Differences between the various mods?

[Plural Pellegrina]

Can someone give me a list of features and the differences between the following mods? The threads on the SAS 1946 forums aren't very informative.

Battlefield, Airborne, Tactical (BAT)
SAS Modact
VP Mod
Dark Blue World
Ultra Pack
HSFX

Edit: Looks like Ultra Pack and Dark Blue World are part of BAT; while HSFX and VP Mod are primarily graphics mods. BAT seems to add a bunch of time periods.

[und3r_s0n]

Check out this link, there is a section about the mods.

https://forum.il2sturmovik.com/topic/392-nuggets-guide-getting-ground-il2/

A bit old but still pretty accurate.

[Plural Pellegrina]

Originally posted by Jamesbolo:

Check out this link, there is a section about the mods.

https://forum.il2sturmovik.com/topic/392-nuggets-guide-getting-ground-il2/

A bit old but still pretty accurate.

Still only mentions about as much info as is mentioned on the SAS 1946 forums—not much. Though, it does mention that Ultra Pack and Dark Blue World have been merged into CUP (which is now BAT), so at least there was a little bit of useful info. Would still like to know the main features of the mods.

[putmer]

BAt contains pretty much all worth while planes that are of quality from ww1-spanish civil war i think, ww2 and jets from late ww2 too modern, it's a huge download. it's got great quality but with that much stuff not all the planes feel or look top notch. but it's an amazing mod and worth while if you got the HDD space and want something more then just ww2.
not really ment to be customized with as far as i know, so it may be a pain to remove effects mods or others.


VPmodpack is my favourite for it's size and quality and effects, it takes the best content from DBW and various other mods. it's easy to customize aswell just add/ delete anything you dont like from the #SAS folder (everything thats important about vp is on it's page)
it's got alot less content though

[Plural Pellegrina]

Originally posted by sadisticsurgeon:

BAt contains pretty much all worth while planes that are of quality from ww1-spanish civil war i think, ww2 and jets from late ww2 too modern, it's a huge download. it's got great quality but with that much stuff not all the planes feel or look top notch. but it's an amazing mod and worth while if you got the HDD space and want something more then just ww2.
not really ment to be customized with as far as i know, so it may be a pain to remove effects mods or others.


VPmodpack is my favourite for it's size and quality and effects, it takes the best content from DBW and various other mods. it's easy to customize aswell just add/ delete anything you dont like from the #SAS folder (everything thats important about vp is on it's page)
it's got alot less content though

So, is VP Modpack for a more vanilla experience with better graphics and effects?

[putmer]

Originally posted by Hypsicratea:

Originally posted by sadisticsurgeon:

BAt contains pretty much all worth while planes that are of quality from ww1-spanish civil war i think, ww2 and jets from late ww2 too modern, it's a huge download. it's got great quality but with that much stuff not all the planes feel or look top notch. but it's an amazing mod and worth while if you got the HDD space and want something more then just ww2.
not really ment to be customized with as far as i know, so it may be a pain to remove effects mods or others.


VPmodpack is my favourite for it's size and quality and effects, it takes the best content from DBW and various other mods. it's easy to customize aswell just add/ delete anything you dont like from the #SAS folder (everything thats important about vp is on it's page)
it's got alot less content though

So, is VP Modpack for a more vanilla experience with better graphics and effects?

not too sure what you mean by a more vanilla experience.

[Plural Pellegrina]

Originally posted by sadisticsurgeon:

Originally posted by Hypsicratea:

So, is VP Modpack for a more vanilla experience with better graphics and effects?

not too sure what you mean by a more vanilla experience.

As in you can play the stock campaigns and missions without there being significant gameplay changes; as opposed to something like the BAT mod which adds new time periods, missions, planes, and gameplay tweaks.

[putmer]

Originally posted by Hypsicratea:

Originally posted by sadisticsurgeon:

not too sure what you mean by a more vanilla experience.

As in you can play the stock campaigns and missions without there being significant gameplay changes; as opposed to something like the BAT mod which adds new time periods, missions, planes, and gameplay tweaks.

ahh sorry jsut got off work and the only thing that makes sense right now is a couple cold ones. VP just adds more planes,maps, mods and campaigns, it will not not ruin stock missions/ campaigns as everything is there. also BAT shouldnt wreck the stock campaigns as it should still have the same maps and planes that are needed( for the ww2 period anyway)for BAT the periods for ww1,ww2,and jets are selected through a thing called il-2 selector, it lets you choose what period you wanna use(so everything is not all cluttered together), these mods do not change the core of the game in any major manor that will leave you scratching your head. they do add some extra controls though. feel free to ask anything else that comes to mind as these are pretty big downloads, BAT is probley about 100 or so GBS by now with it's updates and expansions lol. my VP install with extra mods and a few planes i added comes too 43 GBS. so not small investments bandwidth wise or time wise.

[Plural Pellegrina]

Originally posted by sadisticsurgeon:

Originally posted by Hypsicratea:

As in you can play the stock campaigns and missions without there being significant gameplay changes; as opposed to something like the BAT mod which adds new time periods, missions, planes, and gameplay tweaks.

ahh sorry jsut got off work and the only thing that makes sense right now is a couple cold ones. VP just adds more planes,maps, mods and campaigns, it will not not ruin stock missions/ campaigns as everything is there. also BAT shouldnt wreck the stock campaigns as it should still have the same maps and planes that are needed( for the ww2 period anyway)for BAT the periods for ww1,ww2,and jets are selected through a thing called il-2 selector, it lets you choose what period you wanna use(so everything is not all cluttered together), these mods do not change the core of the game in any major manor that will leave you scratching your head. they do add some extra controls though. feel free to ask anything else that comes to mind as these are pretty big downloads, BAT is probley about 100 or so GBS by now with it's updates and expansions lol. my VP install with extra mods and a few planes i added comes too 43 GBS. so not small investments bandwidth wise or time wise.

Ahh okay, thanks for that info. I guess all the mods add their own assortment of assets and modding abilities it seems, and they each have their own set of campaigns, missions, and planes. I think I'll stick with VP mod for the moment since it is small and adds better detailed models and effects, and is an improvement on HSFX. I don't really need all the extra stuff that BAT has, at the moment, since I am just getting into the game.

[putmer]

well since your gonna have to go inside the conf file to add the lines for VP's modpack. you may aswell eyeball this for a few minutes since your newish to IL-2. it's little tweaks you can do to various options inside the conf for better graphics or just other options. in game make sure your render is set to opengl, and edit the graphics options under the opengl part (dont know why but apparently you can only get the best graphic settings under opengl). dont forget to make a copy of the conf file, incase you cause an accident in there.
https://www.sas1946.com/main/index.php?topic=9756.0
http://airgroup51.net/forum/index.php?topic=295.0

[BeszotPL]

Hi sadistic ! Could you present list of elements of your VP mod? All mods, maps etc. - what i need to put in to make Sturmovik great again? ;-)