Hey, nice thread. It'll serve as cautionary for a while, probably. It underscores perfectly the danger of complaining about the "state of the game" while sporting a surplus of anachronistic facial hair. Now, I have no dog in this fight, but my gut reaction to the film was that the maneuvers shown looked desperate. I always figure that, by the time the foe is 600 of my 6, my mistake has been both made and compounded. At that point, I'm looking for 2 things: help and a violent break. Generally, down low like that, I'll try to use a roll that I try to time such that I can get out of phase with the trailer. This has the added benefit of limiting the e drain. That said, I've probably done any number of totally stupid things while trying to evade an attacker, in part due to panic. Consider the loop. There have been many occasions in which I was locked in a loop with an opponent I KNEW to have less E at the start - and whom I was probably gaining angle on ( I use the g-14, mostly, a very good machine in the vertical) - yet disengaged after a simple 360 out of panic. I was once dead stick and saw an experienced member of this bbs bore down on me in his 190d-9. I waited for the ringing of gunfire in the headset but instead got paid off with a single explosion. He augered. Whoops.
Funny things happen out there. There's flying and then there's pressure flying.
If this complaint were couched in such a way that it formed a testable hypothesis, we could get lusche to pull some data on it.
