Is there anyway of..

[kvuo75]

all guns on everything fire to the center of the screen..


put a dot on your screen on the center dot of the default gunsight with a dry erase marker. move your head around all you wish. that dot is your gunsight.

[Morpheus]

dude, I know dude, so its already unrealistic enough without goofy crap like aiming with your mouse pointer... dude.

So if you dont like it, quit.

[Tr0jan]

not to where your forehead was smashed against the top of the canopy.

Taking this a little too seriously..

Not like there going to have there "Custom Mouse Gunsight" all the way at the top of the cockpit

You can now stop whining

[Wingnutt]

So if you dont like it, quit.

Not like there going to have there "Custom Mouse Gunsight" all the way at the top of the cockpit

dont say that too loud.

[Morpheus]

what's that you have in your mouth?

Didn't your mommy teach you not to put strange things in there?

[AWwrgwy]

what's that you have in your mouth?

Didn't your mommy teach you not to put strange things in there?

It's saliva.  Standard equipment.



wrongway

[AKHog]

Mouse sights also work great in the ostie/wirble. 

Who cares if its gamey, there are plenty of gamey things in this game that make up for the lack of certain stimuli that you would otherwise have in real life, take icons for example.

Learning to use the mouse as a gun sight could be equated to a fighter ace learning to 'shoot from the hip', to be able to put lead on target while looking over the nose or otherwise not using his gun sight (which there are accounts of them doing).

[Wingnutt]

Mouse sights also work great in the ostie/wirble. 

Who cares if its gamey, there are plenty of gamey things in this game that make up for the lack of certain stimuli that you would otherwise have in real life, take icons for example.

Icons make up for the inherent lack of depth perception you get from having 3d view on a 2s medium, and for the lack of resolution you would otherwise have with the human eye.. they are not an un fair advantage, they just supplement what is missing to bring things back to level in the area of judging distance.

Learning to use the mouse as a gun sight could be equated to a fighter ace learning to 'shoot from the hip', to be able to put lead on target while looking over the nose or otherwise not using his gun sight (which there are accounts of them doing).

actually its exactly the opposite of "shooting from the hip" it IS having a gunsight when you SHOULDENT, I.E. a aiming reference where there shouldn't be one..

next we will be wanting a transparent cockpit.

gunsights only show on a small area because thats they way the game was written, .. having a 2nd gunsight a foot above the max level it should be at.. I.E. flying with your head smashed into the top of the canopy, is just like editing your sounds so you don't hear your engine but hear everyone else  and all the other nonsense  people have figured out how to manipulate in this game to give themselves an advantage that in real life was not even remotely possible..

hells yes, its a game, and getting more so every day thanks to CRAP like this. 

[AKHog]

Icons make up for the inherent lack of depth perception you get from having 3d view on a 2s medium, and for the lack of resolution you would otherwise have with the human eye.. they are not an un fair advantage, they just supplement what is missing to bring things back to level in the area of judging distance.

I'm perfectly aware of this, that is exactly why I used icons in my example. I'm not suggesting they are an unfair advantage, where did you get that? They are a 'supplement for what is missing', that was my point!

actually its exactly the opposite of "shooting from the hip" it IS having a gunsight when you SHOULDENT, I.E. a aiming reference where there shouldn't be one..

Somehow you got lost between your two thoughts.

In real life pilots could use peripheral vision and other means to estimate where the bullets would hit. In AH we don't have that ability becuase of the 2d cockpit and other limiting factors, so using the mouse is "supplementing for what is missing".

If you still don't believe me go read about WW2 pilots that would use a mark on their wind screen (like gum as someone already mentioned) as a supplemental sight. Where the WW2 pilots being too "gamey" for you wingnutt?

all the other nonsense  people have figured out how to manipulate in this game to give themselves an advantage that in real life was not even remotely possible..

So in real life advantages were not remotely possible?

hells yes, its a game, and getting more so every day thanks to CRAP like this.

I don't even know you but I could guess that you are doing a pretty crappy job of 'simulating' WW2 combat like you think you are. You don't stay up all night to the sound of bombs going off, you don't eat crappy food for months on end, you don't spend all your time away from your loved ones, you don't fly at sub zero temps, you don't experience g forces, you don't fly for several hours without being able to move around or get up, the list goes on and on. Unless you can simulate WW2 combat perfectly yourself, you can not tell others they are doing it wrong.