Multiplayer Details and New Trailer

[Riccster09]

I'm a little confused about the multiplayer difficulty settings. From what I read around here, it seems like there is going to be a choice between arcade and sim. I'm wonderin' if anyone knows where realistic flyers like me are going to fit in. Are they going to stick us in with the sim people or am I going to be forced to play arcade with its jet engines and two hit kills? If anyone has any info on this I would really appreciate it.

[David603]

No, all three of the default difficulty settings are definitely available, and hopefully they will be customisable like the difficulty settings in the older Il2s were.

[xNikex]

Originally Posted by Riccster09

I'm a little confused about the multiplayer difficulty settings. From what I read around here, it seems like there is going to be a choice between arcade and sim. I'm wonderin' if anyone knows where realistic flyers like me are going to fit in. Are they going to stick us in with the sim people or am I going to be forced to play arcade with its jet engines and two hit kills? If anyone has any info on this I would really appreciate it.

All three difficulties are available online.

[Riccster09]

Cool, thanks guys. I'm glad they remembered people like me who love the 3rd person view.

[merro]

If this has been asked before, my bad.

I have a question about the online Sim Mode:

How does enemy Plane spotting work?
Spotting on sight, reveals details on the flight map for my squad buddys to see where the enemy is located?

Or is there a information about the enemy player onscreen in the cockpit view.
Like Player name and plane type.
I hope that is not the case, i want to spot my enemy on sight and it would take away a lot of realism if enemy planes in the skys are flying around with some visible information (like in arcade mode right now).

So how does this work in online play?

Sim or a compromise between casual gaming an sim mode?

[lazyboy_se]

I don't know. But it would not be fun if you don't know who you are gunning down, even in sim mode. I mean I want to know when I'm about to blast my friend out of the sky. How would that be solved without name tags?

[merro]

Originally Posted by lazyboy_se

I don't know. But it would not be fun if you don't know who you are gunning down, even in sim mode. I mean I want to know when I'm about to blast my friend out of the sky. How would that be solved without name tags?

Maybe the online ID could pop up at the plane when you manage to hit it.
Other solution would be, only if you achive to down the plane, the name pops up as a info on the screen.
like : +10 points killed 1337Kid

[lazyboy_se]

Originally Posted by merro

Maybe the online ID could pop up at the plane when you manage to hit it.

Good idea.

[SleepTrgt]

Originally Posted by merro

Maybe the online ID could pop up at the plane when you manage to hit it.
Other solution would be, only if you achive to down the plane, the name pops up as a info on the screen.
like : +10 points killed 1337Kid

Nah if name pops up maybe only for a second, else its easy to follow your target.

I like the idea of names just where it said flaps and such.

[fuzzychickens]

Originally Posted by merro

Maybe the online ID could pop up at the plane when you manage to hit it.
Other solution would be, only if you achive to down the plane, the name pops up as a info on the screen.
like : +10 points killed 1337Kid

Well, if someone names themselves "1337kid", then their name should ALWAYS show up so we can all constantly shoot the punk out of the sky.