On 21 December 2016, it was announced that 1C Game Studios had come to an agreement with the re-named Team Fusion Simulations to cooperate on future releases of Cliffs of Dover, and grant them access to the game's source code. Shortly after the announcement of official development ceasing for Cliffs of Dover, a community modding team known as Team Fusion further stabilized and enhanced the game by community patches. Team Fusion Simulations modding and official development That map, made out of fabric, was water-repellent and 50 cm x 50 cm in size.
This makes IL-2 Sturmovik: Cliffs of Dover the second generation in the IL-2 Sturmovik series of air combat simulators.ĭistribution at release and collector's edition That latter, the third generation in the IL-2 series, is being developed by 1C Company and 777 Studios, which is the developer of the WWI flight simulator Rise of Flight: The First Great Air War. Cliffs of Dover was planned to be supplemented by a new theater, Moscow, but 1C chose not to continue development with the game engine, instead incorporating a similar, Russian, theatre into the next title in the series with a new game engine, IL-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Stalingrad. In October 2012, it was revealed on the 1C forums that development had fallen short of the original goals and that 1C:Maddox Games was unwilling to continue supporting the title.
Nevertheless, the Su-26 was finally included as a free downloadable content with the adjunction of the Steam patch 2 on 19 October 2012. When IL-2 Sturmovik: Cliffs of Dover was still under development, the aerobatic Sukhoi Su-26 (not a WWII era plane) had been promised as a bonus flyable aircraft for all players, but was not included in the game upon release. In January 2011 Ubisoft revealed the current name for the game and release date of 25 March 2011.
The game inherits the name IL-2 Sturmovik from the IL-2 Sturmovik classical simulator (originally released in 2001) and is considered as the second generation in the IL-2 Sturmovik series because it runs its own game engine instead of sharing it with the two other generations. A second add-on, thus introducing in the game a third theatre of operations, is in the works, but no release date has been announced yet. The basic Blitz game represents the Battle of Britain during the Summer of 1940 while an add-on released in 2020 represents the air combats during the Western Desert campaign in North Africa in the period of 1940-1943. In 2017 that latter released an improved version of the game under the name IL-2 Sturmovik: Cliffs of Dover - Blitz which started the so called Dover series.
It was originally developed by the Russian software house 1C:Maddox Games but since 2012 it is under development by Team Fusion Simulations.
IL-2 Sturmovik: Cliffs of Dover is a World War II combat flight simulator released in 2011.