Wierd ball of fire over Stalingrad

[Soviet Ace]

Originally Posted by manintrees

I'm on a PS3.

After I saw it my first thought was "What the hell was that?" my second thought was "I hope someone on the boards has also seen it or this will be one weird post". I'm assuming that what I witnessed was just a glitch, buy it was strange as there was no plane; just a smoking ball of flame cruising along.

On the topic of that Stalingrad mission; is the point just to intercept each group of fighters/bombers as they come in? If I stay with one group too long the mission ends saying I took too long. Also, maybe I'm not leading my targets enough but I am having a hell of a time taking out the enemy with the I-16. I play on realistic.

Luckily, you have a Soviet Ace to assist you. First off, the I-16 is touchy on where your leading its guns. You've already experienced this first hand, so I won't go over that. But to get to the meat of the problem, it's probably at the angle your targeting your enemy. If it's a steep climb after them, just fire when the target is just a bit above your nose cowling. This should just poke some cannon rounds into their engine, or the cockpit if your fast enough?

Second, if your turning or diving etc. you want to use the little marks on the optical sight to know when to fire. Just adjust your angle just a bit, not to much or you'll end up over shooting or firing behind them. So using the little markers on the optical sight will help you greatly. It works for me, and every other Soviet plane I fly

[Dubbedinenglish]

Originally Posted by Soviet Ace

Luckily, you have a Soviet Ace to assist you. First off, the I-16 is touchy on where your leading its guns. You've already experienced this first hand, so I won't go over that. But to get to the meat of the problem, it's probably at the angle your targeting your enemy. If it's a steep climb after them, just fire when the target is just a bit above your nose cowling. This should just poke some cannon rounds into their engine, or the cockpit if your fast enough?

Second, if your turning or diving etc. you want to use the little marks on the optical sight to know when to fire. Just adjust your angle just a bit, not to much or you'll end up over shooting or firing behind them. So using the little markers on the optical sight will help you greatly. It works for me, and every other Soviet plane I fly

Actually it is a bit more simple than that. The Germans are using 109's and outrunning the Russian horde of fighters. For that one I make sure my wing-men are all chasing fighter and try to not go full out, but rather watch them and try to intercept the 109s as the turn around.

[Soviet Ace]

Originally Posted by Dubbedinenglish

Actually it is a bit more simple than that. The Germans are using 109's and outrunning the Russian horde of fighters. For that one I make sure my wing-men are all chasing fighter and try to not go full out, but rather watch them and try to intercept the 109s as the turn around.

Well chasing after 109s is sorta pointless in an I-16, but if they bleed of enough speed in a turn or climb, you can surely get a decent kill. Diving after them is also sorta pointless, but since your nose is a flat disk basically, you'll be able to recover from a dive fast seeing how your not going as fast

[Buggins]

Originally Posted by Soviet Ace

Luckily, you have a Soviet Ace to assist you. First off, the I-16 is touchy on where your leading its guns. You've already experienced this first hand, so I won't go over that. But to get to the meat of the problem, it's probably at the angle your targeting your enemy. If it's a steep climb after them, just fire when the target is just a bit above your nose cowling. This should just poke some cannon rounds into their engine, or the cockpit if your fast enough?

Second, if your turning or diving etc. you want to use the little marks on the optical sight to know when to fire. Just adjust your angle just a bit, not to much or you'll end up over shooting or firing behind them. So using the little markers on the optical sight will help you greatly. It works for me, and every other Soviet plane I fly

'Your' is a possessive adjective, while 'you're' is the contraction of the subject 'you' and the verb 'are'.

[Soviet Ace]

Originally Posted by Buggins

'Your' is a possessive adjective, while 'you're' is the contraction of the subject 'you' and the verb 'are'.

Thanks for the grammar lesson "Mrs. Brown"! But determining the time it was posted, and my life of going out and have some cool ones, I think I deserve a break?

[Wissam24]

Aliens for sure. Only explanation.

[Rhah]

Is this the mission where you have to take on a few waves of HE-111's? God, that mission did my head in... must have spent an hour chasing the 109's around the map, waiting for them to turn so I could try and hit them..

Anyway, the fireballs are caused by the Heinkel's randomly exploding.... it seems to happen when the next wave of Heinkel's is about to appear...if any of the previous wave are still in the air, they blow up. Its probably to clear system resources or something.

Or it could be aliens.

[Patchou]

My guess is that you are playing
to much to that game,
and to close to your TV

Sorry mates... you are getting halucinations....

Don't be scared, It happens to me too, sometimes I spot 5 or 6 Bandits at a time, and then they just vanished.

(ok ok that's just the flak)

[manintrees]

Originally Posted by Soviet Ace

Second, if your turning or diving etc. you want to use the little marks on the optical sight to know when to fire. Just adjust your angle just a bit, not to much or you'll end up over shooting or firing behind them. So using the little markers on the optical sight :

Thanks for the info! I assume the optical marks you are refering to are seen only while in cockpit view? I usually play in third person view but I'll switch to cockpit view if targeting is more precise.

[dazz1971]

i just try the second stalingrad campain mission there they were at first just the one but then after a while a few i crashed on porpose and they all were gone but after flying around for a bit they were back

i also noticed that the flak sometimes sits they like a black mass for a second or two then explodes i think maybe the stalingrad campain has a few glitches

oh and im on xbox 360