First multiplayer experience - pretty bad

[ATAG_Colander]

Originally Posted by irR4tiOn4L

I saw lots of messages about "Spit Ia (AI)" crashed/shot down, etc. Heres a screenshot of me crash landing, with a message appearing about a Spit IIa crash (AI following me too closely?). As you can see my view was not good, but the server seemed to have AI fighters. This is why I am rather confused.

irR4tiOn4L,

I understand your confusion....
What you are seeing are the messages of real people fighters (there are AI bombers but not fighters) that bailed out. From that point forward, the game considers the plane an AI as there is no one piloting them.

Colander.

[irR4tiOn4L]

Originally Posted by ATAG_Colander

irR4tiOn4L,

I understand your confusion....
What you are seeing are the messages of real people fighters (there are AI bombers but not fighters) that bailed out. From that point forward, the game considers the plane an AI as there is no one piloting them.

Colander.

Ah! That makes sense!

In that case I have to hand it to my pursuers, they sure were persistent!

[alphasephirot]

Hey Irrational!! i´m the pilot of that poor spit xD

Glad you are having a good time, i´m looking forward for my revenge hehehe.

You did it pretty good i have to say, i usually never stop checking my 6 and everything around me but when i first lost you i though that you disengaged because you were outnumbered and got relaxed. Bad situational awareness by my part; good job by yours.

Sorry about my english! bye!

[irR4tiOn4L]

Originally Posted by alphasephirot

Hey Irrational!! i´m the pilot of that poor spit xD

Glad you are having a good time, i´m looking forward for my revenge hehehe.

You did it pretty good i have to say, i usually never stop checking my 6 and everything around me but when i first lost you i though that you disengaged because you were outnumbered and got relaxed. Bad situational awareness by my part; good job by yours.

Sorry about my english! bye!

Hi sephirot, like all good sportsmen I shall have to give you that opportunity!

I appreciate your feedback and second view, isn't it amazing that we are able to do this while being able to say that we are getting an experience quite close to the real thing?

Considering though that you knew me outnumbered, I am not sure if I can really boast my own situational awareness I knew there were blenheims in the area which is what drew me down before I spotted you and a second spit. Clearly, there's plenty I missed If you look at the screenshot as well (my fire was crossing your plane diagonally from bottom right to top left, across the cockpit), the near dead 6 position, my use of an all machine gun E1 and the lack of catastrophic damage, it should also be said that the kill was due in no small part to lucky hits on your pilot. If your pilot had not died immediately, I suspect you would have been well in the fight.

You may like to know that your friends certainly gave me the what for in response. I was lucky to have crash landed in the end.