Check out the Merch Store: growling-sidewinder.creator-spring.com/ American Murder Hornet Hoodie: growling-sidewinder.creator-spring.com/listing/american-murder-hornet-bluepri?product=227\ If you're a Yak flying expert go ahead and drop your tips in the comment section below I've love to get some tips to better fly my Yak1 Thanks for watching and I'll see you guys in the next one.
Hey I just have a real quick question that doesn’t have to do a lot with the video, I got a PC to fly in Il-2 and DCS, but it’s been crashing, and I wanted to know what are your components in your PC, and maybe if I can, to know what controllers you’re using, pls help
Love the IL-2 content GS - just wanted to let you know the 1B doesn't have a cannon, just a .50cal. Feels like a canon on this teeny plane though. Keep it up dude! Excited for more WW2 content from you :)
@@DPM666 Hi man, please note (from the IL-2 store about the yak1b) Armament: 20mm gun "SsVAK", 140 rounds, 800 rounds per minute and 12.7mm machine gun "UB", 220 rounds, 1000 rounds per minute.
I love the variety this channel has right now, WWI, WWII, cold war, modern. It's all welcome and it's a fun surprise seeing what GS is flying today. Keep up the good work!
You watch these vids and see GS become an ace in a day and wonder why pilots didn't have 3000 kills....until you watch the end when GS himself gets killed on the same day.
Probably a lot more common than most people think, specifically on the Eastern Front... Rudel was flying like 15 sorties a day. Every day. For years. That kind of operational tempo gets great stats, and increases the chance to die suddenly almost exponentially.
@@BeingFireRetardant also helps the soviet air force was almost completely gutted by the purge, and everything that at the start of the rebuilding the airforce was mostly destroyed in the first month on the ground. The soviet air force had to build up fast, and they made huge strides in 42 and 43. Everyone always talks about the soviet army. But the soviet air force was massive in 45
A little tip for those interested in playing IL-2 Sturmovik themselves: they regularly have big discounts on their site. An option is to buy the base game (Battle of Stalingrad) for full price and then get the expansions when they are discounted.
I'd recommend getting Bodenplatte or even Normandy if you can't wait and get the rest on sale (the older ones get the highest discounts and you drop your support cash when getting the latest one that still is WIP with that early access discount). There is no "base game", every single pack works as such. The planes that come with the Premium editions are a great addition as well, so consider getting those instead of just the standard ones. Buying those collector planes afterwards is more expensive.
I love the IL-2 content. I've been playing this game and watching you play dcs, when you turned to IL-2 i was so hyped. This is great! Keep it up my man! I'd love to see more multiplayer.
“Dear Mrs. Sidewinderkova. The Soviet high command regrets to inform you that your husband, comrade Cpt. G. Sidewinderkov, was killed in action in the skies over German occupied Russia. He fought valiantly, dispatching several enemy planes of the fascists dogs before giving his life on behalf of the great Soviet people. Please accept the Hero of the Soviet Union, awarded posthumously, on behalf of the late comrade Cpt. G. Sidewinderkov. The people of the Soviet Union are truly grateful for his sacrifice.”
I'm absolutely loving the ww2 and ww1 videos. I would like to see how you would do in the career mode how far you could get without dieing or bail out behind enemy lines.
have always been on the fence with VR - but your Il2 videos lately made me pull the trigger and my goodness, theres really nothing like it. I find myself just looking at the scale of the wing for way to long I'm so impressed. Also - side note to all, IL2 is having a huge sale till beg of November, some great deals on everything
Keep mixing it up, it seems after years of flight sims not being that great we are in a renaissance, with VR making it truly amazing and getting better.
Comrade Growling your job was escort not ground attack. Also you attempted to sabotage mission by catching bombs with your plane. Report to punishment battalion for glorious mineclearing of Motherland.
Yak-1B is a very strong fighter in the 1942-1943 period in most servers. It carries the Russian team because it’s usually far more numerous than the La-5FN. Good pick.
Love your videos! keep up the good content. BTW it seems like your getting pretty into VR lately so I seriously suggest looking into the HP reverb G2 Headset. It has amazing clarity and once I got it I couldn't go back to flat screen again.
