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    With another year soon come to pass, I think it's important we remember the LONG journey this program and its community and fanbase have come through to arrive at this point. It all started in 2001 with a few of us and the original program: IL2 Sturmovik. It has now become a product played by thousands, and is enjoyed by man, woman, child, and Martian alike. We realize we owe very much, if not all, of our fun from this product to Oleg Maddox and his team at 1C: Maddox Games as well as to <b style="color:black;background-color:#a0ffff">UBI[/b], who, regardless of whatever mistakes have happened, have been there since the beginning. The fact that this game has lasted so long is a tribute to its brilliance and design. It truly is a product that deserves the description now on the retail box: "The flight sim in this box was built by all of us, a worldwide team of thousands of fans....."

    So I ask you, fellow flight simmers, how long have you been with the IL2 series, and what are some of your fondest memories of it?<div class="ev_tpc_signature">



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    Cool subject Boosher

    Man.... how long it has been... probably summer of 2001. More then 5 years As far as memories go... i could probably write a book hehe: D<div class="ev_tpc_signature">

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    Since the first demo and when I tried to take off with the P39 for the first time I crashed,thinking ,this is hard,I mean,I had flown a lot of flight sims so how hard can it be to take off.Then when you??re up in the air and spotted those He 111 and you knew the your big gun in the nose just gonna make the day for them bad but to make it bad for them you have to hit them I was thinking,this is hard,I mean I have flown a lot of flight sims so how hard can it be to hit something

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    I'm glad you posted this retrospective of sorts Boosher.

    I was exploring the Bonus DVD and came across a lot of pictures of the developers. It's great to see the face to the product that does mean a lot to us.

    While looking at the photos I was taken back to my original feelings when I first clicked the IL2 EXE in 2002. There is a group shot of Oleg and crew outside wearing various fighter pilot garb. Oleg was wearing goggles........ the same one on the splash screen of the original IL2.

    I started IL2 in....well.... my <b style="color:black;background-color:#a0ffff">UBI[/b] member since says Dec 8th 2002. So it was Dec 7th I bought it. (I just realized the historical similarity to that date...WOW)

    I've mentioned my fave moments a few times before.

    The panic trying to take off in an FW 190 before a squad of IL2s come in and demolish our strip. The snow was lazily falling. There was an electrical hum from some devices running in the cockpit. THEN BAM!!!!!! "IL2s on the way!" And I was third in line. I was freaking because I didn't think I'd make it up in time.

    Another is an intercept mission with an ME 109. I have to destroy a squad of 4 IL2s on their way to bomb my naval base/seaport. I was going to go for the CAP LaGGs, but opted for the IL2s first. I dove from on high and came up behind them. I saw their tracers and decided low would be the wize way to go. So I did and slid up under the last of the four to hit him. I shot his stab right off. I was going faster than him, but only by about 30 kph. As I continued and passed underneath them My screen went black. I had to save the track to watch why I died. I was low and out of clear aim from the other three IL2s. I didn't think a LaGG snuck into my party. Curious minds want to know. So I watched the track only to find out the IL2 pilot had Montezuma's Revenge on me. HE dropped his load on me and I detinated.

    I finally got Track IR 1 after a month of IL2. BnZing. WOW! That's when IL2 bit me hard. When FB came with enhanced mode supported for Track IR I was in heaven.

    I fondly remember my first rolling scissors fight too. I felt like a kid who got a star on his homework paper. All proud n everything. LOL

    And my first Kill in Hyperlobby. The guy never saw me. It's great when you do it to AI, but it's got that sickly sweet gratification knowing you just surprized the heck outta someone. Heh heh heh heh



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    Ahhh memories. A good thread.

    My first IL2 experience came back in 02...the original. It ran like **** on my machine, but I have to admit, I was wow'ed. I came back to it in late 03, and have been playing ever since. It truly is a sim of sims. I spent a little time playing Aces High II, and the flight model in comparison, not to mention graphics, are archaic at the least. I came back to IL2 and haven't looked back.

    My best times in IL2? It has to be whenever I fly something under a bridge, upside down with one engine shut off

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    I came in with the first patch of IL2. I still very fondly remember hunting P2's (substitute Me 110s) with my little I-16 in the sunset over Smolensk.<div class="ev_tpc_signature">

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    I remember flying the original demo for il2 and actually being "scared".It was SOOOO easy to die,[still is] and alot harder to survive let alone get success.
    Compared to what had been around before il2 it was light years ahead in most respects .
    Watching raindrops move along the canopy,the loud bang of AAA near you and the ever present stall and spin,i came off the computer sweating and shaking.
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    Been around since the release of the original Il-2 back in 2001, spammed the hell out of IL-2Skins Forum, made some **** paint schemes, made some even more **** campiagns, made a lot of new and great friends here, became a better lover (I like small wild animals that spit at you, don't you ), stopped going to those 'Gentlemans Clubs' on a Friday Night (the knees couldn't take it anymore )......and lost loads of weight so I've now got the sexist elbow's this side of Belguim <div class="ev_tpc_signature">



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    2006 isn't over yet.
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    some things that come to my mind:

    "Where did you read about Spitfire made of wood? Close this book forever and never open it again!"
    -Oleg

    "2 weeks."

    the original RBJ.

    When P-39's ruled the skies (so long as you didn't auger them in) in the original IL2.

    P-40's that exploded past 500 kph.

    My first online dogfight. I managed to hold a draw against a Yak-9 in my Fw-190A-4.

    Making the "Bush Pilot map" and flying around Olegovo in a Storch.<div class="ev_tpc_signature">



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