Friday 2009-12-04 Screenshots Update discussion thread

[Insuber]

I believe that the greatness and popularity of Il2 is not due to the difficulty of the FR settings, but to the "scalability" of the difficulty degree, allowing either beginners, or people who cannot dedicate more thant a couple of hours per week, to have a lot of fun with no-cockpit view and simplified handling.

Then, after one's retirement, there will be enough time to learn and enjoy FR and la ot of other stuff.

Bye,
Insuber

[airmalik]

um... where's my Friday fix?

[philip.ed]

Originally Posted by airmalik

um... where's my Friday fix?

Hahah beat me to it

[Mr.Fox]

Originally Posted by philip.ed

Hahah beat me to it

Ditto

[Eldur]

We need our drugs

[Insuber]

Luthier what are you doing ? Couldn't you post some screenies for us ??

[jermin]

Originally Posted by Insuber

I believe that the greatness and popularity of Il2 is not due to the difficulty of the FR settings, but to the "scalability" of the difficulty degree, allowing either beginners, or people who cannot dedicate more thant a couple of hours per week, to have a lot of fun with no-cockpit view and simplified handling.

Then, after one's retirement, there will be enough time to learn and enjoy FR and la ot of other stuff.

Bye,
Insuber

But it seems that nowadays most of the players playing on Hyperlobby are beginners. Some begginers tend to play in the arcade server forever just because they cannot live without wonder woman view or external view. And I'm seeing many players playing in arcade servers at least 4 hours per day!

[nearmiss]

I haven't been online for quite awhile.

What you are saying reminds me of the MSFT ZONE maturity process.

When it got to where all the neophytes and kiddies start popping on for hours at a time it turned into a joke. The zone didn't survive long after that.

Arcade play is definitely an indicator of a younger Xbox type players.

[Ernst]

Originally Posted by jermin

But it seems that nowadays most of the players playing on Hyperlobby are beginners. Some begginers tend to play in the arcade server forever just because they cannot live without wonder woman view or external view. And I'm seeing many players playing in arcade servers at least 4 hours per day!

Play in arcade servers has 3 utilities: Training dogfight manouvering, gunnery to keep your habilities well fit for critical situations in aw, adw and FS (in this servers we avoid dogs at maximun) and satisfy your ego killing noobies

[Eldur]

Originally Posted by Ernst

Play in arcade servers has 3 utilities: Training dogfight manouvering, gunnery to keep your habilities well fit for critical situations in aw, adw and FS (in this servers we avoid dogs at maximun) and satisfy your ego killing noobies

I like DF servers that have externals on but wonderwoman off. And yes, the main use is training and fun. But for ego satisfying I fire up DosBox and play the old Dynamix sims... doesn't even need a joystick actually. If I just want some quick kills, this is the best. A mission with 8+ kills and some ground targets is done in 5-10 minutes
I try to do some ground attack on DF servery anyway... I don't like the pure dogfight scenarios.