With the completely ridiculous lock-on mode in Realistic you might as well be playing Arcade as far as I'm concerned.

And 'Dogfight' mode in Sim is garbage. People have to crawl on the deck because they have no teammates defending their six. It's a shame that mode is all people want to play when they come from Arcade/Realistic.

edit: In before "Well, I just perform rolling scissors' and split-S manoeuvres and kill all 5 enemies so I don't need teammates protecting my six."

yes i totally agree with everything you said and i also wish that the regular sim players would bea bit more adventurous and play all of the game modes available

Team battle and CTA on sim FTW

Having got used to sim, I find realistic both hard and annoying to play. I can push the plane harder in sim because I have flap control, which gets me into spins all the time in realistic. And that stall warning is very annoying.

But I agree - the constant tree top hovering does get tedious in sim. Kudos to whoever suggested setting the weather to counter it. Although that brings it's own irritation at constantly shifting through the cloud layer, and never knowing where your opponent is, even if he was just in front of you. Playing at sea helps as there's no point hugging the ground then.

The ground hugging is mainly a tactic born of the invisibility of planes in sim, but the patch has fixed that. If someone can use altitude to their advantage, that tactic could now become more prevalent.

That's nice of you Dr. Laplace Are you on XBL or PSN?

PSN: f1rebrand

As of "hugging the ground", check out this FW 190 flying at point zero :o:o:o:o

http://nuav.rforum.biz/discuss-all-a...w-190-t194.htm

Awesome stuff. There's a part in this Dogfight tv show that recalls a chase feet off the ground with a FW-190. It's one of the things that BoP lacks, just like the Gran Turismo series, a decent sense of speed.

I hope they can improve that aspect of the engine in the sequel.

Cool, good thread with lots of good points.

I'm not Migervin or Tagem, sadly. And I guess that if I was I wouldn't need Realistic mode. As a very average simulator pilot realstic's the closest I can get to 'real' WWII air combat. I'm handicapping myself by not using a control pad (can't check six properly in sim with my stick) but to me playing with a gamepad is even more intrusive than the BIG RED STALL

All this only applies to online btw, I really like playing sim offline.

I'd love to learn some proper techniques and tactics but I don't really get time to learn from my mistakes as they usually happen at about 50ft and by the time I've thought 'fucked up there' I'm already a very compact burning heap of scrap metal (or wood for you hurri fans)

Thanks, my friend... I am on XBL: Dr Laplace.

absolutly 100% bo'selecta post. you have got to love that P47, after the spit that is my favourite fighter plane of ww2