Happy New Year to you too. Thank you for your fantastic content. Your videos are always of a very high standard and quality and I know that I am not alone in appreciating all your hard work to make these presentations. 👍😎
Dude.....as always perfection. The AI intercom bantering is absolutely perfect. Although I do miss you and the gang chatting but this is monumental. Keep it up of course sfaktc ;)
The AI dialogue is perfect for AI standards, can't get much better than that with today's technology, it really felt like each one of the crew had a personality - Made the entire video way faster than silence! Amazing work, loved the video!
Conceivably, the B29’s gunnery computer is meant to be able to compensate for leading the target. Is that implemented? There is a terrific deep dive video on the engineering and capabilities of the computer.
I really enjoyed this video. it reminds me a lot of Masters of the Air show from last year. The voices were great, though a few felt a bit flat at times, like they lacked some emotion. Otherwise, it was amazing! Im wondering, have you considered making a similar video but focused on B-29s over Korea? It’d be fascinating, especially since the Japanese struggled to intercept the B-29s compared to the MiG-15s over Korea.
Bravo! I must say that I've missed the friendly banter from your past work but this is really impressive. Having to write the script & then sync it so well with with that far from efficient or accurate replay system... I doff my cap sir. 👏
When you consider how they went on to dominate the commercial airliner market, probably nearly impossible to quantify the value of the institutional knowledge Boeing acquired creating the B-29. Same can be said for several WW2 warplane manufacturers, but the B-29 in particular is just very directly adjacent to the requirements for a successful commercial airliner.
Topography is amazingly accurate. You can see Oshima Island, the Miura Peninsula, the docks at Kawasaki, Boso and Izu peninsulas, and some of the Tokyo Bay artificial islands. Looks like the bombs were released roughly over Kawasaki or modern-day Ota Ward to hit the docks in Tokyo.
i always found attacking a group of b29s as a prop fighter very intimidating. It always felt like it was one or two steps ahead in nearly every aspect.
Hot stuff and cool crews. A lot of mind games going on from the inbound fighters to try to confuse the B29 defense. Doesn't really work though and they risk collision with their own if they make it too complicated. High attack speed is the fighter's best tactic, but just a narrow window. then a long repeat positioning if you don't screw up. Many thanks and Happy New Year.😎👍 'Zee bang' felt real, well done!
@@Fishyyy Great! Thank you for the information. Not sure why is almost no Il-2 player liking scenarios with four engine planes. I guess it is easier to show RUclips watchers how tough guy you are easily shooting down two engine bombers with one 30mm and two 20mm. A four engine plane would have easier time staying in the air after one burst from such autocannons.
I think you are talking about the modern games. "IL-2 Great Battles" does not have any four engined aircraft. This is heavily modded IL-2 1946. We even have B-52s & B-36s now, with up to 10 engines.
@@Fishyyy Thank you for all that information. Goes to show I am just an amateur what comes to knowledge about the world of Il-2. Also, sounds like I should start playing it as soon as my life situation permits.
If you have a pressurized hull and you poke a hole in it its gonna rapidly depressurize creating delta p wich will shove anything through that hole no matter the size
Cool video and I liked the simulated crew chatter. I think it is a shame, though, that you never did a bombsight view, which I kept waiting for but never arrived. What are those Japanese fighters attacking the B-29s, Ki-84s?
Understandable. Yeah, no need to use the bombsight, when your lead crew does the aiming. I have been lead bombardier in quite many videos, though. The "B-17 Flying Fortress Bomb Run - Zonk Mod Showcase" comes to mind. Yeah. Attackers are Ki-84s (Ib, the 30mm armed version) and J2M5s.
@@Fishyyy How large can these scenarios get on modern computers? Probably can't do a true "thousand bomber raid" but it would be interesting to know just how many there can be.
