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Offline Slade

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88s
« on: September 21, 2018, 11:20:45 AM »
Team,

I dont know why one is compelled to get in an 88 to shoot down my P-40.  No worries this is not a rage post. 

In THIS game I'd like to think anything that keeps a player in a PLANE or at least a GV is the ideal.  Minimally I'd like the accuracy of 88's to be taken WAY WAY down to promote people getting in vehicles.

Can I please get some +1's on this wish fellas!?


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Re: 88s
« Reply #1 on: September 21, 2018, 01:07:29 PM »
Here are 1000 +1s bro.

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Re: 88s
« Reply #2 on: September 21, 2018, 01:15:16 PM »
-1   In all the years we've had the 88's, I have shot down 3 planes. I guess I am a bad shot, however I get in the 88's so I have lots of practice.

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Re: 88s
« Reply #3 on: September 21, 2018, 03:06:56 PM »
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Re: 88s
« Reply #4 on: September 21, 2018, 05:13:25 PM »
-1   In all the years we've had the 88's, I have shot down 3 planes. I guess I am a bad shot, however I get in the 88's so I have lots of practice.

You just don't have the right gamey custom sight that allows you to pointy clicky boom.
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Re: 88s
« Reply #5 on: September 21, 2018, 05:20:51 PM »
Its the way game play has gone. Cant "die" in a gun, easier to run supplies to town than defend it, whats the point in fighting anymore right?

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Re: 88s
« Reply #6 on: September 21, 2018, 05:30:21 PM »
Where can I get the right gamey custom sight that will allow me to pointy clicky boom ?

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Re: 88s
« Reply #7 on: September 21, 2018, 05:38:59 PM »
There are a few who use the 88's that are deadly but there's only a couple of them.


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Re: 88s
« Reply #8 on: September 21, 2018, 06:40:16 PM »
Where can I get the right gamey custom sight that will allow me to pointy clicky boom ?

I don't know.  I'm sure if you do a search you'll find the threads that contain them.
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Re: 88s
« Reply #9 on: September 22, 2018, 04:25:04 AM »
I rarely get hits with the 88. The amount of lead needed seems to be huuuge. Even if it's possible to add a gunsight to the 88, it would need to cover half the screen at typical fov setting.

Slow planes need a lot less lead, so a p40 is probably a lot easier to hit than others.

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Re: 88s
« Reply #10 on: September 22, 2018, 05:19:23 AM »
I rarely get hits with the 88. The amount of lead needed seems to be huuuge. Even if it's possible to add a gunsight to the 88, it would need to cover half the screen at typical fov setting.

Slow planes need a lot less lead, so a p40 is probably a lot easier to hit than others.

People use screen overlays and stuff.  I’ve seen weird crap. 

There are people who are snipers with the 88.   Gamey as heck. 
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Re: 88s
« Reply #11 on: September 22, 2018, 11:57:18 AM »
Gentlemen,

Thank you for the responses.  All good.

The crux of THIS game is not hitting things with field guns.  The reason why I and so many of us pay a monthly fee is ACM.

A vote to tone down 88's is a vote to keep the focus of the game on the reason most of us pay for it in spite of the fact 95% of all the games out there have gone to an initial free to play model.

Thanks for all your input.

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Re: 88s
« Reply #12 on: September 22, 2018, 12:24:08 PM »
Gentlemen,

Thank you for the responses.  All good.

The crux of THIS game is not hitting things with field guns.  The reason why I and so many of us pay a monthly fee is ACM.

A vote to tone down 88's is a vote to keep the focus of the game on the reason most of us pay for it in spite of the fact 95% of all the games out there have gone to an initial free to play model.

Thanks for all your input.

Slade  :salute

They are already toned down.
HTC has not dialed them up in game as to what they were like in real life.

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Re: 88s
« Reply #13 on: September 22, 2018, 01:46:05 PM »
People use screen overlays and stuff.  I’ve seen weird crap. 

There are people who are snipers with the 88.   Gamey as heck.

But very few V... in the early days of AHIII I got reasonably good with 88s... very few IMO

is not gamey  :salute
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Re: 88s
« Reply #14 on: September 22, 2018, 02:51:19 PM »
But very few V... in the early days of AHIII I got reasonably good with 88s... very few IMO

is not gamey  :salute

It only takes a couple to grief everyone else.

And yes, it is gamey.

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