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Originally Posted by jermin
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1. I don't recall UKdedicated servers being serious ones. Didn't they run on an arcade setting? Besides, none of them were as popular as the best servers on hyperlobby in the history of IL2, such as greater green, winds of war, spits vs 109 etc.
2. From where did you made that assumption? The appearance of mods has opened up the Pandora box and cheating started to spread, which drove those serious gamers away. That's why there are so many wonder-woman servers on the lobby. Because current online community is mostly comprised of new players who are reluctant to spend time learning navigation, SA and teamwork. They love the air quakes. But that is not the best scenery you can see in a combat flight sim. Sorry, TD, but the overheating feature you included in 4.11m has made this situation even worse. They will stuck to those UFOs more than ever from now on.
3. I highly doubt what you said is the real reason. Some very popular Russian servers upgraded immediately after the patch release, AlexServer for example. But, it's pity that it is an arcade server.
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1. You have so no idea what you are talking about. All three UKded servers ran historical missions with limited plane sets and the difficulty level increased by server. Open pit, locked pit and full real. ALL running full difficulty except for GUI and cockpit related settings. Plus, they always were in the top ten on HL. Besides that, I do not recall your name ever coming up in any meaningful way during the last 5 years I have been involved in this community. So there is little credit to your name to begin with.
2. Drove them away from where? Oh right, the free servers they did never support and happily taken their servies for granted. Honestly, those players can rot in hell. Either you are dedicated as you claim, which includes supporting those server that provide the service you like and therfor there is no risk of cheaters being around, or you are just spoiled and deserve no better than see your beloved environment go to hell, which in your world means is converted to a modded server. If all the oh so dedicated full real flyers would have cared they could have easily upheld their own servers free of any mods, but they didn't. So tough luck.
3. Trust me, I have build missions for the UKdedicated servers for several years and we always have taken to our maps by updating them whenever a new patch arrived. If others don't do that, it is their fault for not wanting to delivered the best the game has to offer in its most recent state. Simple as that.