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Il-2 Download Expansion for Pe-2? We going to play with this or skip it? It looks like there are two additional expansion coming down the road as well from what I read tonight...
http://shop.ubi.com/Prod_ExtDesc.asp?ca ... =386&id=97

So far, there's no point. It's a PITA to DL and install with Ubi's DL service and all and I doubt enough of us would get it.
For now, for compatibility purposes, I think we should skip it.

I agree with Jedi. It's a shame though since I would really like to fly the PE-2. I just wish it was sold as a retail expansion in the US.

Panzer it looks like that if you wanted to fly it you can switch between 4.04m and 4.05m by changing the sfs file back and forth... not a big deal for hte most part.... aside from that I guess nothing has really changed...

Not actually sure I'm patched to 4.05m myself - must go check that, ASAP.

4.05m is the number for the Pe-2 expansion... highest you can be is 4.04m unless you go buy it. At least that was what I gathered in my exploration of the whole thing last night. People have even managed to write little utilities to swap between 4.04m and 4.05m so they can fly the Pe-2 single and still play with their friends online; but it's just swapping one file from all that same reading so really you could do it all with a .bat.......

You can achieve a lot by wielding a bat, especially on a computer . . . . .

.bat as in a file ending in ".bat" you know one of those simplest of scripts for achieving an automated task on your computer :lol:

yes, he knew that...

Hudson, can't you just tell Steel's been around me far too long . . . . . . . . :lol:

I think maybe he has. It seems he might have given up on you :lol:

not to mention this crap:

"As we are all by now aware the western market Pe2 uses software called boontybox to download and validate. This software adds itself as a service and scans your system for compatible games (and other more private stuff). I am not sure if you are all aware of this but boonty.exe is loaded and run in the background everytime you run the new il2fb.exe. This is not something I want happening on my system and I am sure most of you feel the same."

this kind of thing has no business in a flight sim.

Damn it! They're at it again. If it's not Starforce or whatever . . . now, it's boontybox?! Well, thanx for the warning. Good, bad or indifferent - they can shove their expansion where the sun don't shine. Have to agree, much as there isn't much to find, I certainly don't want software running riot like that on my PC.

remember, or know if you did not, this is Ubi. Maddox games has nothing to do with this. it can be removed, but is a pain.

also, this might be worth getting once all three packs are released. the content is o.k. for now (we are not generally interested in bombers) but later packs add more fighters and more ground objects. i could even make the Biplane campaign more better (!) with the new ground objects and remove even more vestiges of WW2.