PS3 HUD off realistic club

[Shadowcorp]

recently i took the plunge into sim...... whilst i find some modes in sim very entertaining; i find the scrabbling around the deck of dogfight and team battle to be quite unrealistic and troublesome, this combined with many players win at all cost attitude in sim increased my dis-appointment.
Someone suggested to me that realistic with the HUD turned off or turned to minimal would mimic some of the better aspects of sim and eliminate some of the worst.
Why turn off your HUD you ask?
Players names and aircraft disappear, this simple fact eliminate a players ability to single another out and also mean you cannot identify aircraft type until within clear visual range allowing a wider choice of tactics for all players; not just I'm in a spit IX he's not i'll out turn him etc
Anyone who is interested please leave your psn id and timezone hours of play
I am generally online between weekdays 1930 and 0000 gmt weekends vary.

[McQ59]

Quite agree with you mate. After going the grades in this game (I've played it since october last year) and doing my service in arcade, moving to realistic after a while and now mostly strike in sim. Why I do the strike in sim now is ecsactly the reasons you put forward; The unrealistic clobbering in furballs in dogfight and teambattle close to treetops and hedges in realistic. And also the fact that I find "dogfights all on all" a bit 'tedious'.
That said... I love the teambattles in realistic and will be happy to try out the mode with HUD turned of. It's great fun flying with skilled guys equiped with headsets.
I'll gladly host teambattles in realistic for players that fly HUD-less. Just 4 fun.

[Gilly]

Put me down too Shadow, great idea

[KAV]

Signing in...

[winny]

I've been doing this anyway (realistic, HUD off, cockpit view). It feels more like what I expect out of WW2 dogfighting and even tho you have the target lock with the HUD off it still needs a bit of concentration to work out which way the target is heading

Count me in.

[Chowbird2]

I'm in.

[howzmidyktzt]

You can count me in too, I normally go HUD fully disabled anyway so there is not problem with that. To me it is actually easier since all the words and numbers are in the way of seeing what you're shooting at. The only time I play with the hud on is when people start complaining about me shooting them down too much. Cockpit view with HUD off is the way to go.

[Ratman91101]

I completely agree.Sign me up. And as you all know my internet is not up to par.So I hope some1 else will start hosting on weekends.Cya in the clouds!

[scottyvt4]

i can give it a bash ............

[Fight-Test]

are you guys around still playing this way? i just realized after 8 months that you can do this. im an idiot. i love realistic and getting to see your plane but always hated the icons. i know its honor system thing but i would rather do this 1 on 1 than anything else. maybe ill make a new post later to see if guys are still doing this. I can host and would love to get some of you on my friends list.

[Korsakov829]

This is interesting and is fun on Arcade, but you can't get rid of the virtual cockpit, pull up warnings, and other players deceit.

[Fight-Test]

im talking about the boxes around the planes. the red and green. these boxes are not on Realistic when hud off. not sure about on arcade. the other stuff is just console bs we always have to deal with.

[Korsakov829]

Yes well, might as well play Sim though. All you have to do in Realistic without HUD is press a button and you find your target is a enemy 4km away. It can take getting as close as 0.60km to identify a target in Sim.

[Fight-Test]

?? there are no numbers. yea you can target them but if they are few miles out you can barely even see them unless its a clear day. no distance on the target. its pretty much the same as Sim but you can see your plane and not have the horrible cockpit or first person view. i enjoy the the graphics and love seeing my plane. and every time i do play sim the fighting takes place about 100 ft off ground and its all spits.

[Korsakov829]

Whatever you prefer. Had a game on Sim this morning with a friend of mine, clearly saw a dot at 3km at least. At night, hazy.

[bobbysocks]

"every time i do play sim the fighting takes place about 100 ft off ground and its all spits"

they hug the deck because its easier to spot the dot (e/a) against the wild blue yonder than it is camoflauged against the scenery. the longer you play the more you are able to distinguish planes by using the map and looking in the direction where they "should" be. as far as everyone using spits...set up a different theme. last night we had FWs against p47s & p 51s vs FWs....but you can make it whatever you want and its actually a lot of fun. everyone flies a challenging a/c..makes the game interesting.

[Fight-Test]

Whatever you prefer. Had a game on Sim this morning with a friend of mine, clearly saw a dot at 3km at least. At night, hazy.

ok i get what your saying but still not the same thing. without the hud you can still hide. you can get in clouds, low to ground and everything sim has. there is still radar on sim so its the same thing. of course you can see a plane from far if they are in the open. just trying to play with some guys that don't want the low level spitfire fights on sim.

[Korsakov829]

Your forgetting the target camera mate. I prefer to go at 5000 feet sometimes, so people have to come off the ground.

[Fight-Test]

target cam is great. still hard to see directions and speed without numbers but the camera helps alot. alows weaker players to find you also.

[Korsakov829]

My TV sucks so I can't read my altitude or speed anyway. Sorry but this isn't for me, I would prefer Sim over no hud Realistic.

[Fight-Test]

sim has its good points. easy to kill people. but this a thread for realistic with no hud so......

[Korsakov829]

In Sim you have an improved damage model so when you hit the wing of the bomber, you hit the wing and not the engine. Realistic as is you just need hold the target camera and pull back on the stick. In Sim you must change your flaps, set your trim, conserve ammo and look for the target, unlike Realistic. I personally believe Simulator got its named mixed up with Realistic.

[Shadowcorp]

this thread is for realistic, sing the praises of sim elsewhere please. You don't wanna sign up then don't use the thread. Please show some respect for other players choices.

[grislawskijg52]

Do you play on Sundays? I have been practicing in the training mode "still finding the rookie pilots tough to track down". But I am finding realistic to be extremely enjoyable. I check from time to time, but have not found any realistic games out there.

[scottyvt4]

Korsakov..............

http://www.funnyforumpics.com/forums/Thread-Hijack/1/Hijack-No.gif (http://www.funnyforumpics.com)


this thread is for realistic, sing the praises of sim elsewhere please. You don't wanna sign up then don't use the thread. Please show some respect for other players choices.

Shadow are you guys still playing this way or organised historical stuff???

[mavrickandgoose]

Please let me know if you guys are still or are going to set up these games it's getting harder and harder to find realistic games I am down to play with no HUD or anyway for that matter

[scottyvt4]

mav, the ratman was saying last night that its on pretty much every sunday night. last night was the first time ive been on and ben in a proper decent games ................. no disrespect to the sim guys (dabled in there as i cant get any realistic game time i just dont enjoy sim ) seems to be 9pm on GMT no idea what that kinda time is for you matey :)


if this is the case im on every sunday really miss playing this be good to get some other action other than team battle or dog fights.

properly enjoyed my games last night and reeeeeeeaaaaaallllllly want to get back into it.