I'd say the upper limit is 200 - 250 aircraft at a time. The bottleneck there is CPU power. IL-2 1946 only uses one CPU core, which limits it to ~5GHz of computing power. Just in theory, if the game ever got multicore-support, 1000 bomber raids would be possible. You could always "spawn in" aircraft during missions. The theoretical limit of aircraft per mission is therefore gigantic. You can have a 200 aircraft RAF bombing raid and then have a 200 aircraft USAAF raid later in the same mission. Our own "Zonk mod" even adds functionality to spawn aircraft mid mission without causing loading lag spikes. With zonk mod, making a functioning 1000 bomber raid would be a matter of minutes, by the way. The list of things it currently adds is way too much to list here, but making a 240 bomber stream has become trivial. When we run really big missions, I am using a second PC to host with. It stares at the ground on super low graphics settings, so it can use a maximum of its computing power for the calculation of the objects. The player's client PCs don't have to calculate all of the AI processes and are therefore relatively less burdened.
@@Fishyyy It would actually be really cool to one day have an AI actually watch something in real time & have dialogue be spoken by it without need of much post editing. *Forgot to ask, when will the next release of Zonk be out, if there is a specific date in mind?
Just wondered... Why aren't the bombers up at the altitude where the enemy fighters were making their approach from? B-29s were supposed to be nearly unreachable by enemy fighters. "High and fast!" But this run looks like a B-17 run!
The USAAF recorded a little over 11000 fighter attacks on B-29s. B-29s flying too high and too fast for japanese interceptors is a simple myth / misconception. Something someone at some point said and everybody else repeats. There is an image of a japanese twin engined fighter ramming a B-29. The Ki-84s shown in this video have very similar performance charachteristics to P-51Ds. You don't outspeed or outclimb those in any bomber. The B-29s are going at 60% throttle in these scenes. They had to fly ~2400km in order to get from the Marianas to Japan. 150 B-29s were lost to engine fires. It was wise to not gun the engines all the time. That's why I made the crew talk about their power settings. I tried to simulate the crews having to fly slower then they could. The higher you fly, the less accurate bombing becomes, too. Especially with the heavy winds over Japan. The B-29s still have a speed and altitude advantage over other bombers. The B-29s advantage is that it gets attacked less often, because the fighters need longer to catch up or overtake. A Ki-84 can execute way less attacks on a B-29, then it could on a B-17. The B-29s here still reached 500 km/h TAS, with 70% fuel and 20 500 pound bombs. That's a higher speed then a B-17 can reach at 1% fuel, with no armament carried at all.
@@Fishyyy Well! I stand corrected!! And maybe it's simply the graphics of the video. that make the bombers look lower than they were. But the bombers wouldn't need to outclimb the fighters. They usually worked on that on the initial climb from takeoff to some point over the water, before reaching any initial waypoint for the bomb run. I guess by the time the B29s were hitting Japan, the Japs had designed fighters and interceptors, that could reach the bombers... But I always thought higher was better for the bombers. Here we see the fighters approaching the bombers from some thousands of feet higher than the bombers. That gave the fighters an advantage on the attack... It would be suicide for them to attack at bomber level! But... "Nuff said!" Have a great new year...
The B-29s fire control system isn't implemented in IL-2 1946. The B-29 isn't even flyable without mods. The gunners in this are (zonk mod improved) AI, which basically use aimbot. Guess it kinda looks the same on the receiving end, lol.
Thanks! It all depends on how busy DarkenedFantasies is. A few core features are still missing and we have trouble with some minor things. I'd say at least a few months.
Great stuff as always! Just watched your b-17 video from 6 years back, if you need a volunteer Brit VA for a video that'd be great fun. I can also speak a bit of german but my accent would probably be nails on a chalkboard for you :D Cheers!
I keep trying to get the Ypack, have tried about 5 times now with different email addresses but I never get the registration email from Ypack host so I can download the mod. Any idea or help?
I think the free modding page is broken at the moment. The ypack download links are available in our discord. Link to the server is in the description.
Yeah. I don't think I'll be adding them anymore. Had to create 600 audio samples and invest a huge amount of effort overall. It's not something I can do on a regular basis anyway.
@ it’s just flat. The multiple mentions of how clear it is on CAVU conditions, the callouts stem randomized. It’s not totally horrible, but it just needs to be punched up and reduced in frequency. I’d still play the game but I’ve just heard better dialogue. Just my opinion.
