I think this thread is about the cloddy 109 gunsight? I dislike it a lot, but will
try to be constructive since the only way I’ll ever fly CLoD again is if it gets
better than UP3. And the 109 gunsight is on the list of things that need
fixing imho.
Anyway, in old IL-2 109 “gunsight view” you have a nice round crosshairs in a
round circle. When you find yourself in a flat or rolling scissors, you can line
up your deflection distance for a snap shot very nicely. One radius, two
radius, whatever the case may be. We all learned deflection shooting in
IL-2 original? But in CLoD, try doing that in "straps off" view. It is an
exercise in frustration because you lose your peripheral vision on the bandit
and without lead time, you can’t pull lead distance for the snap shot! Also
it does this anthropromorphic time delay thing to simulate your head bending
down to look into the sight. It feels a bit like entering a tunnel (Luthier’s
favorite movie Vertigo comes to mind
). So the question I have is, “why is
there a "straps off" view in the game if is so dysfunctional?” The answer I
suppose is to simulate real life tracking shots. But let's face the gaming
reality here. Everyone is using headtracking and most don’t want to be at a
disadvantage when they play online. So they blow off the "straps off" view
altogther because they don’t want to risk losing the SA in online gameplay.
Perfectly rational gaming behavior. So, as has been documented thouroughly
on this board, they either set up a custom profile/custom center in their
head tracking software to beat this “realism” piece of the game and center
up the recticle with the cockpit asymetric and unbalanced looking (my
personal solution) or they just try to get a feel for shooting in the default
view by relying on tracers, lots of practice moving their head in the right
spot and/or guesstimation. The evidence of this is in the 109 videos that
are posted on this board. I was lmao watching a Freycinet video of the
struggle he was going through for a very simple tracking shot on a bomber
six o clock. Laughing because I understand his frustration and noticed he
did not use “straps off” view. This is understandable to me though. Watch
his video “109 against the Wellingtons” on YouTube as he struggles zooming
in and out a bunch of times trying to get the recticle squared up in the
window at the expense of SA (@ 4:20 he says “come on smooth
movements!”) and then along comes a 109 friendly head-on and takes out
his right aileron! Anyway, that’s my take. This is a major bug in the 109.
The “straps off” doesn’t work for gameplay. It is being ignored for good
reason and I hope they get rid of it. We already know the old way works
fine and have years of proof and millions and millions of red Enemy Aircraft
Destroyed. Let's use that old way.
Freycinet’s video (“come on smooth movements”)
Edit: please don't take bogus cheapshot at old IL-2 and bring up the ki-43 because it is actually perfectly functional. At wide/default view, the gunsight tube is round and stationary with the crosshairs visible inside when the gunsight cap is off. So, you can still do snapshot and judge distance with the crosshairs. so now you learned something today.