How to play online?
 

Anyone have any tips to make sure I get a game?
Tonight I was getting the "server is not available" message.

This game is pretty good, I think ALL the cockpits would be nice, and I enjoy online gaming - but if it's just campaign mode, then I will be disappointed.

server not available isnt a problem with the servers, it just means that no games are currenty in the lobby waiting to be launched. Though games could be in progress.

Best bet is to check friends list, see if anyone else is playing first, and get into their games...more the merrier.

Or

just keep trying for a few mins refreshing the page to see if any games turn up. Though at the mo you'll be hard pressed to find one im afraid. Good luck though, when you find a game its superb to play:D

I will write down all the tags I see, and when I am on next, will be adding people like crazy.

My XBOX tag is bettyx9

Many players are on hiatus from the game until the patch arrives (myself included, although part of that maybe because I have no more XBL Gold left:P). So there may be less players then normal, but there are still some guys kicking around, you just need to get 'em on your friends list.

Something about this thread seems "staged". LOL

Hey, whatever works.

Still not expecting a patch anytime soon.

I have no clue what this means.

All I want to know is how to find people online to play this game. It's not like Call of Duty with well over 100000 people at any given time and servers that are mch easier to pick up a game on.

I've got a tip for you to get a guaranteed game....

1) Go to your PC,

2) Order IL-2 1946 Forgotten Battles for £6 or $10, of 7 Euro's depending where you're from.

3) Install

4) Play, guaranteed game, even with a low budget PC due to game's age, still has acceptable graphics, but 100's of people online all at the same time, with true realism settings and everything WORKS, no crappy physics, no bullshit armaments or ugly paint schemes, no Crash / Kill problems, just 100 working gaming fun!

Robert,

Tell you what add me on Xbox live (tag sloppyclock); me and about 8 others play near enough every night (and during the day of course ^^), we party up, if you add me next time your on we'll party up and play a few games, sound good?

Sloppy

With the risk of getting 'stop acting like a mod!!11!1!' thrown at me again, I'd like to kindly request you'd stop selling 1946 on this forum. I've got no problems with it usually, especially in the 'What's the most up to date flight sim' thread, but it's getting a bit out of hand with you.
It's a good game, better than BoP in a couple of ways, but that's not a reason to rant on and on about it in every single thread. The OP was asking about BoP, and wasn't asking about 1946 in any way.

P.S. Robert, you can add me as well (GT = Ancient Seraph), but I'm not playing a lot atm.

Sloppy - thanks, will add you later today!

House - I have a Mac. And ZERO interest in 1946. I would agree with Ancient Seraph on this one; the forum is for Birds of Prey, and the more we band together to at least play BOP, the less we will need other games.

Thanks all who answered, I will be sending out friend requests this afternoon!

I totally agree with you on that one.

Robert- if you want you can add me too, GT = Deathbringer135

I agree with you agreeing, and I agree too

Robert: you can add me as well: MorgothME


for the record, I dont think it is fair to compare PC 1946 with console BOP.
PC - console is the first reason
2nd one is that BOP focusses more on less-than-hardcore-simmers

And like I said, both games offer thing the other game doesnt have.

lol I'm not going to throw stop acting like a mod at you, and i dont believe it was aimed at you the first time :) but as you wish, I apologise wholeheartedly and unreservedly.



to answer more sensibly to the OP, there are people but it doesn't work very well, host your own and more often than not, people will join.
There's always someone on, and personally I've never had any problem finding games, or getting people joining once I've created one.

Feel free to add "House MD 221B" and I'll happily give you a game when I get my Red Ringed Xbox back from Frankfurt Germany where it's being repaired. Because don't get me wrong, I enjoy playing it on SIM mode, but I'm disappointed with the fact it has SO MANY flaws, otherwise as I have said elsewhere, it is the BEST Flight Sim the consoles will more than likely EVER see, if they do a sequel I hope they learn from their mistakes.

Add me too if you want. I'm either on this or NFS Shift at the moment.

You really are after than ban hammer aren't you, you are desperate to be a mod on here!! :D lol.

i agree with you though mate, im getting pissed off with hearing about 1940 f*cking 6!!


:evil:

And on a lighter note, thanks to everyone who allowed me to join their friend lists.

I played a number of games today, mostly under the tutelage of SloppyCock, and managed to get two kills, both in a Hurricane. That was after I adjusted the sensitivities because I kept spinning in! Realistic is much tougher than Arcade.

I also managed to unlock a number of planes in the Campaign mode, and now have some choice.

Still find it annoying that the cockpits are various planes are missing, but all in all, I am highly addicted to this excellent game!

glad your enjoying the game, it needs every player it can get.:P starting to get anxious to get back into the game actually. but by the time I get my ass down to Gamestop for some more XBL Gold, MW2 will probably be out, and then I'll be very preoccupied by that (as will most everyone else here).:)

I just finished to level 65 CoD World at War (finally - in fact, just did it today!), made it round the horn once on MW 1, and I have MW2 on pre-order, will be here next week. I am also on days off for the next two weeks, which means I will:

1. Learn to fly (and shoot down Sloppy! I promise!):-P
2. Proceed to play MW2 before my mates over here do, and learn to kill them, with extreme prejudice. :evil:

Game on!

A little off-topic I know, but for the record, I have never reached the max multiplayer level or gotten prestige in COD4 or COD: WoW. :o

Ahaha I swear you did today? Thought that CTA game was wicked, basically a sandbox! Would be good if it was possible to easily situate a dogfight over Manston, flying there from Dover is no problem but still hassle :?
Apart from revision and a couple of lectures I'll be bummin' around in the air, see you there.

Add me as well guys, I'm still on board for this game.

xbl: ontheborderland

feel free to friend me too, I don't have time to play as much as some of the other users but look me up if you seem me on BoP. XBL tag= Doktorwyzzerd1