Author Topic: Another serious question (Read 616 times)

Mathman · « **on:** July 15, 2002, 02:08:50 AM »

Despite what happened with my last "serious question" thread, I just gotta ask another:

What makes a plane a "dweeb" plane and/or "easymode"?

Chairboy · « **Reply #1 on:** July 15, 2002, 02:11:33 AM »

It always seemed to me that a plane became a 'dweeb plane' when the accuser was outflown by his advesary.

I know that sounds a bit pat, but I've flown the planes that get called dweeb rides and I assure you that they do not make a bad pilot (me) any deadlier.

Hooligan · « **Reply #2 on:** July 15, 2002, 02:20:15 AM »

Lack of self-honesty. Anytime anybody is shot down, it is because they screwed up. However if someone has a fragile ego they can always lie to themselves and say: "Well they were in a dweeb plane...."

Hooligan

Hortlund · « **Reply #3 on:** July 15, 2002, 02:43:16 AM »

Seriously, you all know what the dweeb rides are. Why the act?
Here, let me spell it out for you:

La7
N1k2

The reason? Insane flight models (note that I'm not saying that the flight models are wrong, Im just saying that they are insane) makes them true point and click -killers. That means that new guys and other types of dweebs migrate to these aircraft to get easy kills.

Saintaw · « **Reply #4 on:** July 15, 2002, 02:50:05 AM »

*Snap!* (the sound of Steve74's fingers caught in the trap!).

Spitfires and F6F pilots burn in hell! It is so, because my Staffellkaptein said so!

Hortlund · « **Reply #5 on:** July 15, 2002, 03:21:16 AM »

hehehe

Actually I didnt know that the F6F was one of the evil rides, but if Saw says so, then it must be true.

Kweassa · « **Reply #6 on:** July 15, 2002, 04:00:49 AM »

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"Anytime anybody is shot down, it is because they screwed up."

True, very true.

But some planes are easier to screw up in, and some planes are very easy to recover from a screwup.

X2Lee · « **Reply #7 on:** July 15, 2002, 04:23:13 AM »

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Originally posted by Hortlund
Seriously, you all know what the dweeb rides are. Why the act?
Here, let me spell it out for you:

La7
N1k2

The reason? Insane flight models (note that I'm not saying that the flight models are wrong, Im just saying that they are insane) makes them true point and click -killers. That means that new guys and other types of dweebs migrate to these aircraft to get easy kills.

Naw, Its any plane you can bug out in at will.

gofaster · « **Reply #8 on:** July 15, 2002, 09:27:46 AM »

If the values are around 10/10, plus or minus a few points, then chances are its a dweeb ride. Examples: Spitfire IX, P-51D, N1K2, and LA-7 to name a few. In short, the planes you're most likely to see on any given flight.

And that's why I fly the P-40E, FM-2, F4U-1, P-51B, and 109-G2.

Masherbrum · « **Reply #9 on:** July 15, 2002, 09:54:43 AM »

and that's why I fly the Spit IX and P-47 a lot (shot down a LA7 sat. night from 1.2K away {3 witnesses), I lead him and watched him go down, the other 2 chasing him NEVER fired a shot. But, I'm sure it was Luck, I cheated or some other excuse. I have have shot down four F4U-4's in the last month, in a Spit IX.

I'm not a dweeb because I go in the SpitIX (I don't set the altitude record and dive down, rip my wings off), I like the cannon rounds. I like shooting down perk planes with "inferior" planes. I started playing this game four months ago. For a while I was choosing the .303 MG rounds. I actually perfected sinking PT's with just the .303's and a one second tap of the cannon. My squaddies thought I was using the .50's because I racked up 6 straight PT kills and shot down 2 LA7's in succession. When I told them I had the .303's they couldn't believe it. BUT, now I use the .50 cals. Starting out with the .303's (hindsight), was awesome because it trained me use cannon rounds SPARINGLY, and now the .50 are icing on the cake.

It's all in how you use it

Masher

hawk220 · « **Reply #10 on:** July 15, 2002, 10:02:06 AM »

how about an arena that has only one type of plane available..no one could gripe about dweeb-rides, as all would be fighting with the same plane. and skill would be the determining factor on who wins.

Masherbrum · « **Reply #11 on:** July 15, 2002, 10:24:45 AM »

Hawk, if that happened, then a different excuse would appear, and so on, and so on.

Masher

CavemanJ · « **Reply #12 on:** July 15, 2002, 10:39:51 AM »

The -51D is a far cry from a dweeb ride. The only people who call it a dweeb ride are the ones who can't handle facing a properly flown Pony.

The lame7 and niktard truely are dweeb rides. Thier FM's, which I believe Pyro researched as far as he could and made them as accurate as possible, are as Hortland said, insane. They promote alot of bad habits for noobs, such as 'F16 acm' (always pull to keep nose on target) and thus fly into HOs.

The lame7's only real weakness is the gun package. Hitting anything over 400-450yds is 90% luck 10% skill.

The niktard is the closest to an easy mode plane I think. The niktards can hang on thier prop at 20mph and spray you at 900yds for a kill.

gofaster · « **Reply #13 on:** July 15, 2002, 10:43:56 AM »

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Originally posted by hawk220
how about an arena that has only one type of plane available..no one could gripe about dweeb-rides, as all would be fighting with the same plane. and skill would be the determining factor on who wins.

I'm thinking about setting up a "Tuesday Night Jet Fights" H2H arena using the Me-262 only. Any interest?

Nifty · « **Reply #14 on:** July 15, 2002, 11:02:58 AM »

A dweeb plane is whatever an elitist says it is.