Originally posted by Dr Lecter
Ackack. I've studied your footage. Tick vg. A few dweeb questions if you would'nt mind...
I've been playing h2h for a while now and have problems stabilising the bandit in my gunsight reticule, and end up using loads of ammo around a unstable target. Pros appear to able to fire a burst and hit staight away. Is this due to practice, or using a good joystick, or what? This problem always confounds me when I appear have an excellent firing solution, but cannot keep the bead on the bandit.
The stick scale I use helps cut down on the nose bounce in AH, which makes it easier to keep your nose on target while you fire. I've attached my stick scale to this post and if you want to use it, just put the file into your AH/settings folder. Make sure to rename your original stick.cfg file to stick.bak in case you want to go back to it.
stick.cfg Your rate of scan around the cockpit seems to be a real fast pan. Do you use snap views or do you pan your head around?
I use the F9, instant view.
After a kill you appear to use the vertical straight away. Without wishing to ask the obvious, is this to gain height advantage for tactical advantage?
It really depend on the situation, but yes, the vertical climbs were to gain a tactical advantage in case the other bogies were trying to climb up to me and I try for the Rope-A-Dope. You'll find that sometimes going vertical like I did after the kill isn't a good idea, like when you've got a higher bogie above you.
Thanks
PS: Do you have a good steer so I can watch demos of immelmans, scissors etc?
The other thread I posted,
More P-38 films has three films I've made that shows a double Immelman and rolling scissors fight against a Yak. You can check out this site,
Vulture's ACM tips and check out his excellent write up that goes into great detail on how to do various manuevers like the rolling scissors, yo-yo's, etc. Another good site with a wealth of information is
NetAces.org which features various write-ups from different sources.
Hope this helps you some and if you have anymore questions, just holler

Ack-Ack
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