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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: GtoRA2 on May 18, 2004, 04:04:01 PM
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How did you get better?
Like how did you go from a dweeb to decent or better then decent?
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I'll tell ya when I do.... :o
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After playing IL2 for 2 years I can own in all other so called 'sims' :p
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Before AH, there was Hornet Korea.
The greatest online HTH sim evar. Just as good graphics, smooth 28K connects, pry the best online sim to date with missiles.
Guns only, just seemed easy after that.
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Creamo,
Goes to show youhow much I know, I didnt know there was a jet sim online at one time.
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Graphsim. That code wasn't patched that I know of, it was just great.
Lomac ought to be ashamed. Im still waiting to install it after the initial 1 hour of being pissed off.
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Fifteen years and a dozen sims later, I'm still a dweeb. :)
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Fly.
Die.
Repeat.
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did WB use that graphsim engine or something like that? maybe my brain is not working.
for me it was WB, had a guy teach me some stuff in a 38 after I had died by the boatloads. Could hold my own after that.
Havent really flown a flight sim in almost a year and a half...wwiiol doesnt count as a flight sim yet..at least to me.
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Originally posted by GtoRA2
How did you get better?
Like how did you go from a dweeb to decent or better then decent?
Fly with a squad. I remember Kappa, Pbear and I flying mustangs on the deck to hit some az base and fighting our way out and landing 3-5 kills each Im average by myself but with squaddies I rock! Teamwork is the key
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I had a fast computer in my lab in grad school. Fly & die for 6 hours a day and pretty soon you don't die unless you want to.
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I die less, but I still don't know what the hell I'm doing. The dying less part is probably due to repetition.
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Originally posted by Creamo
Graphsim. That code wasn't patched that I know of, it was just great.
AMEN!
That's where I, Sandman and a few others got our start online '96 thereabouts.
"Guns-only".... what memories.
As far as going from "dweeb to decent"... the jury is still so far out that we've given up on the idea of even callin' forensics.
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What a great thread. I remember Hornet Korea so well, and I still miss it sometimes. I flew the HK ladder for about 6 months, and flew with a great squadron VFA-22 "Platinum Beavers" :cool:
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jets are ghey
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Originally posted by Nash
AMEN!
That's where I, Sandman and a few others got our start online '96 thereabouts.
Yeah... I can remember back when Storm and I would go 2v2... That was fun... also used to fly against Red Ant on CYAC.
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Rdant... yeah... Tres Equis, XXX... got their start there too. Not like anyone knows who they are but at the time, they went through it just months before us and were like gods to me.
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AW - AH 8 years at least... still suck.
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Have many of you taken long breaks?
I started online flight sims right after Warbirds went out of beta.
I still remeber my first few kills and people like Warr Zdom Vigl and Spinny.
The was back in like 94-95 maybe?
I was working part time at Egghead and then Software ETC, at 2 bucks an hour I counted my hours worked as time I could spend online! It was the only thing tha could compete with my goat for my interest. Hell, if my dad had found out I spend 360$ one month on Warbirds he would have killed me!
I was averaging 250$ a month, and loved it.
What killed it for me was a 40 hour a week job that was really stressfull. I would get home and not want to touch a PC, so I stopped playing much.
Came back about a year later and my F22 gave me tendonitis, lol 14 hous of play one night then another 10 hour session with a stick with 20 pound spring lol.
The Warbirds went into the ****ter and I stopped playing. I kept track of AH through the beta but never got to play tell about a year ago, then had to stop again.
Now I have time on my hands and can play, but it is frustrating sucking so bad! lol, I was good! Heck I could give some of the best players I knew a run for their money, Not now! :P
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Originally posted by GtoRA2
Now I have time on my hands and can play, but it is frustrating sucking so bad! lol, I was good! Heck I could give some of the best players I knew a run for their money, Not now! :P
I think it has to do with the numbers. I was okay at 1v1 or even 1v2.... but the MA is a different beast now. You need something called SA to stay alive. Some folks have a real knack for it. I don't have it... and I get eaten for lunch regularly.
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Originally posted by Nash
I think it has to do with the numbers. I was okay at 1v1 or even 1v2.... but the MA is a different beast now. You need something called SA to stay alive. Some folks have a real knack for it. I don't have it... and I get eaten for lunch regularly.
Steve has SA in spades...pretty amazing how he pulls his watermelon off so consistantly.. Same with COORS.... both AW guys...
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"Fighter Combat: Tactics and Maneuvering", by Shaw.
Various ACM websites,
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by getting killed and outflown.
:)
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Originally posted by GtoRA2
How did you get better?
Like how did you go from a dweeb to decent or better then decent?
I started online with Red Baron, I got killed regularly, didn't have a clue - then someone explained about SA and gunnery and acm, got some rudder pedals, practiced...A LOT - like for a year.
Then one day I was flying alone over the "mud" very high in my black and silver Dr1 and I saw a lot of nme a/c below me and they started to chatter on the chan1 instead of country channel, the usual stuff "high Dr1", "high Nme a/c" etc then someone said
"Careful it's Schadenfreude" took a few moments that to realise that there were 4 of them and 1 of me and they thought they were the one's in danger!!
I'd arrived....
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Originally posted by Thrawn
"Fighter Combat: Tactics and Maneuvering", by Shaw.
Various ACM websites,
absoutely - get the Shaw book. read and re-read.
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I have the Shaw book, have had it for years lol.
Sometimes it is hard for me to take what he is saying in the book and apply it to the game.
Hell I am still not sure what a rolling reversal is, is it like a barrel roll but sloppier?
Thrawn, what web sites?