I next to never find myself in position to make a close shot. And i would venture to say that my hit percentage has gone WAY down in the last... 8 days? I have made what i have recorded to be effectice shots from 800m. i have fired only severaly shots, and made confirmed kills. I am telling you from my experience what i am doing, and what its effects are. Now, i DO NOT fire a 30mm at a target that is more than 200m away UNLESS HE IS FLYING STRAIGHT AND LEVEL. If an aricraft is maneuvering, i DO NOT SHOOT. if the enemy is straight and level and MORE than 1000m, i DO NOT SHOOT. If i am targeting an aircraft and who IS maneuvering preventing me from a clear shot, even IF he is WITHIN 200m, i DO NOT FIRE CANNON. I fire MGs only at that point. I DO NOT fire cannon AT ALL, unless i have a CONFIRMED shot. And the reason my hit percentage (Which was surely low already due to my n00b-ness) has gone way down is 2 reasons:
1. My trigger has been recorded to stick, and just not stop shooting. I have complained over the country-wide that my guns wouldnt stop firing.
2. My comp has lagged very badly and froze while useing my dads computer, and has kept the guns again firing much longer than i had pulled the trigger for.
Now, my technique is NOT perfect. My aim is NOT garunteed, my kills are NOT certain. But so far, these techniques have worked for me. I know where the 30mms are going. This isnt the first game i have played where i fly the 109 80% of the time. Im used to their weapons. The flight charactoristics are a bit different, but the weapons feel the same in my hands. I find it very difficult to engage in a furball. I try, but my time to shine, is when i have an A/C that thinks he is safe, simply because he is out of what most pilots consider to be an effective range for a 30mm. He loosens up. Relaxes. He knows he is already "out of range", and he is faster than me, and so getting farther away. This happens quite a bit, and this is when i find kills are easiest. If i know from experience that i can put a shot or two where i need them to go, i will take that shot. and yes, sometimes it takes several more shots that i would like. but if it takes 10, even 15 shots, if at least a few of those shots hit to make the kill, thats one more kill, and one less bandit. and in the situtation i normally find myself in, (No ACM, not much manuevering skill, enough ammo to fight off an enemy [50 on a K, 100 on a G] i have enough ammo, just not the maneuvering skill to make use of it.) this is my best option, and this, for the most part works for me. If i start running out of ammo in combat, i will take a second look at my strategy. But for now, when those few times i make it back to base, or when i get shot down, i am landning or getting killed with at least 50 rounds in a G, and 30 in a K. I have enough ammo. Im not worried about that. I just dont have the ACM. but my shooting is working better than anything else i do.
