[{HVY-E}Jinxx]

the spits v 109s thing has me scratching my head too. it's obviously the best server for full switch and was surprised they went UP over HSFX. i'd recently downloaded and installed HSFX on the understanding from these forums that it was the new standard. HSFX is very solid, but now i guess i'll have to go through the nightmare of downloading and installing UP to play on spits v 109s. bummer.

so should i hold off downloading UP 2 in the hope one final, truley united pack will be produced?

I think the only thing that you will need to play those servers will be the Zuti 1.1 when HSFX users get it.
That is the only difference that I know of.

Main thing we are all waiting on for HSFX is the server files. Once those are released, we should see some servers coming on-line. 334th will be HSFX 4.X once USL is complete.
I too prefer the more realistic features offered in HSFX vs. UP. I also don't take kindly to their start of an apparent slander campaign of HSFX/AAA by saying that their buttons are "Arcadeish". From what I've seen of the UP 1.8/2.0 so far has been a lot of "tweaking" by UP to make the planes perform the way that UP thinks they should vs. the way they are supposed to perform using REAL flight data. Don't get me wrong, some of the FM changes they've made are fantastic. Such as the fixing of the Avenger and Kate dive bombers, but they have still made changes to stock FM's. Something that AAA and the original modders were/are dead set against. If you want to fix a stock FM, you make a new slot aircraft and then fix it accordingly.

I still have hopes that all the modders will get together to give all of us a single install from which we will be able to enter into ANY server and not have to maintain 2 or 3 separate installs of the game. Thanks to the latest mod packs, I now only have to have 2 installs. One for USL (UP 2.0) and the one that I use in servers and general play (HSFX).

If nothing else, at least the modding community has given new life to this sim. It has far surpassed any other WWII flight sim I've ever owned.