Damage text (when shooting enemy), down to server?

[Maxtor]

I recall that I used to see text saying when I'd hit an enemy's plane when in multiplayer (hit control cables/damaged aileron, that sort of thing) - is this down to the server setting or has it been removed from the game? It was quite nice for learning the ropes when you're on target.

[KG26_Alpha]

Its still there in coop missions.

Don't know about dogfight servers I don't use those.

[Feuerfalke]

AFAIK it's serverside - at least the option to make the messages appear or not, is.

[Maxtor]

Ok, cheers both for the info.
I swear I used to be reasonable at this game! Not doing so well at the moment, a lot of the servers seem to have a disproportionate number of utter morons in them too (present company excepted I'm sure!), I used to be in the raf662 clan so could always be sure of a fair game.
Whilst picking your brains - is there a way of showing the message history? (Aside from hitting 'tab' which is hard to read and also shows a lot of other random garbage), quite often a message flicks past on the single line and I don't see it in time.

[KG26_Alpha]

Turning on event log file will produced a file you can open with text editor to see your in game messages.

In the conf ini file in your IL2 directory

[Game]
eventlogkeep=1

Will produce a event logfile.

If you want to see the messages produced in the game "live" you will have to scroll down the list in the chat window unfortunately.