Fair enough. I was just interested in your opinion, cause i wrote the dialog and added it with AI. Well, never thought of myself as a writer and it was a first try. But believe me, it's way better then the game's radio callouts. Had to use good weather, because of technical limitations with Graphics Extender. Historically, the weather over Japan was basically always terrible. I don't think it would be unrealistic for B-29 crews to talk about the good weather.
That's not very ultimate. The analog computer sights looked nothing like this. And you'd have to put and maintain the enemy plane in a bracket and the computer would adjust for lead and bullet drop.
You are criticizing something I have no control over. This is the best, which can be done il IL-2 1946 at the moment. Therefore it is ultimate. The gunners in this are AI and use aimbot. They precompute lead and everything just like the sight would.
@Fishyyy you did good. As you say you have no control over it. But call it ultimate? It's the only sim with controllable b-29, so that's like saying I won the race when coming back from jogging alone. That plus those very inaccurate turrets images... But the rest is very good. But don't mind me, I'm just an old picky WW2 aviation nerd.
@Fishyyy you've got all my support I would never dislike a video from someone with a passion for aviation history. Going to like your video now cause I didn't.
Yeah. I got it. Next time i'll either have silence or use the game's default terrible built in radio sounds. There is no way i spent this amount of effort again, just to receive this type of feedback.
@@Fishyyy I liked the dialogue. I found it much better than the silence from the last video. I also liked the chatter from your friends in multiplayer even if it wasn't always specific to the time period. I always thought it was the kind of talk that these airmen would exchange on the long routine parts of the flight. I recognize the enormous amount of work to create the script, generate the AI voices, and then sync it up with the video. So thank you, Fishyyy, for creating a video that at least some of us really appreciated.
Thank you. Unfortunately, I don't have people to record with at the moment. I personally also really enjoy having the multiplayer voice recordings, but it seems like the algorithm doesn't like them. All of my really popular IL-2 videos don't have our voices in them. I guess our modern gamer conversations don't match the ww2 themed videos. Not sure about what to do, yet.
Happy new year everybody! I figured we might aswell start off with a bang this year! Enjoy some full on Zonk Mod B-29 awesomeness!
Happy New Year to you too.
Thank you for your fantastic content.
Your videos are always of a very high standard and quality and I know that I am not alone in appreciating all your hard work to make these presentations.
👍😎
Can't believe the IL2 1946 is still alive after amost 20years.
I'm working it! :D
Dude.....as always perfection. The AI intercom bantering is absolutely perfect. Although I do miss you and the gang chatting but this is monumental. Keep it up of course sfaktc ;)
That was great. I even learned something, they depressurized for impending fights. Makes sense!
AI dialogue is cool
Yeah you dont want to get hit while plane is pressurized.
RESPECT.......Gratitude for your efforts
Thanks!
My first super thanks! Thank you so much! :)
The AI dialogue is perfect for AI standards, can't get much better than that with today's technology, it really felt like each one of the crew had a personality - Made the entire video way faster than silence! Amazing work, loved the video!
Conceivably, the B29’s gunnery computer is meant to be able to compensate for leading the target. Is that implemented? There is a terrific deep dive video on the engineering and capabilities of the computer.
The one from rex I believe? I watched one some time ago, I just don't remember who's
Edit: it was from Alexander the ok
It looked nothing like the analog computer gun sights. There would be a bracket and they would put and maintain the plane inside of it.
@@gabrielneves6602 Nope from WW2 Bombers channel
Fun fact. The cockpit of the Millennium Falcon in Star Wars is inspired by the cockpit of the B-29.
Don't worry, she'll hold together(Hear me baby, hold together.)
Sometimes I was wondering if some Tie Fighters could join the battle. 😂😂😂
@@sirdrakkar. Nope. Just Japanese fighters
@@Perktube1 15:07-16:32 the gunner got cocky
I really enjoyed this video. it reminds me a lot of Masters of the Air show from last year. The voices were great, though a few felt a bit flat at times, like they lacked some emotion. Otherwise, it was amazing!
Im wondering, have you considered making a similar video but focused on B-29s over Korea? It’d be fascinating, especially since the Japanese struggled to intercept the B-29s compared to the MiG-15s over Korea.
Bravo!
