Heys its me again
 

Hey ive no online internet anymore. do any of u know if the game has been updated with the German and heavy bombers cock pits????? o yea thanks ya russian guys Still the best game out for PS3!!!!!!

Your missing out.

The PS3 version DID get all the cockpit for the German planes, fighters and bombers :) they look great to. Also their was some free downloads for it, mostly co op missions and a few new planes, including a new spitfire, hurricane a mosquito and a lancaster bomber (all with cockpits). The germans got a few to, the dornier and a JU88 amongst them.

You should try and get back online asap :D

Don't forget the pacific theatre DLC and Appolo missions they added ;)

Very true ;) was just taking baby steps, wetting his appetite :D

why does everyone foeget about the Off line guys

I can make a disc with the updates and send it to you ;)

They were talking about making the DLC on a disk so you could buy it in shops etc, but it would of cost more than they would of maked so cancelled that idea. So it just went to the PSN and 360 marketplace for free.

The FW190 cockpit looks great ;)

The scariest is the HE111 though.... its horrible having that glass cockpit and then seeing an enemy fighter come screaming at you from dead ahead all guns blazing....

You'll have to get yourself online soon mate to enjoy these great things :P

And dont worry about the pacific theatre ops.... they are good, but only come with 6 planes so gets a bit boring (zero, kate, betty, corsair, hellcat, lightning), though "free flying" online and taking off and landing on the carriers is good fun ;)

But ok it may cost abit extra but isnit it worth it???

anyway i cant get back online for money reasons.. just remeber If they bring out new cd's for the offline guys, they could take back the older one's sell them cheap for the one's who do have online., this is a good game and i would pay that little bit extra. But overall it is up the the russians. cold war does not exist in video games lol

It's so worth it. I'd have paid anything anyway for to have the joy of dropping a Grandslam from my Lancaster B1 special so was such a bonus when they published it online. Worth taking kav up on his disc offer though as he's unlocked the dambuster co-op mission which is awesome if you play the whole thing through from take off, run over Norfolk, holland and into Germany at minimum height. Its a good couple of hours work mind and i still cant hit the eider dam!

Yeah your right, that particular mission is great on co op if you have the time to play it!!

Was annoying the first time i played i though, my "wave" were second to take off, i was assigned a a wingman to the lead plane.. who clealry had only just got BoP!!!

"How do i raise my landing gear" he would say, or "how do i fire my guns"

Eventually taking off, the idiot manages to drop his bouncing bomb within 2 mins, idiot!!! so he's flying to the target with no bomb, leaving it to the 2 of us that are left. He soon gets bored and quits out.

The other guy i had with me who was the other wingman... decided to WEP all the way after take off. Eventually he pulled away because he had extra speed. I hear he didnt make it far before blowing his engines and also quitting out haha.

Left me on my own anyway... i got to the target and dropped my bomb... only to miss time it :( gutted.

Great mission though.


Played it many times since, with good pilots to fly with its great.


He does need the disk of KAV, since he's missing out on some great co op missions.


How did you get on with the "tirpitz" mission? Did you manage to find it on your first pass, or did you accidentally bomb the wrong ship? Thats a good one to :P

Yeah, too bad they made the Apollo Command module handle like shit on re-entry while the Soyuz reentry module is faster and more stable and your pilot doesn't have to get wet when he lands.

I can't wait for the next DLC which will let us dogfight the USSR's Buran space shuttle against the USA's Columbia space shuttle.


;)

Here a pic from the HE-111 Front gunner view in the "Attack the convy" mission from the DLC.

Added som blur and put in B&W to add some realism ;)

I can tell you with the 3D patch it looks even better in full colour and motion. It's like being there

great shot kav,heres one from last night,just before a laser hit took me out,i hate having to re spawn all the way back to earth

Yea, I am getting the 3D patch AND the "Body Damage Units" this weekend.
Am so looking forward to hook up the BDU and really feel the bullet impact on fuselage and body whilst getting shot at.

Heres another from that convoy strike yesterday, just awsome details:

Hey do the delelpores still check the fourms?? whats the chances they could comment on this? maybe doo a order thing and send a cd out by post??

Unfortunately not, they were silenced by 505 Games (publishers) and thus not allowed to post here anymore. :(

It is a shame really that your missing out on all these great add ons etc.

Are you being for real??? why would they do that??? They could make alot of money, not everyone has the internet

why did 505 make them be quiet for???

This is quickly turning into a classic thread.

