Picking and Hoing

[angelsandair]

Well, this seems to be going on 200 all the time.
Someone will pick someone, they will yell at them. Okay no big deal right?
Well then someone will ho someone and they will yell at eachother.


Well here is what happened with me it is pretty stupid, I'm just kind of flying along and a F4U1C kept trying to pick me. So I didnt want it to become a pick so i dove on an enemy on my friend. We start turning and while we are turning, i see him start diving on me. I got no E left, im turning with a plane and I'm about to get gangbanged. What can I do?? Well i just went nose up and blew that damn F4U1C out of the sky. THEN he calls me out on 200 saying that I'm a dirty HOing noob when fact is, HOing turned out to be my only defense, not to mention i got the 1c and the plane i was turning with. Not to mention i was flying a  Spit VIII, how sad is that?? I somehow win a ho with a -1C while he is trying to pick me and he calls me out lol.

What do you think?

[Kweassa]

What do you think?

 I think dead people should keep their mouth shut.

 Cherrypicking, HOing, ramming, gangbanging, or whatever it is that technically doesn't qualify as "cheating" or a gamebug "exploit", if the guy is dead and you're alive, then you're the winner.

 When losers start mouthing off, its all self-explanatory why they are indeed, "losers".

 
 
 So don't take heed, angelsandair.

 Ignore the knumbnuts and have fun.

[bcadoo]

After seeing the quality of text on it......I've turned off 200.

[SD67]

Don't sweat it angels.
If it's the only option you've got the there is no shame in taking the HO.

[Rich46yo]

I try to avoid going on 200 just for poor gameplay. Ill bet I got HO'd at least a dozen times yesterday, most of which were 1 on 1, and If I went on 200 every time someone attempted to HO me then I'd never be able to play. This is mostly an HO game so spray everyone in the face you can, and their mothers. Cause they will no doubt do it to you.

[PhantomBarron]

Do unto others, as they are about to do to you. Love it when outnumbered 9v1 all fighting over who can kill me 1st. Kill one or two before the eminent, and get called out for taking a ho shot.
Some people just don’t get it.

[Ghastly]

Rule #2 - deal with the highest threat first.
(Rule #1 is don't ever get in front of the other guys guns)

IMO, what you should have done is engage the F4U1-C, and you use your (far) superior energy retention characteristics to bleed his energy until you could kill him without ever letting him get a shot on you.  

Given that you let him go HO, you don't have anything to complain about.  

Given that he let it get to an HO when he had all the cards, he has even LESS than nothing to complain about it.

200 is like watching a bunch of 10 year old boys argue amongst themselves about who's better with the girls - 30% noise, 30% posturing and 40% supposition and myth.

[Barnes828]

[RANT]   I'm not going to name any names but it always seems to be the same people that use this hypocritical whining on 200, and when you don't respond on 200 they PM you. Then when you say i won you lost, or tell them to stop whining, their first response is "Lets go to DA!" If you have to challenge someone to a DA that you probably will beat anyways, you need to get a life and realize this is just a game... [/RANT]

[lagger86]

Originally posted by angelsandair
Well, this seems to be going on 200 all the time.
Someone will pick someone, they will yell at them. Okay no big deal right?
Well then someone will ho someone and they will yell at eachother.


Well here is what happened with me it is pretty stupid, I'm just kind of flying along and a F4U1C kept trying to pick me. So I didnt want it to become a pick so i dove on an enemy on my friend. We start turning and while we are turning, i see him start diving on me. I got no E left, im turning with a plane and I'm about to get gangbanged. What can I do?? Well i just went nose up and blew that damn F4U1C out of the sky. THEN he calls me out on 200 saying that I'm a dirty HOing noob when fact is, HOing turned out to be my only defense, not to mention i got the 1c and the plane i was turning with. Not to mention i was flying a  Spit VIII, how sad is that?? I somehow win a ho with a -1C while he is trying to pick me and he calls me out lol.

What do you think?

I think that's normal:aok  Do what you want and fly however you want. If somebody is trying to pick you and you know they are....then your SA is improving and HO the MF...he'd probably do the same.

[DadRabit]

bad guy con shoulda expected the ho.  u won, he lost.  i'm sure he was able to get another cartoon plane    

life goes on

[smokey23]

I say WELL DONE angels, he just got owned in his perk plane and theres alot of players that cant deal with that. You being in a spitVIII takeing out a 1-C  is great. I get HO'd all the time cherrypicked all the time, its hard to get a co - alt straight up knife fight anymore. Kudo's angels dont let them bellyacheing on 200 get ya down.





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[Roundeye]

1.  Thats why I keep 200 detuned.  I don't care to see any lame crying from dead people.

2.  If they PM you, offer to take them to the TA to show them how you did it.

3.  If they challenge you to a DA duel, ignore them.  They know you just killed them.  I don't care to respond to such childish hair pulling.


  Last tour, I repeatedly bombed a guy that kept coming at our town with a Flak pnzr.  I would let him get close to town then drop eggs on him from a Mossie and kill him.  After a couple times of this he PM'd me and said I had aimbot     I PM'd him back and offered to take him to the TA and show him how I dive bomb on GVs with a Mossie.  It's called practice.  No reply from him (imagine that).


  As far a HO shots, sometimes you have no choice.  Say you are flying a zeke or some other slow plane and some guy with a fast plane is BNZing you.  You cannot get him to blow his E.  He keeps screaming down on you at 450mph and you keep turning to avoid at 150mph.  By the time you swing back to bring his plane into view, he is already 1k away and fading fast.  Your only real hope is to turn into him and shoot him in the face on his next pass.

(Head on shots are mentioned in just about every WWII fighter novel I have....and I have ALOT of them.  It was an actual tactic used by many and even perfected by a German squadron.   One of the first well documented dogfight kills of a Me-262 that was shot down by a P-51 was done with a head on shot)

  Prepare yourself for the crying that will surely ensue.  He knows he had the discipline to not be lured into a turn fight and kept his E, he also knows there is no possible way you can play his game and E fight (your Zeke will compress at 400).  He goes in holding all the cards and you end up wasting him....of course he is going to be sore.  Ignore the crying.

  Used correctly, it is a legitmate tactic.  Using it as a primary tactic like on initial merge is lame.  Using it for defence is survival.

[TheFinale]

I also have turned off 200 recently because the only folks who use it are the loud and immature dweebs, who care more about the game than they do real life.  That's GG...

HOing is part of the game.  It can be effective sometimes in planes such as the Fw190a8 vs. say a Spit Mk1.  A kill is a kill.  They game never says anything like,"You cheaply shot down xxx."  It says you shot them down.  Let the game tell you who wins each fight, not the self-embarrassing whiners.

[WWM]

There is a certain point where the gloves come off. HOing pickers is fine, picking vulchers is fine, vulching vulchers is fine.  
      I had a guys try to vulch me landing last night. He missed and ack gave him an oil leak in one engine.  I reupped and chased him back to his base just in time to vulch him when he was landing.  He then has the nerve to get an attitude about it:rolleyes:

[Lye-El]

A picker is high and fast and hate it when it doesn't work for them. Low and slow shooting them in the face may be your only option. Killing them when they are in a four cannon bird frustrates them even more. Congratulations on the kill.