacing of milsims. After I started learning Il-2 in 2021 KZbin gave me the rabbit hole of combat flight sim content. I went full Il-2 specifically because I saw other people's content and thought I could make flight sim content watchable. Taff, Wolfpack, growling Sidewinder, Longshot, Sorcerer dave, and some hardcore DCS short films like Hornet Productions were what the algorithm fed me first, and I definitely borrow a lot of style from those videos. I spend a ton of time framing the external shots (only about 20% of the external angles I record make it into the video), so I'm always thinking about alternate camera shots that other creators could have used while I watch their videos. That's probably where most of my style came from, trying to make exactly the content I wish someone else was already making

[@ThunderBatSims]

I'm working on Discord bots, but you can join my discord for updates. I plan to create a channel with dropbox links to individual missions. I'd like to set up a website if I stick to making scripted campaigns

[@stuartcollett3252]

Q: Do you know what a P-400 is? A: do you mean a P-40? Yeah but a P-400 is a P-40 with a zero on its tail.

[@stlrockn]

The "Betty" was actually a German JU 88 and the KI61 Tony was an Italian MC 202.

[@ThunderBatSims]

yep, great battles is the best VR ww2 flight sim, but it doesn't let you mod in actual planes and flight models

[@co2588]

and those zeros were weird looking too

[@stlrockn]

@@co2588 The Zeros were Russian LA 7s.

[@kepler186f4]

An indomitable sense of humour always makes insurmountable odds less daunting, another great vid!

[@genuinsanity]

If Il-2 made a Pacific Theatre , I would get it right away

[@ThunderBatSims]

Seriously. Great Battles with a working carrier would be the best thing ever. DCS and Vtol VR carrier landings are already pretty great, But I want to scramble a hellcat squadron and defend the fleet

[@genuinsanity]

@@ThunderBatSims For sure ...IL-2 details are amazing... I'm a vintage aircraft freak...and unless we are millionaires this is probably as close as we will get to ever flying one.... Thanks for bringing me up to speed. But yeah...if IL-2 came out with a Pacific War game complete with period aircraft I would pounce on it...there are some on IL-2 1946...but not as refined as European theater.

[@ThunderBatSims]

@@genuinsanity There just isn't a fleshed out pacific war setting for VR unfortunately. Microprose coming back gives me hope though, i still play falcon 4.o sometimes

[@genuinsanity]

@@ThunderBatSims Micropose ? never heard of them but I am not tech savvy at all...I will check them out... maybe they have a newsletter ? Wouldn't hurt to drop them a line and inquire... Especially since you got a channel. who knows perhaps you could feature their stuff My mom used to write different companies ...thanking them for their products and inquiring about stuff... They would quite often send samples and coupons... I think there is a market for a more authentic Pacific theater air combat simulator .

[@genuinsanity]

@@ThunderBatSims Looks like DCS has some Pacific theater stuff.... check it out . tell me what you think.... thanks ( I have a tendency to buy crap)

[@Silverhks]

Looks really good. I want a South Pacific campaign from someone so badly.

[@ThunderBatSims]

I'm debating doing terrain editing for a map, which may not be too big of an undertaking for smaller chains of islands. I've been working on a VTOL VR map using topographic map data from Montana for over a year now, that may make into a video if I can figure out an easy way to get external camera angles in VTOL VR. There's no carriers in Il2. but a south pacific map wouldn't be too bad

[@Silverhks]

@@ThunderBatSims I agree. There are plenty of campaigns they could do without using carriers. Unless something changes I don't see it happening. Our only real hope currently is DCS. Corsair, Hellcat and AI Zero are coming. That's all I can think of that has been announced. If they give us a New Guinea, Solomans, or even a Philippines map to go with the Marianas one I would be so happy. They could take the next ten years slowly rolling out PacWar airplane and I wouldn't even be mad.

[@Silverhks]

@@ThunderBatSims I don't know if you've seen it or not but this didn't age all that well. There is a new sim announced "Combat Pilot" that is set during the Midway timeframe. Hopefully expanded after that.

[@ThunderBatSims]

@@Silverhks I'm really holding out hopes that the flight models are good and the VR experience is good. What I'm really interested in is the performance for that game. I don't want to wait another decade for the game to get polished.

