Combat Box

[MJones]

On 8/26/2026 at 11:28 AM, Leifr said:

There is nothing fair or symmetrical about the Korean air war, that's just how it is and frankly I don't think servers should create environments where those limits are tested. @Sketch has an awesome looking scenario coming up this Friday though; check out the picture below.

How can I get in on Friday Night Fights?  Is there a sign up?  I've been flying CB for the last couple weeks and love the 'full real' setting.  Plus, I get really good ping numbers. 

[Haluter]

5 minutes ago, MJones said:

How can I get in on Friday Night Fights?  Is there a sign up?  I've been flying CB for the last couple weeks and love the 'full real' setting.  Plus, I get really good ping numbers. 

There is no sign-up required for Friday Night Flights, just log on to the server and have fun! 😊

[KoN]

Tried today flew USA but on map screen there were no missions just Red box across the main rivers, Are we supposed to fly around looking for targets,.  As for the blue targets were marked on my map. 

[Fabry_ASW19]

1 hour ago, KoN said:

Tried today flew USA but on map screen there were no missions just Red box across the main rivers, Are we supposed to fly around looking for targets,.  As for the blue targets were marked on my map. 

Yes on some missions you have to fly low in the general area of operations and spot target yourself, maybe one day we'll have Stinson L5's with white phosphorus rockets FAC but for now you're your own FAC.

[ATAG_Ezzie]

If you fly to the eastern edge of the zone and then turn westerly you should encounter small groups of enemy reasonably soon afterwards. 
 

There’s sometimes a light but accurate aaa unit that will open up if you overfly it. 
 

With my low end pc settings I’ve found that if I fly at about 3k ft with zoomed in view I can spot these targets in the valleys and near some roads and rivers. 
 

Makes you appreciate why the spotter FAC type aircraft were so useful for faster jets spotting these types of tgts.

From memory Mig Alley had this functionalityand it was quite good (from memory which could be mistaken). 

[MiGCap]

COMBAT BOX is great, but when You fly blue side the MiG-15s camping adjacent to the non-shoot zones around the UN airfields are a pain in the ass.

What about putting well-aiming AAA in the areas?

[KoN]

Well in VR this searching for targets in a large red box  is quite frustrating and you don't see any targets until very very close,  But that's not combat box fault. 

I didn't see any targets, until too late, already under fire. 

Using the zoom function in VR  there is a bug, when zooming in targets will disappear. !!!!!

But I did fly across the red box until engaged then the fun started to actually locate disappearing targets. 

Edited September 9 by KoN

[TheTonester]

When using radaio compass does the hud show up for the frequency you have locked onto or is there no hud message at all? if this is the case how does one know what frequency they have locked onto?

Edited September 15 by TheTonester

[Sonic]

On 9/9/2026 at 12:36 PM, KoN said:

Well in VR this searching for targets in a large red box  is quite frustrating and you don't see any targets until very very close,  But that's not combat box fault. 

I didn't see any targets, until too late, already under fire. 

Using the zoom function in VR  there is a bug, when zooming in targets will disappear. !!!!!

But I did fly across the red box until engaged then the fun started to actually locate disappearing targets. 

I remember reading somewhere that the rendering model takes into account what the human eye could actually see, at what distance and in what lighting conditions etc. Apparently its an attempt to not disadvantage VR users over non VR users (typically running higher resolution) as happens in another well known Sim! If that is indeed correct then its a very clever concept and would explain why using zoom makes little difference to initial target acquisition. 

[Leifr]

On 9/15/2026 at 3:02 PM, TheTonester said:

When using radaio compass does the hud show up for the frequency you have locked onto or is there no hud message at all? if this is the case how does one know what frequency they have locked onto?

It'll be listed on the right as technochat, or use the gauges provided in the cockpit - check the flight manual for location.

[KoN]

18 hours ago, SonicGBOMB said:

I remember reading somewhere that the rendering model takes into account what the human eye could actually see, at what distance and in what lighting conditions etc. Apparently its an attempt to not disadvantage VR users over non VR users (typically running higher resolution) as happens in another well known Sim! If that is indeed correct then its a very clever concept and would explain why using zoom makes little difference to initial target acquisition. 

Flying in 2D is way easy than VR at the spotting . We are talking about the zoom function in VR where the target will disappear .  

This is not a game feature but a bug . The Ground pop in and out and targets pop in and out . 

Edited September 17 by KoN

[Fabry_ASW19]

On 8/23/2026 at 2:44 AM, Haluter said:

We are working on a new stats system for IL-2 Korea since the developer of IL-2 Stats (Vaal) isn't going to add support for IL-2 Korea.

https://korea.combatbox.net/

This Stat page is on Beta but is already great thankyou again Combat Box Team!

[Hetstaine]

Sorry for being a stat wh ore 😅 , but, on the stat page, one screen shows i have 5 air kills and then another shows zero. Is this a beta thing or am i looking at it wrong? 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[ATAG_Ezzie]

Hi Hetstaine,

 

i could be wrong but I think one of those images shows the total number of kills all your pilot lives (dead ones plus current active ) have gotten versus the other image which shows the number of kills your current (active still alive) has achieved. 
 

