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General Forums => Films and Screenshots => Topic started by: trigger2 on August 21, 2008, 04:34:46 AM
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Great fight tonight you two...
Here's the film from my vantage point
http://www.mediafire.com/?jqtzobrcmmk
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~Triggy
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Toggling your engine off during combat is noobish. Sorry just had to say it.
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Toggling your engine off during combat is noobish. Sorry just had to say it.
How so? I do it cause i can't reach throttle and flaps and Zoom and other such keys all at once. For some of of us it is easier.
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Toggling your engine off during combat is noobish. Sorry just had to say it.
Yeah, I know it is, but the throttle on my stick is busted so I have 3 throttle setting basically, full, WEP, and off...
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Two signs you are an easy kill is the engine toggle and dropping flaps at first turn. The engine toggle is not technically realistic and the flaps are a bad tactical decision. Both are desperate moves or gamey depending on how you look at it.
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Two signs you are an easy kill is the engine toggle and dropping flaps at first turn. The engine toggle is not technically realistic and the flaps are a bad tactical decision. Both are desperate moves or gamey depending on how you look at it.
2 p51D's vs mine that had an ailron missing, a PW, and engine oil hit... without any throttle control (as I said, throttle on my stick is busted...) so, give myself a slight manuvering advantage vs the faster ones, or be an easy target...
I lasted over 3 minutes without an ailron, a PW, engine oil, later fuel and radiator hit... vs 2 of the same plane, I don't care if it was "gamey" *note, this is a game* as it was my only choice... but then again... I guess I coulda just kept pullin along at full throttle... I'm sure that woulda gone well :rolleyes:
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Fact is it should not help you at all. In reality you would never do this in combat. This move is reaching epidemic proportions in the arena. No problem though. Do it to an experienced pony flier and see what happens to you (someone that can shoot).
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Fact is it should not help you at all. In reality you would never do this in combat. This move is reaching epidemic proportions in the arena. No problem though. Do it to an experienced pony flier and see what happens to you (someone that can shoot).
Go easy, I dont always cut throttle, I codo ambo of both. If I'm in the vert and stalling, I cut my engine to go down quicker.
If I'm in a hard turn and I wanna make one quick turning pass into them, I cut throttle. It's good to have a combo of both.
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Cutting throttle is okay properly done. Turning the engine off and on... you would be dead IRL if you tried it and that should be enough.
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Cutting the engine does nothing more than chopping the throttle. This has been discussed many times, all come to the same conclusion.
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Well your wrong. I demonstrated this to a squadmate tonight. The deceleraion is much more pronounced and the overshoot more easily assured. It is noobish and underhanded and it leaves you at a clear disadvantage afterwards but as in the case I showed in the 'Engine Toggling' thread if there is ack handy or another escape window nearby you can use it to get away.
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Cutting the engine does nothing more than chopping the throttle. This has been discussed many times, all come to the same conclusion.
I think when you cut the engine, the torq works differently than chopping throttle.
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Quote from: g00b on June 21, 2008, 01:36:00 PM
Actually your plane has more drag at idle than with the engine turned off. Turning your engine off in a dogfight is just dumb.
Murdr says:
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Drag doesnt make your plane turn tighter.
I have a lever on my CH Throttle Quadrant set for prop RPM. I think RPM is supposed to change the pitch but the prop never changes angle when its not turning. Now for the part most players dont know:
When you are flying and the engine is off you can set your speed just like you can with alt-x (dot speed ###). In the P51 if I have an oil starvation or run out of fuel I can glide quite a while by changing speed to 135 (.speed 135) and hitting alt-x. Now if you pull the RPM back to minimum also then the nose will rise and you will glide further. There is less drag with rpm back I guess due to coarser pitch like a feathered prop (it doesnt graphically show this in the game).
If I could drop that much drag off everytime I turned I would feel like the best pilot on earth.
I would like to see this addressed in a coding change but then there would be other problems. Typing messages is popular and accidently typing could shut your engine off and then whatever penalty if any would see a million complaints. I dont believe there is even one guy in this game flying with one arm. Thats an excuse from someone with a lot of imagination.
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Good thing this isn't real life huh?
You might die in a dogfight, get to the pearly gates, and there would stand Chalenge with his arms crossed as tightly as the look on his face.
Geez dude, chill a tad. It's youre opinion... and you know what they say about opinions?
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Alright, I'll say this one last time...
My throttle is BUSTED, it will NOT register, OR calibrate, it is NOT RESPONDING so I have 3 throttle settings easily accessible in a fight, FULL, WEP, and NO ENGINE, I'd rather cut my engine then be flyin by full throttle...
I now label my own thread pointless, and hope everyone has a turtle nearby when reading...
(http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m56/alecksismeboo/small_677940.gif)
btw... Nice to see dragdad on the forums :aok
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Geez dude, chill a tad. It's youre opinion... and you know what they say about opinions?
yeah!! poepl with opinions are iceholes!!
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