The Wishlist Thread

[Mainstay]

I want to be able to adjust the size of ingame labels. It’s the same messy presentation as it was in IL2BOX. Oversized and unadjustable…..

[ColoniaLibre]

Hello there,

I would like to suggest a "Dark Theme" for both the mini-map and the main map.

This would be incredibly helpful during night operations. The current normal "daylight" map is very bright. Every time you open it to check your position and then switch back to the cockpit view during night ops, you experience a severe loss of night vision. It takes about 10 to 15 seconds for your eyes to readapt to the dark sky outside. 😎

It would be wonderful if you could implement an "eye-friendly" "Dark Theme" variant of the maps in the future (yep, sometimes you need the dark side of the force). 😉 Ideally, this could include a shortcut key to easily toggle between the daylight and dark theme variant.

Thank you very much for your time and attention!
Best regards 

 

You are absolutely right about how things were done back then with paper maps.

My suggestion was less about forcing a strict historical map layout and more about addressing a modern hardware problem. A paper map in a dark room doesn't emit light, but a modern PC display, TV or a VR headset definitely acts like a flashlight to your eyes. 😎😉
 

I just wanted to suggest a potential feature to improve usability during night ops on our glowing screens. How the developers choose to solve this issue - whether through a dedicated "dark map" (I put it in »"« like Doctor Evil ✌️😉) a brightness slider, or by mimicking cockpit red-light illumination - is entirely up to to the dev team. It is their game, they know best where to spend their resources, and if they think it's a good idea, I'm sure they will find a great way to implement it that fits the game perfectly. 🙂 

 

Best regards

[MajorMagee]

Pretty cool find.

Curious I tried viewing it through a Red light filter in Photoshop. It was an ugly red and yellow. 

Then I tried it with UV and got this result.

[JG4_Moltke71]

All I want is a good working game in VR also in high resolution. In a foreseeable future, not in ten years.

[TheAngryGamer]

The game is very new and pretty good really. I do wish I could hear the actual P-51 engine. It seems like I can only hear the prop. throttle adjustments can not be heard but prop speed difference can. Every video I have seen from inside the plane indicates it is quite loud in there. Also, Why is it impossible to model a American plane where the wings don't snap off at the slightest twitch of the stick. I have flown 4 or 5 times in the Sabre. And every time the wing snap and the most recent, I was flying almost level at 300 knots  and just twitched the stick barely. Bye bye wings. I mean seriously? and it is literally only American planes in every game. I can try to snap others and they never do snap. But American wings have a jettison button somewhere.

 

Something I had not yet realized. The fuel system needs work. The player need to be able to control what fuel gets used. The game is managing it poorly. For example, F-86 should drain the drop tanks before internal. The P-51 should not be letting suck a big difference in weight between tank changes and it should not be leaving 10 gallons in the center tank when switching to wing tanks.  And I am still losing wings left and right. if this was realistic, there would be reports of wing snaps all over history. the pilot isn't even straining when the wings snap. 

Edited September 1 by TheAngryGamer

[JG14_Jagr]

I would love the ability to set up an aircraft with markings, paint scheme, tail numbers, loadout etc and have that tied to my login account.  So when I log on my F86 is already setup to my default setup and markings unless I decide to change it.  Each plane could have a saved default.  It would save time.

 

 

 

On 6/18/2026 at 7:57 PM, Herbinator said:

Hi,

Just asking what I would expect the in-game performance would be with this hardware:

14900kf

64gb DDR 4

RXT 3080 10gb

4TB NVME SSD

4K monitor @ 60hz

 

Thanks

Herbs

I ran a 14700 KF and a 3070 and had no issues other than I would get a "Low Video Memory" warning after a while until I disabled the 4K textures.  I had the FPS set to 60 and it never moved so I moved it up to 80 and it never moved from 80.  This was at 1920/1080 Res on a 144Hz monitor.  There might be other ways to decrease the memory load on the 8Gig card without touching the 4K textures but that was the first thing I tried, and it worked, so I just left it.  I have since upgraded to a 9070XT and I run higher settings and 4K textures but honestly I don't think the difference is that much.  You should have no trouble

 

I would love the ability to setup a training mission where I could just have a Mig15 flying at different aspects, straight and level, in a sustained gentler left or right turn, etc.  This would be a HUGE aid in figuring out the gun sights and adjusting gunnery for the game.  Maybe I'm missing how to make it happen, but it would ne a great thing to have.

Would be nice if there was a separate way to add markings rather than an entire skins.  The Commonwealth nations (UK, South Africa, Australia) as well as the South Korean Air Force used the F51D 

Would be VERY nice and VERY helpful for spotting if the added scratches could be removed from the canopies.  When using sharpen the scratches become even more of a problem for spotting.  It adds nothing and makes one of the biggest complaints I hear (spotting) even worse for no real reason.

Adding a white smoke marker rocker that could be used to mark targets.  Targets pop in pretty later and its nearly impossible to see them from ALT.  Having a person mark them for the rest of the flight would be beneficial.

