Awesome Moments Thread

[Reddisback]

Originally Posted by Wissam24

This should be stickied

I agree. this SHOULD BE STICKIED!

[ThatYoungGameGuy]

Yeah i love dog fights as well. Whilst playing on training mode, i was playing sim and got shot to pieces, so much so that my propeller and engine, plus the right wing were all destroyed. The plane then started veering violently to the right, i managed to control it until the airfield in Dover, but i couldn't take my fingers of the buttons otherwise i would certainly crash, my only option was to belly land, which to my surprise was successful!

[rocketassistedllama]

Originally Posted by Reddisback

I agree. this SHOULD BE STICKIED!

Agreed...as practically every shootdown/crash is unique; such dynamic gameplay is a huge selling point.
Anywho...as New Zealand must be the last country on EARTH still not to have recieved this game [ratings SNAFU; game stopped at customs...maybe 14th/18th?;] here are some awesome moments-from playing the demo to death in realistic. In no particular order.
#1; crashing into an He-111, with clipped fuselage ploughing into a second;0) #2; hitting a Ju-87 at least 4 times [one of them a good rake;] so closed to ramming distance, raked him from stem to stern for 3 seconds...his engine stopped, and he skillfully [and unexpectedly] ditched successfully in the sea!! The AI's not very aggressive, but it IS good. Ju-87's corkscrew to get away, 190d9's realistically use their high-speed turns to keep out of trouble [not much use against a Mustang, mind.] Another Stuka was'nt so lucky, and ditched in a tree! Good approach though...#4; just about any dogfight that ends up@/below tree top height-with finger glued to target lock camera. Epic...although a couple of Stukas got me this way. Happens all the time, too. #5; seeing a lightly hit Dora lose control-regain, stall again...then pull out just above the trees.
P.s; I've never played a sim in my life, but have no trouble shooting down planes with the '360 pad [ail/ele sensitivity set to 10/15...enough to put the Mustang right on the limit.] Case in point; firstly I shot down -2 [me], then 0, 2, 4, 2...finally ALL doras kaput in Tiger Hunt. Speaking of which; me LUURVE the Mustang-and it's bite. Just keeping it in the sky is heaps of fun...Spitfire's too easy to fly. Good times;0) I do wish you could walk away from the more epic crashes though, i.e; #6; belly landing the spit...only to hit a tree, lose a wing, slide...then Hollywood BOOM [sigh.] Next time guys/developers...lose the hollywood explosions, pretty please??

[Wissam24]

At the very least it should be replaced with a slow catching alight, where necessary

[Roboslob]

My best moment was on the Red Skies Over Dover. l was tearing up a formation of HE-111's, when I looked out to the left and saw a Spit smash right through a HE-111 at a ridiculously high speed, from beneath. I was about 10 meters away from the HE-111. lt was awesome to see.

[ontheborderland]

This will probably not seem that stunning, but getting my first kill in MP on sim against a guy who was WAY better than me was pretty memorable.

[stryker333]

Mine was diving down on 5 enemy He-111's on multiplayer in my I-16 type 24, they were trying some fancy formations because they were demolishing us in airfield. I shot a rocket at the one on the left, and he steered to the right crashing into all of his he-111's, and then me diving down into the explosion and surviving.

[irrelevant]

I had an EPIC dogfight in Team Battle MP. I was flying next to this guy named Merlin and we were chasing after an enemy plane for about 10 minutes non-stop. I swear, we were all over that map; high and low, far and wide. It was so much fun to be in a 3 plane pursuit for that long.

[Reddisback]

A really cool thing to do with the HE-111's is to kill the guys in the cockpit by straffin' them from above. then the plane just keeps on going with out it enemy tag on it. then it slowly crashes. God, i luv it!

[dazz1971]

mine was on a cta match im on this guys six he was in a 262 i was in bf 109g6 he comes into land at the airfield im directly on his six we were both about 20ft from the ground flying pretty fast either side of me were burning wrecks im on my trigger going hell for leather to shoot him down at the same time my team mates are dropping bombs on him they are exploding all around me i finally got him just as we ran out of runway i pull up and give it full wep me crate shot to hell one of the most intense moments ive had in this game so far 10/10