Are you an online or offline user?

[Thunderbolt56]

Originally Posted by jasonbirder

Bear in mind that there is more to realism than merely flying Full Switch...its about a populated map, an active ground envionment, realistic weather, realistic flight times, sizeable homogonous formations and consistent formation flying, realistic plane sets (Not Mustangs and Spit IX's against 190D's) proper mission objectives...
I am sure that these crop up occasionally online...but I KNOW for a fact if i pick my Offline experience I can get it 100% of the time Offline...Whereas my experince of online (even in so called fumm switch environments) is late 44 & 45 planes flying ad hoc sweep missions against each other on bare maps...i can think of nothing more boring!

True some of the time. But the few times there really is a definitive, diverse mission (a large, spread out ground target that requires multiple sorties to neutralize) and both sides actually fly towards the objectives, it's not even comparable to flying against the predictable AI Haxxorz. And there really is enough of it to measure.

It's just my opinion, but I can fly those "realistic" offline missions 20 times and rack up ridiculous aerial and ground kills and feel absolutely no satisfaction or sense of accomplishment. On the other hand, if I fly one ground attack mission online and make it home to land (sometimes regardless of my mudmoving success), I feel like I've beaten the odds and look forward to doing it again.