Author Topic: A few things on 1.04 (Read 815 times)

juzz · « **Reply #15 on:** July 28, 2000, 07:32:00 PM »

Can we see a Martin mid-upper on the Lancaster as well(50 late production Mk III were fitted with them)? Will the Lancaster have a day or night paintscheme?

Will the rear turret have AGLT radar?

Tailslide · « **Reply #16 on:** August 04, 2000, 01:18:00 PM »

So if I'm padlocked I will have to manually reaquire the target every time I want to check my speed? How would a person check their instruments every few seconds during a fight?

TS

Maverick · « **Reply #17 on:** August 04, 2000, 01:32:00 PM »

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Originally posted by Tailslide:

So if I'm padlocked I will have to manually reaquire the target every time I want to check my speed? How would a person check their instruments every few seconds during a fight?

TS

By flying by the seat of their pants! Use the physical cues to orient your plane to the bogey. Note the way yer head is turned upon yer neck and which way yer nose is pointing. That will help you orient to the dash instruments.

For what it's worth, wait until it comes out and your questions will be answered. Then it can be criticized based on observation instead of suposition inferance and SWAGS (silly wild prettythang guesses).

Cheeze guys give Pyro a break!

Mav

Skorpyon · « **Reply #18 on:** August 04, 2000, 01:44:00 PM »

heh.. better yet, avoid the PL all together. I am no "realism freak", but I find it (for myself) extremely lazy to expect a padlock feature to do my work for me.. namely keeping track of where an enemy plane is. Half the fun (and frustration) of dogfighting is to have to use your wits, memory, visual acuity, etc. to track your opponent, ie; "o.k., he's over my left shoulder.. ummm.. if I look to my gauges, I will probably have to look over my left shoulder again... ummm.. he's not there! (frantically looks around to reacquire target) Ah-Hah! There's the bugger!" A bit more realistic, and waaaaaay less like a cheesy arcade game. Obviously the PL being optional should suit everyone, which is the bottom line I guess. AH is my first sim, and for kicks I tried brand W once... besides being unimpressed in relation to AH, I tried the PL and found it to be quite annoying. Manually tracking opponents is just another part of the adrenaline rush that is AH... for me anyway.

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Tailslide · « **Reply #19 on:** August 04, 2000, 02:02:00 PM »

I don't follow the board I was surprised to hear about padlock getting added. I'll shut up and wait

Re: padlock being realistic I believe a well implemented padlock would be much more realistic, but its like debating religion and politics

REAL men don't need wimpy hat views, they're a crutch ! When do we get the long awaited .lookleft and .lookright commmands???

TS

Ripsnort · « **Reply #20 on:** August 04, 2000, 02:05:00 PM »

I've always felt that view hats were a logical make-up for the lack of real time peripherial vision...in our normal vision, we have 'view hats' built in, with peripherial vision and a turn of the head...with a monitor, you have neither. View hats give them back to you.

Downtown · « **Reply #21 on:** August 04, 2000, 02:11:00 PM »

You should see what Padlock is stirring up on the WWIIOnline UBB. There is a FA Cat "Avenger" man I don't think I want his type in the sim.

Unless of course he is cursed to continually fly in front of me at convergence.

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Westy · « **Reply #22 on:** August 04, 2000, 02:19:00 PM »

I hate to bring that thread here but my passion is WWII aircombat/online flying and I tend to try to watch or particpate in many different communities of the different sims.
This guy, kid, idiot, whatever was one of the worst characters I've ever had the displeasure to watch a community have to suffer. Mostly in Fighter Ace and then some troll & trash talk in a couple of private AirWarrior newsgroups.
I spent some time playing a war of words and insults with him but he gets his kicks that way as that type of activity pollutes a communities environment.
And his textual attacks are quite frequently aimed at the game company itself for not seeing things his way. A side effect is he gets the gullible 13 yr olds all riled up and it turns ugly.
This is something WB's and AH usualy did, or does, not have to deal with as neither sim is a "game" and niether is trying to attract the low budget entertainment crowd. The crowd which is wrife with these kind of people.

