Hurricane reigns supreme online (why??)

[FOZ_1983]

Originally Posted by kozzm0

I play the ps3 but I've faced a bunch of Hurricanes online and I have a hunch the matches you're talking about were unlimited ammo.

If so, that's the reason they do so good... what I've seen so far is the online is dominated by decent turners with machine guns. With unlimited ammo, using machine guns gives you a much greater number of chances to hit and do a bit of damage from far away. The Hurricane especially covers a huge amount of target profile with its guns. You can fire from much farther away than normal, before you're close enough for the target to effectively break out of plane, and if you can nick the target a couple times, it's easy to close in for the kill.

It does seem like the Hurricane overperforms in level turns, but it is a slow plane... a lot of people fly their planes too fast and expect to turn the corner on a much slower plane, when they should go 3-D first to slow down. Not implying that you all do, but it's pretty common.

Too bad limited ammo never works... there's no penalty for just crashing and respawning.

the majority of us all play together online, now and again picking up a few new players. We play sim mode and limited fuel/ammo, we go full real.

[FOZ_1983]

Originally Posted by cyclone70

mmm overperforming in turns... huge spray target profile.... you dirty underhand dawgs in yer reetin' cheatin' machines. I'm sticking to the honest straight up Spit, safe in the knowledge when you smoke my arse it's cos you got the Hurri!!!

Bloody shitfire fanboy hahaha.

Though when flying the hurricane....strangely.... i get more satisfaction from shooting down a shitfire than anything else haha. See you in the skies.

[Benrizz]

Originally Posted by FOZ_1983

Bloody shitfire fanboy hahaha.

Though when flying the hurricane....strangely.... i get more satisfaction from shooting down a shitfire than anything else haha. See you in the skies.

I'll give a try to hurricane. what's your sensitivity setting for that plane ??

But I must say. That I fell in love with my MKXVI. He is a chainsaw. You cut everything in half with that plane.

Since you did the hard lobbying for that plane on this forum, I see more hurrican now online. I guess the time has come for the british fashion week...

[FOZ_1983]

i have my sensitivity turned down 6 or 7 notches. Though i will only fly the hurricane if -

a) i see someone else using it
b) that someone else communicates

A pair of hurricanes helping each other can do quite well, but on its own... its a massacre

I usually stick the the Spit XVI online if im up against 109's but if i see IX's online then i'll switch that that as the IX can out turn the XVI.

So.....

you will see me in either a hurricane a IX or XVI. Most of the time its the XVI

[Panzergranate]

Foz.....

You may recall a question, a few day ago, from you along the lines of, "Panzer.... you're not seriously thinking of using a Hurricane in a Simulator Team Battle, are you??"

So I was persuaded to fly the Spitfire XVI and was shot down a lot by, er..... you, as a matter of fact.

Next time I'll stick to the Bf-110 C4 in simulator games, as I've scored more kills with that than I've managed with any of the single engined fighters.

[FOZ_1983]

Originally Posted by Panzergranate

Foz.....

You may recall a question, a few day ago, from you along the lines of, "Panzer.... you're not seriously thinking of using a Hurricane in a Simulator Team Battle, are you??"

So I was persuaded to fly the Spitfire XVI and was shot down a lot by, er..... you, as a matter of fact.

Next time I'll stick to the Bf-110 C4 in simulator games, as I've scored more kills with that than I've managed with any of the single engined fighters.

You were the only guy flying the hurricane so it woldnt of really worked the spit on the other hand would of fitted in well with me and the other guy on our team who was also flying the spit. We did ok. Wasn't me who shot you down lol, i was on your team.

I've seen you in the 110 a few times, i must admit i do single you out if i see you in it. Nothing personnal but the 110 is big, easy to hit and slow enough and on sim mode with limited ammo you need all the hits you can get lol.

[FOZ_1983]

though on the strike game where i was in the B17 and you took the 110..... you got me plenty of time with it, caused me alot of stress lol

[dazz1971]

Originally Posted by Panzergranate

Foz.....

You may recall a question, a few day ago, from you along the lines of, "Panzer.... you're not seriously thinking of using a Hurricane in a Simulator Team Battle, are you??"

So I was persuaded to fly the Spitfire XVI and was shot down a lot by, er..... you, as a matter of fact.

Next time I'll stick to the Bf-110 C4 in simulator games, as I've scored more kills with that than I've managed with any of the single engined fighters.

i think you will find that it was me that was shooting you down mate i just couldnt figure out why you kept flying away from the fight???

and yeah foz was right in that game a single hurri would of been next to useless

[Robotic Pope]

Originally Posted by Panzergranate

Foz.....

You may recall a question, a few day ago, from you along the lines of, "Panzer.... you're not seriously thinking of using a Hurricane in a Simulator Team Battle, are you??"

So I was persuaded to fly the Spitfire XVI and was shot down a lot by, er..... you, as a matter of fact.

Next time I'll stick to the Bf-110 C4 in simulator games, as I've scored more kills with that than I've managed with any of the single engined fighters.

I remember Foz saying the exact opposite to me in our first ever Hurri team up. I picked the Hurri and he complemented me on it and picked a hurri too.

That 110 on the other hand is only any good in matches with loads of people so you can catch someone unawares. Its climbs slow,dives slow, turns slow, rolls slow, doesn't take much to take down (although you CAN still fly it with blacked out wings) ,and the rear machine gun seams to have less than half the power than the one in the IL2M. You fly it in our games and you die many, many times. I tend to fly the planes you don't see often in multiplayer, so I still use the 110 now and then. Ive never got more than 4 kills in a game with it, and my usuall count is 0 or 1. It sucks.

[MorgothNL]

FOZ, I've got to give it to you, you do make the hurri's guns look great . I still think it is easy to dogfight against the hurri, but tonight you showed me it is a bitch to have one on your tail .