You got to get the Yak-9T with the 37mm cannon. It's an amazing flyer and has a giant cannon. Just single tap 109s and 190s out of the air with 37mm HE. If you can get a direct rear aspect hit on the tail feathers of an He111 you can take it out in one hit too. That's more fun than shooting the engines lol.
IL2 is definitely the best WW2 flight sim out there imo. I personally love flying the Hurricane in the Soviet spec with the Shvak cannons. It's definitely an underdog when it comes to speed but I seem to do quite well with it
And there you have the vexxing problem of being a fighter pilot. A genuine Ace like GS wreaks havoc on an enemy formation but with one tiny lapse of concentration gets blasted out of the sky by an unseen enemy...and you don't get to respawn :/
Love seeing the IL-2 content. You should play on the Finnish Virtual Pilot server. I primarily fly Luftwaffe but if you need a buddy to team up let me know!
Red Baron said never to follow a bandit to the ground cuz you might get killed by ground fire but that’s exactly how he died. Lol maybe people’s advice is really foreshadowing their own death.
Also using the RIFT S in IL2 but i m struggling to get settings allowing me to efficiently spot & ID planes beyond medium range… dont if you also had to tweak a bit…
Even if germans retain performance up high better, doesn't meant that height/energy advantage is of no use for soviet fighters. Also noticed that due worse quality of canopy glass for soviet fighters, for better visibility and hearing, for enhanced tactical awareness, many pilots in some cases fly on soviet fighters in IL2 with open canopy, closing it down on certain maneuvers where every extra speed bit matters.
I think it was in Alexander Pokryshkin's memoir that i read that mig3 pilots preferred to fly with the canopy open, because it couldn't be opened above a certain speed, which made it impossible to bail out. Just a side note.
@@zloychechen5150 I know of historical reasoning, but i mentioned because saw this trick often used in streams of one IL2 player, when he was flying soviet planes. Obviously, mostly to enhance awareness, not because uncertainty in ability to open it in emergency.
Gotta say, you must be handling the WWII fighters you've tried so far in VR (Hurricane, YaK) pretty damn well to be downing so many Bf 109's (and the odd Fw 190) with them - all else being equal I wouldn't expect to see that.
Il2 has better visibility and more immersing effects than DCS. Water droplets, sun blinding you and blurred vision when wounded/fatigued. It is also less tiresome than DCS in my opinion.
What settings are you using for VR? How does it actually look in the headset? For me, everything is really pixelated no matter how much I bump up the settings and the resolution. I am using an Oculus Quest 2.
By my count, GS has been shot in the face at least once per day over the last 3 or 4 days (yes, I'm counting his dogfight in the Bristol Fighter despite him surviving it). Just what is it with him and getting shot in the face?
Does playing with the VR headset run the game better than playing with a monitor? I'm assuming that the smaller screens in the headset would make gameplay smoother than playing with the larger monitor.
Check out the Merch Store: growling-sidewinder.creator-spring.com/
American Murder Hornet Hoodie: growling-sidewinder.creator-spring.com/listing/american-murder-hornet-bluepri?product=227\
If you're a Yak flying expert go ahead and drop your tips in the comment section below I've love to get some tips to better fly my Yak1 Thanks for watching and I'll see you guys in the next one.
Hey I just have a real quick question that doesn’t have to do a lot with the video, I got a PC to fly in Il-2 and DCS, but it’s been crashing, and I wanted to know what are your components in your PC, and maybe if I can, to know what controllers you’re using, pls help
Thanks for the yak video!!!
Love the IL-2 content GS - just wanted to let you know the 1B doesn't have a cannon, just a .50cal. Feels like a canon on this teeny plane though. Keep it up dude! Excited for more WW2 content from you :)
@@DPM666 Hi man, please note (from the IL-2 store about the yak1b) Armament: 20mm gun "SsVAK", 140 rounds, 800 rounds per minute and 12.7mm machine gun "UB", 220 rounds, 1000 rounds per minute.
@@GrowlingSidewinder my bad! Sorry homie
The last 109 pilot thinking “I just love it when problems solve themselves”..
