Arcade, Realistic, Sim

[HauptmannMolders]

Realistic for me at least so far. Sim would really be perfect if you could use the target camera or if the "next target" feature could be turned off in Realistic because it is fun to try to find your enemy and even more fun to lose one in the clouds!

[Soviet Ace]

What's with all the people in Sim, suddenly having dogfights in the clouds. Seriously, I go flying through, and even though I'm blinded by the clouds, I at times see planes chasing one another inside the clouds, not just zipping in and out, but actually staying inside the clouds? Has anyone else gone up against this? Because it's kinda pissing me off.

[Draakje]

I play arcade since i want to have fun, realistic and sim are nice but not with a 360 controller.
On pc i would play sim yes but not on 360.
And it seems my 40inch tv would be to small to spot enemies anyway....

[VolksJager13]

I am loving sim mode as well. Finished the campaign in sim and really enjoyed the challenge of picking out targets and just having to be looking all the time, not just targeting. Doing most of the single missions in sim as well. I agree with sim mode online as well as you can hide and strategize, much more enjoyable, but I wont complain about flying a realistic game

[loopdreams]

Whenever I play sim mode I find that the only way to find targets is to keep looking at the map where they are represented by little dots that helpfully move around. Whilst this is more difficult than in realistic where you have the padlock view it actually feels far less realistic and ruins the sense of immersion far more effectively.

[Flywest]

Yeah to really enjoy sim mode I had to buy the Aviator flightstick. I reckon it's near to impossible looking around and dogfighting with the 360 controller pad.

[kod30]

Sim for me.

with the av8r stick it makes flying around on Sim a joy. Finding targets however, not so much joy.

*cough* lets just say it's very dangerous to be my AI wingman in single player *cough*

[steellwaters]

lol..my method of identifying targets in sim mode is to fire a short burst and watch the radio traffic :-p....but I would not recommend attempting sim mode without a flightstick...and forget landing until they map the brakes to it...unless you like trees

[Ancient Seraph]

I think I might've taken down as many allied planes as axis' . Especially the Sicily part was hard for me for some reason.. kept confusing friends and foes.

[Axe99]

Originally Posted by steellwaters

lol..my method of identifying targets in sim mode is to fire a short burst and watch the radio traffic :-p....but I would not recommend attempting sim mode without a flightstick...and forget landing until they map the brakes to it...unless you like trees

lol - aye, you really learn to pick out the differences between the planes (Spit/Hurri wingtips are round, BF-109 square, for instance), and I've downed a few friendlies - stories from the real thing suggested this happened a fair bit (although maybe not as much as in your war Ancient Seraphim ).

And landing is possible, but make sure you're plenty slow when you hit the deck (sub 200), hit right at the near end of the runway, cut the throttle immediately, and pull back on the stick once you're below 'take off' speed, and you'll generally stop in time, although there's a couple of very short strips where you've got no chance unless you can do a 180 using your rudder!