Are you an online or offline user?

[leitmotiv]

Originally Posted by FlatSpinMan

100% offline. I want a sense of purpose, historical plane sets, and a sense of immersion. I haven't tried many co-ops but certainly the dogfight servers don't offer that enough for my liking. What's more, offline you can really make full use of the FMB to create a 'world' whereas this is restricted online due to connection issues and soon.
I freely admit that the AI can be irritating sometimes but usually less so than human players, if the chat bar is anything to go by.

Please make a fully featured, replayable,immersive offline experience. I want to feel like I'm THERE!

Agree 1000% I like to leave having to deal with edgy personalities out of my leisure activity (I get enough competition in the real world), I like to design my own scenarios, experiment, learn tactics, and get blown out of the sky without silly guff.

[HFC_Dolphin]

Offline is the most boring thing in IL-2 world.
On the other hand, online can become extremely annoying, since the whole experience depends highly on the people you're flying with.

All in all, what we need from SoW:BoB above EVERYTHING, is a good offline experience.
And this can happen mostly if the offline experience becomes difficult and comparable, so people can compete against each other.
Furthermore, we definitely need some new campaign system. Something to make you want to continue the campaign after the first couple of missions.

[Thunderbolt56]

Online only.

Offline is only spent testing when there's a new flyable or if I want to make a tutorial track, neither of which I've done in the last 2 years.

[jasonbirder]

Those who say they dont play online because of the lack of historical (and realistic) servers... Bad excuse! I know, wait, 2, 4, 5.. 8 of them! (historical missions, no external views)

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!

[JG52Uther]

99.9% online.

[virre89]

Online only.
Offline simply used for testing out aircrafts and gun practice.
I think a more immersible campaign for SoW would be really neat.

[redbear]

I have long time that i do not fly but most of the time 95% is online the other is offline in QMB do some gunnery practices.

[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.

[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...

[WTE_Galway]

Originally Posted by T.}{.O.R.

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

oh ... I would not say that.

I played online in dogfights, co-ops and VOW from 2001 to 2003/2004. Have not back been even once since and do not really miss it. SOW will not change that either. It will be the same sill people in a new sim. Then again I do not play offline that much either spend most of my time these days on skins, missions and campaigns

The one GOOD thing that I did like about online was flying in a squad.