BoP multiplay

[Scottyb825]

Actually I was just going to make a post about the multilayer but you beat me to it. My question is more about the reward and ranking system. Not sure if this info is already out there or if Anton can help. I was curious if as you rank up in multiplayer how does the game reward you? Like do you unlock better planes or improved variants? Also is there a simulation mode for multiplayer with realistic damage and players are limited to the cockpit view? Sorry if this is common knowledge but I've never played IL-2 for PC before.

[guiltyspark]

PS3 as a console does not feature lan play , but 360 does and its cheaper

[Poolboy1637]

Wow, no LAN play on PS3????

I wonder just exactly what it has been that I have been doing with my friends hooking our PS3's together with ethernet cable and hubs/ switches etc and blowing each others brains out until the wee hours of the morning??

[karvis]

Hi all,
Ok so there is a LAN possibility in PS3. Good. To Scottyb825: in the original IL2 you can play Campaigns and get higher rankings after the mission but you can adjust the difficulty so many ways that getting higher ranks can be difficult (or easy...). I haven't played that much of Campaigns. There are also so called co-operative missions where you can just fly in the same virtual air with your friends against computer AI. There are thousands of these kind of coops in the Internet. They are fun during LAN. And in online gaming also or course.

But I understood that there is some kind of multiplay in BoP but does anybody know what kind of possibilities and features it includes compared to original IL2-series? Or is it just so that this information just can't be published yet . As everybody in this forum knows IL2 Sturmovik when originally released started a whole new way of playing WW2 flight sims and changed the whole genre. And one part of that "revolution" was a great multiplay possibility and you could actually build those mission by yourself using the in-game tool. I hope that even some parts of that could be included in Birds of Prey.

[Raw Kryptonite]

I'd really like to know the game types to be offered.
I'm hoping for confirmation of an attack/escort the bomber vs. defense game to be in there.