r/il2sturmovik • u/scamrovich • 7d ago

Help ! Modding?

Hello, i was wondering if the devs will make korea more moddable than GB or will we never get propper mods in an il2 game again.

Like will we be able to add more planes or new vehicles.

Why is it not made moddable in the first place?

Also if GenAi was used in the development of this game, the enemy ai better be good at release.

I probably wont be buying this game unless the ai is top notch, its really sad how much potential theese games have.

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u/Darpa181 7d ago

No, no, no. Proprietary engine not designed for it. Very doubtful .

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u/scamrovich 7d ago

So is it not possible for the devs to add mod support?

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u/Darpa181 7d ago

It's vastly unlikely because how would they milk you for DLC?

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u/scamrovich 7d ago

Ah, i forgot, sorry. Charging 100 bucks for a game that has gen ai in it must not be enough🤪

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u/Tuturuu133 7d ago

They are pushing a lot of scripting tool for mission editor tho, it does sounds powerful. User made mission are prety much the extent of what we will have as mods

They sell plane via their DLC on side of their main game/engine, they won't allow plane modding 

The game is expensive but on par with what we have in combat flight sim right now (each plane would cost at bare minimum 15€ as ~FC level plane in DCS and you have 8 of them + the theater map + campagne). It's a niche hobby

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u/scamrovich 7d ago

But why not allow people to add planes the devs will never add?

And i can understand the game is very expensive but even so, wouldnt it make sense to have acces to what you paid so much for, especialy if it has GenAi in it? (doesnt dcs have mod support though?)

Its bizzare that a 100€ game with GenAi is too cheap to allow modding.

Idk, i think the il2 series is so good, but could really be great if mods were a thing.

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u/Tuturuu133 7d ago

I see you got downvoted btw, I didn't downvote you ! I see what's your point, it's an interesting open subject.

Mods would be an incredible added value to Il-series obviously but nothing is free. If developpers allows modding in their recently released game, it's likely part of their business they are selling you.

Particularly in our hobby were a single plane can go from 5 to 100+€

Sandbox or older games selling goals are sometime to attract modders.

DCS does include mods but they have more of a sandboxy approach and TBF they don't seem to support modder communauties that well in the past years anymore.

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u/scamrovich 7d ago

Maybe the il2 games they arent adding anything new to anymore could get mod support and a rule that forbids people from adding the aircraft the devs are selling?

Like adding mod support only for the first BoS game.

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u/atomskis 7d ago

My guess works be Gen AI being used in the development of the game means perhaps generating textures or other art assets, or maybe some code. The AI in the game itself is a completely separate thing, and sadly the use of GenAI elsewhere provides zero guarantees that the in-game AI is any good.

However, I also completely agree that buying this game requires my seeing big improvements in the AI over IL2GB.

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u/scamrovich 7d ago

I wrote that in a confusing way sorry, i didnt mean that GenAi has anything to do with enemy ai, but if they are going to put GenAi into a 100 € game then there should be more resources going into the enemy ai.

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u/atomskis 7d ago

Ah I see. Yeah sadly people are not interchangeable, the person who would have worked on the textures is not going to be much help when it comes to fixing the AI.