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Originally Posted by csThor
Not sour grapes as you put it, just the result of several years worth of either playing online (going back over ten years and old Warbirds 2.01) and even more years reading various message boards of various servers. And all this time has finally convinced me that my own high standards of simulating air war cannot be achieved online simply for the face that too many people want a sportive contest (aka gangbang) instead of a serious simulation.
With AI support realistic missions would be possible, but let's face it - ATM CloD doesn't offer more than pointless fighter combat with a few scarce other types thrown in. Nothing that even remotely resembles historical plane rates and mission profiles. And even if the darn engine worked as it should I know people would whine about AI involvement simply because of their own little superiority complex - as if engaging other players over the Internet was any grand achievement that sets them apart. 
I have no probs with people liking online, tastes are different after all, but I am extremely allergic to that patronizing tone of "Why pc pilots would prefer artificial intelegence over a real dynamic human is beyond me". I don't meekly accept when people belittle me and my views simply from their own POV. |
There are many many things that have made me move on to mainly online flying one of these is the added immersion that teamspeak/vent etc give you me and SEE where busy covering the last red target the other night and we spent 30 mins covering the target shooting down (or trying to shoot down) 109s and 110s coming to pound the target, which is far in land by the way, if I am not doing that then I am Borris AKA Ju88 hunting
Nothing beats finding a few ATAG guys bunched up and probably having a good chin wag on the way to bomb a target in a BR20 only to be jumped 2 mins away from the target by me in a spit
, man I wish I was on blue comms so I could hear there bleating as they tired to get there sights on me
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But I know what you mean about the problems with multiplayer but so far ATAG is ticking all the right boxes, if only they could get skins to work well
