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<- that's me landing.....
Kuban is my favorite map.
Kuban is my favorite map.
The only DLC for RoF I don't have is the Ilya Muromets...still don't fancy it for some reason.
Just found my old favourite RoF skin for the Sopwith Camel has had a 4K makeover for Flying Circus, a historical paint job used by Canadian pilot Lieut. Clifford 'Black Mike' McEwen, M.C., D.F.C ...It was included in that 7.5Gb skin pack I downloaded the other day as well as many of my other personal favourites from Rise of Flight...Still loving Flying Circus now that Pat Wilson's campaign generator has given it a career mode
From Flying Circus...
Same skin from Rise of Flight...
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I'll have to try it...saying that, I have trouble stopping a Sopwith Camel before the end of a runway...doesn't bode wellYou're aliev, that's what matters
Regarding landings, yet to this day, I have never been able to land an Me262 and stop it before the runway ends. Damn thing needs an anchor!
I'll have to try it...saying that, I have trouble stopping a Sopwith Camel before the end of a runway...doesn't bode well
While I consider myself a quite decent runway lander, I do struggle with landing in open fields, I always touch down far too early or far too late, I rarely manage to stop near the buildings in open airfields.
Anyway in IL-2 I prefer airfields with runways, I always tend to choose squadrons based on airfields with runways.
To land properly you need a good approach Requiem has detailed videos of all the aircraft. Watch and learn.
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Requiem has detailed videos of all the aircraft. Watch and learn.
The Air Combat Tutorial Library
My online name is Requiem and I am a real life flight instructor and airline pilot. This tutorial channel explains flying concepts, fighter maneuvering, and ...
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All this talking writing of IL-2 made me remember how much I wanted to try CoD years ago, especially knowing of how much it was improved by semi-official patches along the way. As soon as I saw the sales I couldn't resist and went to check it: 5,74 € for the Blitz (Team Fusion) version, that's awesome! Instant buy!
Why, why do I click but you won't let me buy it?
The game is already in your library.
What's wrong with me
Why, why do I click but you won't let me buy it?
The game is already in your library.
What's wrong with me
What's wrong with me
Well, it's obvious that... erm... ...sorry... what was the question again...?
But no really, that felt imbarassing. Can't even remember how many years ago I bought it.
Downloading now, wasn't used anymore to <10 GB downloads. It feels off.
Just enjoy it. I'm still bumbling around in the Hurricane in the training missions. Great fun!
Thanks for that.
I remember reading ages ago in some game manual about high and low speed yo-yo and immelman and reverse manoeuvres. Compelling reading.
I just wish I could remember more than just the manoeuvres' names.....
I think I read that one too...then I flew IL2 where all the veteran Ai just hover mere inches above my reflector sight past the point of stall or inside my turn rate where I can't get them...ME 109's boom and zoom properly, Spittys and Hurri's yank and bank like proper pros and I flounder about stalling my wings and losing speed in the turns so much that I dream of flying with my old Sidwinder FFB pro like I did in Red Baron 2 where I could actually feel what the plane was doing instead of just guessing purely through visual cues...
Flying RoF and now Flying circus certainly improved my energy management flying...since you don't have a lot of it to begin with. The boom and zoomers have a turning radius of a small moon...just try dogfighting a Sopwith Camel in an Albatross D5 or a Fokker DR1 in an SE5 without resorting to yo-yo-ing, scissoring or just plain stalling all over the place. My favourite trick flying a D5 is to get the Camels to dive after me then pull up in a high G joystick ripper and listen to their wings fall off as they plummet past me in the middle of the blackout.
That works well as long as they haven't shot the fabric on my wings full of holes already....sometimes the crashing and tearing sounds I hear in the dark are my own wings disintegrating. Thank heavens that German pilots were issued with parachutes in 1918, not so clever a manoeuvre if you're flying an SE5 for the other side of course
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Looks like there's no such things as "training missions" in Cliffs of Dover
, unless they are part of the campaign start. The sorry poor thing they tried to pass for "tutorials" are very sorry, and very poor. Am glad I already had a very general idea of how to put something afloat, keep it there and eventually bounce it down.But man, the bindings section is a nightmare come true. I don't remember setting up IL-2 '46 inputs being such a miserable experience. I've tried to keep assigned commands to a minimum (just the essentials to take off, fly, shoot, land, simple engine management 'cause I'm fine with just handling a throttle), but it really is a hit and miss and hope for the best.
Or maybe I'm just getting too old for this (Mole will probably have a laugh at this one)....
No mate, no one will mock you, the bindings are utterly horrendous!
It's such a shame as the game is such fun.
IL2's bindings interface makes FDev's look to be world class - which is quite impressive...
Cliffs of Dover is a real pain to set up. It's archaic and mind boggling unless you're used to faffing about with a million bindings as in the likes of DCS...I don't play DCS so no burning at the stake now. I tend to go as simple as possible with the keybinds...I'm no sim-head, so I want the experience of flying a war plane to be as unlike DCS as I can get it without going all War Thunder...I leave the radiators and prop pitch etc to automatic but turn the flying and shooting bits to as realistic as I can get it without having to press 500 buttons and switches in the right order just so the engine doesn't explodeLooks like there's no such things as "training missions" in Cliffs of Dover
But man, the bindings section is a nightmare come true. I don't remember setting up IL-2 '46 inputs being such a miserable experience. I've tried to keep assigned commands to a minimum (just the essentials to take off, fly, shoot, land, simple engine management 'cause I'm fine with just handling a throttle), but it really is a hit and miss and hope for the best.
Or maybe I'm just getting too old for this (Mole will probably have a laugh at this one)....
BoS and later have a much better and easier to understand bindings setup...I really dread going back into Cliffs of Dover and trying to set up a simple keybind, I'm kinda spoiled by the newer way of doing it.
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I tend to go as simple as possible with the keybinds...I'm no sim-head, so I want the experience of flying a war plane to be as unlike DCS as I can get it without going all War Thunder...I leave the radiators and prop pitch etc to automatic but turn the flying and shooting bits to as realistic as I can get it without having to press 500 buttons and switches in the right order just so the engine doesn't explode
Word for word, the very same as this. I had found that perfect sweet spot in 1946 that allowed me to turn the engines on, take off, fly (or auto-fly) to destination, unload the excess metal from my plane and bring the rest of the plane back to the ground. As much as I'd like to tinker with the engine simulation, too many keys required, I don't know those engines enough and imho you can't really simulate a complex engine management if you can't feel the actual torque, vibrations and all the effects a real engine would communicate to the pilot.
We would make a perfect pair of Sunday flyers together.
(Spent the best part of 10 minutes yesterday searching for the command to zoom and align view with the crosshair. No luck yet...)
I get a badge for this, right?
I at least STARTED my 'landing' on the runway... alas it turns out it's 'quite tricky' to land when your gear collapses... maybe I did make one too many passes...
For sure I want a badge for this!
Getting back to Tangmere from a few miles over the Channel with a blown up oil gasket, courtesy of a Bf-110...it held together right until moments before landing...game looks indeed barely a framework even compared to the already barebone 1946, but these are the moments I truly missed.
The 110 had it worse anyway, it'll be a long swim back.
And a shower and a new pair of pants...
It's moments like these that make gaming a real experience!