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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: Weave on July 08, 2002, 11:51:24 PM

Title: Old F6 View
Post by: Weave on July 08, 2002, 11:51:24 PM

Don't know about the rest of you buffers, but I would like to have the "old" F6 view back to help line up on my target prior to setting the sight (this was also handy for checking for cons over the target area). Using your plane's icon on the clipboard map is iffy at best when setting final vector on a target. Looking down into the bombsight (num pad 0) should be a manual task again.

I could be missing something of course, is there another way of setting the IP?

Title: Old F6 View
Post by: Tumor on July 09, 2002, 02:12:22 AM

HTC said the formation bomber thing not being added to the mission editor was an oversite.  Suppose having actual waypoint lines will help eventually.  To compensate, I jump in the nose gun position and zoom all the way in (on the 17 ya gotta be real careful not to move left or right, haven't been up in a Lanc yet).  It seems to be fairly accurate.  I also slow down allot and get my speed steady real early.  If you zoom the bombsite out far enough you still have enough time line up the crosshairs then calibrate.  Oh, and I do practice along the way lol.

Tumor

Title: Old F6 View
Post by: J_A_B on July 09, 2002, 02:35:04 AM

"Don't know about the rest of you buffers, but I would like to have the "old" F6 view back to help line up on my target prior to setting the sight "

Not completely sure what you mean, but if you mean what I think you mean:

Press KEYPAD 8 (default key--look foreward).  This will make you look up from the crosshairs and let you look ahead.

If you mean something else entirely, disregard.

J_A_B

Title: Old F6 View
Post by: Mitsu on July 09, 2002, 02:52:52 AM

Weave, I'm agreed with you.

Title: Old F6 View
Post by: Duedel on July 09, 2002, 05:13:07 AM

What JAB said.

Title: Old F6 View
Post by: Weave on July 09, 2002, 03:47:00 PM

Thanks for the num pad 8 suggestion, I'll try that. Today I tried the bottom turret in F3 view and used gentle rudder input to get lined up. That worked fairly well.:)