Most flight simmers would struggle to call 2024 a good year. Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 had a troubled launch in November that it is still struggling to come back from, and study sim darling DCS World has been stuck in a legal battle against one of its bigger subsidiary studios.
To help kick away the bad juju surrounding flight sims, the 1C Game Studios team behind the Il-2 Sturmovik: Great Battles series has announced a lovely farewell expansion to its franchise.
In the series' 367th developer diary, the devs announced the upcoming release of the Defense and Liberation expansion. Rather than focus on one specific map in one time period, the new DLC doubles the fun.
Defense and Liberation covers the battles for Leningrad and Odessa in 1941 and 1944. As the name implies, each map will have one campaign focused on Operation Barbarossa in 1941, and another covering the liberation from German occupation in 1944.
Although the new expansion will come with the traditional 10 new aircraft, the distribution is slightly uneven as the game already features most major Axis aircraft in other packs.
For the 1941 campaign, Soviet fighter pilots get the I-153 biplane, the...
