IL-2 Birds of Prey - completely stuck :(

[Frederick]

Ok, Battle of Stalingrad Mission 1, the orders are to shoot down any planes you see over Stalingrad. I'm playing in Simulator which makes turning and so on all the more bloody irritating, and still manage to expire a couple of Jerries...

Half an hour later and "You took too long - Mission Failed"...

Just how many do you have to dispatch? they keep respawning in the middle of the city, I and the other flights manage to get rid of them, and still "You have taken too long - Mission Failed"...

It's getting daft now Anyone got any hints...

[Frederick]

sorted and completed the game, total is 7-10 fighters in that mission for anyone who's wondering...

[stephen300o]

Completed the game in simulator mode?!
It's taken dozens of people months to release this game, three days later... done, next.

[Frederick]

No, not sim mode, that's still ongoing... it's a bloody arse ache!!

Flown through (excuse the pun) on Arcade, then will redo on Sim... was sick of pulling my hair out on missions like stalingrad not knowing how many bandits to expect.

Have completed the Battle of Britain in sim though...

[Rob P]

Is it the same challenge to control in sim mode as the demo? I found it really tricky and it kind of put me off the game....

[Frederick]

Yeah, it's a bit of a pain!

There's two ways to combat it (pun again, sorry) - they are 1: get good at the game, or 2: drop the X and Y sensitivity down to 11... it is pretty difficult to get the plane all st shaped from there!

[ConcreteBuffalo]

Ok, so to jump in with my problem - "Hornets Nest", last mission in the Stalingrad campaign.

The objective is to take out all the bombers before they reach their target...How?!

Every time I attempt it, i'm doing well, take out all the bombers I (think) I can see, only to get a failure message!

Any help?

[rhinochopig]

Does it meet expectations? I have IL46 on the PC which is excellent and was holding off getting on x-box for fear they'd dumbed it down/

[Frederick]

ConcreteBuffalo said:

Ok, so to jump in with my problem - "Hornets Nest", last mission in the Stalingrad campaign.

The objective is to take out all the bombers before they reach their target...How?!

Every time I attempt it, i'm doing well, take out all the bombers I (think) I can see, only to get a failure message!

Any help?

It had me a few times the same, the way I did it was to pre-empt where they were spawning and fly to that general area.

Make good use of the dpad down, dpad up "Cut the chatter, listen up, attack that target" and you should be fine

[martinhayes17]

I downloaded the demo of this game from Live, wasn't to impressed with it as I found gameplay on the demo was very dragged out. Is the actual game any different?

[ConcreteBuffalo]

Frederick said:

ConcreteBuffalo said:

Ok, so to jump in with my problem - "Hornets Nest", last mission in the Stalingrad campaign.

The objective is to take out all the bombers before they reach their target...How?!

Every time I attempt it, i'm doing well, take out all the bombers I (think) I can see, only to get a failure message!

Any help?

It had me a few times the same, the way I did it was to pre-empt where they were spawning and fly to that general area.

Make good use of the dpad down, dpad up "Cut the chatter, listen up, attack that target" and you should be fine

I'll keep at it. Was hammering the multiplayer last night - great fun! Anyone else on here fancy a sortie sometime?

Edited by ConcreteBuffalo on Tuesday 8th September 13:23

[_Batty_]

ConcreteBuffalo said:

Frederick said:

ConcreteBuffalo said:

Ok, so to jump in with my problem - "Hornets Nest", last mission in the Stalingrad campaign.

The objective is to take out all the bombers before they reach their target...How?!

Every time I attempt it, i'm doing well, take out all the bombers I (think) I can see, only to get a failure message!

Any help?

It had me a few times the same, the way I did it was to pre-empt where they were spawning and fly to that general area.

Make good use of the dpad down, dpad up "Cut the chatter, listen up, attack that target" and you should be fine

I'll keep at it. Was hammering the multiplayer last night - great fun! Anyone else on here fancy a sortie sometime?

Edited by ConcreteBuffalo on Tuesday 8th September 13:23

defo.
not been online yet, as its left me feeling a bit cold.
B4tty

[ConcreteBuffalo]

Edited by ConcreteBuffalo on Tuesday 8th September 13:23

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defo.
not been online yet, as its left me feeling a bit cold.
B4tty
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Sounds good, my tag is ConcreteBuffalo.

[FM]

Getting this game asap...just look at how gorgeous the visuals are..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaQPRW_H8QE

..the vid with the sound muted & Holst`s Mars playing on another tab is magnificent.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4oDDmoWf1M

[Lefty Guns]

I love this game and am definitely up for some ph multiplayer.

I'm a bit st still though, need more practice!

My gamertag is Lefty Guns

[ConcreteBuffalo]

Finally accepted your request Batty.

Love the MP, and finally seems to be getting a bit more popular now, finally had a game with 16 players, quite nutty when you see 7 x B2's lining up on bombing runs on your boats.....

[_Batty_]

ConcreteBuffalo said:

Finally accepted your request Batty.

Love the MP, and finally seems to be getting a bit more popular now, finally had a game with 16 players, quite nutty when you see 7 x B2's lining up on bombing runs on your boats.....

BTW to get the B17 you have to achieve 50 targets in the bombing run.
perhaps we should try to get that one evening?