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Wales Grey posted:Yes. Oh okay, thanks. I'm guessing people are worried about planes being way to powerful? I just started playing this a few days ago so I still don't really know what's good or not so sorry about the stupid questions.
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Herr Direktor posted:Oh okay, thanks. I'm guessing people are worried about planes being way to powerful? I just started playing this a few days ago so I still don't really know what's good or not so sorry about the stupid questions. What's good:
What's not:
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Jun 12, 2014 00:28
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Fauxtool posted:If there are 4 tanks in your spawn your team was already losing badly and invincibility would not have helped. Arent there 2 spawns in most maps? Many maps still don't let you choose.
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Jun 12, 2014 00:29
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I don't understand how CAABs are going to be anything but a clusterfuck. I mean it'll be great, but in the CBT it was just a massacre for anybody on the ground.
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Jun 12, 2014 00:46
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Wales Grey posted:What's good: Words of wisdom. I would add Murica's 50cals to the "whats good" list because they are that good.
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Jun 12, 2014 00:50
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Target Practice posted:I mean it'll be great, but in the CBT it was just a massacre for anybody on the ground. Sounds good to me  But seriously, Arcade gives you as much or more SA than a modern fighter/bomber with radar and perfect weapon release point designations. Same with ground units targeting other ground units. Except SAMs aren't a thing in this game. So basically you have ground attack planes with almost perfect bombing capabilities going up against tanks with near-zero air defense support. Ask Iraq how that worked out for their army.
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Target Practice posted:I don't understand how CAABs are going to be anything but a clusterfuck. I mean it'll be great, but in the CBT it was just a massacre for anybody on the ground. I guess it's gonna be fun to just plaster the tiny tank battlefields with 8000kgs of explosives every 30-ish seconds.
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Jun 12, 2014 00:50
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Wales Grey posted:
Can confirm. I thoroughly recommend winning.
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Jun 12, 2014 00:51
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Vahakyla posted:I thoroughly recommend This, too.
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Jun 12, 2014 00:52
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Wales Grey posted:What's not: It never ceases to amaze me when I see someone literally ignore a human opponent and shoot a bot instead. Both in planes and tanks. Bots are pubbie catnip.
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Jun 12, 2014 00:53
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Geisladisk posted:SPAA are mostly awful, but the 37mm german one is great because if you land even one shot, you obliterate a plane, and the 37mm is actually pretty good against tanks too. Yup, go for the 37mm, ignore the 20mm. I had a particularly good round last night where I took previous advice in this thread and in an RB Game ended up with 6 player air kills and 1 player tank kill (a KV!) with the German 37mm using default ammo. Make sure you get in a reasonable sheltered spot near to the action aka in the middle of the map. Only bother firing when they are close. The lead time on close aircraft is not much at all.
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Jun 12, 2014 01:26
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mlmp08 posted:This, too. Mlmp has also perfect the "whining until someone else wins the match for me"-tactic. It is somewhat hard to learn, since it takes some skill to find suitable plane mates, but he has it nailed down to an art. Watching netflix on the second monitor and verbally abusing teammates adds to the experience. HTH
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Jun 12, 2014 01:35
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Enigma89 posted:I played the poo poo out of this game in beta but stopped playing because most people were only playing arcades and historical battle (now realistic) and full simulator mode were dead. Now it seems things have changed and I am starting to play this again. I can't imagine most people are not able to look over their shoulder using hat switch. I tried the official forums and players told me to use a joystick and mouse. 
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Jun 12, 2014 01:56
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Enigma89 posted:Anyone have any idea about this? I know I have set up a Logitech Extreme 3D Pro to make the hat a swivel hat rather than a hard lock to view tool. Then you can set a button to recenter your view so you can pivot about and then lock back to center. I just don't have WT up atm, and can't recall exactly where I set that up.
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Jun 12, 2014 01:58
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drat, whats up with simulator tanks battles being absolutely dead? Did CA kill it or something? Is everyone too busy playing RB for CA? Also, another great :warthunder: moment. My plane crashed into nothing. Just..."crashed" into thin air. gg.
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Jun 12, 2014 02:24
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Every time I consider taking out the KV-1/Zis/2 to spice things up I think of all the times I've one shotted those stupid tanks in a Pz IVF/G/Sutg/Hetzer and I just wonder why the hell anyone would ever drive one. They are such poo poo.
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Jun 12, 2014 02:24
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Fart Car '97 posted:Every time I consider taking out the KV-1/Zis/2 to spice things up I think of all the times I've one shotted those stupid tanks in a Pz IVF/G/Sutg/Hetzer and I just wonder why the hell anyone would ever drive one. They are such poo poo. The KV-1E and KV-1B they are going to add in the next patch have extra armor bolted on, enough to make them shrug off PZ IVF2 shots beyond distances of 0.10 km, especially if you angle them.
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Jun 12, 2014 02:39
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This game makes me laugh sometimes. A He-162 was positioning himself for a diving attack on my B-17, hovering around 1KM above me. I was hugging the trees. I figured I'd do a violent turn to screw with his angle of attack and force him to reposition for another run. He made his attack anyways, missed every shot, and buried his plane in the dirt.  How do you get juked by a B-17?
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Jun 12, 2014 02:49
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Also what the hell is my tail gunner shooting blanks? I consistently cant hit targets that are in range and flying STRAIGHT INTO my tail gunner, for some reason the shots are just passing through my targets... Also what is the criteria for planes having a bomb reticule in arcade, because I thought anything that has bombs equipped will have a bomb reticule, which appeared to be the case except for my BF 110 which doesn't for some reason.
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Jun 12, 2014 02:51
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BR 5.0 planes and I'm literally the only person on the entire team who bothers to cap any bases. How the gently caress did these people even get here.
