Despite my few hundred hours in the cockpit and despite learning to aim not only by spraying but using gunsights, the notion that "bullets travel “up” when shot from inside the turn evaded me in the formal sense. I compensated for it thru practice but…
Timestamped for future reference should anyone ask for tips on how to shoot and I wanna answer beyond “just practice” and “vibes.”
lol, maybe. If you know EA, you’d know one shouldn’t get excited or hyped for a release of something they produce. Anyway, I enjoyed vanilla BC2, and I did a lot of clan battles on vanilla BF1942, BF:Vietnam and BF2. But the mods were the best thing about the game in the end. I remember doing a massive tournament on Forgotten Hope, with a map based on the Invasion of Crete. It was just, damn, what an experience. Anyway, as for shooters, War Thunder is enough for me. I don’t bother with Battlefield or any of the others. I think Arma 3 was the last FPS I bothered with. This game takes all my gaming time ;)
Edit: I’m not wrong about the propaganda, though. It’s how companies advertise their games these days. They work the algorithm, they pay creators to talk about their game, they spam you on YouTube and other places. It’s artificial hype a lot of it. Some of the hype is real because of the horrible state of basic-vanilla-game ‘shooters’ such as CoD.
Edit2: Any Aussies out there - I was in AEF clan at the time. We did some serious tournaments in BF1942, Vietnam, and 2. Was in 6RAR division. Was a great experience as a teenager :)
Sorry to burst your nostalgia fart bubble but BF2 was just as silly with those stupid movement mechanics with sweats dolphin jumping and killing 10 dudes with knives. You just miss being a kid and booting up your favorite game after school, just like I did when TF2 was at its prime.
You sound like you prefer games like Squad, give it a whirl, and try to move on. I also made my peace with the fact that Battlefield will never be the way I’d like, I used to play in Attack heli cups in BF4 and quit when they butchered the flight physics, c’est la vie.
Brother, try reading my damn posts before replying. I enjoyed BF2 most for the mods on it - Forgotten Hope 2, for example. The vanilla game play has always been arcade which is what is in the text you quoted. My nostalgia was from a time when game companies like EA/Dice let their games be modified. Complete overhaul mods of battlefield exceeded anything that EA/Dice set out to do. They killed this with BF3. And yes, if I wanted something like Forgotten Hope 2 now, I’d play Hell Let Loose or something similar. I choose War Thunder. This game is what has replaced games like Battlefield for me.
whoops, thats on me for reading something right out of bed, never tried those mods and skipped BF3 so I never really cared, quit after BF4 though and only started playing multiplayer stuff again when i picked up WT, also replaced my FPS itch.
I see no seeds :)
he likely ate them first (they’re the best part)
With the exception of the last two SPAA/SAMs, that is the entire US Ground line. Majority bought, crewed and spaded, with just some exceptions.
Premiums used: M4A5 Ram, T14, T30, M46 “Tiger,” and T54E1 were doing the heavy lifting through large amount of the grind
Cobra King, M18 Black Cat and RDF/LT were only bought recently, the first two for fun and the RDF to help finish out.
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Congrats!
@Real_K_Soze
As that topic got closed, I was intrigued by one of your posts and want to know how would you balance vehicles based on their capabilities and not on their stats ?
Quite simple:
Average performance of the 5-10% best players of a vehicle determines the BR. With this you focus on player skill based on performance of guys which took the time to master the aircraft and are able to use the full potential - and not on masses of players players playing it more or less clueless.
Explanation:
I mean currently it looks like that gaijin considers (for aircraft) mainly plain average player performance, added some bias to support sales of undertiered premiums and national preferences. In addition rather unfiltered data like average SL/RP gains, Nation specific WRs and things like burst mast play a role.
You might agree that if a good aircraft is praised by a cc as undertiered (=too low in BR) this attracts a hell of rather new/fresh players towards them. Due to their lack of experience and their sheer masses (the majority is unable to use them properly) they drag sometimes these aircraft even lower.
Prime example is the P-39 N-0 at BR 2.7 (=1940 WW 2 BR for German and UK prop fighters). The plane was good enough to stay in frontline service until the end of WW 2 - it wt it can keep up with most enemies (below 4 km) up to BR 4.7.
You see realistic BRs just in aircraft flown by a minority of usually excellent players.
Prime example here: Re 2005. Excellent pilots dragged the aircraft with a 4.3 performance up to BR 6.0. The problem is that their opponents at this BR have usually way better (=faster & better climb) aircraft as the majority of their users are rookies and they dragged the BRs too low.
So any new/fresh player is helpless in a Re 2005 and play a few matches against rookies in far superior aircraft - gets clapped and stops playing it.
OK
I recently learned a tidbit of family history!
My great-grandfather (only legal relation), served in the Battle of the Bulge as part of the 325th GIR, dying in Honsfeld-Buchholz on Jan 30th, 1945. He received a Purple Heart for his efforts.
Unfortunately, I can’t seem to find anything more specific about what was happening on that day in particular.
Nice!
A while ago I learned some history,
And be aware that this was told to me a year or so ago.
So my great Grandfather, who I’m named after, was I believe army infantryman during WW1 or 2, he was taken in as a POW at an Italian concentration camp.
I don’t know the time frame he was in it, but I believe it was a few years.
He then found a way to escape, walked roughly 300km barefoot(I believe on snow) to finally find someone to help him get out of the country. He then got out of the country, got back to the states, went back to Minnesota, built a farm, bred huskies and made snowshoes.
I will ask for the story again and update with a reply!
Damn, Great-grandpa Needed sounds pretty cool!
Unfortunately, nearly all the people I could’ve asked about Nelson already passed - but I’ll have to ask around again and see if the story passed on to someone I know who is still living.
The National Archives doesn’t seem as forthcoming with information as I’d like, I’m really hoping the fire didn’t burn the 82nd’s action reports…
Keep searching! I wish you luck!
Is there a Singular Ship in War Thunder that has the biggest TNT filler in Kg compared to all Others?
Could one of the three Naval Players help me out?
