IL-2 Sturmovik: Great Battles Enhanced Modpack for Online Play (Work in Progress)

This modpack has been created to address a number of the current shortcomings in IL-2 Sturmovik: Great Battles, particularly the damage and ballistics modeling, but also other glaring issues and exploits like the broken navigation lights and tracers which can be seen from miles away even in broad daylight. This modpack is in essence a tested collection of many individual mods made by community members with small additional tweaks of my own in some cases.

Please note, there are three variations of this modpack so be sure to download the correct version. The first iteration of the pack is intended for VR USERS WITH HIGH END MACHINES ONLY! There is also a more performant version for vr users as well as an additional version for flat-screeners with mid to high-end machines. The performant version does not really look much worse so most vr users will probably want to go for it.

This release is a work-in-progress and is a proof-of-concept. We are looking for feedback and are also happy to tweak the modpack as a result of your input.

This modpack includes the following:
Weapons and Ballistics

-Weapons and Tracers Mod by QB Rails
-Multicolored Tracers and Less Tracer Smoke by rieper_420
-Realistic Dispersion by ACG_Cass

Graphics

-Realistic Clouds VR 2 Grey Sky Version (or Version 15 Grey Sky in the flat screen version of the pack) by rowdyb00t
-Sun Size Correction by LizLemon
-4k Trees by VaSok and drewm3i (added them to all maps)
-Proper winter trees for winter maps by STOIKY and drewm3i (added them to all winter maps)
-Effects by meplanes1969 (improves effects and fixes the broken nav lights, but nav lights may need further tweaking)
-Muddy rivers for all autumn and spring maps (except Stalingrad) by drewm3i
-Short Grass and Field Crops Final version (high resolution short grass with flowers version for the high end vr and pc package, but low resolution version for the more performance oriented pack) by Off_Winters
-Historically Accurate Skins 4K by milktoast

Textures

-Rheinland Spring Enhanced by JamieDodger
-Rheinland Texture Mod by PicksKing
-Skin pack for all airfields buildings, 1944 - 1945 by MarcoPegase44
-Skins camonet and concrete for NW europe airfields by MarcoPegase44
-Kuban Texture Mod v1.1 by PicksKing
-Stalingrad Tex Mod (and Autumn version) by JamieDodger
-Moscow Autumn retexture by MayBug

VR Performance

-VREM 5.2 VR Enhancer by c6_lefuneste
-FSR upscaling mod with optimized presets included by drewm3i
-Fholger Universal VR Shader Mod added to modpack by drewm3i
-Ditherfix by LizLemon

Miscellaneous

-Camoflauge of the Wehrmacht by DetCord12B
-Correct Awards by CountZero
-Many objects for the desolate Rheinland and Arras maps made by Hamaha15 for mission builders including the Autobahn
-Template files for more populated Arras and Rheinland maps for mission builders by Hamaha15 included
-Stoopy's Interactive Playground Missions for Each WW2 Map

Installation
1. Download and install jsgme to create "MODS" folder.
2. Download files, extract, and place in mods folder.
3. Run jsgme and activate modpack into game.

Channel Description:
This channel is Drewm3i-VRs personal channel, primarily dedicated to cinematics, gun-cam footage, squad combat, and other miscellaneous gameplay filmed from the IL-2 Great Battles series. Occasional content from DCS, IL-2 1946, and IL-2 CLoD Blitz series may also appear from time to time.

Drew is a member of the Duxford Wing virtual squadron and primarily flies multiplayer servers, Combat Box, Finnish Virtual Pilots, and Tactical Air War.

Gaming Rig:
Razer Blade 18
-i9-13950HX
-RTX 4090 laptop
-32 GB-5600 DDR5 Ram
-2 TB M.2 SSD

Headset:
Meta Quest 3

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