Hey lets face it 505 games arnt that great, why is the russians being told what to do by 505 this sucks russians have never been conquerd why let 505 shut ya up

evidently the almighty dollar has done what Napoleon and Hitler couldnt.
i just unlocked the Hegoland APHRODITE MISSION. trying to fly a radio controlled b 17 from the nose of another is a B!T<# ( kinda funny a game with in a game) let alone try to guide it into the sub pens. i am going to be on this one for awhile!

Just tried this over the weekend and yep hit the hospital ship in the fjord to the south! Oops! I got mixed up at low level and went hammering down the wrong valley, saw what I thought was a battleship in the distance, pulled the nose up, dropped my bomb only to realise as I did there was a bloody great red cross on the hull! Cue me back to scampton to start again. Quick question on this, is it better to enagae the FW190's that attack as you cross into Sweden or try and run and let your escorts attack them?

a guy i was playing online last night was talking about that same mission. he said he dove for the deck and ordered his escorts to cover him. he made it through BUT got butchered by the AA at the mouth of the fjord...its like the rear gunner on a 17...very accurate! so keep that in mind.

Ah the hospital ship!! Yeah its an easy mistake to make. I think had i not gone for the smaller ship then i would of probably done the same and gone for the hospital ship to.

I found that being vulnerable underneath, i hit the deck so that i couldnt be hit from below, then headed for sweden while letting my gunners do what they could, and also having the escorts help out.

Its good to see the increase in speed once you release that bad boy of a bomb though. Crawling back across the north sea with 3 engines is also a bit nerve wracking.

A good mission.

If i can get a good 360 player to use the fighter with drop tanks, then they will help get the lancs all the way to the target and back. The AI can be a bit poor sometimes. ;)

did you guys unlock the corsair for that mission or does that mission unlock the corsair? what plane did you use?

I flew top cover in the P51 with fuel tanks, thy unlocked the corsair. If you do it in the Blenheim you unlock the Catalina and "Bismark Search" mission. It takes a ton of runs to down Tirpitz with the Blenheim. Rock hard stuff but worth it

Ah so thats how the corsair is unlocked!! I didnt know this, simply because i've not flown escort yet. I enjoy flying the Lanc that much that i've not even bothered with the P51.

Tried it in the Blenhiem though.... The amount of AAA that ship throws up at you is ridiculous. The Blenheim just gets chewed up. Completed it though.

The Bismark search mission i was a little let down with to be honest. I would of preffered attacking with swordfish. Just scouting around with a catalina for an hour or so got a bit boring eventually. Though it was good to finally spot her!! After accidentally locating royal navy ships a few times :(

One mission that is hard and also quite emotional is "limping home"

For those that haven't unlocked it yet, its the next one after "search for the Bismark", it puts you in control of a heavily damaged B17 with only 3 engines running (one of them smoking) and a couple of your gunners are dead so their guns are inoperable.

You have to fly this damaged bird home from somewhere over france and land it back in the UK, manston. (yes not an 8TH air force base but its what the game came with so its ok). Its hard.....

Those 2 FW190's really freak me out... they dont attack for a good 5 minutes, they just constantly stay out of the range of your guns and stalk you, its horrible. And constantly having to check your map for direction is nervy.

When those FW190's decide to attack though..... makes you panic haha. Its best to get the destroyed ASAP, because as you get to the channel 3 more appear.

I must admit though... the biggest grin ever came over me when i was halfway across the channel being attacked by 3 FW190's, thn in the distance i saw 2 more shadows... as they got closer comnig from 12 high....

THEY WERE P51's!!!!

2 of them...

The greatest sight i ever saw on this game. Seeing them come screaming past me and engaging the FW190's until they retreated or were destroyed. It was amazing. Once the FW's wer dealt with the P51's fly on your wing all the way back to Manston, before breaking off.

Then the landing....

A really good mission, i enjoyed this one. :D

Glad I found this site!! Wuz looking all over the net for a walkthru or advice about Birds of Prey. So, hoping someone here can tell me WTF is going on. I'm bout ready 2 drop kick my PS3 out the door over the "Wolf Pack" mission. If you aint done it yet, you have to keep 4 Liberty ships in your convoy from being sunk by German U-boats. So anyway I take off of the battle ship in the Kingfisher (which is a real gas!!) and get the call over the radio that enemy U-boats have bin spotted in the area & 2 search for them. This might sound stupid but I am guessing theres only 3 coz I see 3 sub icons at the bottom left of my screen. DUH! So anyways I find'em and take'em out with the depth charges. As I do the counter drops down to 0. But insted of "MISSION COMPLETE" nothin happens! I fly around over the convoy for 10 minutes and get "MISSION FAILED"! WTF??!! I tried landing in the water near the battleship, Yeah right good luck with that! Aint happening. Is there another objective I have to get? I didn't lose 4 ships and nuthing else comes over the radio. PLEASE tell me what I am doing wrong or not doing. OR is this mission bugged? Another 505 we should patch it but we got your money so 2 bad so sad? Do I need to do this in real or sim insted? Man, help a brother flier out!

