Friday 2010-11-12 Dev. update and Discussion

[Triggaaar]

Originally Posted by Dutch_851

What I meant was how will we know if a kill is made due to ammo mix, as against just happening to hit a vital part of the aircraft whilst trying to avoid return fire and the fighter escorts?

Why would you need to know? If you want to know for training purposes, just set-up an off-line mission where you shoot at an enemy bomber that is unarmed, and keep practicing with different ammo mixes, and see how much damage you can do. Am I missing your point (if so, what is it)?

[ATAG_Dutch]

Originally Posted by Triggaaar

Why would you need to know? If you want to know for training purposes, just set-up an off-line mission where you shoot at an enemy bomber that is unarmed, and keep practicing with different ammo mixes, and see how much damage you can do. Am I missing your point (if so, what is it)?

I don't really need to know, which is my point!

Phil called it 'an important part of the shooting experience'.
If I'm shooting at something in online combat, there is so much movement that it's impossible to see how many bullet strikes there are in any given burst, let alone what proportion of which bullet made the hit.

Plus, I'm usually far too adrenalised to analyse the results with any semblance of empiricism.

[philip.ed]

By important, I also meant the fun-factor; the fun (be it slightly destructive) of seeing your bullets destroy the enemy A/C. Personally, I'd love to try out different types of ammo, as it would really put me into the genre, and feel like I have a lot of control over my own, personal, plane. at the end of the day, whether you can shoot down that enemy A/C can be a life or death situation. Luckily this isn't the case literally for us, but it really adds to the immersion

[swiss]

Maybe a lot of the ppl think if they had different ammo/mix/more or less tracers they would score more kills.

I hate to tell you but: That's an illusion.

It's not the ammo, it's the pilot.

[Trumper]

A huge majority of real fighter pilots never scored a kill let alone made "Ace".
In reality a large percentage of us will get shot down,injured and killed before getting any hits to take the opposition down.

[swiss]

Originally Posted by Trumper

A huge majority of real fighter pilots never scored a kill let alone made "Ace".
In reality a large percentage of us will get shot down,injured and killed before getting any hits to take the opposition down.

"in reality", most of us wouldn't even make it off the runway.
(includes me)

[Redwan]

Originally Posted by swiss

"in reality", most of us wouldn't even make it off the runway.
(includes me)

... if by miracle they manage to start the engine ....

[SQB]

Originally Posted by swiss

"in reality", most of us wouldn't even make it off the runway.
(includes me)

swiss, dont be that way

i tried a flight the other day in a single prop plane... i didnt even have a license back then

[Richie]

I flew a small plane also, a Cessna 172. That day there were no thermals so there was no bouncing or anything like that. All I had to do was look at the compass and check a dip in the hill..small mountain where we were heading to and keep heading for that spot. A lot easier than driving.

[swiss]

Originally Posted by SQB

swiss, dont be that way

i tried a flight the other day in a single prop plane... i didnt even have a license back then

How did you start the engine? Press "I"?

and that sure was a solo flight, right?