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Panzeh posted:I've done it several times, actually. When they go in for an approach you can kill them pretty easily with 500 pound bombs. I mean one that's at 500+ feet, not on the deck in the blast zone. The replay function exists solely for this purpose, in my mind.
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Well, looks like I won't be playing this tonight. Download is taking a long time. Looks like I'll be seeing you guys tomorrow after I get out of work!
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| # ? Dec 11, 2012 22:38 |
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Panzeh posted:I've done it several times, actually. When they go in for an approach you can kill them pretty easily with 500 pound bombs. I loving swear I did this way earlier when I started. I was flying a SU-2 on a single airfield domination map that was taken out of the rotation. I had loaded it with 50KG bombs on accident and said "eh gently caress it" and dumped all 12 of them. These things have absolutely no splash and it was a wooded area with trees literally 10 feet apart so there wasn't any way a plane could be there. I dumped my bombs and got a teamkill message on a friendly plane.  I actually hit a dude flying with an airplane mounted grenade.
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| # ? Dec 11, 2012 22:43 |
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Tried the tutorials today and I was amazed how well the game flowed and how well the plane responded with the mouse. Even if I had some issues making a loop since the controls switched axis halfway through the loop.  But I've setup my joystick now so I'm gonna see how that works later. And I think I'm just going to focus on US or British planes even if the US tree is kinda lacking in non-naval fighters by the looks of it.
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Orv posted:Sorry, I just mentioned CTS for when that eventually goes down. But there is a channel in there now and I'm in there most of the time. I could've sworn I did this but don't have the replay for proof. I was down to my last plane on the three-airfield domination map. It was a bomber with pontoons and no forward guns, so I was pretty much worthless except for taking care of some landing crafts in the enemy spawn. I muddle over at 150 mph and start dropping my sixteen 100lb bombs when I get a kill message. I did have two tail gunners on that thing but I didn't get any Hit notifications or anything beforehand, so unless they sniped the pilot through the cockpit in one shot I think I hit a plane with a bomb in midair. But I'll never know for sure. 
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Cooked Auto posted:Tried the tutorials today and I was amazed how well the game flowed and how well the plane responded with the mouse. Even if I had some issues making a loop since the controls switched axis halfway through the loop. I have a real love for the Corsair as a result of Black Sheep Squadron but I really need to pick a tree and stick to it, almost all the trees are at 4 now.
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| # ? Dec 11, 2012 22:47 |
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Orv posted:I have a real love for the Corsair as a result of Black Sheep Squadron but I really need to pick a tree and stick to it, almost all the trees are at 4 now. If anything I'm just going to for the carrier fighters because I kinda like them but what I really want is the P-51 or the P-38 and they don't seem to have been added yet.  Or just zoom around a Spitfire. Or getting the Typhoon/Tempest.
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| # ? Dec 11, 2012 23:00 |
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The Mustang is the penultimate plane on the far left tree, you have to scroll down to see it. P-38 I want to say is in but I believe I'm wrong. E: The Lightning is also hidden below the scroll line, right above the Mustang. Orv fucked around with this message at Dec 11, 2012 around 23:15 |
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Orv posted:The Mustang is the penultimate plane on the far left tree, you have to scroll down to see it. P-38 I want to say is in but I believe I'm wrong. Ah, well then. I know what to aim for.
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| # ? Dec 11, 2012 23:23 |
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Tried to play, but I can't. I'm having some weird issue with the menus. The screen is rolling and I can't make anything out. Playing it in a full window helps some, but the menu rolling still occurs whenever an option menu is up or anything like that. Anyone have this issue? I tried to look on the forums but I didn't see an answer to this issue.
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| # ? Dec 11, 2012 23:42 |
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Do you have any extraneous controllers plugged in?
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| # ? Dec 11, 2012 23:52 |
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Orv posted:Do you have any extraneous controllers plugged in? Nope. Just a Warthog, and Track IR.
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| # ? Dec 11, 2012 23:53 |
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Cooked Auto, next patch fixes the Corsairs and P-39s because they fly like rear end right now, so I don't know how close you are but look out. On patches, it doesn't look like we are getting it today sadly. Also, nice name there Mobius1, fellow Ace Combat fans in da house.
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| # ? Dec 12, 2012 00:30 |
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I just really want to fly a hellcat. Is the hellcat in this game? It is the best loving plane.