Ezzie

[Hetstaine]

That looks like it Ezzie, i was looking at ALL my pilots in my stats in the top screen and the second screen was ACTIVE with 7 sorties no kills  Thanks man!

 

I like stats with breakdowns like this, gives one more incentive to stay alive.

 

[Kemnilov]

In Operation Thunderbolt, B-29 formation fly very low, like 1 km or so. Is it intended?

[kmo1619]

Yesterday I got another friendly fire warning while attacking an enemy base. The strange thing is that the objects are located right among the enemy targets and seem to be ammunition storage buildings.

I also get the friendly fire message in-game when I attack them. I’m pretty sure they are not friendly units, since they are clearly located inside an enemy base.

Could this be a bug or are some objects at enemy bases incorrectly marked as friendly?

Apart from that, the server is great and I really enjoy it. Some of the missions still feel a little rough around the edges, but overall it’s definitely heading in the right direction.

Spotting in VR is still a bit difficult, but I hope that will be improved in one of the future updates.

I think the server will get considerably better once Deck Ops is released, mainly because it will bring in the whole naval side of the conflict. Without aircraft like the Corsair and Panther, it simply doesn’t feel complete yet.

My only concern is player balance. The UN side has a lot more options, while North Korea is quite limited, especially when it comes to ground attack. North Korea basically has only one aircraft that can really fill that role, while almost every aircraft on the UN side can carry bombs and rockets.

Because of that, when there are around 10 players on the North Korean side, you often see 9 of them flying MiGs. This means there are hardly any ground attacks, and therefore very few points being scored through ground objectives.

Maybe it would also be interesting to have AI-controlled IL-10s occasionally launch ground-attack missions that the UN side could try to intercept, similar to the B-29 missions. I think that could add some variety and make the ground-war side of the server more interesting.

Edited September 29 by kmo1619
better structure

[ATAG_Ezzie]

Hey kmo1619,

re friendly fire - one thing to check is whether u fragged yourself and this caused the FF message. 
 

I got the FF message recently and it turned out that one of my bombs damaged a tgt as well as me. So I got the FF message cause I’d damaged a friendly (ie myself). 
 

I posted an image of this in the screenshot thread yesterday. 
 

Ezzie

[kmo1619]

4 hours ago, ATAG_Ezzie said:

Hey kmo1619,

re friendly fire - one thing to check is whether u fragged yourself and this caused the FF message. 
 

I got the FF message recently and it turned out that one of my bombs damaged a tgt as well as me. So I got the FF message cause I’d damaged a friendly (ie myself). 
 

I posted an image of this in the screenshot thread yesterday. 
 

Ezzie

hey Ezzie

Thanks for the answer. I’m absolutely sure that this isn’t the case here, because I wasn’t damaged at all. In one case, I was strafing the target from quite a distance.

Also, the Combat Box logs clearly list an ammunition storage as the target of the friendly fire, and as far as I can tell, it’s always an ammo storage.

I think this might be some kind of mission issue, where an Allied ammo storage is placed in the middle of the enemy base.

[Dash,Polder]

Was there another attacker making passes in the area, because any fragments touch them from a blast or ricochet from the ground and you'll also get the message.  Even if they simply fly low enough through the napalm.

[kmo1619]

Guys, I’m pretty sure there’s a target in the middle of an enemy base that’s somehow being counted as friendly fire.

The other day I strafed an AA position next to an army camp and got the same friendly-fire message and log entry. The AA right next to it was literally shooting at me while I was making the pass, so I’m pretty damn sure I didn’t hit any actual friendlies.

It really feels like one of the objects in these enemy bases is incorrectly flagged as friendly. Weird thing is, I seem to be the only one running into this.

[S.Darius/S.Girenas]

Where is Combat Box server? Only I have this problem that in multiplayer server list is missing the best server of all

[Fabry_ASW19]

4 minutes ago, S.Darius/S.Girenas said:

Where is Combat Box server? Only I have this problem that in multiplayer server list is missing the best server of all

Apparently all Combat Box Missions after 1.0004 release are crashing so the Server have been brought down waiting for a fix from 1C devs.

[67thFBS_Heiden]

Hey guys,

I am new around here.  I've been flying on the Combat Box server for a couple days and I love it.  Two questions:  Is there a Discord server I can join?  I want to get on comms with my team there.  Also, what is SRS?  I keep hearing people talk about it in the chat but I don't know what it is.

Thanks!

[Dash,Polder]

https://combatbox.net/en/

Discord link top bar, one shared for both Great Battles and Korea.  INFO has the SRS description and tutorial video links.  Basically a app like teamspeak but far greater capabilities built in, you have multiple channels for each side so groups can splinter off, and one common channel for tower and control for mission operations, there is an AI control element built in that can update targeting info for you or your group, or give you guidance home if you can tell it where you are.