New Icon System

[Kev367th]

Love it.
Nothing like diving on a La7 with a 'Tiffy', he assumes he can outrun, only to find it's a Tempest. LOLOLOL

[rogerdee]

id  still prefer to see only friendly icons  and have no n m e icons  till  up very close.It would stop people  running when they se something better then them  gettng close

rogerdee

[DieAz]

Originally posted by Kev367th
Love it.
Nothing like diving on a La7 with a 'Tiffy', he assumes he can outrun, only to find it's a Tempest. LOLOLOL

why would a La7 run from an easy kill?

[Greebo]

Originally posted by DieAz
why would a La7 run from an easy kill?

Habit probably.

Wondered why I've been seeing so many Tempests about recently. That "temp" banner must have really made you everyone's target no1 before.

[dedalos]

Thats funny, because I have not met a Tempest yet that did not try to run, only to find out that he is not as fast as he thought


(Morph, be quiet )

[Eagler]

plane name icons are gamey

like to meet the pilot that can tell a 109f from a 109g from a 109g2, g6, g10 when flying by them in the heat of combat

easy mode for the kiddies

[straffo]

Originally posted by Eagler
plane name icons are gamey

like to meet the pilot that can tell a 109f from a 109g from a 109g2, g6, g10 when flying by them in the heat of combat

easy mode for the kiddies

Before the skins it was easy to differentiate just by knowing the skin of each model.
The new icon system is not completly new.

Plus the 109 allways had an unfair advantage in this area.
Do you thing you can differentiate a hurry and a typhoon at 5K ?

[JB73]

Originally posted by straffo
Do you thing you can differentiate a hurry and a typhoon at 5K ?

heck without an icon i can;t tell a spit from a hurri at 100 yards.

i just don't see any differences in their shape, guess im dumb or something. they look identical, and ugly lol

[straffo]

If they are alive 100 yard in front of you I found my gunnery astral twin

[JB73]

Originally posted by straffo
If they are alive 100 yard in front of you I found my gunnery astral twin

they ALWAYS are alive 100 years in front of me. last night i missed 2 passes on a spit, i got to icon range 0 and was holding down the trigger for over a full second.

i can not shoot for ****, and have given up all hope of ever getting even the slightest bit better.


i am actually getting worse every week in the past 4 months. the mroe time goes by, the more i try to "aim" the worse i get


i think i'm down to under 2% hit % if i'm lucky.

[Saintaw]

Yup, that sounds just like Straffo (And me!)

[frank3]

In my room (Franks Coop Missions) we always fly without icons.
It's really hard to see if your target is friend or foe.

You have to 1) zoom in very far or 2) be behind it within 500 yards.

It does make you a little more cautionate with the shooting ('hold your fire! It's me!')

The aiming doesn't get any harder from it though

[NUKE]

Originally posted by rogerdee
id  still prefer to see only friendly icons  and have no n m e icons  till  up very close.It would stop people  running when they se something better then them  gettng close

rogerdee

That wouldn't make sense. Right now, I wonder why one is able to ID enemy icons and not friendlies?

The ID range for enemy icons seems pretty good to me, but we should also be able to ID friendlies......just makes sense.

[Flyboy]

Originally posted by DieAz
why would a La7 run from an easy kill?

why will an la7 run away from a tiffi or a temp?

same reason he runs away from P40s and zekes.

cause its a la7

[J_A_B]

"like to meet the pilot that can tell a 109f from a 109g from a 109g2, g6, g10 when flying by them in the heat of combat "


I'd like you to show ME the battle where 109F's were flying right alongside 109G-10's.


J_A_B