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| # ? Dec 12, 2012 01:02 |
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You know this is a drat good game when there are as many posts in this thread since I last logged in as there have been in PYF loving Image Macro... I am not ashamed to admit this gives me warm fuzzies. The Hellcat is in. F2A-1 -> F2A-3 -> F4F -> F6F-3 -> F4U
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| # ? Dec 12, 2012 01:02 |
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Game is amazing fun. But I need a wingmen.
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| # ? Dec 12, 2012 01:05 |
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This game is really great, it is a more realistic WW2 ace combat. Everything is really accessible and handles well with mouse, keyboard, game controller and joystick I assume. Now I just need to pick what I want to use The engine and netcode seems pretty solid, playing from the US to either the EU or RU server I have like 250-300 ping but never notice it. And it looks like they have big plans for the game which is good because the base they have now is really solid. e: I see people bailing out(I assume from the parachutes). What benefit does bailing out give you? Captain Beans fucked around with this message at Dec 12, 2012 around 01:15 |
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Anyone know when the Squadron patch comes out? I updated, but no squadrons. Also, as far as bailing out goes, I heard it lets the crew keep more of their experience. Seeing as the scoreboard always shows a downed player as a parachute instead of fighter or bomber, I think crew always bail out, maybe? The game's lack of explanations is probably the games biggest weakness, you're kind of left learning on your own. Freinz fucked around with this message at Dec 12, 2012 around 01:21 |
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Captain Beans posted:This game is really great, it is a more realistic WW2 ace combat. Everything is really accessible and handles well with mouse, keyboard, game controller and joystick I assume. Now I just need to pick what I want to use The parachutes seem to be automatic when a plane is damaged enough. You can "leave plane" from esc but that just let's you pick a new plane to spawn.
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| # ? Dec 12, 2012 01:19 |
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This game is great... I only have one issue though, a lot of the time, when an enemy gets on my tail, I go down in just a couple of hits... but sometime in the reverse of that situation, it takes a scary amount of hits to bring some one else down even though it's giving me a lot of hit registrations. Is this lag, or am I unlucky?
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| # ? Dec 12, 2012 01:20 |
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Its unlucky I suppose. What guns are you using and what are you hitting? I've been unlucky enough to have my pilot eat a 20mm right in the face and be one shotted. I've also been unlucky enough to have both my engines on my Me-410 be taken out at once by cannons as the engines were just wide enough for the guns to converge on them. I've also destroyed the flying tank that is the IL-2 with a cannon to the cockpit so it depends.
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Urby posted:This game is great... I only have one issue though, a lot of the time, when an enemy gets on my tail, I go down in just a couple of hits... but sometime in the reverse of that situation, it takes a scary amount of hits to bring some one else down even though it's giving me a lot of hit registrations. Is this lag, or am I unlucky? Depends on the guns. If you got a couple of small guns that fire small rounds and fire slowly, you'll have a hard time shooting people down compared to someone that has a bunch of bigger guns that fire quickly. Unlike WoWP though, it's not about the amount of bullets you hit with, but the kind of damage you deal. If you hit the pilot you can one shot any plane (as far as I know), but firing at the fuselage on a bomber doesn't seem to diddly. Doing light damage to both wings also isn't as effective as doing heavy damage to one wing.
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| # ? Dec 12, 2012 01:27 |
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BillyJoeBob posted:Cooked Auto, next patch fixes the Corsairs and P-39s because they fly like rear end right now, so I don't know how close you are but look out. Duly noted. Guess I'll focus on the naval fighters for the time being then. And I've just installed the game today so and haven't really done much aside from the tutorials so it was more a lofty goal.
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| # ? Dec 12, 2012 01:34 |
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This game is fun as hell
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| # ? Dec 12, 2012 01:35 |
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drat this game is awesome, did not expect it to be this polished. So I am torn between trying to use my Extreme 3d Pro joystick or mouse and keyboard scheme. I seem to have trouble smoothly tracking and enemy with the joystick but its much more maneuverable, what are you guys all using?
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| # ? Dec 12, 2012 01:35 |
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Urby posted:This game is great... I only have one issue though, a lot of the time, when an enemy gets on my tail, I go down in just a couple of hits... but sometime in the reverse of that situation, it takes a scary amount of hits to bring some one else down even though it's giving me a lot of hit registrations. Is this lag, or am I unlucky? If you are in a 1 vs. 1 dogfight, you can hit z to zoom in and watch where your shots are landing. If you can get your bullet stream onto the pilot, you win.
