Guess what this guy does as soon as anyone with hands shows up in his lobby? If you guess that it’s “land and leave”…you would be correct.
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where on earth do you even find these people
This is why I stick to prop tiers. There’s far less cheese and it’s more fun in general.
That said I have noticed that the German team in the 5.3-6.3 bracket can be toxic. Played a game last night and it’s nothing but Ju288C’s with fantasy flight models dogfighting fighters and bailing before you can shoot them down… if you can catch them that is, also don’t forget the Russian B-I which even the worst pilots can go 10-1 in.
On the subject of Russia I’ve been spading the I-225 and that’s a brilliant aircraft even if it melts itself with WEP (AEC). It feels strange flying something Russian that doesn’t get asthma over 5,000ft.
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This obsession with K/D is one of the most toxic thing I’ve ever seen in this game.
After years of US spamming bombers in the end even on Ger side the do the same, quite one of the reasons I quitted props
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I kind of had a similar but opposite experience at 4.0-5.0. Americans all in P61C and A26s flying SUPER low so you cannot do side-on or pop-up attacks, only top down and using third person gunners to spray the hell out of anyone trying to go for the A point.
It’s very annoying event-wise. Last night I couldnt find a single sensible lobby (4.0-5.0, 5.3-6.3) that didn’t feel awfully lopsided, had cheese or terrible weather. Whereas when it was 4.3-5.3 the day before I had one of the more fun sim matches (we still had Ki-84 and Lf Mk IX spam, but at least it wasn’t third person gunner cheese flying on deck and both sides stayed well until 8 or so deaths for ~0.9/1.1 K/D without giving up.)
Edit: Tried another 4.0-5.0 lobby today. Result: 5 vs 11
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I’m sorry i quitted air sb, but on wt it’s pure crap. Found more satisfying playing the old IL-2 series.
Can’t stop saying thanks to gaijin for make me stop playing my fav mode.
Props are not immune to the same kind of behavior.
This is from a guy that I consistently see in prop games on basically a nightly basis. He is an extremely cautious player and only looks to kill people with boom and zoom attacks.
Apparently I am cheating because I was able to hit him during his vertical extension in some previous game. Also this is a pretty realistic technique for dealing with boom and zoom players.
This is an excerpt from an interview with Robert Johnson, a US WW2 P-47 ace. Unfortunately this idea that heavy American fighters can zoom climb into the German experten and gun them down is a completely alien concept to some players in the sim community.
I usually had little to no issues with EC and sim in general, but the last couple of days it’s been driving me up the wall.
Broken EC objectives:
Skirmish doesn’t spawn after a cap point. This used to be the case, and also was the case the majority of time I was playing… but not today. I spawn in a ground attacker that costs 14kSL to spawn, just to stare at an empty map after we capped 2 points (Sinai). 40 minutes passed from start of the match until the first enemy convoy arrived at the frontline and started a ground battle. Luckily I had bombs so I could bomb bases during that time… but if I had rockets I would be out of luck pretty much.
I paid 600k SL for the Lighning F.6 because I’ve had it with bomber/recon planes outrunning me at 7.7-10.0 BR with their magic energy retention. Not only that for some reason on Denmark the types of missions that the plane is capable of doing apparently dont spawn for the first 30 minutes - after they do, the recon plane that I now can barely catch at 1.2M GOES OUT OF BOUNDS that keeps resetting me and thus completely undoing all the chasing I did up to that point, and every second I stay airborne with it, it becomes a larger chance to receive hostile rocket propelled gifts into my rear.
Also, why cannot ordnance be jettisoned while bombs have a set target?
The gamemode keeps torqueing me over and over and makes me fight the game itself more than the actual enemies.
Or maybe just delete every non fighter plane, refund SL and make sim just another deathmatch.
It’s fun because I did more or less the same against a corsair in an A6M5, he thought he brought me up in losing speed whilst he was clearly outclimbing me, I leveled up, gain speed, I faked a stall, baited and zoom climbed
Has a new team configuration arrived?
Nothing has changed. The game mode is dead as hell.
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SIM is boring unless you go against experienced player (speaking of top tier).
Have been playing the gripen C a lot lately. The same tactic of notching from like 4 months ago still works stupidly good, which renders like 90 percent of players at top tier useless unless theyre able to shoot down missiles as they just die to top down missiles.
The thing is, most matches are filled with these not so experienced players. So you just farm kills which is boring if you know how to notch. But, when you go against experienced players, i notice they tend to all bunch up on one side of the match, which means the other side will leave quickly as they have no fun getting pummeled.
Just recently had a match where I played someone that knew the notching tech, and we traded like 2-3 times, with him winning some and me winning some. But, they leave after 3 deaths. ATP, why play top tier at all? In most matches, one side just collapses which kills the lobby.
(guilty of this myself)
IDK if there’s honestly a good solution to this problem.
So Carriers no longer move, new to this update or been around for a little while? (not really touched SB in a few months)
I think it’s related to this update; I’ve also experienced some surprising bugs.
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Decided to give my Ta 152 H-1 a try.
Weekend: 6.7 day, Ju-288 everywhere.
Today: 6.3 day, Ju-288 everywhere.
Can we move the Ju-288 somewhere else so that one’s team consists of more than just a single other fighter? 7.0 sounds swell for letting Bf 109 K-4 and Ta 152s exist without Ju-288s. Please.
You will play into Ju-288 PVE slop and you will like it.
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Guys, I’m having a problem with my HMS PD radar. It won’t lock targets when I press C to use mouse free look. Because of this issue, I can’t lock onto other aircraft at all unless I point my aircraft directly at them. I want to know if this is a bug or something else. I haven’t changed any settings, and it was working fine before.
sounds like it might be an issue with your keybinds
I’ve figured out the cause. In a recent update, new keybinds were added, and many of them use combo keys like C + another key. One of these combos conflicted with my C (mouse look) control, so I had to remove the keybinds that use C as part of a two-key combination. Most of the conflicting keybinds came from ground vehicle controls, but they also affected my jet gameplay.
What is the deal with Javelin radar vertical range? C-scope and hard limits (red lines) are at ±60 deg, while the scan position moves between the yellow lines on B-scope, indicating that its between -10 and +20, yet on the C-scope it’s using the whole area. Also on the right side of the C-scope there is also the vertical line that represents the yellow limit apparently. It’s also not adjustable vertically. So what is it then, is the UI on C-scope wrong, is the UI on B-scope wrong, is everything wrong? :D