Still Soooo Porked

[JG5_emil]

Look for the AI TWeak thing from Van Pilsen it will make the AI less ridiculous and quite fun to fight against.

[rga]

In QM you cannot edit the belting. British aircrafts in QM use useless belt setting which is composed mostly of balls. And the observer rounds which do literally nothing than a puff.

[FFCW_Urizen]

i wouldn´t call the default belting completely useless, you can and will down planes if you shoot to your convergence and if you hit vital parts of the enemy a/c (i.e. fuel tanks, engines, pilot, controls...). in my current setup i use 50%ball, 25% ap and 25% incendiary and do down aircraft, but only if i shoot to my convergence hitting vital parts!

[pstyle]

I can knock multiple Stukas down with a single ammo load.

Set convergence to the right distance, use small variations (1 to 2 m) in guns if you need a spread.
Put tracers on your outside guns (1 and
Put Armour piercing. incendiary in the middle guns. (don't forget to load De Wilde ammo!)

Get up to your convergance distance. Learn where this is, what it feels like to be there and get there every time.

let rip. ratta-tat-tat!

Boomie boom!

As soon as an AI stuka drops out of formation, they generally crash. It's different from Il2, the way the "killed" aircraft behave. You often don't even need to knock em completely out, just stop them from being able to effectively fly home.

[bw_wolverine]

Urizen is right. The default settings for the guns (I swap out the observer rounds for more incendiary) are pretty deadly with accuracy.

I switched at one point to all AP and De Wilde and thought it was great.

Then, after a post by Robo. about historical gun loadouts for the RAF fighters I went back to a more historical mix and I've had more success than I did with 50/50 AP/De Wilde.

Your milage may vary, of course.

[robtek]

And if you should have changed your loadout to AP and deWilde, don't forget to be really upset when a online server forces realistic(historic) loadouts.

[Prime Time]

As far as I have seen, from playing flight sims 10+ years, IL2:1946 mods Dark Blue World etc have best AI at the moment.

[fruitbat]

Originally Posted by Prime Time

As far as I have seen, from playing flight sims 10+ years, IL2:1946 mods Dark Blue World etc have best AI at the moment.

4.11 AI is leaps and bounds better than that.

[SEE]

Originally Posted by rga

In QM you cannot edit the belting. British aircrafts in QM use useless belt setting which is composed mostly of balls. And the observer rounds which do literally nothing than a puff.

Agree, the default loadout is a mess and not very effective even with correct convergence. Unfortunately, the only way to change a Quick Mission loadout is to save a custom version of the mission, then copy the MIS file to the Single Missions folder, open it using FMB to drop a custom loadout into it (assuming you have created one). You may be able to change the loadouts as a 'Single mission' without using FMB following changes in one of the previous updates.

There are other ways of doing the above using 'Notepad' but I do find it odd that CloD does not allow the user to use custom loadouts in SP.