Instant karma
Like their final solution?
@The Sea Meteor Wants To Know Your Location Dreams fade away and all hope turns to dust
*in German language*
@The Sea Meteor Wants To Know Your Location lost to the world as they perish in flames
I love the variety this channel has right now, WWI, WWII, cold war, modern. It's all welcome and it's a fun surprise seeing what GS is flying today. Keep up the good work!
I've really been digging the IL-2 content, gotta say
Better than Wt
Loven this IL-2 content as I perfer the WW2 era planes over the more modern ones and I play IL-2 in VR as well.
Keep em coming mate!
You watch these vids and see GS become an ace in a day and wonder why pilots didn't have 3000 kills....until you watch the end when GS himself gets killed on the same day.
Probably a lot more common than most people think, specifically on the Eastern Front...
Rudel was flying like 15 sorties a day. Every day. For years. That kind of operational tempo gets great stats, and increases the chance to die suddenly almost exponentially.
@@BeingFireRetardant also helps the soviet air force was almost completely gutted by the purge, and everything that at the start of the rebuilding the airforce was mostly destroyed in the first month on the ground.
The soviet air force had to build up fast, and they made huge strides in 42 and 43. Everyone always talks about the soviet army. But the soviet air force was massive in 45
@@BeingFireRetardant Rundel: stat-padder
A little tip for those interested in playing IL-2 Sturmovik themselves: they regularly have big discounts on their site. An option is to buy the base game (Battle of Stalingrad) for full price and then get the expansions when they are discounted.
I'd recommend getting Bodenplatte or even Normandy if you can't wait and get the rest on sale (the older ones get the highest discounts and you drop your support cash when getting the latest one that still is WIP with that early access discount). There is no "base game", every single pack works as such.
The planes that come with the Premium editions are a great addition as well, so consider getting those instead of just the standard ones. Buying those collector planes afterwards is more expensive.
this sudden burst of world war era content is a very VERY welcome change. don't quit giving us our tomcat fix though ;)
I have to admit I only watch your DCS videos occasionally, but I watched every single one of your recent IL-2 and FC videos! Great stuff
Me too, exactly.
Fc?
@@sneakymilkman4203 Flying Circus. The WWI stuff
REALLY appreciating the WW1/WW2 content. Great video.
Also... to have great rear visibility, you sure didn't use it much ;-)
"It was ..." That cracked me up! Thanks GS
Thanks as always for tuning in Ken
I love the IL-2 content. I've been playing this game and watching you play dcs, when you turned to IL-2 i was so hyped. This is great! Keep it up my man! I'd love to see more multiplayer.
“Dear Mrs. Sidewinderkova. The Soviet high command regrets to inform you that your husband, comrade Cpt. G. Sidewinderkov, was killed in action in the skies over German occupied Russia. He fought valiantly, dispatching several enemy planes of the fascists dogs before giving his life on behalf of the great Soviet people. Please accept the Hero of the Soviet Union, awarded posthumously, on behalf of the late comrade Cpt. G. Sidewinderkov. The people of the Soviet Union are truly grateful for his sacrifice.”
I'm absolutely loving the ww2 and ww1 videos. I would like to see how you would do in the career mode how far you could get without dieing or bail out behind enemy lines.
have always been on the fence with VR - but your Il2 videos lately made me pull the trigger and my goodness, theres really nothing like it. I find myself just looking at the scale of the wing for way to long I'm so impressed. Also - side note to all, IL2 is having a huge sale till beg of November, some great deals on everything
I love that you show your fails to.❤ Unlike some who only show when they are awsome and seems like imortal.
Keep up this game! Great content. The WW2 stuff is nuts in VR too.
That was some great flying there, right up to the point where you got killed...
lold yaaaa....
Brilliant!!! Really enjoying the ww1 and 2 vids. Those old birds had soul.
Keep mixing it up, it seems after years of flight sims not being that great we are in a renaissance, with VR making it truly amazing and getting better.
The water effects of rain and clouds on the canopy in VR in this game are sooooooo good.
As requested, pro tip: Try not to fly over the target as the bombs are dropping. 🧐 Really liking the IL 2 stuff. 🤛
Glad to see you flying il2 warbirds....good show!
real appreciate for posting ww2/IL 2 videos.
