I think I know my way around in a turning fight I get 4 kills in this game all the time using the lowly 1-15 and also in the 1-16e so no I am not impressed with your 4 kills, but I am impressed with 8 kills. The truth is no one here even has to know how to fly a plane all you have to know how to do is point your mouse in the direction you want the plane to fly and the programing does the flying for you. The only other imput you have to help get the job done is using the numpad to help in giving you boost, elevators, and ailerons and thats it. The main thing is to just point your mouse where you want the plane to go and now you are a pilot? This game was designed for non pilots so they can experience the thrill of combat, in the real world most of you would crash and burn.
The thing I like about this game is that it does give you the thrill of combat even though the planes are super easy to fly (anyone can do it) it is still fun. You say I don't understand? How many of you flew in Microsofts combat flight simulator? In that game you had to actually know how to fly an airplane (you had to use a stick and rudder setup just like in a real airplane, I also fly real airplanes.) it was nothing like this game either you knew how to fly or you would crash and burn. I flew that game for years until Microsoft finally took the server down. During that time I was the #1 undisputed ace using the stock Sopwith Camel. In a real world simulation like Combat Flight Simulator I could shoot doown any of the other ww2 planes in the game in a turning fight because the Camel could out turn all of the other planes in the game except in this case you had to actually have the flying skill to do it and there were plenty of very good actual pilots playing the game that couldn't. You couldn't force it you had to make it happen very carefully and the plane would do what you wanted it to do, but only if you did it right you were always one step away from diaster in a turning fight, any mistake and you were dead. In this game I get killed by gamers not pilots.
The thing you don't seem to understand is that it only takes a very small advantage in equiptment to win in a turning fight if the two combantants are equal. In the real world the small advantqage needed when the playing field is equal and the planes are the same for everyone that small advantage is skill and it only takes a little to win you don't have to be rockstar better you just have to be a little better and you will win everytime. The 1-15bis DM2 gives you that little edge you need to win in a turning fight. Krazy_Ivan I am sure is an experienced turning fight pilot he knows a few things about turning fights in airplanes and that alone gives him an advantage, but what puts him and others over the top is the advantage of having a plane that will out turn all of the other planes that are availiable to everyone else. You take the unfair advantage away and the outcomes will be quite differen't. If you don't believe what I have said about my own flying skills then go to this website and check me out; OK the admin does not allow live links so just look up KamelKIngs.org I founded Kamel Kings and was the acting CO for several years.
One of the other officers in KK decided to create the order of Von_Blaster Knights which you can click on and see how many people are now in the order. In the beginning to become eligible to be knighted you had to face me or KK_Blackie in a 1 v 1 battle and get at least one kill out of five tries to win the medal. Many tried, but most failed to get even one kill. You had to do this three times in a row to get Knighted. If no kill the second or third try then you didn't get knighted simple as that. As far as zoom and boom goes you could do it with ease in Combat Flight Simulator and it was the only way to kill any Ace flying a stock Camel. If you made the mistake of engaging an ace flying a Camel in a turning fight then it made no difference what plane you were flying you lose every time Zoom and Boom was the only way to have any chance at all against an ace in an aircraft that can turn and so it goes in the real world, but in World of Warplanes that is not the case. If you try to zoom and boom in this game you will not be able to outrun your opponent by the time he turns around and shoots you, (not to mention al the other planes shooting at you) at that point you are in a turning fight wheather you want to be or not otherwise you will get shot down before you can zoom away, (I tried it) not at all like it is in the real world when a true zoom and boom plane can easilly escape before the other plane can turn around. This game is unrealistic in so many ways it would take a book to explain it to you, but like I said it is still fun to fly, but it would be more fun if the playing field were level then everyone would know exactly where they stand. For now the cheat planes win in the hands of those who know how to use them to their advantage, fortunatly for us slobs who can't get one not everyone who has one knows how to use it, but they are out there. I get 4 kills now no problem, but with a cheat plane I know I would be up there with Krazy_Ivan getting 8 kills on a regular basis. Meiter, telling me I don't know how to fly makes me lol. I would love to meet you in a real flight simulator you would think I was cheating too.
Edited by Von_Blaster, 02 December 2013 - 12:07 AM.