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Title: Mysterious Game Mechanics...
Post by: tunnelrat on April 26, 2014, 01:43:31 PM
Apparently some people that play don't understand:

A.  What constitutes a "HO"

B.  That the person that kills you may not be awarded the kill.

http://www.twitch.tv/x80hd/c/4136641

Title: Re: Mysterious Game Mechanics...
Post by: Chalenge on April 26, 2014, 10:23:09 PM
In real life 100% of all deaths are related to lack of oxygen to the brain. That never happens in AH.
Title: Re: Mysterious Game Mechanics...
Post by: The Fugitive on April 27, 2014, 07:34:33 AM
Mellow out! He was saying Vraciu did a nice ho at around the one minute mark. He even pointed out "not you!" when you called him out on not knowing what a HO was.
Title: Re: Mysterious Game Mechanics...
Post by: tunnelrat on April 28, 2014, 07:59:45 AM
Mellow out! He was saying Vraciu did a nice ho at around the one minute mark. He even pointed out "not you!" when you called him out on not knowing what a HO was.

He also went on and on about how I wasn't the one who killed him.


Title: Re: Mysterious Game Mechanics...
Post by: Triton28 on April 28, 2014, 08:47:52 AM
It's all because HO means "Head On", so that leads non-thinking peoples to just label anything that is front quarter a HO.  A few subtleties aside, a HO is when both pilots have a gun solution. 
Title: Re: Mysterious Game Mechanics...
Post by: bozon on April 28, 2014, 09:19:25 AM
It's all because HO means "Head On", so that leads non-thinking peoples to just label anything that is front quarter a HO. 
If they are not thinking, shouldn't it be called "Head Off"?
Title: Re: Mysterious Game Mechanics...
Post by: Triton28 on April 28, 2014, 09:37:23 AM
If they are not thinking, shouldn't it be called "Head Off"?

The people that call anything front quarter should be called that, yes.   :)
Title: Re: Mysterious Game Mechanics...
Post by: icepac on April 28, 2014, 07:29:12 PM
HO is a legit shot in my book because it takes two though I usually try for the six..........but when you fly the 110g, you kind of try not so hard to avoid them.
Title: Re: Mysterious Game Mechanics...
Post by: tunnelrat on April 29, 2014, 02:49:54 PM
HO is a legit shot in my book because it takes two though I usually try for the six..........but when you fly the 110g, you kind of try not so hard to avoid them.

Agreed... I've learned from some of Aces High's best sticks that 110G and P-47 are actually good to encourage the HO since the odds are stacked in your favor.

What has been really interesting for me to see is the lack of direct head-on attacks in sims without icons.