Updated RAF FMs in 1.07.18301

[Crumpp]

Clearly in a game "overheating" is used to represent a wide range of engine faults not all of which manifested in real life as actual overheating. This applies to many FM and DM scenarios, you cannot model everything.

Exactly.

The most thing they can simulate is the mindset of piloting an aircraft. That means maintaining a scan of the instruments and operating the aircraft by the POH limits.

IMHO, CloD does this better than any game before it.

[Osprey]

Originally Posted by Ernst

There is so much misunderstanding here. I remember seeing a SPITFIRE Ia manual stating that 12 lbs time limits were 3 minutes.

Now you come here and says its 5 minutes for the IA. There is another manual stating 5 minutes but that was for the IIa i guess. There is so many that use general desinformation and try to using data from other aircraft (IIA) to provide performance of others (IA). Or comparing the best data from one ac with worst of others, or using extra arguments and aproximation much beyond the data to prove their points. The data should talk by themselves with minimal interference of the interpreters.

I do not known but my opinion is that guys complaining about sptifires are noobies because yesterday i found =AN=Felipe's spitfire at 6.5 K and we need 3 109s to shot down him.

The fight lasted almost 10 minutes. The spitfire IIA totally overperformed the 109 high there making loops and barrels rolls while the 109 barely can climb or fly level. If in RL was that way the 109s would have no chance since the BoB fight occured mostly at high altitude, and we known that they were very well matched if we compared the kill/ratios against each other. Someone can say? The Germans have more acs? Ok if you consider the bombers. But fighter vs. fighter they were matched and the british were flying over its territory, the germans had teh fuel problem etc... The truth is, the SPIT accutually in sim is very capable aircraft and certainly well matched with the 109s....

If you have the spits like you want, overperfoming the 109s in every aspect the blue players would give up. Maybe the reds ll feel better historical accuracy shoting 109s at will, killing the 109s in 10 by 1 kill ratio, and flying only against IAs and germans drones. This happened in some IL2 servers after last mods. The servers are killed. If you are blue you have to be extremely sadomasoquist to fly that ultrapack servers. The multiple fms, each one with its own biased fms for one side or other completely destroyed the game...

What do you want in a simplistic way is an all win spitfire model who can zip zap, hang on the prop, barrels rolls like humming bird, rocket climbing, outstanding climbing and energy retention etc... I think you should think yourselves, you are really good pilots? My believe is that you believe spit is that mess because you do not accept defeat and have no humildity to recognize your own fault in your failure.You think you can only be defeated if fighting 3 or 4 109s. If you got defeated by 1 then the game is cheating.

Once i shot down a guy by surprise and he complained: "You shot me down because you got me by surprise. I would expect a chance to fight" And i answered: "Then you suppose i would give you a chance. You are in a spit."

The guys here complain about the spit. I go online and see a complete different situation: Man the spits are very agile, once the pilot sees you and are not a complete noobie is very difficult to put your guns in it, mainly if you are alone. Sometimes they start to whirlwind down there, the only thing they need do to is to pull the elevator as they. They have not to think in a strategy to escape, think about energy, force the adversary to lose their initial energy to after escape in a dive, etc they have just to turn in and endless whirlwinding... So simplistic and ridiculous... However i just accept the performance that i have in the 109 and fly with my brains... Man, is this guys playing the same sim than me?

just my point...

my be the devs would develop two versions of the sim. One for the british commowealth and another for the rest of the world.

People should note that Ernst was one of those in the tiny minority who voted against 100 octane fuelling in bug 174. As a result I take what he says with a pinch of salt.

[Robo.]

Originally Posted by Crumpp

Exactly.

The most thing they can simulate is the mindset of piloting an aircraft. That means maintaining a scan of the instruments and operating the aircraft by the POH limits.

IMHO, CloD does this better than any game before it.

I agree, but the POH limits should be modelled correctly. I can see they can't model everything and the engine damage is simplified (and overaggresive for the gaming reasons) and I have no problem with that. Even though the relative performance now seems to be much better than even before and maybe the boost gauges showing incorrect values are purely cosmetic issue. This is still subject to change and I am not about to do any proper testing just yet, but I would say that most of the RAF flyers welcome the current beta. All it needs now is fixing the instruments (if that's really the issue) so correct figures are being shown, fixing the incosnistencies within RAF fighter mixture control including the necessity to go Auto Lean in order to be able to use +12lbs. at 3000rpm. And include similar limitation for DB 601 Notleistung so people won't abuse it like I do.

