Pilot’s Notes Special Edition IL2CoD_PC_MANUAL_UK.indd 3 31/01/11 12:04 Il-2 Sturmovik Cliffs of Dover Index Welcome............................................................................................................. 7 Installing the game............................................................................................ 8 Launching the game........................................................................................... 8 Options............................................................................................................... 9 Realism.......................................................................................................... 9 Video........................................................................................................... 16 Sound.......................................................................................................... 20 Controls...................................................................................................... 20 Plane........................................................................................................... 46 Tactical Markings....................................................................................... 48 Loadout – Weapon sets.............................................................................. 54 Loadout – Guns.......................................................................................... 56 Loadout – Bombs........................................................................................ 59 Pilot............................................................................................................. 60 Flying the planes.............................................................................................. 62 Basics of fight............................................................................................. 62 Pilot controls.............................................................................................. 68 Other crew members.................................................................................. 76 Gunner controls..........................................................................................77 Bombardier................................................................................................. 79 Spitfire........................................................................................................ 83 Hurricane.................................................................................................... 85 Bf-109......................................................................................................... 89 Ju-87........................................................................................................... 94 - 4 - IL2CoD_PC_MANUAL_UK.indd 4 31/01/11 12:04 Pilot’s Notes Special Edition Index Playing the game.............................................................................................. 99 Training...................................................................................................... 99 Single Player............................................................................................... 99 Multiplayer............................................................................................... 100 Full Mission Builder....................................................................................... 102 Strategy and Tactics....................................................................................... 107 Technical support .......................................................................................... 118 Warranty......................................................................................................... 119 - 5 - IL2CoD_PC_MANUAL_UK.indd 5 31/01/11 12:04 Il-2 Sturmovik Cliffs of Dover - 6 - IL2CoD_PC_MANUAL_UK.indd 6 31/01/11 12:04 Pilot’s Notes Special Edition Welcome Hello, pilot! On behalf of the entire development team we’d like to welcome you to our new flight simulation. If you’ve played our previous titles you know what to expect. If you haven’t, we’re hoping that all our hard work has paid off and you will find the game both challenging and rewarding. This game was nearly five years in the making. If you count our previous titles, most of us have been building flight simulations since 1998, or for almost thirteen years! We’ve made the Il-2 series the most successful, the most award-winning, the most famous flight simulation of the 21st century. We hope to continue that tradition after Cliffs of Dover. We’re planning to release a series of sequels that will take you to new aerial conflicts during WWII and even beyond. Your purchase of this Special Edition will help us realise that dream. The flight sim we’ve built in Cliffs of Dover is much bigger than anything we’ve built before. We made it more realistic in every respect: graphics, plane models, physics, aerodynamics, weapons, customisability, and more. We’ve also worked very hard to make it more accessible. With interactive training and comprehensive Realism options we really hope that even those players who have never tried a flight sim before will find it easy to get into and start on a long path to online domination. Finally, don’t forget that the main reason our flight sims have been so popular is our close-knit friendly community. We also love to interact with the community and keep everyone up to date on our development progress. Visit our official site and the forums for news, updates, and great player-made content! And thank you once again for supporting the WWII flight simulation genre! Ilya Shevchenko Lead Development Producer - 7 - IL2CoD_PC_MANUAL_UK.indd 7 31/01/11 12:04 Il-2 Sturmovik Cliffs of Dover Installing the game Insert the game disk and follow the on-screen instructions. NOTE: Cliffs of Dover requires several external components to run, including Steam, Microsoft .NET Framework and Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable, as well as Microsoft DirectX. All of these components are bundled with the game installation and should install automatically. Should you encounter any problems installing those components, please contact Technical Support for assistance. Launching the Game The game requires the Steam service to run. Please make sure Steam is installed and running prior to launching Cliffs of Dover. Then simply click the desktop shortcut or find the Il-2 Sturmovik: Cliffs of Dover program group in your Start menu and launch the game from there. When launching the game for the first time, we highly recommend going into the Options screen first and adjusting Video, Audio, Realism, and Controls options prior to getting into a cockpit. Please see the individual Options sections for more details. To exit the game, return to the Main Menu and select Exit, or press Alt-F4 from anywhere in the game. - 8 - IL2CoD_PC_MANUAL_UK.indd 8 31/01/11 12:04 Pilot’s Notes Special Edition Options - Realism The Realism options in Cliffs of Dover are very extensive and provide an unmatched variety of gameplay possibilities. Set all the options according to your preference. NOTE: Online servers set their individual Realism options according to host’s preference. Server settings override your individual settings for the duration of the online session. Please refer to the Multiplayer section of this manual for more details. You may notice that some options are listed normally (e.g. Cockpit Always On), while others are listed in the negative (e.g. No Outside Views). The reason for that is very simple. A selected option means more realism, and deselected means less. This way the options are easy to check at a glance. The more of them you select, the more realistic the simulation. The options on the Realism screen are divided into various sections. Here they are in detail: Main This set of options defines your overall game experience. Vulnerability. This is not an overall invulnerability option. Even with Vulnerability set to Off, there are still ways for your aircraft to be destroyed. The option does make your aircraft invulnerable to effects of gunfire and other ordnance. You will also survive collisions with other aircraft. However you can still take damage from collisions with the ground. Realistic Ground Collisions. This option complements the Vulnerability option and determines how collisions with the ground or the sea affect the player’s plane - 9 - IL2CoD_PC_MANUAL_UK.indd 9 31/01/11 12:04 Il-2 Sturmovik Cliffs of Dover Anthropomorphic Control. This option limits the amount of things you can do at one time to realistic proportions, usually to no more than two things at once. As a pilot has only two hands, and as most Battle of Britain era planes did not have HOTAS-style controls with important buttons always a flick away, moving the throttle and stick will usually mean having no hands to move a flap lever or vice versa. Another important constraint enabled by this option is what was in previous titles called a Separate Engine Start option. This option is independent of the Complex Engine Management settings. Pilots in real multi-engine aircraft had to start up each engine separately. With Anthropomorphic Control option disabled you will be able to start up all aircraft engines with a single key. Otherwise you will need to individually select and start up each engine in turn. Realistic Gunnery. With this options disabled, your rounds will be affected by ballistics a bit less. They will also be much larger in size, ensuring they