Plane unlocks in single player - now more relevant than ever

[Lexandro]

Originally Posted by Yossarian

Also 3 kills average per game, you want to stop playing arcade and move up to realistic, in a 20 minute game you should aim to get about 10 kills.

Sorry but thats not accurate at all. I play Arcade and usually average 5 kills per match in Team Battle. In other modes my kill ratio is much higher which made it much easier to unlock the Spitfire. Strike and CTA are the two modes where its easier to rack up a high kill ratio, what with the bombers in strike and the stationary targets in CTA.

I think the unlocks are to time consuming for MP myself though. Some are plain daft(IL2 unlocks),and some are just a pain in the arse (B-17). They really do need reworking as its creating a heavily biased online experience.

[Axe99]

Originally Posted by Lexandro

Sorry but thats not accurate at all. I play Arcade and usually average 5 kills per match in Team Battle. In other modes my kill ratio is much higher which made it much easier to unlock the Spitfire.

And I'd wager, Lexandro, that you're a better than average player, as 5 kills is definitely not the average number of kills for everyone in any game of Team Battle I've been in. I'm arguing this for the average player, not for the top guns out there .

[Lexandro]

Weeeeeeeelll, not to toot my own horn but I am not to shabby at Arcade.

But I was actually meaning that when I first attempted to go for an unlock it was the Spitfire MkXVI. And I got it without to much fuss overall. And this was when I would considered myself to be "wet behind the ears" (so to speak) for playing BoP online.

[Axe99]

Originally Posted by Lexandro

Weeeeeeeelll, not to toot my own horn but I am not to shabby at Arcade.

But I was actually meaning that when I first attempted to go for an unlock it was the Spitfire MkXVI. And I got it without to much fuss overall. And this was when I would considered myself to be "wet behind the ears" (so to speak) for playing BoP online.

It's all good mate, there's nothing wrong with being good at the game . You may have played at a time when most were a bit green though, whereas now most players are pretty experienced (I seriously struggle against the experienced ones, but if I find new folk these days, I rip through them pretty easily, which shows a pretty wide spectrum of skill levels playing). But I agree in that the '100 kill' unlocks are the easiest - they only require kills, not wins, and if you look at my time estimates they come in pretty low - if you cut out the lobby wait time (again, I'm guessing this was shorter earlier in the piece), and were a bit over-average, it'd be 3-4 hours of gameplay.