I must say that I've missed the friendly banter from your past work but this is really impressive. Having to write the script & then sync it so well with with that far from efficient or accurate replay system... I doff my cap sir. 👏
The dialogue sounds like its straight from an ace combat game
When you consider how they went on to dominate the commercial airliner market, probably nearly impossible to quantify the value of the institutional knowledge Boeing acquired creating the B-29. Same can be said for several WW2 warplane manufacturers, but the B-29 in particular is just very directly adjacent to the requirements for a successful commercial airliner.
well, the airliners following up to ww2 bombers were not really successful
Just about gives a sense of what it must have been like. Poor bastards. Good job, I'm sure that was a lot of work to make.
Topography is amazingly accurate. You can see Oshima Island, the Miura Peninsula, the docks at Kawasaki, Boso and Izu peninsulas, and some of the Tokyo Bay artificial islands. Looks like the bombs were released roughly over Kawasaki or modern-day Ota Ward to hit the docks in Tokyo.
i always found attacking a group of b29s as a prop fighter very intimidating. It always felt like it was one or two steps ahead in nearly every aspect.
Well done video. That must have taken a long time to put together, especially with the added dialogue of crewmembers which is not standard in the sim.
Boys sound way too calm XDD but damn that looks awesome
Don't yell on that intercom! ;)
Smungo!? SMOINGI!? MSIGLO???
@@borisgrishenko652 BRIISH DOUCHEBAGGA?
il 2 1946 when
Are the AI voices real time? Or did you add them in afterwards?
Afterwards. No idea if it would be feasible to get live ones into the game.
Hot stuff and cool crews. A lot of mind games going on from the inbound fighters to try to confuse the B29 defense. Doesn't really work though and they risk collision with their own if they make it too complicated. High attack speed is the fighter's best tactic, but just a narrow window. then a long repeat positioning if you don't screw up.
Many thanks and Happy New Year.😎👍 'Zee bang' felt real, well done!
Great show again!! Happy new year to you all and many more great vid's to come...imagine making a video like this in IL2 Greatest Battles??
Looks amazing! Good job guys.
Greetings and Salutations Herr Ritter and a Happy New year to you! Lovely video. Built one of these as a boy (the Airfix model). All the best, Billi.
God I want the new version of zonk, cant wait!
I kinda liked the dialogue, it wasn't perfect but I thought it was kinda cool and immersive
Great little movie.
This brilliant. What a mod.
Thanks for posting! What's the current news on Zonk Mod's development, and is there a download of the latest version available?
I’m sure they’ll release it when it’s ready but I don’t think I can wait 😂
I dont remember seeing four engine bombers in Il-2 earlier. I guess this is a new feature.
The B-29 was added in 2006.
@@Fishyyy Great! Thank you for the information. Not sure why is almost no Il-2 player liking scenarios with four engine planes. I guess it is easier to show RUclips watchers how tough guy you are easily shooting down two engine bombers with one 30mm and two 20mm. A four engine plane would have easier time staying in the air after one burst from such autocannons.
I think you are talking about the modern games. "IL-2 Great Battles" does not have any four engined aircraft. This is heavily modded IL-2 1946. We even have B-52s & B-36s now, with up to 10 engines.
@@Fishyyy Thank you for all that information. Goes to show I am just an amateur what comes to knowledge about the world of Il-2. Also, sounds like I should start playing it as soon as my life situation permits.
nice job!!!
Would b29 crews depressurize the cabin during combat because of possible damage
If you have a pressurized hull and you poke a hole in it its gonna rapidly depressurize creating delta p wich will shove anything through that hole no matter the size
Cool video and I liked the simulated crew chatter. I think it is a shame, though, that you never did a bombsight view, which I kept waiting for but never arrived. What are those Japanese fighters attacking the B-29s, Ki-84s?
Understandable. Yeah, no need to use the bombsight, when your lead crew does the aiming. I have been lead bombardier in quite many videos, though. The "B-17 Flying Fortress Bomb Run - Zonk Mod Showcase" comes to mind.
Yeah. Attackers are Ki-84s (Ib, the 30mm armed version) and J2M5s.
@@Fishyyy How large can these scenarios get on modern computers? Probably can't do a true "thousand bomber raid" but it would be interesting to know just how many there can be.