Osprey - Ernst seems to be just a frustrated LW pilot that was outflown by some Spitfire pilot, there is nothing wrong with that. His post is interesting and I understand what bothers him (I don't like whining either), but he is obviously wrong in his assumptions.

[Skoshi Tiger]

I routine get my butt kicked flying the spitfire. I generally put this down to poor tactical choices, slow reactions time and being deviod of any combat flying skills!

As such I tend to be of the opinion it's the pilot not the plane!

I'm not to sure about all this talk of Uber Spitfires when I can almost keep pace with one in a Blenhiem!

You can always tell a noob Blue pilot from the radio message!

Pilot 1 - "I've just shot down a Spitfire!!!!!!! "
Pilot 2 -"That was only Skoshi tiger!, Everyones done that! "
Pilot 1 - "Oh! "

Cheers!

[TomcatViP]

Originally Posted by Osprey

People should note that Ernst was one of those in the tiny minority who voted against 100 octane fuelling in bug 174. As a result I take what he says with a pinch of salt.

Lol tht's all your theory of 100oct available in fighter during BoB that has to be taken "with a pinch of salt".

Your way of re-writting the big and the small history is remarkable ! Wew

[Ernst]

Originally Posted by Osprey

People should note that Ernst was one of those in the tiny minority who voted against 100 octane fuelling in bug 174. As a result I take what he says with a pinch of salt.

Osprey and Robo,

Voted no by the same reason i explained above. Without proper CEM and engine tear/wear people should abuse using boost every time. You should consider others opinion in full not only the part you want, trying to demoralize the person instead to argument against their ideas.

You should attack the ideas not the person. I am in the right to say this since i never attacked you before. And then you decided to discredit my ideas simple attacking my person. If you only want to demoralize others and have no new idea to add to the discussion do not post. This a good topic that i m affraided it ll be derailed by now.

If once a time i attack you personally, i do not remember but i would like to apologize now.

[Osprey]

.....riiiiight.........

[Robo.]

Originally Posted by Ernst

Osprey and Robo,

Voted no by the same reason i explained above. Without proper CEM and engine tear/wear people should abuse using boost every time. You should consider others opinion in full not only the part you want, trying to demoralize the person instead to argument against their ideas.

Ernst, just for the record I never commented on your voting, that's your personal opinion and I never had any intention to question it. Just so you know, as for now, you can't abuse the 12lbs. boost at all, it's actually quite tricky to use it and you can destroy your Merlin pretty easily when you're not careful.

Originally Posted by Ernst

You should attack the ideas not the person.

Also, I never attacked you (maybe on ATAG), I simply disagree on what you wrote in post 4, that is just your observation based on what you encoutered (probably a capable pilot with E advantage). I simply believe that your comment on Spitfires is wrong and your comment on red pilots whining is very correct. I don't know you and I have no intention to offend you, but the post I commented was pretty much the same thing you disliked on the red side. Except now it was you whining. If you have problem outclimbing a Spitfire, you're doing something wrong with your 109. That much for my opinion.

[Robo.]

Originally Posted by TomcatViP

Lol tht's all your theory of 100oct available in fighter during BoB that has to be taken "with a pinch of salt".

Your way of re-writting the big and the small history is remarkable ! Wew

Enough has been said to this topic, the evidence is overhwelming, but you can't please everyone, feel free to believe what suits you best.

Having the 100 octane fighters at least is both historically correct and good for the game.

As for the actual FMs - shall we report the current issues or is it OK to rely that the devs will get it absolutely right in the final release?

[TomcatViP]

Originally Posted by Robo.

Enough has been said to this topic, the evidence is overhwelming, but you can't please everyone, feel free to believe what suits you best.

Having the 100 octane fighters at least is both historically correct and good for the game.

You hve a strange way of understanding the logic behind what is historically correct.

Assumptions does not makes proof of fact. No matter how numerous they are thrown in the basket.

The way the 100oct debate have been pounded and the voices of other opinions (because there was different opinions) repeatedly hammered by constantly repeated arguments and personal insults (I still have a vivid remembrance of being insulted by some myself) shld hve not played in your favor this way.

Even the way of some 100Octaner are flying the sim is subject to doubt.

And know you are arguing the SPit does not have strange FM regarding turn rate, E retention, is not Free of stall etc.. etc...

You know, the more I read you and your affiliates, I make my mind believing that the right simulation for you is something related to Duck shooting in a narrow corridor. And still you might request some change in the bird FM !