1C Game Studios revealed the development and post-launch roadmap for the Korean War flight simulator Korea: IL-2 Series.
First of all, we learn that the game will be made available on Steam. While we don’t have a specific date, the page should be available soon for your wishlisting purposes.
We also hear that followiong a closed beta that started on February 20, early access for those who preordered and release will come in Q2 of this year.
That being said, development won’t stop with release. A major DLC expansion will also launch later this year with 5 new aircraft and new gameplay mechanics. Details about it will be shared just afer release.
Early access for this DLC will open in Q3, and it’ll release in the winter, as you can see in the infograph below that also includes content coming for the existing WW2 simulator Il-2 Sturmovik: Great Battles.
Development will also continue in the “upcoming years,” although the developers aren’t yet ready to commit to announcing what will come specifically after the first DLC.
Below you can also find the system requirements for your perusal.
We also get a gallery of screenshots, showing off some of the aircraft that you’ll be able to pilot in the simulator. If you’d like to hear and read more, we’ll have a more extensive preview online later today, together with new gameplay, so stay tuned here on Simulation Daily.
If you want to see more of Korea: IL-2 Series, you can check out the first gameplay reveal, a look at the gun effects, some interesting animations for the artillery units that will be implemented in the game, the model for the Lavochkin La-11 piston fighter and its cockpit, and a look at the ground vehicles and their destruction.
We also have a video focusing on engine sounds and a rather spectacular look at the visual damage modeling.
If you’re unfamiliar with the IL-2 series, it’s a combat flight simulation series that debuted all the way back in 2001 with IL-2 Sturmovik, set on the Eastern Front of World War II.
At that time, it was very innovative among combat flight simulators and provided a lot of interesting features in a genre that was already starting to drop out of the AAA field into a much smaller niche. It also included a rather advanced multiplayer suite for the time.
If you’d like to read more flight simulation news, you can find plenty in our latest roundup article from yesterday.
If you want to go further back, we have a handy overview video of the major flight simulation news in the past week. You can watch it below. As usual, leaving a like and a comment and subscribing to our growing YouTube channel is extremely helpful.
