How do u find enemies online..?
 

I've recently been enjoying some online action..

But I go for hours without enemy contact.. Where's most of the action take place..?

Dover?
Calais..?

Thx

Mike

in il2 1946 XD

well, before takeoff picture a straight line between the enemy base and yours, comabt will be somewhere in the middle of that line.

Personally I have big problems spotting enemy aircraft, there can be flak so I know that they're there, but it's not very often I can spot an enemy.
Usually I fly around alone for an hour, get fed up and quit... :(

Have to admit it's very hard spotting EA in this game below you..

Probably the hardest out of all the sims I've played tbh. I know alot of people are lowering there screen res down to make everything bigger but losing visual quality which I'm not prepared to do.

My res is 1920x1200

Yep, I use the same res. Sometimes I think I see a bandit in the distance but after a while I realize that I've been watching a speck of dust on my screen :lol:

I think my problem is spotting the aircraft... I am 1900 x 1200... 24" screen..

I thought it was my eyes, so I've been flying in my cheaters... Lol

Online, specially in Syndicate, I find action every sortie. There are certain areas where you are very likely to find a fight. There are also a bunch of bombers coming and going from time to time, that can keep you bussy.
In Syndicate server, if there are enough people online, you can patrol around friendly ships and look for flak bursts tracking enemy planes. If that doesn't work, and you are really itchy for a fight, you can go fly around the enemy ships, at low or medium altitude and the players in the other team will find you soon enough.:lol:

I like to grab a 110 with bombs and go visit the enemy bases. The bomber base first. You can get really lucky there when the Wellingtons are landing.:mrgreen:
If I can't find bombers I visit the fighter bases and soon enough I find some Hurricane chewing on my rudders. :lol:

I find the problem is that the Spitfire fliers tend to hang out over Dover at very low level. This makes them hard to spot if you are in a 109. They don't venture over the water as they'll get seen pretty quickly.

When you finally spot one and dive down you'll discover they are all down at that altitude, it gets a little dangerous as you can get too involved with one and easily get another on your tail. Now you can limit it to B&Z slashing attacks but you'll often lose them in the ground clutter so you do have to T&B slightly and that's when the other Spits get involved with you.

On the other hand if you are a Spit it's easier, you just take off and look for the flak puffs in the sky, there's your enemy. Give him a little squiz of 303's and he's got a small chance at getting home, on the other hand if he hits you, just do an emergency landing and don't worry about finding a place to do this as trees don't exist.....:rolleyes:

I guess you never flew a Spitfire and those "things" that looked like Spits I'm fighting every day over our bases and ships are just the product of my imagination.:rolleyes:

Trust me. Is the same on both sides.

I usually can't even get 500m off the ground before I see flak going off, especially on Blue. It took me 8 sorties the other day just to finally get across the channel without getting into an engagement within a few minutes of taking off. My 110 loves me some low down spits and hurris though :D

Of course, they also love to kill me as well ;-)