How does the pilot know exactly what the range of his cannons/guns are? How does a pilot know how much to lead in virtually every situation? Is it cannon uberness or is it experience.
It's neither.... it's the fact that AH pilots have something real life WW2 pilots never had .... laser ranging eyeballs which can measure the distance to an enemy aircraft accurately to the YARD!
Long range deflection shooting becomes nothing more difficult than, "He's at 500yds, so I need to put his nose right on the edge of my gunsight". No skill involved.
Get rid of the ranges inside 1000yds and you immediately bring the fights in closer. Then all the argument regarding 'uber' guns etc becomes academic.
Think of this. We have a Year 2000 game using the same icon system that was in use in AW back in 1985.
Introducing this game play killing joke of a fighter plane was a watershed event in my opinion and AH has not been better off since.
Hmmm I remember hearing almost exactly the same comments when the 4-cannon armed F4U-4 was introduced into Warbirds.
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[This message has been edited by Jekyll (edited 12-20-2000).]
