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Originally Posted by jasonbirder

but hey in real life...human opponents were usually stupider and more predictable opponents than we find here vs both AI .

They were trained for teamwork and usually tried to work as a team... so I disagree with this statement.
Most of the offliners and a good part of the onliners fly and fight solo... which has absolutly no relation with an historic WWII aerial simulation.

Onliners enjoy the challange of a dogfight...because essentially online is a person vs person skill and agility test with little relation to a historic World War 2 aerial simulation

Some do like you say.... but some onliners (not everybody, but more than a minority) enjoy teamwork and try to apply team tactics that you can relate to WWI fighting tactics.
That something you can't do offline in IL2. The colaboration with the AI wingmans is too basic.