Using Lag Switches is cheating, especially in Ranked Matches.

[cyclone70]

Happened to me few days back.
Lined up the shot and the guy started jumping a hundred feet through the air. Might have been coincidence I suppose. Maybe more prevailent in arcade mode? Most Sim players seem an honest bunch.

[Spitfire23]

wow never knew such a thing existed, no wonder in a couple of games the plane i was shooting was there one minute and 200ft up the next

[kozzm0]

il-2 lags randomly in arcade because people overload their servers with more players than they can handle, cause there's no bandwidth-test to set the player max.

I think another factor to arcade mode lag may be that people shoot from much farther away, and fly around in crazed furball at about Mach 0.8, spraying unlimited numbers of rounds in all directions, which is a lot of high-speed stuff for a server to track. When a random lag glitch occurs, it's usually corrected fairly quickly, but when everything's going so fast, when the server makes the correction the plane has moved 200 meters.

simulator has a tendency to freeze up for a half second at times, but not often, and not long enough to lose a target, usually.

[Draakje]

There are some lag switchers in arcade yes, met a couple of them.
They are perfectly fine flying behind u etc but as soon as u get on their tail they get insanely laggy and teleport away.
Then resuming to normal when they are out of your sights.

[haitch40]

i never knew about thes but man it sucks