B-24 Lazer ack

[Xasthur]

I hate to gripe and usually don't, but this is getting to be nothing short of ****ing ridiculous.

1.0K+ ping and I lose a wing on a previously untouched aircraft.

This was travelling at high speed away from the target.

Things like this are appearing more and more frequently.

High speed slashing pass (not even a good stick in the gunner position) and my ****ing aircraft explodes from a single nip from this ridiculous ack.


I'd be safer de-acking a field in a 109E FFS.

This bull**** lazer ack must be sorted out. 1 ping instant wing removal is not logical from 1k, no matter how good the gunner is.

[Ghastly]

Originally posted by Xasthur

This was travelling at high speed away from the target.

 

So... you'd just made a pass, and then blammo.  Pretty much guarantee that he whacked you as you went by and it was just latency that caused the damage as  you reached what you felt to be a "safe" distance.

Besides, depending upon latency, 1.0k on your FE could have been 600 yds on his...

[Bruv119]

I thought all of your luftwaffe cannon monster planes could easily kill any buff formation from any angle??

Sounds like u had a bad/unlucky day m8.

Try and kill Dantoo in any buff!!   I expect parts to start falling off after i've past him as standard.  Some guys are just insane shots and some have good tactics.  Other day he was wing off spinning into the ground still firing his rear gun and got me lol.

Spend a month upping buffs and gunning and you will appreciate the other side of the fence.  Most of the time its a 50/50 depending on number of attackers and number of buffs.  

Oh and i doubt it was one ping.

Bruv
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[Ghastly]

And besides which ... I just noticed that your location on the BBS is set to "Australia".   If so, I rest my case completely on latency.  
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In general though, I must say that the pilots that are complaining about the bomber guns have NO idea how good we have it in AH, where we are facing a human gunner and not the RoboCop/Terminator team of "other sims".  The current bomber gunnery model, which allows a single human to simulate an entire bomber gunnery crew (albeit and admittedly not perfectly) is infinitely better than dealing with Otto and the constant inevitable fiddling with it, as is the case elsewhere - where one day can Otto can shoot the lice between the feathers off of a canary as it clears the horizon at 2 am on a moonless night, and the next day couldn't hit a barn while standing inside it.

You guys are complaining about getting shot down by a person.  Someone who had to work to get a gun solution on you.  Deny him the solution and you won't die.

[tatertot]

who was the 24s???

[4deck]

[Xasthur]

Negative on the making a pass and being hit while doing it.

I looped around from infront to behind (co-alt) and came in behind.

I dived down to gather some speed and slash up and BOOM, wing off

Never got closer than 1.0K



It just things like this that are starting to get on my nerve.

It seems that no matter how much alt you have, how fast you're going when you attack..... it always results in a fatal or catastrophic hit.


I feel like i'm being hit by a god-damn airborne CV group all of a sudden.

[tatertot]

ANGLE,MORE OF IT IF YOU LOOPED AROUND FRONT TO REAR EASY SHOT NOE FROM 3 TO 6 UP AND OVER A LITTLE HARDER,

[Ghastly]

The only way to attack bombers from co-alt is a high speed pass forward of the 3-9 line, and head-on is by far the best (In my very humble opinion) - At least with the 50's, since you are looking for a pilot kill.

Anything else is suicide to an alert gunner, and you are simply rolling the dice that he won't be, or will totally suck.

ALL IMHO, of course.

[quintv]

I don't even bother with bombers unless I have a good amount of alt and time to play with and have a heavily cannoned crate.

[SteveBailey]

Originally posted by quintv
I don't even bother with bombers unless I have a good amount of alt and time to play with and have a heavily cannoned crate.

No offense but you are missing out on a lot of  kills, probably.

I fly a plane w/ no cannon and get some bomber kills.  I'm not making any  claims at having any talent at this game, it's just my guess that you could hammer bombers.


Steve

[Karnak]

You never got closer than 1000 yards on your FE.  But what matters is how close you were on his FE, and given you are in Australia that could easily have been within 500 yards.

[Bronk]

Originally posted by quintv
I don't even bother with bombers unless I have a good amount of alt and time to play with and have a heavily cannoned crate.

A P-38 kills buff quite nicely with just the 4 .50 cal.


Bronk

[hubsonfire]

Sounds like lag to me.

[Xasthur]

Mmmmm

I have a solid connection though... the only thing **** at my end is my lump of **** computer.

It's still fast enough to run things well in that situation though (just slows down in big furballs, but entirely to my detriment, i still send signals out at the same speed, my comp just 'opens the packages coming in slower' (it ****s my kill-shots up all the time, very frustrating haha) so I doubt it was my computer in this case.

Are you suggesting that because I'm in Australia I suffer from lazer-ack buffs becuase their FE suggests that I'm closer than I really am?

I've heard yanks on 200 ***** about Japanese having an advantage because of their location. I assumed that I would be in the same boat, given my geographical position.

And just to lay rest to the suspition of my buff attack methods.... rest assured this gunner would have to be a ****ing deity to land the shot as I saw it on my FE.