Getting worse

[Dragon Tamer]

I don't know why but it feels like these last few months my skill level has been slowly going down. I can't hit half the time I aim at a target and I don't have any real ACM knowledge.

God I suck...

[SPKmes]

i'm having one of those tours myself

[DarkHawk]

Don't we all

[Fulcrum]

My advice:

1.) Gunnery - offline practice as much as possible and relax relax relax!  When one goes through a slump the frustration can become a self-fulfilling prophesy...you become so tense your timing gets off, you become stiff and over-correct, etc.

2.) ACM - easy.  Get with a trainer.  This will also help tremendously with your gunnery as you take better angles to the target.  Just learning when to use lag / pure / lead persuit is enormously helpful....especially if you are an aggressive player who tends to fly pure persuit (nose on target) all the time.   Btw....even vets struggle with that at times (I sure do...)

Don't give up!  

[Fulcrum]

Btw....you've got some pretty decent sticks in your squad who can help.  Uptown/OldNo7 and Latrobe (for example) are fun guys and can help!  Don't be afraid to ask...that's what squaddees are for!

[guncrasher]

I am too lazy to practice.  I just asked bustr for his gunsight.


semp

[Fulcrum]

I am too lazy to practice.  I just asked bustr for his gunsight.


semp

Someday I'll figure that thing out....but it does help.

[JUGgler]

I don't know why but it feels like these last few months my skill level has been slowly going down. I can't hit half the time I aim at a target and I don't have any real ACM knowledge.

God I suck...

Change your ride to something horrible, and don't care about losing. You will improve exponentially

                                        or

Quit for a few weeks or months, when you return it will be fun again. you will care less and get much better much more quickly!!!


The common thread here is, you are caring too much! caring about losing, caring about poor aim, caring that your getting worse, basically caring.

The best thing I did was to quit the game for about a year, when I returned I honestly could have cared less about the outcome of any sortie. I improved rapidly and had more fun!

Sometimes you have to back up and re-realize that it is just a game 

I promise 

 



JUGgler

[Easyscor]

Best gunnery advice I ever heard came from a movie: "Aim small, miss small."

[Bear76]

Best gunnery advice I ever heard came from a movie: "Aim small, miss small."

"Spray and Pray" was the one I saw 

[The Fugitive]

I don't know why but it feels like these last few months my skill level has been slowly going down. I can't hit half the time I aim at a target and I don't have any real ACM knowledge.

God I suck...

LOL!!! you get use to it. This is been happening to me for the last couple of years! I hope to break out of it soon.

[zack1234]

You were never very good to be honest

[Debrody]

I don't know why but it feels like these last few months my skill level has been slowly going down. I can't hit half the time I aim at a target and I don't have any real ACM knowledge.

God I suck...

I have always felt the same since 2012 March 

[Lab Rat 3947]

ever since I switched to using a TrackIR, I can't hit a cow in the butt with a snow shovel. I need to modify my profile to get a good dead zone. But so far, no luck, at that.
I suck at gunnery.


LtngRydr   

[eeyore]

Please, Player1 is far better than I am. I am the worst player in the entire game. Can't buy a kill in any plane. Take a break from the game, relax and it will be fun again. This game is not a physical addiction, you will not have DTs from withdrawal.