Good News and Bad News

[CaptainDoggles]

Originally Posted by Gollum

The good news.... I joined ATAG server last night and there were 57 people on. Thats awesome. I really hope the community continues to grow.

The bad news....

A) It is still extremely difficult to find a fight and maintain visual contact on your prey even with 57 people on the server. I constantly see things and they vanish in mid air.

We call those Ghosts, and they're normally sprites that appear where AI bombers previously were. After a while you learn to deal with them.

As far as spotting fighters, it's more difficult than 1946 but once you get the hang of it it's not so bad. Just give it time and you'll naturally get better.

B) Time Bandit has been drafted into the RAF. Last night I spent 45 minutes looking for a fight. I finally found one and dove on a spitfire. He took a shallow banking right and I had the perfect deflection shot lined up. I pulled the trigger watching my rounds heading for his wings... Little did I know, the pilot of this aircraft was the seldom seen but much feared Time Bandit. Just as they were about to demolish his airframe, Time Bandit hit is emergency chronosphere button and slid 2 miles in front of me at an estimated 2000 KPH. After he was clear out of range of my guns he banked a 20 G right turn continuing at 2000 KPH until he was right behind me firing away... I quickly lost my surface controls and plumeted to the earth....

Just network lag again. It's too bad it resulted in getting shot down but that's the reality of online games I'm afraid. The next patch is supposed to help with these stutters.