Not really the right topic to ask it in. The answer is: people have to host themselves, which doesn't happen too often, and there is only a small online community. Therefore it might be hard to find a good game. It kind of depends on your time zone as well, since there's more people in for example Europe or North America then Australia.

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Is there any news on when the title update will be released and what is going to be in it.

fuel loadout option, would be nice to take weight off fulll fuel tanks, I heard this was how they were fixing p51 performance, it can help other planes too. (ignore if already commented)

I second that notion 100% the option to change the fuel loadout options would help all planes i feel. Now about that pesky machine gun and rocket strike ticket issue...hint hint p-51 bomb loadout, impossible to get without crashing into target...im a sad panda.

On that subject, what is the chance we could see a dedicated server?

You WILL get more online players and a larger community with dedicated server as an option - there is no doubt about this.

True. The problem is though that I don't think IL2 will create enough revenue to maintain these servers. Other problem is even if the devs would want this, they wouldn't be able to do it since the networking is out of their hands.
Chances are very close to 0.

Any news when the YuPlay forums will be up again?

I didn't see it posted so I thought I would let everyone know about Gaijin's new Forum so
check it out.

How about an update such as this one...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-CZvp2YQRA

Do you like this one?

And another update.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKBNlqPZBdA