Oleg shared some REAL NEWS today

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Originally Posted by Skoshi Tiger

This week’s update has made me really excited. Potentially 128 people in multi player would lead to amazing online events. I hope there is a way of operating in some kind of organised fashion rather than the free for all that’s happening in IL-2 at the moment.

IRC IL2 also supported 128 players online. I personally attended many online events and battles with almost 90 people at the time. The problem with this is - unless you have an utterly powerful server with excellent bandwidth you won't make it past 60 players without massive lag for the majority of people on it. At least that is how it was in IL2.