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Offline lyric1

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Boston drones?
« on: June 28, 2012, 08:35:29 AM »
Ran into a formation of Boston's yesterday & proceeded to give chase. The guy playing seemed to be a new player & pulled his lead plane in for a dog fight.
He extended out & I noticed his drones floating ahead of me so I pursed those I killed one of them & noticed I was 4.5k from the lead plane.
I have heard people complain about the range the Boston drones can separate from the lead aircraft before.  :headscratch:
4.5K though seems to be a lot to me.

Thoughts?
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Offline R 105

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Re: Boston drones?
« Reply #1 on: June 28, 2012, 03:40:25 PM »
 I have noticed that the Boston drones seem to be the hardest drones to lose when in a tight turn. However there is no way to know how far away they are from your lead plane when flying them but 4.5 seems way to far. This must be some kind of bug?

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Re: Boston drones?
« Reply #2 on: June 28, 2012, 05:03:20 PM »
I have noticed that the Boston drones seem to be the hardest drones to lose when in a tight turn. However there is no way to know how far away they are from your lead plane when flying them but 4.5 seems way to far. This must be some kind of bug?

One of the rare times I had film rolling took a screen shot 4.6k in fact.




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Re: Boston drones?
« Reply #3 on: June 28, 2012, 06:22:38 PM »
The Boston does hang onto its drones better than other bombers but 4.6k must be some sort of glich beyond that.

Defencive manoeuvring (in my experience)in a Boston still retains drones as long as you return to pick them up again.

Boston is pretty useless at air to air stuff unless you can catch someone unwary enough to enter an unmatched turn fight with one. On the rare occasion I have done this it seems fairly easy to keep drones proviided you stay in their approximate vicinity.
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Re: Boston drones?
« Reply #4 on: July 08, 2012, 08:04:12 PM »
yeah it must be a glitch