My Slump

[Rocket]

<sigh> Over the last 3 weeks I have had the worst streak since early in the beta.  And those were caused from respawning at a capped field to keep it from being captured.  I can't see the angle, my lead misses by 4ft from the wingtip, my snapshot pass harmlessly by.  I have tried different planes to no avail.  

Today I managed back to back kills against a 1C and a p38 in a tiffie!  Hopefully I am back in the groove again.  Now if I can get this LW cross off of my 1D I will be happy, anyone seen the paint remover?

If this doesn't do it look for me walking around the map as a drunk  

S!
Rocket

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[This message has been edited by Rocket (edited 05-14-2000).]

[Hangtime]

When my gunnery seems to go to hell I load up a new gunsight. Dunno why it works but it does...

I just emailed yah the sight I like the best. Works great.  

Hang

[Spatula]

I too suffered the same problem, sounds like a few others have as well. In tour 2 i had a half respectable k/d ratio of 1.5:1 and it degenerated to about 0.8:1 in tour 3 and my gunnery percentage dropped off too. I put it down to:
1. Version 1.2 and above decreased FPS due to more details - got down to 13 FPS at times when i had a gun solution  
2. I re-installed totally and lost my gunsight, and JS setup.
3. My crappy monitor died so i had to borrow a crud 14"
4. Bad luck
5. constantly changing my ride (I was a spit dweeb all the time and decided to experiment)
6. Getting too confident

how much of this is truly a factor or just an excuse im not sure, but i went about solving all of them:
1. bought a K7 650
2. tweaked the default JS setup
3. bought a new 17" monitor
4. Got on with it.
5. Settled on the p-51 as my default ride.
6. stopped being a over-confident pilot.

Now i can use those excuses. I also changed my gunsight to AKWabbits historical P-51 red diamonds sight.

I think there has been an improvement.

Not sure if this helps or just annoys you but you aint alone in the 'loser streak'.

Spat.

[This message has been edited by Spatula (edited 05-15-2000).]

[humble]

Posted on weazel's thread earlier...but tonight i think i figured it out....for 5+ yrs I've flown (mostly AW)...over that time I've been in a squad 90% of time...but 90% of my fights were 1 on 1 or 1-2,2-3,4,5 and such.

I realized tonight that I haven't had a single true 1 on 1 in MA in 6 weeks or more least that I can recall). Literally everything is more "organized"...since i'm a lone wolf kind of flyer it shows...no beef's complaint's or belly aching...but my kind of flying in AH is close to dead.

Either you thre gang...or the banged it seems...guess it's time to learn a new way to fly in here  .

[StSanta]

How about this for an interesting anecdote (hopefully).

Earlier in this tour, I had a hit percentage of 11.5%. That's pretty good for a dweb like me. Then hristos convinced me to try the Über 190 with its massive guns, high speed and plentiful ammoload. I watched my gunnery skills deteriorate. Then thought that all I needed was to go back to the 109. I was wrong. I was wrong to ever doubt. My gunnery skills STILL sucked, and it was only aggravated by the 109's quirkiness.

So now my challenge is to a) get my k/d back over 3.0 (won't happen with my connection/shooting) and my gunnery % up above 8%.

Just goes to show ya how different you apply guns in different planes, even though you don't think about it.



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StSanta
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[Rocket]

Thanks Hang will give it a try anything is worth a shot right now.
I hope the worst is over or at least things are starting to get better.  I don't consider myself anything but a near avg pilot but boy it gets frustrating fast in here when ya hit a bad day(s) with the calibre of pilots playing.  There are no "easy" sorties out there.  I have come to give respect to every plane I see in the sky and when I do shoot Hang or Torque or any of the other well above avg pilots it really gives me a warm fuzzy   One of these days I will learn to fly and then watch out.  Until then don't run when ya see me comin cause I am an easy kill at the moment.  Hell tonite I lawndarted a c47 and there was a witness!

I just needed to vent some frustrations with the post and let some of the new players know that even the guys that have been here since the start of beta have bad bad bad days  

S!
Rocket

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[Vermillion]

Ahhh don't worry Rocket it comes and it goes.

After running a 3:1 K/D in most of Tour 1 & 2, I went on a horrible "slump" for the last week of Tour 2 (finished 2.05) and almost the entire Tour 3 (finished 1.46).

I couldn't hit crap, I had a ton of assists, and was dying left and right.  

