Pacific Fighters- IL-2 Sturmovik sequel!

its as cool as il2.. yay 🙂

have a copy

It’s out now chaps 🙂 (22nd oct)

If you like flying…

I will buy it. Now i must search my joystick 😀

If you like flying or warbirds or aircraft you should get PF 😀

I have Il-2FB+AEP but not fly much, dont know if i should buy Pf

I hope someone can post few thinks about it

Most companies are quoting release date as 22nd Oct….counting the days.. 😀

Pf has gone gold chaps (has been for a week). It should be on our shelves either this friday or the friday after (more realistic) 🙂

You better take alook here then Stewart ;). And anyone else interested 🙂

http://www.pacific-fighters.com/en/screenshots.php

Beaufighter cannot wait to fly that!

Ubisoft, one of the world’s largest videogame publishers today announced that the Pacific Fighters gold master has gone into production. From the creators of the critically acclaimed IL-2 series, Pacific Fighters will ship for PC at the end of October with an ESRB rating of Teen for Mild Language and Violence.

Re-create some of the most decisive air battles of WW II and experience famous locations like Midway, Guadalcanal and Iwo Jima, where the courage of a single pilot could turn the tide of war. Fly more than 40 combat aircraft including the deadly Japanese Zero, the UK’s Supermarine Seafire and the U.S.-made Corsair. In addition to 16 huge single-player maps, Pacific Fighters offers an unparalleled online multiplayer option. For the first time in any retail combat flight simulation, virtual pilots can take part in massive aerial dogfights on the same dedicated server for up to 128 players. A 32-player option is also available in Cooperative mode. For the first time in the IL-2 series, players can engage aircraft carriers in combat and utilize them to take off and land. As with every product developed by IL-2 creator Oleg Maddox, Pacific Fighters offers unsurpassed attention to detail. The smart AI, unequaled damage model and sense of realism combine to immerse players like no other combat flight simulation.

Game Features:
Over 40 flyable WWII fighters and bombers.
A partial list includes: Aichi D3A1 Val, Bristol Beaufighter, Douglas A-20 Havoc, Grumman F6f Hellcat, Mitsubishi A6M Zero, Kawasaki Ki-61 Tony, North American B-25 Mitchell, and Vought F4U-1 Corsair.
Legendary Pacific Theater locations.
Fly in huge maps of famous battle sites, such as Pearl Harbor, Midway, Singapore and Okinawa.
New large-scale multiplayer engagements.
Join squadrons in a variety of online modes such as free-for-all dogfights for up to 128 players and cooperative campaigns for up to 32 players.
A vast array of targets ranging from railroads to battleships.
Ground objects such as trains, trucks and tanks can all be pounded from the air. Torpedo historically accurate ships, drop parafrags on enemy airfields, and encounter more than 100 other targets on the ground and at sea.

New flyable:
A-20G
B-25J-1NA
DAB Beaufighter Mk21
F4F-3
F4F-4
FM-2
F4U-1A
F4U-1C
F4U-1D
Corsair MK.I
Corsair MK.II
Corsair MK.IV
F6F-3 Late
F6F-5
P-400
P-39D-1
P-39D-2
Hawk 81A-2
P-40B
P-40C
Tomahawk Mk. IIa
Tomahawk Mk. IIb
SBD-3
SBD-5
Seafire L.MK.III
Seafire F.MK.III
Spitfire MK. VIII
Spitfire MK. VIII(CW)
A6M2-21
A6M2-N
A6M3
A6M5
A6M5a
A6M5b
A6M5c
A6M7-62
A6M7-63
D3A1
Ki-43-Ia
Ki-43-Ib
Ki-43-Ic
Ki-61-Ki
Ki-61-Hei
Ki-61-Otsu

AI:
B-17D
B-17E
B-17F
B-17G
B-24J-100CF
B-25C-25NA
B-25G-1NA
B-25H-1NA
B-29
Blenheim Mk.IV
Hawk 75A-3
Hawk 75A-4
PBN Nomad
TBF-1
TBF-1C
TBM-3
Avenger MK.III
B5N2
Ki-43-II
Ki-43-II Kai
Ki-46-III Kai
Ki-46-III Kai Otsu
Ki-46-III Recce
N1K1-J
N1K1-Ja
H8K1
L2D

Flyable if you install over IL2:
Hurricane Mk.IIb
Hurricane Mk.IIc
P-38J
P-38L
P-39N-1
P-40E
P-40M
P-47D-10
P-47D-22
P-47D-27
P-51B-NA
P-51C-NT
P-51D-5NT
P-51D-20NA
P-63C-5
A6M2
Ki-84-Ia
Ki-84-Ib
Ki-84-Ic

Available in new free add-on:
F2A-2
G4M1-11

I believe it’s due for release in november, you can be sure it will be before christmas. The best think about it is that it is a standalone game but can be installed over ILFB AEP as if it were an addon. It looks like it will be fantastic but what I really can’t wait for is BOB which is due out in a year or two, imagine even higher detail than IL2FB and much more submersive gameplay in the way of briefingsdebreifings etc. But still PF will keep me going happily until then and when BOB comes out it will be major upgrade time for my PC.

The Buffalo was already with IL2: FB AEP (Il-2 Sturvmovik Forgotten Battles Aces Expansion Pack) in Finnish colors.

Pacific Fighters works in two ways—both as a standalone and as an expansion to IL2: FB AEP—adding Japanese and USN fighters to the tons of Russian, German, Italian, Hungarian, Polish, French, British, USAF already in the game. The result is endless exotic dogfighting possibilities like

Zero vs. Me-262?
Corsair vs. Yak-3?
I-16 vs. P-51?
Wildcat vs. Macchi M.202?
Tony vs. MiG-3?
Me-109 Zwilling Twin vs. P40M? (actually you can do this with AEP already).

The sheer degree of detail in this game is an obsession. You can go down to variants and mods, like FW-190A-6 with two MK108 cannons vs. P-38L (Lightning variant). Or something as nutty as Me-163 vs. A6M2 Zero.

I’m sure it will be out by October as Pacific Aces is essentially a mod and an expansion pack of IL2.

some more vids http://france-simulation.com/

http://www.ubi.com/US/Games/pacificfighters_pc.htm
has a release date of november 😀

Holy sh1t! They have the Brewster Buffalo! And they show it being shot up (which was what it did in the Pacific War.)

I love that fat little farker.

Exactly! That’s what I said earlier- it’s not the Saratoga. 🙂

I know, I was just been a picky little weasel! 😉

if you go here http://www.checksix-fr.com/

you will find two new vids showing corsairs hellcats and zeros in action

and a preview in english(its a french site)

hope the engine sound you get in the first vid means proper sounding aircaft
and the musics not bad too 😀 😀

PF Release Date

Amazon.co.uk are quoting release date of Pacific Fighters as
October 8, 2004
lets hope thats right ! 🙂

i love those old ww simulation games. especially with a good Force feedback joystick u get really tired arm. its very different shooting (even in sim) down a bandit, took me a lot of practice in sturmovik. but after a while just the scenery and everything around it bored me, hope this one will be different. i need to see pritty things while flying 😀

I dont think i have seen this one in the stores (lost track after playing the first sturmovik)

The Lex never had it’s 1.1″ quads replaced before she was put down, and never had it’s twin 8″ turrets replaced either. So for all intents and purposes, what they have depicted here is the original Lexington. Just odd to see Hellcats flying off her, but cool as well. 🙂

Exactly! That’s what I said earlier- it’s not the Saratoga. 🙂