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Originally Posted by Jumoschwanz
My eyes are not the best anymore either. I don't think there is anything wrong with using icons for flying offline. ten to twenty years ago the best IL2 pilots and best servers were all hard-settings. It was a joy to be able to ID the aircraft at a distance by the silhouette as real pilots did. I do not believe the P40 has any problem in level flight. In the patch when the p40 first appeared, which was probably over 15 years ago, it would break up in a dive at a certain speed, and it was fun to get p40 pilots to follow your bf109 in a dive if they got on your tail and have them explode. No matter what the patch I destroyed a lot of over-eager pilots of Russian aircraft by baiting them into following my fw190 in a dive.
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I think it was more recent than that, I remember the MiG3 mission in the original where your wingman would dive and die before getting down to the level of the 109s, that was long before the issue I was talking about, and since it happened at high speed maybe fair enough. The change happened when the new difficulty panel showed up, maybe in "1946"?, before there were two pages of difficulties that you could turn on or off for each career, the new difficulties have five pages. The particular difficulty switch I'm talking about is labelled "Flutter Effect", with that on, the P40 can get very near to flutter speed in level flight, and you have what seems like less than five seconds from onset to lethal explosion.
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The type of aircraft has no bearing on victory in aerial combat though, as every aircraft does something better than the aircraft it is flown against, and a smart, educated pilot will know these things and be able to use them to an advantage.
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The IAR is AI only, and it seems to me to be both faster and faster turning than the early Yaks, the I16 can outturn it though. If you are looking for a challenge, the IAR against an early Yak might be worth a try.
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The wonderful thing about the hard settings servers back in the day was that you could get the element of surprise, bouncing enemy aircraft from altitude, even if you were in a slow aircraft. I shot down jets with the I-16 this way. Also I used to fix the 20mm cannon in the nose of the He-111 bomber to straight ahead and sit in it's nose and bounce allied fighters with it and shoot them down, it was fun to knock down fighter planes with a bomber. Lots of great memories. You can punch "jumoschwanz" into YouTube and find the channel I set up for old IL2 tracks I saved, some of the tracks are almost 20 years old.
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I never played online, I'm almost addicted to time-slowing in combat, and I don't usually watch Youtube because of the cookies they demand to set.