rhah: was going to join your game but joined the wrong one, then I had to go to work.
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Originally Posted by fangface666
Thanks for the (brief) game tonight, but all it has done is re afirm the fact that I am totally shite!!!!
after your game I joined 2 hosted by stinger and 2 by Varcus, and landed a final tally of 36 deaths without a single Kill, or shot on target 
So thats it, I'm out.
Its no fun not being able to see your enemy, or not being able to turn on a sixpence, like all my enemys can, or respawning with someone immediatly on your six, or not being able to see because you black out at the slightest elevator input... blah blah blah, moan moan moan.
Sorry guys but its just not fun anymore!
The worst part about it is I understand the principles and physics of flight, but cannot workout how everyone else has a HUGE advantage over me in exactly the same aircraft.
I will still play offline but the online experience is akin to being beaten up in the school yard.
It was fun but finishing game after game without a single shot on target gets demoralising, and after all gaming is supposed to be for enjoyment!
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Dogfight and TB modes have almost nothing to do with how real air combat works.
It's not just that enemies respawn ready to rejoin the fray; it's the way the scoring system works. You get points 5 only for a full-credited Hollywood kill, not for intelligently disabling an opponent's plane then switching to attack the ones that aren't damaged yet. And you only lose 1 point for dying. So there is no incentive for using real-world air combat tactics; the winning formula is to concentrate in the middle in a slow, low-energy snail fight. Since everyone is after the big points, they all join the slow centipede of death, and they all stay low to avoid being targeted, and slow to keep a low turn radius.
The tournament is not in these modes. A death is the same as a kill. So if you see 4 enemies crawling around on the ground, you don't have to go down and crawl with them. Especially if they're using spitfires. There are better ways, as long as the whole team uses them.
That's why I think it's vitally important that all our team goes over the material on our site, one thing in particular, I will rewrite the post to emphasize its importance
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Originally Posted by stlngerslx
thats why i like to play strike.
there are much more ways to win a round, its never end in the furball of death.
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right, the combat modes are kind of patronizing, like the designers figured we were all just a bunch of run and gun first-person-shooter fanatics. furballs are rare in real life, especially on the ground. If you lost 5 points for every death, everyone would scatter quick.