noob

[Scca]

My first tank sortie I was playing around with the arrow keys and moving the seating position forward and backward trying to see better out of the tank. I finally moved it way forward and said wow now I can really see out of this slot. About that time a spit came in from the front and gave me a pilot wound. A gosh darn pilot wound in a tank!

????  never heard of that...  Been playing for almost 2 years and never received a pilot wound in a GV.  I would like to see film on that. (bet it doesn't exist).

Anywho...  I played for several weeks not knowing about zoom, and bracket keys.  I was trying to finish off a town and couldn't see I had chosen smoke to take out town buildings.  The guy in the M3 was calling me several names for smoking up the town and not killing buildings. 

What a dweeb I was (and still am)

[Fugita]

My Noobish moment(s) also include the whole Zoom issue. But the one that eluded the longest was the "W" key and clicking on the map when you're in the Cruiser guns. I used to feel so proud when I hit something in direct fire mode , then I found out about land and sea modes. That just made me feel retarded at that point.

[RATTFINK]

i just had a flash back from way back in the day when i didn't know about the "Zoom" key for tanks

whew... didn't that make ya feel like a tard 

how long did yall drive around before finding out about the zoom key?

i didn't find out for 3 weeks

30min.  then I remembered that there was an AHII Training site.

[Denholm]

When I started playing offline, I flew using the trim and rudder instead of the ailerons and elevators.

[Race]

Oh....I mapped those to something else and the zoom to a slider.

Race

[Anaxogoras]

Another thing that took me a while to recognize was the difference between "big hangars" and the real fh's and vh.  There's a lot of objects on the field that aren't worth blowing up!

It should also be default for spawn points and radar rings to be on the map.

[Chemdawg]

When I started playing offline, I flew using the trim and rudder instead of the ailerons and elevators.

must have been one really big barrel roll

[Denholm]

Yes, it was. I was surprised at how WWII pilots could turn their plane, because I sure couldn't. Had me thinking how stupid this game truly is, can't even turn a fighter better than the drones.

[Winks]

Yes, to activate, use alt-f4.  Seriously!

The good ole alt-f4 days .........had a blast with that

[FireDragon]

I cant remember the exact time but it was a while...   [ ] .......

[Dragon]

My Noobish moment(s) also include the whole Zoom issue. But the one that eluded the longest was the "W" key and clicking on the map when you're in the Cruiser guns. I used to feel so proud when I hit something in direct fire mode , then I found out about land and sea modes. That just made me feel retarded at that point.

I was doing that for a while this weekend, I always thought you had to re-click on the clipboard map if you wanted to shoot at a different location on the base.  Found out that you can adjust it while zoomed in by watching the range #'s.  Didn't miss a single target after I got that figured out.

Sad part is, I've been playing for how long? (Looks down) 

[crazyivan]

Never fell for the Alt-F4, but theres still time . How do you get ah pt boat to move? kidding.

[DmonSlyr]

it took me about a week to figure out how to type messages. no joke. people would talk to me and i would have no clue how to write back.

[weazely]

took me a good 8 years to learn how not to give a damn.   

[The Fugitive]

I did it the old fashion way. I spent weeks reading as many instruction, tip, and manuals I could get my hands on. Then I spent a week or two setting up my stick and learning the lay out I choose, THEN I went on-line to play. Only thing I had to learn  was how to fight with this flight model.