Am thinking 88puffy flak at bases need to be fixed

[rod367th]

Was fighting a p38 coalt at A7 today  and boom flak kills me on his 6. 20k dogfight, Like real flak gunners going to fire at friendly. And 2 nd burts kills me. Normal flak would be nice 17 sorties is all I've flown and 6 have been ended by 20 k flak at bases.

[Howitzer]

I'm with ya Rod, I've had it end my sortie a few times as well.  Seems to have incredible range.  Perhaps if these puffy ack guns were actual "things" that you could strafe and destroy, then it may be better.  

--Mike/Howitzer

[g00b]

They are called "soft gun battery"

[Howitzer]

Originally posted by g00b
They are called "soft gun battery"

Yeah, what g00b said, we need to be able to destroy some of these here "thingamajiggers"  

[Mugzeee]

Here is the answer your looking for.

http://www.hitechcreations.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=124987&referrerid=7566

[rod367th]

tw9 germans broke off when they knew they where entering flak area in this game flak fires perfectly at just enemy plane. like someone said you play a game with real people for enjoyment not to be killed by AI........

[rod367th]

Originally posted by Mugzeee
Here is the answer your looking for.

http://www.hitechcreations.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=124987&referrerid=7566

was no anwsers there..........

[JB73]

Originally posted by rod367th
was no anwsers there..........

second post of the thread linked, HiTech says no plans on changing it.

FYI in case you missed it, really small post.

[rod367th]

copy thanks  






PS asked for dale or skuzzy to clear up hq asked that only or dale answer my guess 15 guys will post even tho asked not to. Whats your best guess lol.

[Waffle]

Think Rod stewart said it best - "some guys have all the luck"....


I haven't been hit by puffy ack unless it was over nme cv....and I was diving on it

[Morpheus]

88's ruin alot of good fights. It ruins and has ruined many good sorties. Compared to AH1 88's are more ubber now than hispanios and I wont even begin to talk about the unrealistic accuracy of the crap.

[Krusty]

I was in a P51B fighting a typhoon at 28k alt and a cv some god-knows-how-freaking-far-off nailed my oil cooler as I was doing 300+mph (IAS, not TAS). That's BS. Flak accuract got WORSE the higher you were and the faser you flew. That's how it was in reality.

[hitech]

And thats exactly what it does in AH Krusty. It becomes less acturate based on your speed,how much your turing, and how far away you are. But less accurate does NOT meen you cant be hit.

So far the post I see referancing the ack is that it kills you on rare ocasions. Well isn't that exactly what it suppose to do. If you want to make a case for it to be changed. Do some testing. Spend a few hours flying threw ack and find out how often it realy does hit you.


HiTech

[Furball]

I seem to get hit 1/3 or so i go into it.

But i am starting to think HT modelled it that way just to spite me!  it has FurDar or something.

I even get hit regularly by own ack, be it small arms or puffy.

[g00b]

HiTech,

In my experience I think the frequency of an 88 hit on a manuevering fighter is a wee bit high. No specific testing outside of hundreds of hours in the MA.

Regardless, I think the part that gets most people (myself included) is the INSTANT DEATH. No losing an aileron or an engine oil hit, with 88's it's INSTANT DEATH almost every time. If even 50% of 88 hits were surviveable you wouldn't hear as much whining.

g00b