Been playing multi on a map where vulching is encouraged!(People have to fly CAP over the field then)
Anyway, the Me262 is the ultimate vulchmobile! You can ingress where ever you want due to your high speed, and 4 30mm cannons and a RAM pack cause havoc.
And of the course, the best part being the high speed chases through the mountain maps! It was like the death star run!
Man, the Chaika campaign is intense! The Soviets did with it what they did with every fighter they considered inferior - used it exclusively for ground attack. Imagine your average IL-2 mission, only in a frabric covered biplane with no pilot protection, and only 2 FAB-100's. Good thing the damn thing is so agile, because one or two flak hits can easily bring you down. I must look like a bumblebee on speed to the AAA gunners shooting at me. One thing I'm really starting to love about the dynamic campaign - destroyed ground objects are still destroyed the next mission. Over the last 5 missions we have been attacking the same enemy airfield, and I've concentrated solely on taking out the AAA. I just took out the last gun protecting the airfield, and we are coming back to it once again. The enemy fighters are also causing us heavy casualties, but not as much as the flak was during the first few missions.
*edit* We totally wiped out the airfield on the next sortie. Only one bf-109 on the flight line survived, I jumped one of the two 109's scrambling and shot him down before he even retracted his landing gear, and the other one was kept busy by my wingmen while I went to work on the parked aircraft. We didn't shoot him down, but we took no losses ourselves.
Okay i got it and it's fantastic, now i can't decide to use 1024 x 768 or 1600 x 1200 resolution. At 1024 x 768 the textures seem to, 'curdle' a bit and come slightly apart, also at distance a fighter looks no different from a bomber. At 1600 x 1200 there is no discernible performance drop but i can hardly see fighters until they are 4 kms away, and that's straining as well and everything is pretty.
What realism settings do you use, i have external views on and i don't use complex engine management, i use the minimap path and i have the midair icons off. everything else is set to realistic, i find it gives a good balance.
I have win XP with SB audigy 2, there is a small high pitch tone in the cockpit view but not external, do other people have this? i dled new drivers but no change.
Jinef
</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Jinef @ April 17 2003,16:03)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">i don't use complex engine management,[/QUOTE]<span id='postcolor'>
You shouldn't let complex engine management intimidate you. If you read the info for the specific plane you're using on the pdf manual, there isn't that much to it after some practice. In fact I find it fun to be able to play around with the engine settings to such an extent. Besides, I've also heard that the non-complex engine management setting is buggy, but then again, some of the supposed "bugs" I've heard mentioned......lol
Like Tovarish said, dont let CEM frighten you. I believe you can get a good bit of extra speed out of your ride with certain aircraft if you use CEM
I personally fly on normal settings. I used to fly full real, but I kept getting lost
I'm sick of my stupid sigs.
</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Aaron Kane @ April 17 2003,19:43)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">I personally fly on normal settings. ***I used to fly full real, but I kept getting lost
Russia's steppes are almost as featureless as west Texas. But they're greener. And have less mesquite. Apparently we both have tumbleweeds, though.
</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Aaron Kane @ April 17 2003,19:43)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">I personally fly on normal settings. ***I used to fly full real, but I kept getting lost
One of my most intense missions in the Chaika was when both my rudder and elevator controls were hit by ground fire - so I only had ailerons. I managed to regain control of the plane with just those, and tried to fly back towards my base but got lost. (Damn I-153 has no compass, no speedometer, no altimeter! - what the hell where the designers thinking?! "Hey Yuri, stick a clock in the cockpit, that and an RPM gague should keep the pilot happy").
Anyways, keeping the plane up in the air with only aileron controls AND trying to find my place on the map by looking at roads, rivers and cities was a challenge but also a blast. I eventually thought I knew where I was and guided to myself to a friendly airbase - and was very relieved to see it was just where I expected it to be by looking at the map
</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Tovarish @ April 17 2003,20:30)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Aaron Kane @ April 17 2003,19:43)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">I personally fly on normal settings. ***I used to fly full real, but I kept getting lost
One of my most intense missions in the Chaika was when both my rudder and elevator controls were hit by ground fire - so I only had ailerons. I managed to regain control of the plane with just those, and tried to fly back towards my base but got lost. (Damn I-153 has no compass, no speedometer, no altimeter! - what the hell where the designers thinking?! "Hey Yuri, stick a clock in the cockpit, that and an RPM gague should keep the pilot happy").
Anyways, keeping the plane up in the air with only aileron controls AND trying to find my place on the map by looking at roads, rivers and cities was a challenge but also a blast. I eventually thought I knew where I was and guided to myself to a friendly airbase - and was very relieved to see it was just where I expected it to be by looking at the map
Many, many times in my 109!
If I'm lucky, I still have my rudder, which will allow you to sideslip and change your attitude. (Crude elevator really), sometimes your don't have that luxery and have to use throttle. In any realistic scenario, you would at leasst try to get it to friendly lines and bail out, but as this is a sim, its fun to get a wounded bird home.
Although it usually ends up with smashed gear, fire + death, or in my case, a snapped fuselage.... It was great, the rest of the A/C was in one peice, resting on its gear, while the tail was completey missing up to the cockpits armour plate!
I love the damage models, it's so easy to survive by just ditching. I do actually wish OFP could have damage models like that.
</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Tovarish @ April 17 2003,22:30)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Damn I-153 has no compass, no speedometer, no altimeter! - what the hell where the designers thinking?! "Hey Yuri, stick a clock in the cockpit, that and an RPM gague should keep the pilot happy".[/QUOTE]<span id='postcolor'>
Get your eys off the gunsight view (shift-F1) and look down again.
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