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Old 01-04-2012, 05:05 PM
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Default 3 things that put me off the game

the sun blinds too much

planes are too dificult to see

and above all at the begining of the game both 109 and spit were close turners making true the manual maxima the machines are so close its up to the pilot, after succesive patches it turn a game of caughting by surprise being planes so different

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yesterday i had like a five minute turning duel in rof me in a fokker drI and the other guy in a sopwith camel ended by a salute

i miss that in il2 and clod
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Old 01-04-2012, 06:16 PM
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Well in real life from what I have read the sopwith pilot would have thrown a brick at your head

I certainly have experienced in il2:1946 after a long dogfight in which we both ran out of ammo we flew side by side before heading home.
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Old 01-04-2012, 06:44 PM
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I agree that the sun blinds to much. I kinda wish we could make the pilot squint and partially close his 'eyes' (narrow and darken the screen?) to focus and see better in bright light.
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Old 01-04-2012, 07:03 PM
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I agree that the sun blinds to much. I kinda wish we could make the pilot squint and partially close his 'eyes' (narrow and darken the screen?) to focus and see better in bright light.

Disagree, the suns effects are fine in the game and probably the best in any flight sim imo, you looked into the sun recently, its bloody bright.
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Old 01-04-2012, 07:25 PM
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I agree that the sun effects are great in game, but in real life you can put your hand up and you will be able to see pretty much eveything to the side of it, I've heard of pilots using their thumb to cover the sun and if you were being bounced you would see them outside your thumb, I've put in a request to have pilot goggles on a toggle button so that you could manage the glare a little by darkening the screen like when your pilot gets injured and sees red, but again I think the sun effects are awesome
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Old 01-04-2012, 07:48 PM
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I agree that the sun effects are great in game, but in real life you can put your hand up and you will be able to see pretty much eveything to the side of it, I've heard of pilots using their thumb to cover the sun and if you were being bounced you would see them outside your thumb, I've put in a request to have pilot goggles on a toggle button so that you could manage the glare a little by darkening the screen like when your pilot gets injured and sees red, but again I think the sun effects are awesome
if youre sitting there squinting and holding your thumb up to the sun then you arent paying attention to flying, 'beware the hun in the sun' was a phrase coined for good reason, you can hide in it's glare.
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Old 01-04-2012, 07:55 PM
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Then why do pilots have tinted goggles? And the thumb trick I read somewhere, Gregory Pappy Boyington used this trick more than once and was able to make out japanese fighters in the sun, but then again he did get shot down, I just think something can be done ~S~

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Old 01-04-2012, 08:02 PM
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Then why do pilots have tinted goggles? And the thumb trick I read somewhere, I'll try to find the reference
for the same reason people wear sunglasses, it helps reduce the eye strain from bight ambient light.
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Old 01-05-2012, 12:41 AM
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Disagree, heard a plane fly over today, looked up, sun was too bright to see, put on my glasses, saw it.
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Old 01-05-2012, 11:02 AM
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Then why do pilots have tinted goggles? And the thumb trick I read somewhere, Gregory Pappy Boyington used this trick more than once and was able to make out japanese fighters in the sun, but then again he did get shot down, I just think something can be done ~S~
Well of course something can be done, like assign a key so a virtual thumb appears to blot the sun, just make sure it cannot be assignable to a hotas function or that won't be realistic at all, it seemed quite rare to see RAF goggles with tinted lenses (not sure about the germans)

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Disagree, heard a plane fly over today, looked up, sun was too bright to see, put on my glasses, saw it.
well I am pretty sure sunglasses do not immunise you from the glare of the sun, I should know, you certainly won't be able to keep your eyes on target for long if the sun is directly in view, you might be better off using welding goggles.

Basically I think the sun glare in game is the closest to real life I've seen, but if we end up with the virtual thumb then everybody is happy.
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