Drex

[zack1234]

I swallowed a fly once

[CptTrips]

I swallowed a fly once

That's probably the best meal you ever had in England.

[DmonSlyr]

Imagine being able to play for 8-12 hours a day, then having to target players with 3 accounts and postional awareness of the entire map, switching to go after 1 player every time they logged in. Using the fastest planes with the best cannons, and then crapping all over the players who aren't as practiced. 

Just not the example of the "best" most people have in mind.


But as Shane said, people get older, people get new equipment which reduces skill a bit in the short run. People get health issues. I'd recon there were a lot of really great sticks between 2000-2010. Just look at the scores. Back then it was new and fresh and everyone wanted to be a top furballer. There were a lot of great squads back then aswell with huge #s. I think its a lot different than it is today but either way, you still have to be on your toes. Any noob can kill you once you get caught up in a fight.

[scott66]

None of you fly very well....if you were meant to fly, you would have been born with wings. Instead yall were all born with arms and spend all your time trying to keep that amount of distant away from everyone else.

I'm going to key the side of your p38!

[DmonSlyr]

I would have loved to see Drex's reversal techniques. That's my favorite style of fighting. Being a good aimer definitely takes you to another level. Being able to snap shot quickly for the kill in the reversal is extremely important. Something I've always tried to work on, but haven't totally perfected. Grizz was very similar with Aim. One of the best 30mm shooters. It would always scare me if he got any kind of gun solution.

[Shuffler]

I'm going to key the side of your p38!

  Keying a 38 that has holes all in it is too funny. Don't lose your key off in one of those holes. 

If you drive around a bit you can find pieces of my 38 you can key. They are all over the map. 

[Canspec]

I swallowed a fly once

Zack is awesome   

[Mar]

Zack is awesome   

The Zack deficiency on this bored has been cured

That'll be 5,000 perk points

[LNG15]

I swallowed a fly once

Newb! I shallowed a spider once.

[Shuffler]

I swallowed a fly once

Fact... when he talks on mic, you can hear a zipper with every word.

[IntelDan]

I get the feeling you all need policing more then the streets of Portland.

[RotBaron]

Back in the day, so called noobs made the effort to improve. The training arena and dueling arena were always busy. The good sticks offered to take time to help new guys. Many players back then were extremely good and dweebish game play was called out. I don't see much of the same  standard of game play now.

The war/capture the flag is the game now. The amount of furballing is about 2 hours a day in the evenings ~9pmEST.  The rest of the dogfighting unfortunately is found in most cases by forcing it or attempting to find escorts of bombers and jabos.  It’s better on the weekends for a few hours longer, but if one refuses to participate in the war effort now they’re going to be bored.

[TWCAxew]

According to the boards, all that's left in the game is the "best of the best." Not my quote, but it's been said several times. 

20 top sticks out of 600 players online (just saying 300 for each of the two LW Arenas) = 3%
20 top sticks out of 100 players online at one time these days = 20%.

I have yet to see any of these "n00bs" that skilled players are taking advantage of these days. There are no #s guys anymore.  I stand by my statement that the population density of new players was higher during those days. 

Also, those pilots were most likely spread between two fronts on all three countries, whereas today there is typically one fight on the map at a time.

So we agree that most of this is subjective, and that everyone's "top/best/greatest" is going to be different.

Never even thought about it, especially since most of the pilots flying these days have "diminished in skill" (your words, not mine).  And there's really no standout pilots anymore to even warrant the attention of creating a list.


As I stated (which you obviously overlooked in your attempt to sound like an expert just like another member on this board), I take no credit away from those guys and stand by my statement.

By the way, you complain a whole lot about anklehumpers, yet here you are...constantly on mine.

When the game came to Steam, i remember getting 20 kills in a single sorty flying with a p51 trough a swarm. I stopped doing that after 1 sorty and instead try and help them.  Everything here is indeed subjectief,

One month i fly a bit for score the other i dont care and try to bait as many pilots to lawn dart or up from capped bases. Score doesnt mean anything. The good players know each other the only thing that really mattered skill wise was KOTH.

Last night i merged with Lazer, we had a good fight and we had fun. Having fun is the only thing thats important here.

[TWCAxew]

Was he the best currently? Yes, for sure.

Lol, no

[Animl-AW]

Lol, no

These guys give this waste way too much credit.