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Originally Posted by jermin
Many Western server admins are reluctant to accept the fact that there are always people who are more skilled than themselves. But I don't see this problem in Russian servers.
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I flew on Vinni Puh a lot over the years, and some other servers from the same part of the world. I always had the greatest respect for the pilots from there. They were way ahead of everyone else on engine-management because the Yak and other Russian fighters have needed mixture, supercharger and prop adjustments with the first version of Forgotten Battles.
In some early FB patches the Yak could turn like a Spitfire while the 109s were all skating around using a lot of flaps to even come close to them, that is when more of the smarter IL2 pilots(not me) started zooming and booming, like Chivas and jv44 Rall. I always liked the visibility of the 109F, the G2 had good performance but rear view has always sucked.
Me as "the noob" in 2003 using padlock flying a 109G2 around in CrazyIvan's server. There are a lot of great old names in the chat-bar if you watch, some of them you still see on rare occasion. Boy do I miss those days:
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=...34/QnOUkIyj5Dc
This was patch 1.21 for Forgotten Battles which came out in November 2003 and this track was made in December. We already had over two years flying IL2. Everyone is trying out the new P-51 Mustang which was in this patch! Also the Ki-84a and A6m5a zero first made an appearance here, and we were on the road to Pacific Fighters..! I used to download these patches and fly with a 56k modem, I thought I had the hot setup because it was an external hardware modem, not a junky internal software job. IT would often take half a day to download one patch for IL2.