

IL-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Stalingrad is the 13th installment in the IL-2 Sturmovik series, but due to differences between game engines, it is considered to belong to the third generation of IL-2 Sturmovik simulators series.
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Released modules in the Great Battles series In April 2017, virtual reality support was added. In December 2016, DirectX 11 support was added.
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The full release date has been marked as Octoon the Steam digital market. The release date was originally planned for the first quarter of 2014. Īccess to an early alpha was made available for "Premium Edition" owners on November 19, 2013.

In December 2012 1C Company officially announced they have halted development for IL-2 Sturmovik: Cliffs of Dover, replacing it with a partnership having been agreed with 777 Studios to form 1C Game Studios for the development of IL-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Stalingrad. From 2016 onwards, advanced improvements of the game started allowing users to fly aircraft in other World War II battles ( Battle of Moscow, Battle of Kuban, Operation Bodenplatte, Battle of Normandy), fly World War I aircraft ( Flying Circus series) or drive World War II tanks ( Tank Crew: Clash at Prokhorovka). Theaters of operations and compatible simulations Īt launch in 2013, the game was a combat flight simulation set during the Battle of Stalingrad (1942-1943), specifically the time period between Operation Uranus and the surrender of the 6th Army. On 17 November 2017, accumulated improvements in the Digital Nature simulation engine led the development team to change its name to "Digital Warfare Engine". The original Battle of Stalingrad module resulted in 2013 of a combined effort of 1C Company, the publisher of IL-2 Sturmovik: Cliffs of Dover, and 777 Studios, developers of Rise of Flight: The First Great Air War who reused the 2009 Rise of Flight "Digital Nature" game engine in order to develop the Battle of Stalingrad game. The second generation was released in 2011 under the title IL-2 Sturmovik: Cliffs of Dover.Īll three generations, IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946, IL-2 Sturmovik: Cliffs of Dover, and IL-2 Sturmovik: Great Battles, are still in use and supported by the current owner of the IL-2 Sturmovik label, Russian company 1C Company.īefore the IL-2 Sturmovik: Great Battles brand was coined in 2017, two " IL-2 Sturmovik: Battle of" modules were released: IL-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Stalingrad in 2013 and IL-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Moscow in 2016. That latter is in the present day officially titled IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946 as this was the title of its "Complete Edition" back in 2006, the final compilation of add-ons in the first generation of IL-2 games. The original brand was created in 2001 with the first IL-2 Sturmovik air combat simulator.
