Wierd ball of fire over Stalingrad

[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.

[GabeFan]

Originally Posted by manintrees

I was playing the Stalingrad mission last night (3rd mission in campaign?) and there was this flying ball of smoking flame in the sky travelling roughly 250mph at around 6000ft. It wasn't a plane and it wasn't falling towards the earth. Has anyone any clue as to what I saw?

Yeah... I just saw these in Stalingrad too. Flaming balls of smoke just hovering along. Just a little programming glitch I'm assuming...

[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'.

Originally Posted by manintrees

I was playing the Stalingrad mission last night (3rd mission in campaign?) and there was this flying ball of smoking flame in the sky travelling roughly 250mph at around 6000ft. It wasn't a plane and it wasn't falling towards the earth. Has anyone any clue as to what I saw?

Happened to me too. Stalingrad, First mission.

[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)

[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.

[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.