I met this strangest situation, one quite like I've never seen before, in H2H today. Now, before I describe what it was, let me tell you that I am usually one of the first person who brings up the possibilities of the mistakes done by the pilot when somebody posts a "cheat" problem. And while I am not a great pilot, I have experienced AH for quite some time, and I am pretty much sure I know how to tell the difference between a "mistake" and a "something strange".
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Well, here it goes.
It was one of those typical rooms where the ammo is set to something like x10, the fuel burn is 0. Of course, nobody can really expect ACM in these sort of conditions, where usually the guy behind you will hold the trigger for the entire length of time he is behind your arse. Then, in the distance, I see a typical icon shining "TEMP". Ah, one of those ever growing Tempy tards infesting H2H arenas.
After the first engagement where I shot him down, and the second where I was shot down after a hairy rolling scissors, I think to myself "hmm.. this guy ain't too shabby." Ofcourse, the amount of bullets he fired would be enough to fill ammo for four Tempests, but he wasn't too bad.
But not good enough so as to use well disciplined ACM. In fact, after the second fight, I decide to use the aggressiveness, where he turns the Tempy into you after the first merge, as if he were in a Spitfire, against him. "Force a couple overshots? It shan't be too hard" I think to myself. The way he flies with his throttle open, a few rolls should be enough to lead him into a black-out and an overshoot.
To my surprise, he doesn't fall for it. As if he's seen where I was rolling all the while during the high-speed high-G turn, he's just sticking behind my butt! Oh wow, how does he do that.. I wonder. I check my speed, I am flying over 390mph. The way I am going, the black out turns my vision to whacko. During this high G turn I reverse the roll in a manner effective enough for some people in the MA to accuse me as a "stick stirrer". All the while, seeing how he turned into me at such high speed, there is no way he can see where I reversed, I think to myself.
Wrong, he's back here again!
In panic, I initiate a dive and regain speed upto 400mph. Go into another turn, I see the distance is not widening. He's a Tempy, he turns better, thus, maintains E better in turns. He is lmost definately faster than me, and he still turns into me. As I go into a blackout, *thup thup thup*.
Wow, he shot me during black-out. How incredibly lucky.
Then, for the next three engagements, things go exactly the same. He doesn't really use E tactics, he doesn't extend away, all he does is max throttle and turn into you. There are many many planes that turn better than the 109, but frankly, even Spitfires cannot shoot you down in such high speeds. I've met a few good Spit pilots, they'd almost certainly chase you in a lag pursuit or a high yoyo.
But this Tempest, my god. He comes in, he just turns into me, and then, while he's fast enough to catch up on me and at black-out, he shoots he scores.
Now, I know black-put tactics aren't as easy as they seem. I know you going into black out doesn't necessarily mean he's into black-out too. However, as I said, I've been flying for some time. I know which situations the guy behind me can aim, and which he cannot. And most definately I've been repeatedly shot down in situations where I considered "no way!".
My remark of disbelief, brings a short verbal clash. I ask him how the heck he lead shoots at someone turning at 380mph four times in a row. No answer.
By golly, this doesn't make sense. I forgot to turn on the recorder, so as I challenge him again, notify that this is very strange and I will record the event, and ask for his cooperation.
Well, whaddaya know. He's gone.
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Then I remember something. It does not happen very often, but sometimes, after you get shot down or crash during a black out, AH would get this strange bug where you don't have any black out, or have a strange black out where it isn't tunnel vision, but overall "greying out" sort of black out. I am sure I'm not the only one who has experienced this type of "black out" bug.
So I am curious, and wonder how the black out phase is coded into AH. Would it be technically possible that the "black out" phenomenon can be removed? If there's some sort of bug which initiates such things, then can there not be some artificial way to reproduce it?
I must admit it is not good form to think of a possible cheat after you've been shotdown. But as I have said before, this is the strangest of things I've ever experienced than AH. Remember when people sometimes exclaim that the N1K2 does weird things?? Well, believe me, this experience was stranger, and way more discomforting than that.
I know of some harmless third-party programs that is designed to work with AH. Such as, a custom "film analyzer" which takes the recorded film data and recreates it in its own way. The people who made those programs knows how data in AH is handled.
Then, would it not be possible there'd be others who would know how AH works?
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Anyway, this is more of a "twilight zone" sort of story than a real "cheat accusation". But I wish this might give the people enjoying AH heightened sense of warning.
Strange things happen everyday within AH.
How much of them are you sure that its your fault?
