Noob Multiplayer Issues

[PeterPanPan]

OK, we had some limited success last night. It turned out that the main problem was that I had selected all the 'cannot switch plane' etc items in the Realism menu. Once these were unticked, my buddy and I were at least able to fly online together, but only on others' existing servers. Still no joy in either of us setting up a Lobby or a Server.

Also, I find the whole multiplayer GUI confusing and unintuitive. You have to discover things, like clicking on flags or airfields on the map, just by clicking around.

One thing we did notice was that when we could finally select a mission, we each had a different set of missions available, from the stock game. For example, I had Spitfre Training 05, but my buddy didn't and we suspect that is why he couldn't join my game when I selected that mission. Likewise, he had Spitfire Training 02, but I didn't.

For the brief time we were flying together, I noticed that the aircraft label did not have the name of the player in it, like it used to in IL2 1946. Is there any way of changing that?

All very unsatisfactory this MP. Poor/limited manual explanation and confusing/unintuitive GUI. Lots of room for improvement here.

PPP