Had a quick go with the new beta and tested the black-outs, and resulting unconsciousness, both in private testings and combat trials.
I must say that this, is a very good change which adds a whole new dimension to the high-speed fight regime.
Pulling high-Gs is a tiring thing to do. It may be a bit exaggerated in the movies, but still we see the pilots grunting with frowned faces when they have to pull wild maneuvers with high-G forces.
Since I'm not a pilot I have no idea how tunnel vision feels like. But I can imgaine that real life WW2 combat pilots won't feel so comfortable at high speeds when their sight ranges are diminished, and when they eventually lose all vision. In such a prolonged state of fatigue, they'd eventually pass out.
I've heard many stories of how losing vision in high speed maneuvers were a terrifying thing for the combat pilots of WW2, and how in some cases they had to try to raise their left hand and press the veins to apply pressure to the neck to try slow the loss of vision.
Compared to that, AH1 does seem too lenient. The 'threshold' to reaching unconsciousness was so high that it was rarely a factor in high speed maneuvering. One would pull to one side, lose total vision, and then reverse 180 and pull hard, lose vision again, and do this almost indefinately until you shook the bogey off. Also in targetting at high speed, sometimes you would just pull into total blackout and pull the trigger.
Well, the new black out of the recent beta is very different. It seems that the longer and more numerous times you pull hard Gs and maintain tunnel vision, the chances are when the next total loss of vision comes, you won't be waking up from it for some time.
That, cost me precious many planes during a fight - the most memorable happening was with Darkish in his P-38 and me in the Bf109G-10. I tried to gain a reversal against his P-38 behind me by dragging him into compression speed. Did some hard jinking to evade bullets, which gave me a lot of tunnel vision. And in when the moment came, I pulled the reversal with a sudden hard stick pull. The screen went black.. and it didn't come back!
The next thing I know, as I was waking up, his P-38 was ripping my wings off.
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That, was a really interesting experience!
