Why can't you fully unlock stuff through single-player?
 

G'day guys,

While I'm an online gamer, and have already played some games online and plan to play plenty more, it's disappointing to see that to unlock a lot of the stuff and better planes you _have_ to play online. Given half of the XBox crowd hasn't paid up for online play, and around a third of the PS3 crowd aren't online, it's a decision that could leave a bad taste in their mouth.

Axe99 the game is a multiplayer game too not just a singleplayer game. they want people to go online hence they have unlocks that can only be had by playing online. seems to me that your part of that 1/3 of that ps3 crowd that does not want to play online, you were talking about. if you do play online and plan on playing plenty more games why this post?

lol Black Death - I'm very much an online gamer, I run a clan on the PS3 (www.sptroopers.com) as well as helped set up and run a new and shiny casual clan forum (http://clanz.ipbfree.com/index.php), and have been playing online since the SOCOM beta trials and Hardware Online Arena, way back when (indeed, played online with the PC before that, but gaming on the PC feels too much like working ;)). Played a online on SOCOM (1,2 and Confrontation), KZ2, Civilization 3,4 and Revolution, Hearts of Iron I and II, whichever Quake had online in it (2 I think), Wipeout HD, HAWX, Blazing Angels 1 and 2, Burnout Paradise, and so on...... Don't believe me, you can see my trophy list Black Death, and while it won't cover all of those games, it'll give you enough of an idea ;).

So that's not why I'm posting at all. But there's no reason why there can't be alternate unlocks for the things in the single-player side of things - there's enough single player missions that you could sort it that way as well - that way both the multi-player and single-player crowd get to have their fun. As it is, half the Xbox and a third of the PS3 crowd are locked out, for no good reason.

I guess I don't like stuff that prevents people enjoying things, and there's no real reason why the offline players can't enjoy the full spectrum of planes and loadouts, other than because of a narrow design decision.

Anyways Black Death, got a SOCOM session in half an hour, but will be online with IL-2 in a couple of hours, and if you want a game will be up for it then :).

O no you didn't lol
 

;)me and you one on one simulation today at 9pm east cost in the school yard.:evil:

wuuu, you make me tremble. lol. Beware of BLACKDEATH he is almost as good as me but can only fly the spitfire. just kidding man nice to see you around here. A bastard salutes another lol.

I salutes, still looking for my dad:confused: we have a f-ed up Wing you know that. Bastards got to love it. i need to make a site you know how?

But you can't really use any of the unlocked stuff except in multiplayer anyway. Sure you can play a training mission with them, but that is nothing compared to an online game. It's not as if you can really do much in training mode, but the unlocks are VERY useful in MP.

I know it means you can't fly a few aircraft but other than quickly trying it out in training mode they serve no real purpose except online.

Well said guy. and u! are you comming at 9pm. lol gerrr:rolleyes:

Iza waitingz forz youz

You are, Iz izz posting (in Australia, so no idea what 9pm East Coast time is - hopefully not far away!) and then jumping on :)

But in terms of the unlocks, a lot of people like flying the different planes, particularly on sim where you can really tell the difference, and training mode can be a lot of fun - half the missions are dogfights to a degree, and most of the online is dogfighting or bombing, all of which you can do in training as well ;). I could just see me being a bit miffed if I wasn't online, and could imagine there will be people out there who are (who we won't see around here - and there are a _lot_ of gamers, the vast majority, who don't visit forums).