The Wishlist Thread

[Artfactial]

-Agreed. First person bail out and walk arounds are a must. It is quite immersion breaking to see the pilot like that, it could be so incredibly cool to have all of that in an uninterrupted first person perspective.
-Add a Fuel Valve: Previous key mapping option. Or even better, a different binding for 6 positions.
-Control mapping for individual gauge knobs (Radio compass, Pitch Trim, Barometric Pressure, etc) besides the gauge select function.

Edited July 4 by Artfactial
More additions.

[MNTimBuktu]

On 6/26/2026 at 11:38 AM, Bluesguy said:

Make telemetry available and support for hepatic devices like BoS!!

This. More detailed telemetry data for haptic devices and force feedback sticks would be greatly appreciated. The difference from DCS is pretty drastic.  At least engine rumble would be nice.  Weapon system/aiming system quick guides in game would be helpful too. Not sure best way to use radar range for example.

Edited July 2 by MNTimBuktu

[JG14_Jagr]

On 6/30/2026 at 4:38 PM, Rothary said:

1. Maintaining 1st person view when bailing out. You actually getting to remain in 1st person view during ejection feels awesome and is giving me hope that maybe we could finally get to stay in 1st person when bailing out in general. The game forcing you into external view when bailing out has always been perhaps the single biggest immersion killer for me ever since its implementation in the early BoS days. It feels like the game is already over the moment you hit the bail out key, rather than only once you click "finish mission".
2. 1st person view for walking around. Basically see above, though I do acknowledge that perhaps the climbing in or out animations wouldn't necessarily work well in 1st person with the cockpit not being the one seen from the outside and presumably the cockpit pilot body not being the same as the walking around body, making seamless enough transition impossible.
3. Easier access to the handbook. In GB, checking engine modes was a matter of simply opening the map (a single mappable key press), since you could leave the specifications open on the map view, scrolled down to the relevant part. In Korea the handbook is magnitudes better than the specifications in GB, except accessing it mid flight requires me to reach for the keyboard to open esc menu and to then reach for the mouse to click on Handbook, then having to click the relevant tab and finally scroll down to the relevant part. It is impossible to leave the handbook open at the part you want to be able to check at a quick glance at any instant. It'd be nice if we could perhaps bind opening the handbook to a key and it'd remember how you left it.
4. More active radio communication. My flight remains almost completely silent during a fight – no one is givings a heads up about an enemy on my tail or requesting for help with one themselves. No one is giving me confirmation they're on their way when I request for cover, nor are my orders being acknowledged in general. No congratulations or excitement on kills, no reports about seeing a friendly go down. Basically the lack of communication leaves me to rely almost exclusively on my eyes to see how's everyone doing or if my orders are even being followed. If I personally didn't witness my wingman getting killed, I'll only find out about it by acknowledging the lack of their presence later no matter whether someone else witnessed them going down or not. As far as I can tell, I can't even verify it myself by simply telling everyone to check in to find out who's still with us.

I'm not trying to be critical, But, it's a flight Sim, 1st person pilot view while walking around is number 23,497 on my list of priorities they should be investing man hours on.

[Blooddawn1942]

A filter to simulate sunglasses would be very nice. Especially in VR everything is much to bright in my opinion. 

[Remontti]

Could we have the slip indicator and artificial horizon as HUD elements?

 

Customizable icons or at least more options for them. Like small dots only, icons or player names on friendly planes only or neutral color for all planes. 

Edited Thursday at 12:07 PM by Remontti

[Natalie]

Features

• Saved custom presets for guns, loadout, liveries and flight numbers - Currently a bit frustrating having to empty out the guns every time I'd like to do a max endurance "recon flight"

Museum

• Inside cockpit view - Unless I missed it, we can only see the cockpit as if standing on the wing.  Would be nice to be able to open the canopy and jump in the cockpit for a look around.  I have an aviation museum not far from where I live that allows me to to just that 😉

Units

• Some commonwealth presence would be nice, maybe some RAAF Canberra's or some Royal Navy warships (e.g. HMS Belfast)

Map

•  Expansion of the map to cover the whole of Korea so that the entire war can be recreated not just the date period chosen for the campaign, we have the mission editor after all for our custom creations.  I've posted on this separately and understand the reasoning but one can only hope. 

Edited Tuesday at 09:01 PM by Natalie

[Whittle]

I can not zoom in anywhere near my 6 o'clock to identify an aircraft. Please make the head-angle limitations similar to Great Battles.

Screens typically do not allow the same clarity or object (angle) sizes that real vision has, and zooming in provides a user-selectable compromise between angle of view and detail. IL2K's current head angle limitation removes the ability to identify a trailing aircraft until it is far too close.

[Medoed]

Gameplay

1. Сохранять выбранный скин самолёта, позывной, номер и тп от сервера к серверу. То есть сделать это глобальной настройкой

 

UI

1. По границам карты добавить пустые области, чтобы её можно было двигать более удобно. Особенно актуально для обозначений, что у краёв карты
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Joystick

Добавить красивую картинку с раскладкой для джойстика Defender Cobra M5. Сама раскладка в игре есть, а вот картинки нет 😞

Картинки что тут лежат - \IL2Series\game\Doc\Input Maps

 

Dedicated Server

Добавить серверные файлы и возможность хостить на Linux

 

Edited Thursday at 08:27 PM by Medoed

[Valis]

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