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| # ? Dec 12, 2012 01:38 |
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Can anyone explain to me how to use Bombers effectively. Also Using tier 1 planes as compared to how WoTs did it is so much better. As a biplane i feel effective.
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| # ? Dec 12, 2012 01:40 |
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I really like how they gave you effectively 3 lives, I was gonna be bummed my first match after quickly being shot down thinking I would have to wait another 5 minutes in matchmaking before getting to fly again.
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Popete posted:I really like how they gave you effectively 3 lives, I was gonna be bummed my first match after quickly being shot down thinking I would have to wait another 5 minutes in matchmaking before getting to fly again. 
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| # ? Dec 12, 2012 01:43 |
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Popete posted:I really like how they gave you effectively 3 lives, I was gonna be bummed my first match after quickly being shot down thinking I would have to wait another 5 minutes in matchmaking before getting to fly again. And unlike world of tanks you can leave the battle and immediately use those planes again, even if the first battle is still going on. How is everyone trying to make their stringbag biplanes effective? If their are ground targets I go for those because it is easy points but sometimes they all get cleaned up right off the bat. Against other planes I usually cut throttle to almost nothing and sometimes can turn in on them and sometimes they merge head on with me. That gives me about 50/50 on killing them or me which I figure is as good of odds I can get in a biplane fighting a BF 109. Captain Beans fucked around with this message at Dec 12, 2012 around 01:51 |
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Kenny Rogers posted:Wait until you spend 60k spacebucks on buying a couple more pilots and some better planes for them to fly. Skybucks Must have been tired to just post that and leave. My bad. This game is really quite great and right now it's only flaw, in my opinion, is that not enough people are playing it! Long queue's are among the greater reason I just stop playing, but also that there is no game balance and I'm often stuck fighting Spitfire's who one shot my plane in a stream of hellish gunfire. Although satisfying to ocassionally win, the frustration often wins out in those cases. Anyone who likes plane games, I recommend this, mouse keyboard controls work great.
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| # ? Dec 12, 2012 01:54 |
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I just dropped the 40 golden eagles they start you with to convert a bunch of general experience to Soviet experience, so I'm now a rank 4 overall but rank 5 in Soviets, allowing me to use the IL-2 and Yak-7B and oh my god these are great planes. I love shooting rockets so much and cannons as opposed to only machine guns is just wonderful. edit: VVVV I shot one down with a Soviet I-16 type 18  I didn't even see it until it dove right in front of me about 800m away so I fired off a full 6 rocket salvo and one hit.
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| # ? Dec 12, 2012 01:58 |
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This game is a blast, so far the most fun I've had is bombing carriers with a PBY and ripping up everything ever with the A-20. Does anyone have any experience with the B-17? It is so far away but 9 turrets must chew up everything, if the A-20 can handle most fighters with it's two.
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| # ? Dec 12, 2012 02:01 |
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If you have high queue times make sure you selected "any available server" and not just the EU one it defaults to. I almost never have to wait more than a few seconds to find a game. Edit: I love rocketing bombers. They think they're safe from a tiny fighter with mg's, but I've yet to meet the plane that can survive a rocket up the rear. 
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Anyone have any tips for where I should be putting my crew experience? A lot of skills seem to do nothing right now or seem relatively unimportant so I'm hesitant to place them for fear of putting them in those skills.
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| # ? Dec 12, 2012 02:08 |
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Which country has the best fighters? I just want to be all agile and rip people up.
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| # ? Dec 12, 2012 02:15 |
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queeb posted:Which country has the best fighters? I just want to be all agile and rip people up. Probably the British, at least for the lower-mid ranks. The Hurricanes and Spitfires are really good for how early you get them.
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| # ? Dec 12, 2012 02:17 |
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Welp the mention of being able to fly level bombers got me around to downloading this game. Are there any maps that are naval based where you have to bomb ships and feature carriers? Also if they ever go through with the whole "drive ships and tanks" thing I'm totally foregoing planes forever to drive my dumb boat around.
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| # ? Dec 12, 2012 02:21 |
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The pearl harbour map is like that.
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Insert name here posted:Welp the mention of being able to fly level bombers got me around to downloading this game. Are there any maps that are naval based where you have to bomb ships and feature carriers? There's a few different pacific maps such as Pearl Harbour that feature ships. I've seen destroyers, carriers, cargo ships and landing crafts so far.
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