 

Edited September 11 by JG14_Jagr
Adding

[Calos_01]

On 8/24/2026 at 12:41 AM, TheAngryGamer said:

It seems like I can only hear the prop. throttle adjustments can not be heard but prop speed difference can.

That airplane has a constant-speed propeller, which means that the engine RPM changes only when the “propeller speed” changes. And what you can hear is the change in engine RPM. 

[Avimimus]

A reminder: One post per person in this thread. You can edit your existing posts (if you make a second post in the thread I will merge it or delete it).

[actionhank]

Campaign Ideas

1. It would be cool if we could edit the pilots in our squadrons to give them names and pictures that we want to use. It would be fun to add my friends to see who survives the war, and to give a little more personality to the campaign beyond the generic AI photos. (I've already got plenty of custom skins ready once the F-80 template drops).

2. I'm hoping there will be some improvements to how you navigate through the pilots and manage your supplies. Right now having to do everything on a pilot-by-pilot basis can feel very slow and tedious. It would be nice to have the ability to Shift+Click multiple pilots or even just have a "Select All" or "Select Checked" box for if we want to do something like move 4 pilots at once to reserve and promote 4 more to take their place. Or if I wanted to assign a single generic skin to a certain number of pilots and their planes.

3. A "Stats" screen for your pilots with sortable columns would be really nice. Being able to sort by "Sorties Flown" "Planes Shot Down" "Ground Targets Destroyed" and whatever else people can think of would be really helpful. It would make it easier for me to find which of my pilots are the most experienced and either make them flight leaders or take all of my best ground attack guys and assign them to those missions, while keeping the guys with the most fighter kills waiting for air missions or the scramble crew.

4. Maybe I just haven't seen it if it's there, but another thing that would be nice would be a "mission log" where you can see what happened to your flight and who destroyed what or what shot by who. I was flying last night and just randomly went to an external view as my plane started to roll uncontrolled in one direction...which I assumed was from my pilot being killed, but I have no idea who or what shot me. There wasn't flak going off around me that I could see, I just randomly died. With the messages in game on the screen, and just the way things work, I assume there's the log on the back end, but it would be nice to have a way to access it at the end of the mission to see what happened.

Skin Ideas

1. I mentioned this elsewhere, but something that I think would be nice for skin creators is the ability to create a thumbnail as well as a "clean" name for the plane. Right now, the skin shows up with the file name, which doesn't read as cleanly as the included skins. Being able to use some sort of description file and then have that include the "Livery Name" that would show up in the game would be nice. So say the skin was F-51_RoKAF_Blank you could have the Livery Name display as RoKAF F-51 Blank and then if you had something more specific like a certain fighter group or pilot, that could also be made to look nicer than BobLoblaw_F-51_81stFG or whatever the .dds file was named. The ability to specify a thumbnail would also go a long way towards making it look better in game for the users downloading your skins.

Edited September 2 by actionhank

[Vostok]

For now my top feature request is a co-op mode for career mode and the upcoming dynamic campaign

A few other things that come to mind : 

- Customization options for icons and labels. Ability to change the size, color, or information displayed on labels without having to modify files or use mods (for example: showing labels in black only, disabling distance indicators, or hiding aircraft models). Option to hide all icons behind the cockpit frame, direction arrows, etc. Ability to display only objective or waypoint labels, or only aircraft labels, etc. Ability to filter the map to show only your own aircraft and/or allies, enemies etc.

- Option to toggle on/off the red "REC" icon at the top right while recording

- Option to toggle on/off the yellow indicator icon when entering the aircraft in 3rd-person pilot mod.

- It'd be fun to have the option to start the mission with your pilot outside the aircraft, 'scramble' style, where you'd have to walk or run to your plane. Unnecessary but absolutely essential.

Edited August 31 by Vostok

[Bane]

Pourrait on choisir la quantité de carburant, par exemple sur le P51, à 60% et y ajouter les réservoirs supplémentaires ?

En effet quand on choisit les réservoirs supplémentaires, le niveau de carburant se met automatiquement à 100% en principal.

Merci

Is it possible to select a specific fuel quantity—for example, 60% on the P-51—and then add the external fuel tanks?

Currently, when selecting external tanks, the main fuel level automatically sets to 100%.

Thanks.

[AndreiTomescu]

To extend the country base to several UN countries involved, that would be very good

Edited September 15 by AndreiTomescu

[Yankee_One]

Option to toggle on/off pilot body with keybindings.

Edited September 22 by Yankee_One

[gabuzomeu]

User made skins

• Explanation and option to easily add a thumbnail working with ingame menus for paint schemes
• Same for having a nice name (vs filename) and explanatory text for the skin
• Option to always disable adding user tactical code (exists for official paint chemes)

 

InFlight labels and overlay text

• DO NOT display mandatory "MODS ON" or the infamous memory message 
• Allow label personalization through a menu setting

 

 

[sky2oo7]

My main one is having co-op campaign and career mode. That would really make this game a solid hit since they are mostly focusing on a single player experience and I still want to play with friends with the low population (at the moment) multiplayer not being super viable.