My Impressions to this Point

[SEE]

You need to add some of the regulars who play SIM and Realistic levels. They are on most nights. Which console are you on and what time zone?

The game search function is a problem but having a friends list of the the people who play your preferred level will ease the frustration. Alternatively, host a few sessions and wait for peeps to drop in.

BTW, each level has its devotees and some migrate to and fro across them whilst others only play a particular one and peeps get a bit defensive if someone says one is better than the other. Don't be suprised or offended if you get a few curt responses.....after you have been on here a while you will get used to it!

[Shadowcorp]

+2 wookie
1+winny
you can't steal a kill you can only take to long shooting him down. And Capture the airfields is a team game so stop complaining, you aces in sim are not aces in arcade big deal. You would have been whinning even more if you were the one getting chewed on by hartmann77, you don't like aracde no one made you play it. It's a real shame for you the majority of the community plays arcade (the mode you claim to be a waste) my heart bleeds, man your "I'm not complaining...... but i think aracde is a complete waste of money that went into this game" made me ROFL; the physics required in simulator mode are more expensive to replicate as they require much more code to make up for the variables.....more code more time coding more time testing checking what bugs said coding caused to happen equals more expensive more time consuming.

[haitch40]

oh joy another flame eachother thread this is becoming normal

[juz1]

Home truths...

1) in online Deathmatches your kills get taken...true of all dagdagdag games...
(if its a teammate then "go team!"...)
2) in arcade on il2 you'll get chewed up by regulars in a small selection of the available planes that turn well...get used to it...
3) In realistic/sim you'll need to use the spit or La or you'll get out turned when numbers are small or 1 on 1.
I try to use the 109 and get bfd! everytime I face a spit. Yet last night faced a k4 in a g2 and hey presto 7:1 to me.

now suck it up all of you and flame me till I fart!

[Gilly]

+1 Shadowcorp
+1 Winney
+1 dkwookie

I think winney sums it up nicely. I play in all 3 modes yet have come to choose arcade as my preference for exactly that 'crash bang' effect. As shadow also states cta, strike and teambattle are 'team' games and therefore I don't care who gets a kill and in whatever way either. Come play with me hauptman as there's not a hope of me 'stealing your kill' as i can't hit a cows arse with a banjo in a fighter but I'll fly and bomb the backside of any target in a
bomber. I know what I'm good at and just make sure I have team mates who can fly fighters. Do I care if I've spent 5 minutes shooting at someone from the rear turret only to have someone fly up behind and take him down, do I care if i spend time dropping bombs on bunkers to have someone fly over in a po2 and steal the 'kill'? No not at all, it's a game at the end of the day and an f'ing good one at that. Get to know some people, learn from them and their respective expertise and build a 'squadron' of friends you can rely on and play with, maybe then you won't get so upset when a 'friend' steals 'your kill'. The community and it's spirit is what really stands this game out from others so use it.

[f1rebrand]

+1 Shadowcorp
+1 Winny
+1 dkwookie
+1 Gilly

Well said, Gilly. Always a pleasure to fly with you in my mach 1.3 Hurricane.

I've every intention of trying out sim mode when I feel confident enough to keep my plane in the air but this Sim 'holier than thou' snobbery (from a minority of simmers) puts me right off.