Aiming In Ostwind: An End to Vulching as a Viable Method of Score Padding

[Zazen13]

By popular demand I am bumping this post so it can be more easily found.

Zazen

[AutoPilot]

I have found that zooming your sight all the way in while putting the mouse pointer in the center of that sight then hitting PAGE UP key ,then F10 key will allow you use the mouse pointer as the gun sight and give you a clear field of fire.While using this tactic i lead the aircraft about 1 inch gap between the pointer and the target.

[SkyRock]

Originally posted by nopoop
It's whatever floats your boat. Upping from a vultched field can in some cases be a whole lot of fun.

It's the first kind of field I look for and then I up and call them twits as they vulch me!  Tons O fun!  Usually I end up making them use their E and ammo and then up a la7 and chase em down and kill them!:D

[BBQ_Bob]

Originally posted by eilif
origionaly posted by Zazen13

 

reminds me of something x0847Marine might say to rationalize his style of play:rolleyes: i think he also went so far as to put some tape on his screen

Hey I have tape on my monitor, looks dumb but it really works.

[Zazen13]

Originally posted by BBQ_Bob
Hey I have tape on my monitor, looks dumb but it really works.

You can also use a red sharpie pen to make a small dot or crosshair where the bullet stream goes. It wipes off with windex easily and is also translucent.

Zazen

[AKFokerFoder+]

Although I do not use this exact method, but very simular (nothing worth spending time writing about).

I started using Zazens method, and I am getting much better at leading bogeys in the osty. In fact, I think I am getting to be pretty good.  

Not an ace shot, but I do get a lot of them before they get me now, at least one or two. I rely mostly on the tracers to adjust lead, but Zazens method gives a good starting point to watch tracers from.

My hardest shot is still a bogey flying straight away from me. You’d think it would be a sitting duck just like a bogey flying straight at you.

Of course I don’t shoot the vulchers in an osty because I hate them. I shoot them because it’s fun.

I mean, they are just honest hard working vulchers trying to pad their score, er I mean suppress base defense. In a land grab game like the Main Arcade, vulching (or as Zazen puts it; “Cherry Picking” if their wheels are off the runway) is a legitimate part of game play. And so is sitting in a dweeb ride like the Flack Panzie and picking those vulching scumbags off  

[Zazen13]

Originally posted by AKFokerFoder+
Although I do not use this exact method, but very simular (nothing worth spending time writing about).

I started using Zazens method, and I am getting much better at leading bogeys in the osty. In fact, I think I am getting to be pretty good.  

Not an ace shot, but I do get a lot of them before they get me now, at least one or two. I rely mostly on the tracers to adjust lead, but Zazens method gives a good starting point to watch tracers from.

My hardest shot is still a bogey flying straight away from me. You’d think it would be a sitting duck just like a bogey flying straight at you.

Of course I don’t shoot the vulchers in an osty because I hate them. I shoot them because it’s fun.

I mean, they are just honest hard working vulchers trying to pad their score, er I mean suppress base defense. In a land grab game like the Main Arcade, vulching (or as Zazen puts it; “Cherry Picking” if their wheels are off the runway) is a legitimate part of game play. And so is sitting in a dweeb ride like the Flack Panzie and picking those vulching scumbags off  

Aiming at bandits flying directly away from you can be quite tricky, but it also can provide you with alot of, "OMFG you cheater! How did you get me at 3k!" responses that can make your day. The key to this is lead the nose not the plane if that makes any sense. People are getting smarter they will use rudder slip and what-not when egressing from a vulch or pork pass. To account for this and the time latency of shell to target, lead the plane's nose, it'll be there eventually.

It's best to not think in terms of "striking" the target but, instead, throwing a shell stream up that is most likely to 'intersect' with the target's projected flight-path at a particular point and time in space. Another important factor as I mention in the initial post, avoid micro-managing your aiming corrections, there is a natural spread of the shells, try to avoid over-compensating for this, keep your turret movements as gradual, smooth and fluid as possible.

Zazen

[AKFokerFoder+]

I have a couple of films, one is a sweet three kill on a set of a20s, another of an assist on a IL2 followed by a kill on a Spit, only the last a20 is a head on shot.  I am going to try to get a website where I can post them

I find that most of my shots tend to be behind a bogey.  And good pointer over micro managing.

Do you have a good gunsite for the ho divers?  I tend to aim just below them.  

Some film of leading bogeys flying away from you would be nice.

[Zazen13]

I'd love to make a film if that helps anyone, but I have nowhere to host it...

Zazen

[Mr No Name]

Originally posted by Zazen13
I'd love to make a film if that helps anyone, but I have nowhere to host it...

Zazen

zazen, PM me with your email addy, i'll host it

[Zazen13]

Originally posted by Mr No Name
zazen, PM me with your email addy, i'll host it

Great ty, will do.

Zazen