Suggesting to devs

[sod16]

Anton, can you suggest why your dev team have dumbed down the damage? Such as exessive speeds smashing you appart.

[thundermuffin]

Just out of curiosity, can you continue to destroy planes after they have been shot down? It often seems like when I take out a plane and it is falling, I continue to shoot the plane but nothing happens. If I only take off a wing I want to be able to make sure I get the kill and do as much damage as possible.

[sod16]

I have a REALLY good question, What about mutliplayer flight ranks like Flight commander ect... (more kills higher rank)

[xNikex]

Originally Posted by thundermuffin

Just out of curiosity, can you continue to destroy planes after they have been shot down? It often seems like when I take out a plane and it is falling, I continue to shoot the plane but nothing happens. If I only take off a wing I want to be able to make sure I get the kill and do as much damage as possible.

You can. You just need to put WAY more lead on the plane. I once caught both engines and both gas tanks on fire and had four fire trails behind one plane.

[Ju-87]

The only thing I can think of would be to make the "stall warning sound effect" audible in cockpit mode... Without any indicators in SIM it really detracts from the game.

And for those constantly asking about swapping the layout of the sticks: You guys DO realize that you wouldn't be able to press any of the face buttons while controlling the plane, right?

[sod16]

What about the graphical gltich, the unrendered mouth bite at the wings near the cockpit in external view?

[trk29]

Originally Posted by ju-87

the only thing i can think of would be to make the "stall warning sound effect" audible in cockpit mode... Without any indicators in sim it really detracts from the game.

And for those constantly asking about swapping the layout of the sticks: You guys do realize that you wouldn't be able to press any of the face buttons while controlling the plane, right?

very good point!

[Swagger7]

OK I posted this in the section on cockpit views, but I'll repeat myself here:

The planes need their real cockpits, all of them! A flight sim where not all planes have cockpits is like a Call of Duty game where half the weapons don't have skins and are just wireframes. I need to know the extent of this issue and that something's being done about it before I commit $100 for the flight stick and the game.

[fuzzychickens]

Originally Posted by trk29

very good point!

Nah, if you must mash the face buttons while flying it is, but you have ALL your flight controls on the two sticks and the only critical functions between takeoff and landing are inserting bullets/bombs into unfortunate planes/targets and panning your view.

Panning view is EASIER if they switch the sticks because you would be taking your thumb off the rudder/throttle instead of pitch/roll - I'd rather scan the sky with control over pitch/roll than throttle/rudder control if I had to choose between the two.

Guns/bombs can be fired/dropped from triggers (aren't they like that already?) without taking thumbs off sticks.

I don't see the major drawback of switching the sticks - either way sucks compared to a flight stick, but for many, having roll/pitch on the right stick would feel much better if they can't buy a stick.

[Rufus_the_Rat]

Right now, in my opinion, this game fails to offer the middle-of-the-road realism that many console fans desire. The realism gap between Arcade and Realistic is too large.

Arcade is just silly, being able to go 1000 Km/h in a Spitfire plus machine guns that shred a bomber with two bullets. But Realistic and Simulation are nearly impossible to control without constantly stalling and going into an unrecoverable spin. The controls are very frustrating on Realistic and Simulation, and dare I say it, not even realistic. No fighter plane is that sensitive to minor turns.

Okay, so here's my suggestion to improve gameplay:

There needs to be another middle level of difficult/realism, maybe called "AUTHENTIC".

It would be in-between "Arcade" and "Realistic".

It would have the controls of Arcade, except no WEP (so therefore realistic speed), and most importantly it would have the damage model of Realistic so that it takes the right number of shots to shoot down an He-111. In "Authentic" it might also be easier to stall than in Arcade, but not as easy as in Realistic, plus stalls and spins would be simple to recover from or recover automatically, like they are modeled in the Ace Combat series.

At the very minimum, there needs to be an option to enable realistic damage in Arcade mode. I hate how you just touch the He-111s with your tigger and they explode. WW2 planes did not have vulcan cannons.

Thank you developers for your time.