4th sub is not attacking the convoy,look further south west a good 30 min flight time,i belive its a supply boat think they're called milch cows(kav'll put me right he's the u boat expert)watch it though its got 2x quad 20 mills on conning tower , it only takes 2 depth charges tho. Then comes the hard part! get home to the cruiser,you are low on fuel and bashed up.to land do a low circuit round ship it will turn across the wind and you can land in the smoother water in the ships wake go to the leeward side starboard in this case to the crane where the mission ends.

this should get you the arctic convoy mission, hurricane off a merchant ship against ju88's and torpedo bomber 111s at least you dont have to fly to arcangel but you do get to play both sides.

Haha, yes the Milch cow is a cunning one.
All good descreption on that mission Jack. Had a hell of time getting it down there at the end with the wind and the waves. It all knocked me over a number of times.

Have any of you done the "Bomb Dresden" Mission ?
Just want to give you a tip.
If you successfully get through the AA fire and the attacking FW 190, drop your load and return home with your P-51 cover still flying. Dont think your safe.

As on approaching the channel there will be an B-17 kinda sneakink upon you, calling for cover. If you slow down and get out of formation to help it, it will open fire.
This is a captured B-17, a really sneaky, but historic correct, tactic.
You need to stay in formation and make the P-51 take it out.
Preferably with rockets.........

kav you are obviously way ahead of me in the unlocks. what unlocks the dresden mission? i went back to the d-day campaign because i wasnt happy with "search and destroy". i actually think that is a pretty good mission and recommend it anyone who wants to practice gunnery. you get to fly all over northern france and shoot up anything that moves. and i am glad they didnt put bombs on the ac for this. but straffing things gives you an eye for shooting and well, i need all the help i can get. the way the boilers blow on the locomotives is dead on from gun camera footage i have seen. but a couple trains have flak wagons on them and those can get you if you arent careful. the barges are kinda fun to shoot up. the trucks more of a challenge...but the guy on the motorcycle is tough and getting him unlocks your 51-H! my only gripe with is the same old one...that the 51 flies like a pig and you end up continually augering in or spinning at low altitude and crashing. i did find out through trial and error that it doesnt seem to stall and spin as easily if you use cockpit view only. maybe its me but it really doesnt. so i wanted to retry in that mode and it was way much better by far. so if any of you had troubles with that mission or didnt like how you played it the first time, or like i said just want to sharpen your gunnery skills try flying it like that. now i am going to go back to "operation jubliee" about the dieppe raid and do the same thing.

Hahaha, yeah i saw it to!!

The B-17, or as the Luftwaffe call it in that particular mission, the. Well the description you give sounds very familiar.....

A good mission though rather annoying. You get ordered to go, bobm the target, get through flak and fighters and come home.... only to be called a murderer!! Hmmm

Okey i am so confused... are you guys talking about the console version of BOP or PC. cause i want all these goodies too!!

We are discussing the console versions. These ace levels are only available once you pass 5,000 online kills or log 9000 flight hours

That does halve if you fly under all of the bridges on all the maps. I'd suggest the i153 for Berlin as some in the city are very low and quite tight.

It gets reduced even further if you fly under them all inverted. You will need a steady hand for Berlin :-)

Corsair? Thats not in the game.

Priceless

Can we get this thread stickied? It's a classic

I love it guys! Been sitting on the sideline drying my eyes here...

Guess you've not done that mission either then?

that's only for the PS3... your number of kills or hours was drastically reduced because you were lucky to get the patch! stoned panzer, one of the guys i regularly fly with told us of an easter egg short cut in berlin. there are 3 tiger tanks guarding hitler and the reich chancellery. they wont come up on your hud until you buzz that building then BINGO they are flashing yellow targets. take those out and it will get your to the unlocks a lot faster. to find the chancellery you will have to either spend a lot of time buzzing back and forth over the city...or do what i did and find and old map online and print it off. once you find a few landmarks you recognize from the map... old adolf is right down the road waiting for you. sorry i thought i had shared this before in another thread.

You guys got a little carried away didn't ya.

Sucks for skullblits thinking you were telling the truth.[/locked]

? was supposed to be a .