crzyhawk, on 08 October 2019 - 08:23 AM, said:
Nice video, I've been working towards my Vampire slowly but surely. I should have started the Vampire missions before the XP55. Anyhow, I'm curious about some of the decisions you made there. Given you're a far better player than I am, I'm curious as to what you saw in a few situations. The first one was pretty early in the video. You had the enemy Tempest flown by a player, and a P51K bot. I thought for certain you were about to eat the Tempest whom I'd have picked as the larger threat, but you pulled off him and went for the bot P51K. Why was the P51K the better target there?
After the P51K died, it looked like you had a great opportunity to chunk down a bomber (I think it was a human, and a specialist) at what appeared to be fairly close range, and at a favorable angle. You chose to leave him to the heavy fighter bots. I tend to not not trust bots as far as I can throw them, so the fact that you didn't even make a pass on him was shocking to me. I get that bombers can do some damage with their defensive fire, but I figured a quick squirt with the cannons would be relatively safe.
The last thing was when you flew over to that base after passing by the bomber. The Tempest was there again, and it looked like you were going to bounce him...then it looked like you weren't. It looked like you wanted to go after a bot and leave the Tempest, then decided against it and just kill the Tempest. Were you waffling on him as a target, and if so why? When you were heading in my frist thought was, "Tempest is toast" followed by "wth, is he avoiding red players?" followed by "Tempest down, what just happened there".
Please don't take this as criticizing your play, I realize you're a far better player than I am, so I am curious as to what you saw that I did not.
OK, so to get the embarrassing part out of the way first: I have a mental checklist of human pilots to prioritise and none of the humans in the match checked them (one of them is on my "actually worse than a tier 1 bot: ignore with prejudice" list)
Now with that out of the way, a clarification: I'm assuming you meant me picking the intact Me209A over the damaged Tempest rather than the P-51K? That was because I felt the 209A was a bigger threat. The Tempest is armed with quad 20mm Hispanos with a range of about 720m. The 209A has an MK103 with a range of almost 1km. And it's the faster plane with a higher optimum ceiling. Bottom line: I can run from the Tempest, I can't run from the 209A, so kill the 209A and if the Tempest turns on me, I can just drag the fight to an altitude where he cannot compete if I'm still fighting the 209A, or I can just straighten out and run away if I don't like the odds.
The P-51K in most encounters was just a case of "he is/was flying STRAIGHT AT ME on the minimap", therefore, he is likely a hunter-bot who has me set as a target. The fact that it remained at altitude over me also made it a threat I didn't want to ignore.
Ignoring the Bomber was a calculated risk. I've flown the B-32 and I know it will take him two passes to flip the Fortress. He had two Heavy bots on him the second time, he was flying straight into the wall of heavy AA from the Fortress anyway so my gamble was that he would either be killed before he could do much or, given the lumbering speed of the B-32, I could flip BOTH center and north Garrison before he could flip our Fortress. Taking fire from him at that point felt like pointlessly wasting time and risking damage or death over more productive endeavours.
The waffle against the Tempest a second time was me calculating whether I could flip the North cap faster by taking out the wounded ADA rather than just killing the Tempest. Flipping the North cap was a priority after all since the teams scores were still close enough that a mass cap flip would've been disasterous. So I waffled about until the Tempest killed the ADA and turned on one of the other blue bots. That made the Tempest priority because he was both closer and actively threatening the cap: if he had killed that bot, the cap might have flipped and the wounded red bot was further away than he was so there was every chance that he would finish off both my friendly bot and the ADA in front of him before I could put down the crippled Red bot so killing him was the priority.
Edited by SpiritFoxMY, 08 October 2019 - 05:12 AM.