Author Topic: N1K whine! (Read 3565 times)

Bulz · « **on:** May 01, 2004, 11:49:30 AM »

There I am.. 8 kills in my Tempest rtb when I see 2 N1K's killing a teammate.. I zoom one.. He breaks left and I break right for home.. Im doing 400+. I look back and he has rolled in behind me at d600 but I am pullin away fast.. at d873 I see tracers and jig to the right.. BOOM! 1 hit I'm dead.. NOW WTF IS THAT! Yancyan gives a "lol" and I give a "BS on that!". There was some very strange things going on with those Knight N1K's this morning, all in the same squad too.. I wasn't only one to say so..

Why is this flying anomaly not PERKED again? It is same ENY as F4U-C and it is perked.. And the C-hog can't do the amazing things a N1K can....

PERK IT for god's sake man!!! (hehe)

OK, now for some cheese to go with whine....

Bulz · « **Reply #1 on:** May 01, 2004, 11:55:44 AM »

A correction to the above is it was yancya13.. not yancyan...

Morpheus · « **Reply #2 on:** May 01, 2004, 11:57:34 AM »

I've been saying this for the past 2 years...

Dont bother there is nothing you can say that will change HiTechs mind about this.

Shane · « **Reply #3 on:** May 01, 2004, 12:03:28 PM »

niki's are chew toys, hardly worth perking.

plus he was probably up to 100-200 yds closer than you saw him.

nopoop · « **Reply #4 on:** May 01, 2004, 12:05:19 PM »

You were prolly less than 500 on his FE. It wasn't a Super Nikky, he got lucky. If you got hit just as you jinked, he shot you when you were flying fat happy and straight on his FE.

Got a FM2 last night in a Spitty 5 last night at 480 on my FE. He flew straight on the deck and I just lobbed them in. I was prolly 750-800 on his FE.

Subtract 300 to be safe

Steve · « **Reply #5 on:** May 01, 2004, 12:35:47 PM »

Edited... giving the benefit of the doubt

thrila · « **Reply #6 on:** May 01, 2004, 12:39:42 PM »

long shot kills aren't always caused by lag are they steve.....

Steve · « **Reply #7 on:** May 01, 2004, 12:42:36 PM »

You're right Thrila! Sometimes they're the good/lucky shots of the desperate.

thrila · « **Reply #8 on:** May 01, 2004, 12:45:23 PM »

750....800....850....lets see if i can make this p51 turn.......

Muahahaha!

Steve · « **Reply #9 on:** May 01, 2004, 12:47:40 PM »

I was in a shallow spiral to boot. A shot for the ages.

thrila · « **Reply #10 on:** May 01, 2004, 12:48:35 PM »

Wilbuz did something similar to me when i was in a spit14.

SKurj · « **Reply #11 on:** May 01, 2004, 12:52:45 PM »

The faster you go the closer they really are in your rear view relative to the displayed icon range.

I got popped at 800+ the other night as well while runnin runnin runnin...

It was a zeke that got me... and I was in a Typh doin well over 400, he just got a lucky shot off which happened to kill pilot I guess.

SKurj

Dead Man Flying · « **Reply #12 on:** May 01, 2004, 12:53:42 PM »

I've never noticed these incredible long range shots, or maybe it's just that I factor lag into any survival expectations when I see someone behind me.

-- Todd/Leviathn

Sixpence · « **Reply #13 on:** May 01, 2004, 01:01:39 PM »

The only complaint I have about the nik(and a couple of other planes), is their ability to go about 3/4 down the runway and take off straight up. I call it the "apache" effect. Oh, and those B17's that do loop dee loops, pretty funny.

Citabria · « **Reply #14 on:** May 01, 2004, 01:02:55 PM »

yeah what DMF said.

beign a member of the older than dirt and been flying since beta club Ive seen some lucky shots but 99% of the time no one can hit squat on a maneuvering target beyond 700 yards.