Goodbye! a game? a sport? a competition? None of these

[trk29]

Originally Posted by zenmusic

I've been playing about a month, a couple hours a day...

this is the end of my online play.. tonight .. tough to find a game .. then when I do... this is the scenario..



okay.. i'm gone

Sorry to hear your not happy. The best thing to do is add some friends here from the forum to your friends list, we would be happy to be on your team to help you get kills. It is a team effort and anyone on here would be happy to be on your team to help you win.

[STINGERSIX78]

ad the sim players. there is no ranking or spawnkilling. no one on sim is haunting a highscore. a lot of people on arcade try to catch unlocks (me too), so they play the game, hmmm, efficient...

[KAV]

Greetings

Sorry to hear this Zenmusic but I feel just the same

I am a newbie at this, just had the game for some 5-6 weeks and are basicaly a flying duck for more experienced gamers.

To further gain experience and develop my skills I try not to end up with 3 or more sharks on my 6. Last night I felt the teambuilding became a bit to heavy in advance of Aces VS Newbies so I, for the first time ever, dropped the game.
This was not a good feeling cuz I love the game and the flying but just to respawn to get some few seconds flying with several more experienced pilots competing to kill me doesnt give me anything.

[Shrike_UK]

I havent played BoP but i have played IL2 for like 12 years or so. I can relate to these posts because, on IL2 you can also play on more arcade settings. And when you do this, the same thing happens. Vulching etc, its not fun when you just die all the time without getting a chance to play. I then looked to the way some others were playing the game, as a sim rather than a game, a more mature crowd who played the game in a way where it was more rewarding in terms of learning about history, and actually having a fair flight every time. Nobody vulches in this type of game, as you dont have unlimited ammo, your planes would normally be doing a 10 minute flight minimum before you even got near an enemy base. Much more realistic, and funny enough realism works, games do not.

If thee are options to do coop missions with a squadron or something where people play as a team then i would thoroughly recommend that. Nobody cheats in Coops. And one of the things i used to say to my squadron is, 'if one of us dies, then we are all responsible'. this i think gave us the goal of not getting kills, but making sure that what kills we did get came with no losses. Which made us very good pilots and team players

[winny]

Originally Posted by KAV

Greetings

Sorry to hear this Zenmusic but I feel just the same

I am a newbie at this, just had the game for some 5-6 weeks and are basicaly a flying duck for more experienced gamers.

To further gain experience and develop my skills I try not to end up with 3 or more sharks on my 6. Last night I felt the teambuilding became a bit to heavy in advance of Aces VS Newbies so I, for the first time ever, dropped the game.
This was not a good feeling cuz I love the game and the flying but just to respawn to get some few seconds flying with several more experienced pilots competing to kill me doesnt give me anything.

Are you Kavorland?

[KAV]

Hey Winny.

My online ID is kavorland, yes.

[winny]

Originally Posted by KAV

Hey Winny.

My online ID is kavorland, yes.

Add me, winny1973. I'll fly with you.

Not everyone's unfair, out of the 4 TB's I played last night I ended up flying off on my own in 2 of them, because of them being complete mismatches (my team being the better one). I get no satisfaction from repeatedly killing someone who is obviously new.. I usually try and go for the top scorer on the opposing team, but if you fixate on one player for too long you're not gonna last long, especially if the other team know what they are doing.

This happens in all modes of the game (despite what others have said)

I was playing a TB, Realistic, 4v4 and my wingman quit about 4 mins into a 20 min match. I stayed and ended up getting killed 25 times and not managing a single kill (was against oceanx and drkdeath tho). I used it to try and work out what works and what doesn't.

I've also had my ass handed to me on lots of occasions in sim..

There are players like Edal on sim who'll at least let you have a go without constantly shooting you down, I had a good game against him a few days ago I was in a spit and he was in a mustang. It finished 2 each but I could see that at times he was struggling to keep the P-51 from spining and I appreciated that it would have been very easy for him to pick a better plane and rack up some leaderboard points.

[KAV]

Greetings winny1973 and thanks, I´ll add you.

I mostly fly in arcade mode, but will join Realistic on occasion.
Just trying not to make my learning curve to steep.
I also concider buying a headset to better be able to communicate and have better trainingsessions online.

Dkwookie:
One night I´ll be Aston Villa ref 12.12.2009