Is realistic the new black?

[Zatoichi_Sanjuro]

With the completely ridiculous lock-on mode in Realistic you might as well be playing Arcade as far as I'm concerned.

And 'Dogfight' mode in Sim is garbage. People have to crawl on the deck because they have no teammates defending their six. It's a shame that mode is all people want to play when they come from Arcade/Realistic.

edit: In before "Well, I just perform rolling scissors' and split-S manoeuvres and kill all 5 enemies so I don't need teammates protecting my six."

[BRIGGBOY]

yes i totally agree with everything you said and i also wish that the regular sim players would bea bit more adventurous and play all of the game modes available

[stealth finger]

Team battle and CTA on sim FTW

[InfiniteStates]

Having got used to sim, I find realistic both hard and annoying to play. I can push the plane harder in sim because I have flap control, which gets me into spins all the time in realistic. And that stall warning is very annoying.

But I agree - the constant tree top hovering does get tedious in sim. Kudos to whoever suggested setting the weather to counter it. Although that brings it's own irritation at constantly shifting through the cloud layer, and never knowing where your opponent is, even if he was just in front of you. Playing at sea helps as there's no point hugging the ground then.

The ground hugging is mainly a tactic born of the invisibility of planes in sim, but the patch has fixed that. If someone can use altitude to their advantage, that tactic could now become more prevalent.