After a few hours of playing online I am severely disappointed. From a game like this I expected a somewhat mature audience, but not here. Everyone is flying nothing but Ki 84s, Spitfire VIIIs, Ta 152s etc whenever possible. Clearly on the servers I was playing on noone gave a crap about realism or fairness but was just after his personal kill board. In a game like IL-2 that simply can't be balanced, nor should it be, you'd expect the players to be grown up enough not to let every pacific battle become a F4U vs Ki 84 slugfest. Apparently too much to ask.
Eh, this is why i never got into IL2's online scene, it seems there's only 3 kinds of server out there:
1) The ego-shooter servers, with a mixed bag of realism settings, and everyone is garunteed to only fly the very best 1945/1946 planes because it's all about getting them kills! its all Yak3, P-51, F4U, KI-84, TA-152, ME-262, 109K4 and LA-7 all the time baby! nothing else, the rest of the plane set might aswell not even exist.
2) The supa-cerial competitive servers, good plane sets on thease, but you might aswell not bother unless you are in a squad and the kind of guy who wants to join online ladders for thouse awesome e-penor bragging rights, if you are a casual player you wont feel very welcome here at all.
3) The coop servers, there is actually good fun to be had here, but alas, IL2 is just not a great coop game, the missions are usually quite long, and there is bugger all for you to do if you luck out and get shot down early.. if only you could just take over an AI plane and still be in the game it would be great, but that's not how it works sadly.
Ofcourse i'm oversimplifying here, but regardless, thats pretty much how IL2 works Online, there is little room for the casual pilot who likes realism, its either the pubs, and then its all 1945 furball wonderland all the time, or there's the few realism servers, but they are dominated by team-stacking squadies who take the game way too serious and wont let anyone else have some fun, win win win all the time at all costs! OMG look at my statpage plz!
Meh, its just not for me, and its not that i'm a bad pilot, i did well enough to be happy with my kills, its just the whole ultra competitive angle the community has that turns me right off, i used to host my own invite only games for clouse freinds on IRC, and we flew all kinds of maps and plane sets for the fun of it and the enjoyment of flying, good times, but thats really the only way i have ever had fun with IL2 online, clouse freinds only!
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