This game is so frustrating! No one flies the way I want them to!

[matt]

2 words DA or midwar arena. some good 1vs1

[Midway]

It's nice to have insight from the timid cannon fodder point of view. To each their own I guess but to run and go hide before you get hurt in a video game that's about figthing seems odd and a waste of time. Unless of course it's just for the social aspect of it. Getting drunk and blithering on for hours talking to the computer isn't appealing either in my opinion. Maybe this game needs an arena where you sit around a virtual table and try to bs others in to how smart and enlightened you are. Maybe throw a deck of cards in or something. Possibly make it to where you ride around on a train through the MA country side safe and sound while the fight rages in the distance?

  Trains?  I wanna bomb and straife trains!  Can I bomb tracks so said trains run off the rails, or bomb bridges so I can watch them fall in the water?   Trains would be fun.   

[Slate]

Trains?  I wanna bomb and straife trains!  Can I bomb tracks so said trains run off the rails, or bomb bridges so I can watch them fall in the water?   Trains would be fun.   

  We used to have bombable bridges. With the old Strat system you would run into trains often.

     And I miss the wind 

[lulu]

We go around the question but no-one want to center the target ...

On the opposite I will see some post by so-called expert pilots in which they
tell us ALL about they fly and in which plane.

As to me, this is one of the major AH community's bug.

Who want to start to explain in details about his experiences?


 

[Nathan60]

If the game took an even numbered/balanced round based approach, and gave various scenarios (FSO formats etc) I think it would be a completely different gameplay experience.

sounds  familiar.....

http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,331672.0.html

[Wiley]

It's nice to have insight from the timid cannon fodder point of view. To each their own I guess but to run and go hide before you get hurt in a video game that's about figthing seems odd and a waste of time.

It depends what you're trying to accomplish.  I agree with you when it comes to the guy that sees you co-alt and inbound alone and immediately heads for the deck to get to his ack.  That makes absolutely no sense to me.

However, just for example take a guy that sees you inbound with a couple friends and starts engaging you gradually pulling the three of you down lower and tries to bleed some of your E so his two high buddies can get over the three of you...  To me that's smart gameplay.  That's the kind of fight I look for in the MA.  Side based, kill them how you can.

That's how some people get their fun, is flying somewhat like it's 'real life'.  To me personally, diving into a crowd of reds and trying to take as many of them with you as you can is nearly as pointless as HOing everything you see.  It's a coin flip, and you're eventually going to get overwhelmed and die.  I get why it's fun for them, but it's just not for me.

Wiley.

[Slash27]

It depends what you're trying to accomplish.  I agree with you when it comes to the guy that sees you co-alt and inbound alone and immediately heads for the deck to get to his ack.  That makes absolutely no sense to me.

However, just for example take a guy that sees you inbound with a couple friends and starts engaging you gradually pulling the three of you down lower and tries to bleed some of your E so his two high buddies can get over the three of you...  To me that's smart gameplay.  That's the kind of fight I look for in the MA.  Side based, kill them how you can.

That's how some people get their fun, is flying somewhat like it's 'real life'.  To me personally, diving into a crowd of reds and trying to take as many of them with you as you can is nearly as pointless as HOing everything you see.  It's a coin flip, and you're eventually going to get overwhelmed and die.  I get why it's fun for them, but it's just not for me.

Wiley.

Agreed.

[lulu]

I run away?

Yes, expecially from entire squadron - Hey I said SQUADRON not hordes.

Neg, I agree very little with Citabria observations.

Here hordes are function of map's targets, and pilots fairplay when it's possible.


 

[Slash27]

I run away?

Yes, expecially from entire squadron - Hey I said SQUADRON not hordes.

Neg, I agree very little with Citabria observations.

Here hordes are function of map's targets, and pilots fairplay when it's possible.


 

Who are you talking to?

[Shuffler]

Trains?  I wanna bomb and straife trains!  Can I bomb tracks so said trains run off the rails, or bomb bridges so I can watch them fall in the water?   Trains would be fun.   

For trains try the TRAINing Arena

[fuzeman]

2 words DA or midwar arena. some good 1vs1

More often than not when I went there it was the third word, pick.

[uptown]

I run away?

Yes, expecially from entire squadron - Hey I said SQUADRON not hordes.

Neg, I agree very little with Citabria observations.

Here hordes are function of map's targets, and pilots fairplay when it's possible.


 

What are you talking about? And as far as Festers comments go, what he describes in his 1st post is a mirror of my experiences in this game so far. Very well thought out and written.

[xNOVAx]

sounds  familiar.....

http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,331672.0.html

Once per week? Zzzzzz.

Every time I fly it should be something like this, which is probably why I don't fly anymore. It's so boring and pointless to enter an unbalanced fight every single time your wheels leave the ground whether it be against a horde or with the horde. This game (The MA where most people spend 99% of their game time) is about numbers the way it's currently structured, not about superior fighting tactics.

[lulu]

What am i talking about?

I don't think that hordes depend on players skills.

It depends on map's targets (as to me we need other type of targets - little targets i think to reduce ganging);
and a bit on players fairplay.  A squadron is normally an horde. I never found a squadron that
fight vs me in a 1 vs 1 duel. This is a fact not a whine. If I spot a bishop in trouble, I go to help.

I think that wars dogfight based are basically cooperative games. If you need a 1 vs 1, you must have
the proper conditions as I said more up before.


 

[Nathan60]

Once per week? Zzzzzz.

Every time I fly it should be something like this, which is probably why I don't fly anymore. It's so boring and pointless to enter an unbalanced fight every single time your wheels leave the ground whether it be against a horde or with the horde. This game (The MA where most people spend 99% of their game time) is about numbers the way it's currently structured, not about superior fighting tactics.

not once a week if more people could get in there and try it they may like it, and basically you have a week long FSO that changes on a weekly basis and you can come and go as ya please there have been Axis and Allied AVA threads on this BBS for awhile  people could use those to coordinate and plan. You use period specific planes  and would expose more people to ac other than spixteens, ponys, la's and 190's. Also I think  you can also fly the SEC as walk on anytime(correct if wrong)