Dogfight

[IceFire]

Originally Posted by jayrc

what do you mean?

"it is a law of online gaming. The other people ALWAYS do much more damage much more quickly than you do"

they have to play by the same rules

It's a murphy's law kind of thing. It always seems like the other guy is doing way more damage and flying way more effectively than you are. In some cases that is legitimately the case (by skill) but more often then not it's just a human perception thing.

1) I set my convergence at 275 meters and I'm happy with it there. I've tried other settings but this is where I'm most effective.

It's coincidentally roughly the same distance as used by US Navy fighter pilots.... but I arrived at this distance on my own. I went into the QMB, shot up a bunch of aircraft using my preferred types, recorded a track of the sessions, estimated the ranges that I opened fire with reasonable chance of scoring a kill and then set my convergence at that distance.

Obviously you're already seeing that this is a huge personal preference thing. The key is finding out what your preference is as a fighter pilot.

2) I use the game defaults for wide, normal and narrow. Forget the percentages but the defaults work perfectly. For gunnery I go narrow, for dogfighting I go normal/wide and just flying about I use normal.

3) Don't use it so I can't comment.

4) These are my settings for my X-52:

[rts_joystick]
X=0 1 4 9 16 25 36 49 64 81 100 0
Y=0 1 4 9 16 25 36 49 64 81 100 0
Z=0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 0
RZ=0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 0
FF=0
U=0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 0
V=0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 0
1X=1 6 15 24 29 33 42 53 61 86 100 0 0
1Y=0 11 14 23 30 39 40 56 62 71 100 0 0
1Z=0 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 0 0
1RX=0 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 0 0
1RY=0 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 0 0
1RZ=0 7 12 19 26 31 36 44 54 67 92 0 0
1U=0 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 0 0
1V=0 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 0 0

I've bolded the important ones. As you can see...I prefer to have the sensitivity set WAAAY down. I find it makes life a lot easier on me and apparently it's more like the real thing anyways.