So I took a break for a couple of weeks, relaxed a little, and didn't worry so much about it.

Tour 4 seems to be going much better (currenty 4.0), plus I am having alot more fun.  

As my squaddie Archer says.... relax, it will come  

Santa, if you think 11.5% shooting is bad just look at the rankings sorted on hit percentage. I shoot around 7% and I am in the 200's, 11.5% would put you in the top 70 easy   Pretty good in my book.

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**MOL**, Men of Leisure
"Real Men fly Radials, Nancy Boys fly Spitfires"

[This message has been edited by Vermillion (edited 05-15-2000).]

[RAM]

 

Originally posted by Hangtime:
When my gunnery seems to go to hell I load up a new gunsight. Dunno why it works but it does...

I just emailed yah the sight I like the best. Works great.  

Hang

Hang can you mail it to me, too? my shooting **REALLY** sucks

ebringas@airtel.net

Thks  

[StSanta]

11.5% is very good to me, and I was much impressed with myself. Made a bmp of me downing an aircraft and whenever someone in my project group saw it I would quickly add, very loudly, "and I got an 11.5 hit % too!"

Of course, they've never heard of AH and it has done little to help my reputation as being an oddball  

But, alas, now I am down to 6-7%. Maybe in ten years I'll do better  



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StSanta
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[Westy]

 I say don't look at the score card at all. Just recalibrate, recalibrate and recalibrate.  
 I've found when I start a night of really bad flying it's because my stick is acting wonky and things go better after a Windows and AH recalibration.
 Then again I suck. I get jubilant whenever I am graciously handed a kill by flyers who are away from the keyboard.

 -Westy

[Duckwing6]

i hear ya Rocket .. sometimes you can fly where and when you want and you'll be above them, on their high 6, swoop down and blast them outta the sky with a hail of cal 050 ammo from any angle .. the next day you'll overshoot, auger, burn E, crash on takeoff, miss the best shots, and be gennerally jumped by suborbital 109's in pairs ...

taking a break for a while helps usualy .. (and yea the Gunsight thingy helped me too

[Dead Man Flying]

I started this tour in an enormous slump.  I was consistently outnumbered, outalted, outgunned, and worst of all I was flying poorly without regard to any of that.  Then I found the perfect solution to my problems:

Variety.

I got out of fighters and started practicing bombers.  I started capturing fields.  I expanded my horizons and had a helluva lot of fun doing it.  When I would fly a fighter, I'd rarely take up my trademark Spit.  Instead, I've played a veritable musical chairs of planes this tour, flying 205s one night, 51s the next, and Hogs another.  Regardless of how well I fly any of them, the change in scenery is a welcome one.  I found I was having fun in spite of myself.

-- Todd/DMF

[Hangtime]

Damme DMF...

Hell on wheels u are in that F4u.. I was stunned! And DEAD!

Gawd.. get back in yer slump, so's I can have fun again!  

Salute!

Hang

[Hangtime]

StSanta..

What works best with gun percentages is gun discipline. Don't take the shot if yah ain't got a shot.   If yah don't have snapshot weapons.. don't take snapshots. Snapshots are Multi-cannon bird shots; the territory of some spits; the nicks and cannon hawgs. Yer 109/190 (with 2 cannons) and my stang share the same weakness in AH.. not much hope of a good killin snapshot on a manuvering target.

Solve the problem by working to angles that are much lower AOT shots. I like to get close. Then I get closer. Then I check six and get even closer than that.

First thing in every fight; solve the angles completely. Get on his six; get in his plane of manuver, and get CLOSE.. the gunnery issue solves itself.  

At point blank range; yah got no worries.  

Hang (13% last I checked)

[StSanta]

ang, ayp.

i did all the things you siad in the 109, then oconverted to the snapshot 190 which has a lot more ammo and a good deal of more high speed snapshots. I need to learn it better, yes, but what surprised me was how much my score deteriorated. Am back in the 109G10 (and what a lovely aircraft it is, had a high spit on my 6, dragged him he dived to get speed, I reversed, met HO which i faked, he dived to get my 6, I pulled up, bled him off e and 5 minutes later, the fight was all over with me getting a high aspect shot at him while he was at the deck trying to make his E less fighter turn  ).

I expect my hit % to go up, although due to the number of bullets I've already fired, it will not show for some time  

Thanks for the advice. Sometimes you need someone to kick you in the butt and tell you what you really know for it to sink in  



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StSanta
II/JG2