[@Silverhks]

@@ThunderBatSims I agree. I will keep hitting the copium until release. At this time I don't think there is any reason for the flight models to be poor. Maybe incomplete on some of the Japanese planes but with the use of CFD flight modeling and the info we do have they should be close.

[@WanganuiWildcat]

Nice work, enjoyed the video!

[@dgratale]

I would be down to see a Flying Tigers campaign. If you have access to Corsairs, a Black Sheep campaign would also be cool.

[@Silverhks]

Unfortunately no Corsairs in IL2 GB. There is one coming to DCS soon.

[@ThunderBatSims]

The day we get official Pacific content in great battles is the day I drop everything to make those campaigns

[@jjjo69-e8q]

The only way to get a PTO scenerio at the moment is to skin the planes we have to Japanese markings and use the kuban map to stand in for Papua NG,everyone wants the game to go to the pacific but that will be years down the line,so the only way we can get are PTO fix is play 1946 sturmovik Bat heavy modded versions or wait for microphrose admiral which looks good from early footage

[@ThunderBatSims]

I didn't know task force admiral is microprose! I'm more excited for the might 8th in VR, but TFA looks interesting. I need a sale before I can justify getting it to mess around. How are those guys creating that Finland map? I have yet to try surface editing and texture replacing on maps yet

[@jjjo69-e8q]

@@ThunderBatSims I did not know work on a Finland map was going on,I do not think anything is official yet.I think surface editing is a huge task and only the devs have the tools to make new maps,it’s becoming harder to do mods as all new stuff is coded,but I have done textures on the Stalingrad map ( Egypt Nile scenerio ) kuban maps for PTO,semi desert and Spanish civil war.I look forward to whatever map they do,I was hoping Malta but I believe that would be a huge task trying to make Valletta harbour

[@ThunderBatSims]

@@jjjo69-e8q I've been fine tuning a vtol VR map with heightmap data for about a year now, and even that is a hell of a process with the proper tools.

[@Nitwfan65]

8:31 that pilot does not look Japanese

[@abrahamzuniga606]

you don't even know airplanes, how boring

[@ThunderBatSims]

But I managed to clickbait you and ruin your day. Get got sucker

[@arthurcrego8297]

Why do the Betty Bombers look like JU-88's Must have been Lend-lease between the Axis powers too LOL

[@ThunderBatSims]

The Germans Italians sent a lot of planes between eachother, but the japanese also got some planes. IDK if any saw combat, because they were all for test purposes, and the japanese never adopted their use. Unfortunately it's impossible to mod in planes to IL-2 Great battles, so texture edits, skins and voice lines are as close as it gets. If you know that you're going up against the japanese, the silhouettes work as identifiable standins for the real planes. In VR it gets pretty immersive

[@Otokichi786]

0:27 Stop it right there, Ivan! That Ju-88 is NOT a Mitsubishi G4M "Betty" at all! (No cigar shape and missing it's rear gunner.) 0:38 Allied personnel thought that the Ki-61 "looked Italian" and called it "Tony," but that is an Italian Macci C 202 and NOT an angular Ki-61 that resembled a Bf-109. 0:46 A Lavochkin 5 in Japanese colors is NOT a Mitsubishi A6M Zero! I'd almost prefer the pixelated LucasArts "Battlehawks 1942" aircraft.

[@ThunderBatSims]

Congratulations sherlock, you figured it out

[@Otokichi786]

@@ThunderBatSims I was trined to find spoken and visual errors by watching "Dark Skies.";)

[@genuinsanity]

The "zeros" look like Lagg 5's What's going on ? The "Tony" looks like Mc 202

[@ThunderBatSims]

This is a mod that's been around for a couple of years. Not a ton of people use it. There's no way to mod in planes in Il-2, so we have to work with what we have. The mod retextures the kuban map with different colors, there are pilot model changes and australian voice lines, and the airacraft skins are all pacific. It feels pretty immersive in VR once you're actually in the middle of the fight. When I'm defensive against an aircraft with the japanese markings, Its believable

[@latesleaves6759]

Woah beautiful