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Jun 12, 2014 02:54
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mlmp08 posted:I know I have set up a Logitech Extreme 3D Pro to make the hat a swivel hat rather than a hard lock to view tool. Then you can set a button to recenter your view so you can pivot about and then lock back to center. I just don't have WT up atm, and can't recall exactly where I set that up. I just got that to work. Functional but I miss my old snap views. Oh well.
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Jun 12, 2014 02:57
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Kitfox88 posted:How the gently caress did these people even get here. Arcade. Of course, there's dumb people in other modes too, but at least in RB teammates can meaningfully contribute by shooting planes.
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Jun 12, 2014 03:01
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Oh, so apparently you don't get kill credit if you die before the target whose wing you shot off crashes shortly after. Salt in the wound.
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Jun 12, 2014 03:03
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Subyng posted:Also what the hell is my tail gunner shooting blanks? I consistently cant hit targets that are in range and flying STRAIGHT INTO my tail gunner, for some reason the shots are just passing through my targets... I dunno, tailgunning is easy for me. I click on the plane until either I die or its wing falls off/pilot takes a nap/plane burns to bits  quote:Also what is the criteria for planes having a bomb reticule in arcade, because I thought anything that has bombs equipped will have a bomb reticule, which appeared to be the case except for my BF 110 which doesn't for some reason. In arcade it seems to be that the dive-bombers/attackers only get a reticle when diving. At least, the last time I played arcadea lot it was like that* *so many patches ago
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Helter Skelter posted:
Never forget the KV-85
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What's a Fw-190 F-8 supposed to do vs spitfires? Just hold J?
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Jun 12, 2014 03:09
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Subyng posted:drat, whats up with simulator tanks battles being absolutely dead? Did CA kill it or something? Is everyone too busy playing RB for CA? Maybe they're tired of having their tank effectively knocked out of action every time their gun barrel gets red, due to the repair bug.
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Jun 12, 2014 03:13
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Enigma89 posted:Anyone have any idea about this? theres a button to bind for 6 o clock view snap somewhere in the controls, try just binding that to 6 o clock on the hat. I have mine bound to a mouse button because i use the mouse for my viewpoint. Actually I have a logitech too, but different strokes for different folks.
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Jun 12, 2014 03:17
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El Disco posted:Maybe they're tired of having their tank effectively knocked out of action every time their gun barrel gets red, due to the repair bug. On the other hand, it's incredibly satisfying to do this to friendly tanks in arcade matches who are sitting 700 meters from the only cap point trying to snipe in their low velocity no penetration shitbox. 
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Jun 12, 2014 03:36
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Why on earth would they remove tank only battles? Are their long term plans to remove plane only battles too?
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I have no idea. I'm hopeful because it's cool in Realistic and all, but with the weapon reloads and relaxed flight models it seems like it's going to be a poo poo show. Please don't let base-bomb rushes become a thing in tank battles 
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Jun 12, 2014 04:07
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I know they won't but I'm hoping that maybe the ca mode will rejigger arcade so that matches last longer than 120 seconds and they can make people land to reload secondary weapons.
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Jun 12, 2014 04:11
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Is there any reason at all to fly planes that don't have cannons at tier II. Like, cannons are just straight up easy mode, why the gently caress are there even planes that DON'T have cannons Getting frustrated with the BF 109 E-1's pitiful armament.
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Jun 12, 2014 04:16
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I'd take American .50s over cannons any day.
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Jun 12, 2014 04:18
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Carrier landing success on first try. Tailhook optional. Am I correct in reading that the launch conditions for the Catalina basic torpedo require you to land before launching? <50 km/hr and <30 m?
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Jun 12, 2014 04:19
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:Why on earth would they remove tank only battles? Are their long term plans to remove plane only battles too? Go play arcade with the rest of the scrubs, I mean, uh... On a more serious note, I think it's really dumb how they keep killing the tank only modes but planes get a free pass (with the exception of sim). I suppose they will continue to merge the modes until they have driven everyone out. NerdyMcNerdNerd posted:Please don't let base-bomb rushes become a thing in tank battles Early reports show that they have added bombing targets outside of the tank battleground, which will probably take a chunk out of the total tickets, potentially making matches even shorter.
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mlmp08 posted:I dunno, tailgunning is easy for me. I click on the plane until either I die or its wing falls off/pilot takes a nap/plane burns to bits Well, in any case, now the bomb reticule for my BF 110 is appearing when it wasn't before. And yeah, I tried diving before and it still didn't show up, but now it does. Also, biplanes get bombsights when diving too, but my Ju 87 which is supposedly a dive bomber gets it all the time, which means in Arcade mode I can just fly at 5000m and bomb stuff without having to dive at all. Fart Car '97 posted:I'd take American .50s over cannons any day. What's weird is I had no trouble with the MGs in my very first game with the BF109, but after that it was like I'm shooting blanks. Also, what's awesome is diving on an enemy, killing him, then having the resulting chaos on screen slow your computer so much that it can't properly calculate the flight model fast enough causing you to stutter into the ground and crash (my computer is poo poo) 
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I Greyhound posted:Carrier landing success on first try. Tailhook optional. hahaha, this owns.
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ghetto wormhole posted:What's a Fw-190 F-8 supposed to do vs spitfires? Just hold J? You can out dive Spits so use that to get away if you have altitude. If you don't scissor because 190s generally roll better than Spitfires. Whatever you do, don't turn.
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Subyng posted:drat, whats up with simulator tanks battles being absolutely dead? Did CA kill it or something? Is everyone too busy playing RB for CA? I've noticed it as well. And after playing SB only for a while, it's pretty impossible to play RB. Just feels so boring. 
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