I'd say the upper limit is 200 - 250 aircraft at a time. The bottleneck there is CPU power. IL-2 1946 only uses one CPU core, which limits it to ~5GHz of computing power. Just in theory, if the game ever got multicore-support, 1000 bomber raids would be possible.
You could always "spawn in" aircraft during missions. The theoretical limit of aircraft per mission is therefore gigantic. You can have a 200 aircraft RAF bombing raid and then have a 200 aircraft USAAF raid later in the same mission. Our own "Zonk mod" even adds functionality to spawn aircraft mid mission without causing loading lag spikes. With zonk mod, making a functioning 1000 bomber raid would be a matter of minutes, by the way. The list of things it currently adds is way too much to list here, but making a 240 bomber stream has become trivial. When we run really big missions, I am using a second PC to host with. It stares at the ground on super low graphics settings, so it can use a maximum of its computing power for the calculation of the objects. The player's client PCs don't have to calculate all of the AI processes and are therefore relatively less burdened.
Yo this Ai dialogue, It actually sounds pretty good. How was it edited in?
Dialogue was written by me, voiced by AI on elevenlabs, edited in Audacity and added to the game footage in Davinci Resolve.
@@Fishyyy It would actually be really cool to one day have an AI actually watch something in real time & have dialogue be spoken by it without need of much post editing. *Forgot to ask, when will the next release of Zonk be out, if there is a specific date in mind?
Were those japanese fighters J2M Raidens?
Yes. J2M5s and Ki-84s.
The times I wish I could like videos multiple times
Just wondered... Why aren't the bombers up at the altitude where the enemy fighters were making their approach from? B-29s were supposed to be nearly unreachable by enemy fighters. "High and fast!"
But this run looks like a B-17 run!
The USAAF recorded a little over 11000 fighter attacks on B-29s. B-29s flying too high and too fast for japanese interceptors is a simple myth / misconception. Something someone at some point said and everybody else repeats. There is an image of a japanese twin engined fighter ramming a B-29. The Ki-84s shown in this video have very similar performance charachteristics to P-51Ds. You don't outspeed or outclimb those in any bomber. The B-29s are going at 60% throttle in these scenes. They had to fly ~2400km in order to get from the Marianas to Japan. 150 B-29s were lost to engine fires. It was wise to not gun the engines all the time. That's why I made the crew talk about their power settings. I tried to simulate the crews having to fly slower then they could. The higher you fly, the less accurate bombing becomes, too. Especially with the heavy winds over Japan. The B-29s still have a speed and altitude advantage over other bombers. The B-29s advantage is that it gets attacked less often, because the fighters need longer to catch up or overtake. A Ki-84 can execute way less attacks on a B-29, then it could on a B-17. The B-29s here still reached 500 km/h TAS, with 70% fuel and 20 500 pound bombs. That's a higher speed then a B-17 can reach at 1% fuel, with no armament carried at all.
@@Fishyyy Well! I stand corrected!!
And maybe it's simply the graphics of the video. that make the bombers look lower than they were.
But the bombers wouldn't need to outclimb the fighters. They usually worked on that on the initial climb from takeoff to some point over the water, before reaching any initial waypoint for the bomb run.
I guess by the time the B29s were hitting Japan, the Japs had designed fighters and interceptors, that could reach the bombers... But I always thought higher was better for the bombers.
Here we see the fighters approaching the bombers from some thousands of feet higher than the bombers.
That gave the fighters an advantage on the attack... It would be suicide for them to attack at bomber level!
But... "Nuff said!"
Have a great new year...
Fishyyy fliegt wieder.
Schaust immer noch zu? Cool :)
do they have the fire control system available?
The B-29s fire control system isn't implemented in IL-2 1946. The B-29 isn't even flyable without mods. The gunners in this are (zonk mod improved) AI, which basically use aimbot. Guess it kinda looks the same on the receiving end, lol.
Excellent job as always Fishyy! How long did the voices take you to do?
Thank you! Quite a few hours. It's tedious work to create so many samples. Had to generate many of them multiple times, until the AI did a decent one.
