Amateurs Online

[mavrickandgoose]

if you want to play realistic hook up with me or parallaxvue we would help you with settings and get you up to speed realistic really is better then arcade i have found there is a lot less game quiting and childish name calling in realistic

[bobbysocks]

no they wont flame you continually. what they will do is do "free flights" with you. they will fly around WITH you....maybe play follow the leader to let you get comfortable learning the controls. someone may take you under their wing and mentor you....if you want to learn what they know...ask. they may let you take pot shots at THEM to give you a feel for deflection shooting....may let you try out the different ac to see what you are most comfortable in. then they may dogfight you and go easy not going for the throat. the simple fact of the matter is...we were all there. you are going to get eaten alive and take your lumps for a little while. then you are going to see your kill/death ratio change...then someone new is going to come to the game...and you get to explain it all to them. you dont want to learn with someone who doesnt know how to fly or fight...you want to fly and learn off those that do. only way you are going to get better and good at this.

[The Legendary Spitfire]

Okay, thank you everyonefor offering help then.
Will finish off single player first before deciding whether there are enough people online to warrant me getting better.

[McQ59]

Yo pilot. Welcome to a great game, a great forum and a bunch of awesome guys.

One of the ways we are learning and gradually building up skills to meet and kill these aces is by beeing hammered, battered, humiliated, chewed up and sent burning or spinning to the ground. Then we deal with the feeling of not being the Born Ace we all think we are, and respawn to get in there again, and again, and again...

Another way to learn and bulid skills to master the planes is to go for free-flights with a bunch of other BoP'ers just like bobby says. That way u can follow the leader, fly formations, dick around, have a beer and a chat - and certainly a good laugh. That's the way most of us learned how to keep the crates airborn - and in time kill a few opponents. It's about patience and dealing with being a clobber in my opinion. Among other things we did was to arrange air-races, historic missions, pure flying with just chatting, laughing, smoking and doing all kind of silly stuff with the planes, stick&pad.
If you really want to meet and fly with the nice lovers of this game you go realistic or sim. (There is a few of them in arcade to, but recently they have been too busy learning how to ride cars).

I made my own prescreption when i tried to mingle with the aces; Forget about how 2 win. Remember how 2 have fun. Then you might win a few 2.

[The Legendary Spitfire]

Well I'm getting better. 1 kill to 9 deaths in a team battle and I almost got another guy but a teammate killed him and then he left.
I also got 2 kills in a CTA and one of those wasn't when they were on the ground.
I'm still getting hammered but I'm now fighting back.