Are you an online or offline user?

[T}{OR]

Exclusively online, for the last three years. I gave up on IL2 back then when I was flying offline only. AI is just too boring.

Once you try online and full switch there is no going back. No AI can substitute that.

[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.

[Rama]

Online only until I stopped flying virtually begining of this year.

I need teamwork and flying with mates on TS (possibly on coop or online campaigns). Offline is a boring experience compared to online.... even on "great immersive mission and background", which are only decorum to the virtual flying... like drinking bad wine in a palace, when you could have the best champagne with your friends in any place...

[Ian_Guerrero]

65% Online

35% Offline

Ian Guerrero
http://pilotodecombate.blogspot.com/

[T}{OR]

Originally Posted by jasonbirder

...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!

That just means you have visited wrong servers.

[Antoninus]

90 % Offline, 10% online, I still prefer flying well made, immersive historic campaigns, despite the very predictable AI opponents. However nowadays I use Il-2 less than half as much than a few years ago.

[Jaws2002]

100% online.

Only brief testing offline.

Can't beat botching a perfect landing and have ten people laugh at you.

[ElAurens]

99.9% online.

Only offline for testing, mission building, and reviewing tracks for screenshots.

Every once in a while I go to the QMB when I forget that the AI will just spiral climb away from you no matter what matchup I choose. What nonsense.

I have tried to get into offline campaigns, but it's so hopeless. And just how immersive is watching your whole flight fly blindly into a hill side while ignoring your calls for help?

[SlipBall]

95% off-line...give me full start up feature...or else!

[brando]

I spend four hours a night on-line and a few day-hours at the weekends, chatting to my mates and flying only co-op missions. We range from pseudo WW1 biplane scenarios to what-if jet extravaganzas. We fly whatever we make missions about, and three of us are keen mission builders.

I think I'm the only one who has never flown a plane in real life.

If we had a squad motto it would be "go anywhere, fly anything"

B