Which B-29 mod is this? The cockpit looks far better than the one I have
Good thing those B29s weren't fighting 343 Squadron
That would be a lot of dead B29s
What a nice job
Oh, this is cool video format. Old graphics lost behind immersive chattering.
Happy new year Fishy! When will zonk mod v1 be released?
Thanks! It all depends on how busy DarkenedFantasies is. A few core features are still missing and we have trouble with some minor things. I'd say at least a few months.
Great stuff as always! Just watched your b-17 video from 6 years back, if you need a volunteer Brit VA for a video that'd be great fun. I can also speak a bit of german but my accent would probably be nails on a chalkboard for you :D Cheers!
Is this a voice chat mod? Or what is it? These voices are extremely well!! And immersive as I don't know what!!
I edited in AI voice samples.
Can I download this mission?
Not yet. The mission is made with our own unfinished mod. It isn't playable without it.
I keep trying to get the Ypack, have tried about 5 times now with different email addresses but I never get the registration email from Ypack host so I can download the mod. Any idea or help?
I think the free modding page is broken at the moment. The ypack download links are available in our discord. Link to the server is in the description.
Happy new year fishyyy 🐠
Actually blinked and had watched about 15 minutes of this. Amazing stuff
wow
apt title
HSFX7 B-29 cockpit has more details than this ;-)
No AI slop voices next time in my opinion.
Yeah. I don't think I'll be adding them anymore. Had to create 600 audio samples and invest a huge amount of effort overall. It's not something I can do on a regular basis anyway.
@@Fishyyy I thought it was pretty impressive.
Nice looking game, don’t see many sims on B29s. Really poor dialogue but otherwise looks like a good game
What do you dislike about the dialogue?
@ it’s just flat. The multiple mentions of how clear it is on CAVU conditions, the callouts stem randomized. It’s not totally horrible, but it just needs to be punched up and reduced in frequency. I’d still play the game but I’ve just heard better dialogue. Just my opinion.
Fair enough. I was just interested in your opinion, cause i wrote the dialog and added it with AI. Well, never thought of myself as a writer and it was a first try. But believe me, it's way better then the game's radio callouts.
Had to use good weather, because of technical limitations with Graphics Extender. Historically, the weather over Japan was basically always terrible. I don't think it would be unrealistic for B-29 crews to talk about the good weather.
@ I thought it had an AI feel to it, dialogue wise. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a great effort and well executed, far better than I could have done.
Sounded fine to me.
That's not very ultimate. The analog computer sights looked nothing like this. And you'd have to put and maintain the enemy plane in a bracket and the computer would adjust for lead and bullet drop.
You are criticizing something I have no control over. This is the best, which can be done il IL-2 1946 at the moment. Therefore it is ultimate. The gunners in this are AI and use aimbot. They precompute lead and everything just like the sight would.
@Fishyyy you did good. As you say you have no control over it. But call it ultimate? It's the only sim with controllable b-29, so that's like saying I won the race when coming back from jogging alone. That plus those very inaccurate turrets images... But the rest is very good. But don't mind me, I'm just an old picky WW2 aviation nerd.
I see it as praise. Disliking a click baity title is fair enough :D
@Fishyyy you've got all my support I would never dislike a video from someone with a passion for aviation history. Going to like your video now cause I didn't.
cool video but voice actors y'all are not lmao
It's AI generated. Nobody actually talked.
Boooooooooo AI slop
Yeah. I got it. Next time i'll either have silence or use the game's default terrible built in radio sounds. There is no way i spent this amount of effort again, just to receive this type of feedback.
@@Fishyyy I liked the dialogue. I found it much better than the silence from the last video. I also liked the chatter from your friends in multiplayer even if it wasn't always specific to the time period. I always thought it was the kind of talk that these airmen would exchange on the long routine parts of the flight. I recognize the enormous amount of work to create the script, generate the AI voices, and then sync it up with the video. So thank you, Fishyyy, for creating a video that at least some of us really appreciated.
Thank you. Unfortunately, I don't have people to record with at the moment. I personally also really enjoy having the multiplayer voice recordings, but it seems like the algorithm doesn't like them. All of my really popular IL-2 videos don't have our voices in them. I guess our modern gamer conversations don't match the ww2 themed videos. Not sure about what to do, yet.