I apologize for coming to this thread late. I've worked odd hours and have not really been on the forums much over the last week.
First off, I'm flattered that Dolby felt the need to post films from what I thought, rather - we both admitted - were friendly interactions. Our "duels" started off when I killed him in the MA, I was flying a D9 and he was flying an F4U-1. He made a snarky comment, I responded in kind, and he mentioned something to the effect of "You can't do that in a 1v1" (referring to the way I was going vertical). We exchanged competitive but friendly banter, and nothing more. He then, in the same tone, asked if I wanted to go to the DA.
The flight model here is different, in that the drag and acceleration modeling doesn't behave like other sims (or aircraft, for that matter, including C-12 turboprops I have actual time in) when transitioning from the horizontal to the vertical. At the time, I'd been flying for ~4 months and was interested in how to transition in the vertical from a neutral 1v1 position, same plane. Curious about his comments, and wanting to competitively see if what he said was true, I agreed to go to the DA.
We had one or two "fights" (where I tested my going vertical versus his wide sweeping turns), but all of the subsequent fights were simply adopting and testing variations of Cargnico's tactics for the first time, trying horizontal variations instead of going vertical. That's it, that's all. There were no hard feelings and I actually mentioned that I'd like to go again, if he had time later and after I adopted what was relevant from the session (I don't remember if this was in the film or later, in-game). To summarize Dolby directly during our fights, "The jerk part is just an act [...] I enjoy training." We parted ways, and that was it.
Six weeks later, I find this post, via a PM from Dolby stating that he had posted our "training session." Again, I'm more puzzled than anything. I did not right-out challenge Dolby, nor have I ever implied that either of us were inferior to the other. In fact, I went into it as a 4-month player to learn vertical merging tactics from someone who has played for years. I knew going into it that he had routinely offered help to train new players, and I took his offer as an opportunity to do the same.
I did select to save the films in-game (I always fly with auto-record on), but I saved them using periods in them (for "vs.") and they don't seem to have actually saved, for whatever reason.
That said, I'll still thank Dolby for his time; however, I would warn current and future players to ignore his facade of a presenting training opportunities as he obviously performs them with ulterior motives.
And to the person who said it, nothing I've done needs defending (nor, for that matter have I ever asked anyone to defend me in this game or any other).
Lastly, it's quite sad that this thread is now nearly 20 pages long, with the majority of it being one person dodging posting the original films; with another 7 pages being dedicated to a gaggle of internet gamers arguing against the clearly-established fundamentals and merits of actual air combat tactics. With all of the effort that is put into posting, you could have completely debunked the "game is dying argument" multiple times over. But no, you'd rather debate that here. I guess that's what I thought squad forums were for. Well, if you have one and have access to it, that is.
That is all I have to say on the topic.