Comrade Growling your job was escort not ground attack. Also you attempted to sabotage mission by catching bombs with your plane. Report to punishment battalion for glorious mineclearing of Motherland.
Sweet! Right before school starts I get to watch a new IL-2 Video from you!
Yak-1B is a very strong fighter in the 1942-1943 period in most servers. It carries the Russian team because it’s usually far more numerous than the La-5FN. Good pick.
Can't wait for some Pacific Theatre stuff!
I love this game. Rift s and Buttkicker 2 under my racing seat. Keep up the good work!
Love your videos! keep up the good content.
BTW it seems like your getting pretty into VR lately so I seriously suggest looking into the HP reverb G2 Headset. It has amazing clarity and once I got it I couldn't go back to flat screen again.
Love the constant stream of content, man! So good!
Thanks. Great as usual. I REALLY love the Yak-3 as flown in Aces High. It is faster than the 9 and 7 and has better visibility.
Your videos are really good. IL 2 is a really fun simulator.
Love the IL-2 content!
I’m loving the prop content. Keep it up :)
That squish sound when the pilot gets hit is so gut wrenching...
Way to mix it up GS. Never gets boring
Can’t wait to see you do a Yak-3. It was supposed to be their best in WWII.
now that was a juicy video
You got to get the Yak-9T with the 37mm cannon. It's an amazing flyer and has a giant cannon. Just single tap 109s and 190s out of the air with 37mm HE. If you can get a direct rear aspect hit on the tail feathers of an He111 you can take it out in one hit too. That's more fun than shooting the engines lol.
The daily upload is so gud man keep it up
Ouch - loved the ending
Today's question: Is getting shot in the back of the head preferable to getting shot in the face? Only Growling Sidewinder can say for sure!
Outstanding.
7:54 I was just thinking "damn, you're tunnel visioning on targets and not checking your six today" and then bamn, that happened.
Loving the il2 action
Clear and detailed graphics
Man you have an uncanny ability to get pilot sniped. It feels like it happens 3 out of every 4 times you get shot down lol
Ikr. When I get shot with 30mm in a canopy, I can fly back to base with relative ease. GS on the other hand is a magnet for lead.
Happens to me a lot in my old IL-2 PF
i’d love to see some yak 9T action
If Growling Sidewinder gets shot down, and didn't get shot in the face, did it really happen?
IL2 is definitely the best WW2 flight sim out there imo. I personally love flying the Hurricane in the Soviet spec with the Shvak cannons. It's definitely an underdog when it comes to speed but I seem to do quite well with it
Nice video. I love the vr series!
"Stay on target" ...dude. You sound like Jester. Stow that shit.
In other news, you've inspired me to reinstall IL2, so thats nice. Keep it up.
I love the WW2 stuff, both DCS and IL-2.
Great ending! 👍👍
Perfect timing!! 😉
Nice vertical in the end, GSW! =)
Nothing makes me happier than a new ww1 or ww2 video
And there you have the vexxing problem of being a fighter pilot. A genuine Ace like GS wreaks havoc on an enemy formation but with one tiny lapse of concentration gets blasted out of the sky by an unseen enemy...and you don't get to respawn :/
I love the variety of content your making man , maybe try the BF-109 next time.
It was at this moment, he knew, he fu×ked up. Classic!
Love WW2 DCS, Il2, and hoping for some future Pacific theatre realese from one of both
Il2 is great. I don't know why, I like it more than DCS. It seems more RAW. And those VR thing seems great.
It has better damage models and VR compatybility. In DCS I only fly mig21 and hornet, but enjoy every plane in IL2.
Love the il2 content
Watched and 👍 Liked
I don't care what game it is, I just love the WWII content.
Love seeing the IL-2 content. You should play on the Finnish Virtual Pilot server. I primarily fly Luftwaffe but if you need a buddy to team up let me know!
Have you tried flying the mustang yet? For some reason I really struggle with that one
Love how he preaches not to get target fixation then gets fixated on a target 🎯 Boom
Red Baron said never to follow a bandit to the ground cuz you might get killed by ground fire but that’s exactly how he died. Lol maybe people’s advice is really foreshadowing their own death.
