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Originally Posted by horseback
When flying offline campaigns, using the tactics that were actually successful against individual, or even small groups of bombers or Me 110s or 210s is suicidal. It's a perversion of history, and it can be fixed, at least for the offline user.
Slow the gunner's rate of rotating their guns.
Limit their effective range to the historical levels of 150m maximum; you can increase an attacker's probability of being hit beyond that as a function of how many defending aircraft are in range.
Make the aiming point a circle the diameter of the greatest visible dimension from the angle viewed; that is how human beings aim something as imprecise as a machine gun at targets that far away and coming at them rapidly.
Factor in gunshake and aircraft motion. That, more than anything else, is what made hitting anything more than a couple of degrees wide so difficult with 'controllable' short bursts. Call of Duty can do it; DT should be able to as well.
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They can be "fixed" but the problem is that you think that AI gunners are insanely accurate while I think that they suck big time.
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And we are still left to deal with the improbable fragility of the R-2800 engine and the aircraft it powered.
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Test setup:
Planes : Ju88 and P47D
Distance: 200m
Test method:
Both planes are on the airfield, P47 engine running.
Player is in Ju88 rear gunner position.
P47 is behind Ju88 with front of the engine exposed to the gunner like in typical 6 o'clock attack.
Result:
Bullets Fired: 1200
Bullets Hit Air:
1047
P47 engine still running although at 90% and with some components damaged.
And as many times before FACTS>>>FEELINGS , P47 is one tough MOFO and for every FG guy's story about one ping kill there is a JG guy with the story about P47 soaking dozens of 30mm hits and flying away.