-Westy

AKFokerFoder+ · « **Reply #23 on:** August 04, 2000, 03:10:00 PM »

The Lancaster carries 14,000 llbs of bombs? WOW!

Ignorance can be bliss, I though the B17 could carry more weight in bombs than the Lancaster.

I guess I was fooled because of the B17 bristling with 10 guns. so I thought it was the largest Allied bomber until the B-29.

I believe the B-29 carried more weight in bombs than the Lancaster??

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miko2d · « **Reply #24 on:** August 04, 2000, 04:03:00 PM »

Since we have to be able to select a plane for padlock anyway, could we send a 6 call to the selected guy with one keystroke? Switch to his private channel with him and bring up the radio buffer with another keystroke?
You don't want the other sim to have a feature that you cannot match, do you?

moko--

Hamish · « **Reply #25 on:** August 04, 2000, 07:31:00 PM »

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Originally posted by AKFokerFoder+:
The Lancaster carries 14,000 llbs of bombs? WOW!

Ignorance can be bliss, I though the B17 could carry more weight in bombs than the Lancaster.

I guess I was fooled because of the B17 bristling with 10 guns. so I thought it was the largest Allied bomber until the B-29.

I believe the B-29 carried more weight in bombs than the Lancaster??

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Okay here's my question as i am still a relative newbie to the flightsim community, but is the b-24 lancaster the same as the b-24 Liberator only the RAF version? If so, yes it had a heavier bombload than the b-17 for sure, but i believe it was a lot slower, (B-17 being relatively fast for a heavy bomber) as for the bombload on the B-29, i read on an Air Force websight that it had a 20,000 pound bombload, and some of the armament that i can recall was 2x20mm tail gun, with turrets controlled remotely by a central fire control station ( and you feared OTTO?)

As for the "Padlock" system, I can't wait for it, for i will take great Joy in Smiting the Padlock Dweeb who shalt be "locked" on his target, forgetething the holy "SA"

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Tailslide · « **Reply #26 on:** August 04, 2000, 09:32:00 PM »

ahh.. nevermind. best of luck all.

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Nash · « **Reply #27 on:** August 04, 2000, 09:38:00 PM »

Take heart TS,

The beauty of this whole thing is that if ya got some kind of disagreement, ya get to shoot the bastids down in flames... where the *guns* do all the talking.

Regarding the padlock... it's gonna be interesting. On the one hand, they are taking steps to make this un-God-like. On the otherhand, they still gotta make this thing functional. I get the sense that they are wrestling even now about it.

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doh! Shouldn't have edited yer post TS. It was perfectly valid.

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Tailslide · « **Reply #28 on:** August 04, 2000, 09:48:00 PM »

Hi Nash! Not going to piss off everyone on the forum my first week here I'll save that for next week

TS

Karnak · « **Reply #29 on:** August 04, 2000, 09:50:00 PM »

Hamish,
The Lancaster was a native made (except for those that were made in Canada) British bomber, not a B-24. It was lightly armed compared to a B-17 or even a B-24 but was used mainly at night. The heaviest bombload in WWII was carried by Lancaster Specials and could consist of up to a single 22,000lb bomb. Lancaster Specials had only the tail guns for defense. The advatages that the B-29 had over the Lancaster were many, such as 350mph with 20,000lbs of bombs internally. The B-29 was presurized and MUCH better armed. The Lancaster also could not reach 25,000ft in altitude. The Lancaster MkI was powered by 4 1280hp Merlin engines and could do 275mph. A Lancaster MkIII was powered by 4 1460hp Merlin engines or 4 1640hp Packard Merlin 28,38 or 224 engines.

Like the B-17 the Lancaster had a reputation for being tough. The Lancaster received the best review EVER given by the RAF to a new aircraft when Avro delivered the first Lancaster in 1941.

Sisu
-Karnak

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