@@GrowlingSidewinder The way I Herd it Snoopy shot the Red Baron Down Or maybe that was FAKE NEWS
LETS GO BRANDON!
I unironically loved the Battlefield theme in this vid
it's fitting
That 109 was in your rear mirror for ages. I'm telling at the tv lol
when exacltly?
Ugh I cannot wait to play this game.
Hey Growling some MC202 action?
the battlefield 1942 music fits the ww2 content perfectly
he's gonna use the actual IL-2 Sturmovik one day
Oh lawd it was at that moment, it felt good to laugh.
i played original il2 15 years ago
we had friday bomber night was so much fun
do you know servers have bomber nights?
Yep as I have learned so many times in IL2 never go vertical on a 109 it’s no bueno.
We are gonna new pilot in the sky with all those il2 video hehe
Also using the RIFT S in IL2 but i m struggling to get settings allowing me to efficiently spot & ID planes beyond medium range… dont if you also had to tweak a bit…
hahah is this *splat* an ingame sound at 7:59? :D
Nope, it's just GS's signature :D
Great ending!
Even if germans retain performance up high better, doesn't meant that height/energy advantage is of no use for soviet fighters.
Also noticed that due worse quality of canopy glass for soviet fighters, for better visibility and hearing, for enhanced tactical awareness, many pilots in some cases fly on soviet fighters in IL2 with open canopy, closing it down on certain maneuvers where every extra speed bit matters.
I think it was in Alexander Pokryshkin's memoir that i read that mig3 pilots preferred to fly with the canopy open, because it couldn't be opened above a certain speed, which made it impossible to bail out. Just a side note.
@@zloychechen5150 I know of historical reasoning, but i mentioned because saw this trick often used in streams of one IL2 player, when he was flying soviet planes. Obviously, mostly to enhance awareness, not because uncertainty in ability to open it in emergency.
@@church493 yeah, hence that's a side note. I haven't played any flightsims since like 2012, but i get what you mean..
Yak-1B and Yak-7 used to be my favourite soviet planes in WarThunder. More so for the Yak-1B it's so manageable, fast enough and maneuvarable.
"It was at this moment......"
L. O. L. ! !
Planes sure start on fire quick in the game.
Gotta say, you must be handling the WWII fighters you've tried so far in VR (Hurricane, YaK) pretty damn well to be downing so many Bf 109's (and the odd Fw 190) with them - all else being equal I wouldn't expect to see that.
how is IL2 in vr vs dcs?
Il2 has better visibility and more immersing effects than DCS. Water droplets, sun blinding you and blurred vision when wounded/fatigued. It is also less tiresome than DCS in my opinion.
Great content as always GS! The WW2 stuff is a very refreshing change! Anyone know what music is used in this clip?
...."that's a good day for me"....he says.
Minutes later....KIA....
Nice video though. ☺
Famous last words :D
@@CakePrincessCelestia 👍👍😆
"look at the sun!" bro, don't
I do that every night... :)
What settings are you using for VR? How does it actually look in the headset? For me, everything is really pixelated no matter how much I bump up the settings and the resolution. I am using an Oculus Quest 2.
RIP my friend… We’ll raise a glass in your honor tonight at the local post-mission watering hole. lol
Sheesh.. just when things are going your way....
By my count, GS has been shot in the face at least once per day over the last 3 or 4 days (yes, I'm counting his dogfight in the Bristol Fighter despite him surviving it). Just what is it with him and getting shot in the face?
Face too big, comrade.
Does playing with the VR headset run the game better than playing with a monitor? I'm assuming that the smaller screens in the headset would make gameplay smoother than playing with the larger monitor.
Nice.
Nice! Gs how do you spot people better like what's ur settings that help spot planes since I'm having trouble with that
@@-Zevin- thanks for the tip bro, and yeah I'm gonna experement with it but sometimes it doesn't help having a 15.6 inch laptop monitor to play on lol
Last 109 pilot: "nice"
I love how unforgiving Il2 is. 1 mistake amd that's the end