Author Topic: Has something changed?  (Read 364 times)

Offline loony1

  • Nickel Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 497
Has something changed?
« on: May 08, 2013, 03:01:42 PM »
Here lately I seem to be getting pilot wounded an awfully lot. front, side, top, bottom. No mater what. 1 or 2 pings and boom, pilot wound. It doesn't matter what plane I'm flying either. :airplane:
Loony2 Of "The Iron Saints"

Offline Skuzzy

  • Support Member
  • Administrator
  • *****
  • Posts: 31462
      • HiTech Creations Home Page
Re: Has something changed?
« Reply #1 on: May 08, 2013, 03:21:17 PM »
Nothing there has changed.
Roy "Skuzzy" Neese
support@hitechcreations.com

Offline Auger

  • Nickel Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 492
      • AKs Home Page
Re: Has something changed?
« Reply #2 on: May 09, 2013, 12:15:20 AM »
It is my firm belief that pilot wounds run on a lottery system.  When your number comes up, prepare for a night of red splotches all over the canopy.  One ping, 800 yds out, from behind the armor plate, start bleeding.  Other times I'll go weeks without getting one. 

Ride it out.

Offline Bizman

  • Plutonium Member
  • *******
  • Posts: 9606
Re: Has something changed?
« Reply #3 on: May 09, 2013, 04:53:29 AM »
Have you taken note of the pilots who have PW'd you, have they been the same that you have fought against before this PW boom? Some pilots have got me PW'd with only one pass and ping and when I've chatted with them afterwards, they say they usually aim to the canopy. I for my part find it hard to even figure out which direction the opposite player is going or even worse, what's my location in the virtual sky. A combination of young sharp eyes, good monitor, good SA and the ability to do computer level calculations is deadly to us mere mortals. I've even begun to think that the Internet/gaming generation see the whole game totally differently than I and those older than me. Instead of thinking how a real plane would act and adapting that thought to what's happening on the screen, they might do subconscious vector calculations of pixel movements. It's already in their spine.
Quote from: BaldEagl, applies to myself, too
I've got an older system by today's standards that still runs the game well by my standards.

Kotisivuni

Offline fuzeman

  • Aces High CM Staff
  • Plutonium Member
  • *******
  • Posts: 8971
Re: Has something changed?
« Reply #4 on: May 09, 2013, 12:02:32 PM »
Here lately I seem to be getting pilot wounded an awfully lot. front, side, top, bottom. No mater what. 1 or 2 pings and boom, pilot wound. It doesn't matter what plane I'm flying either. :airplane:

Gained any weight lately? Maybe you are just filling up the space in the cockpit more and thus, the bullets have a greater chance of hitting you?   :confused:
Far too many, if not most, people on this Board post just to say something opposed to posting when they have something to say.

"Masters of the Air" Scenario - JG54

Offline DubiousKB

  • Silver Member
  • ****
  • Posts: 1614
Re: Has something changed?
« Reply #5 on: May 09, 2013, 12:21:49 PM »
... they might do subconscious vector calculations of pixel movements. It's already in their spine.

 :O

You may be on to something here. Anyone who's taken some form of programming has an interesting perspective on games and how they work. I'm not saying I see the matrix when I game, but there may be something to your comment on a generational gap in the fundamental understanding of how games and "simulators" work.

.... hasn't helped me much though Bizman   :bhead
56th Fighter Group -  Jug Life

Offline Bizman

  • Plutonium Member
  • *******
  • Posts: 9606
Re: Has something changed?
« Reply #6 on: May 09, 2013, 12:51:20 PM »
.... hasn't helped me much though Bizman   :bhead
Hasn't helped me either... I recall a friend's son beat me in any game when he was under 10, at 16 or so he joined AH for awhile, got enough kills and bored. Without having to carry the weight of knowing the laws of physics kids can do miracles in a pixel world.
Quote from: BaldEagl, applies to myself, too
I've got an older system by today's standards that still runs the game well by my standards.

Kotisivuni