Thoughts after taking a break from BOP

[winny]

Originally Posted by Gilly

I still have my ZX spectrum and F19 Stealth Fighter! What a superb game it was and to a degree still is!! The four maps provided were huge, for example the northern Europe one takes in the whole of northern Russia, Finland, Sweden and Norway!
It's a game I still dig the Speccy out for along with Elite, Turbo Esprit and School Days......,
Oh to be 8 again!!!

I had the original flight simulator for the speccy, the cessna one, and school days was one of my favourite games ever.

[dkwookie]

This was my fav spectrum game:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4vqDT55rNo

[Gilly]

Originally Posted by dkwookie

This was my fav spectrum game:

Ahh good old 'southern belle'- still have a copy of that. Never did beat the 48 minute record......

Few more flashbacks

[Gilly]

The spectrum was one of a family of 'home computers' made by Sinclair- a very 'british' company.
They started in 1980 with the ZX80 evolving to the Spectrum in 1982 with it's 16k upgradable to 48k. Eventually becoming 48k as standard it was what most of us this side of the pond grew up with during the early 80's. Games were loaded by tape meaning you could easily copy your mates version!!
Ahh the good old days....

[JOED70]

Ah thanks yes sounds very much like the TRS-80 ah good old Data-Cassete Spectrum sounds like a T-1000 I rember it was first hard drive something around 100 meg , Thought then that was an amazing amount storage that would never be all used .hahah
It was that or spend hours typeing code from a computer mag.
Did you guys have the Kings Quest Series of games Roberta Williams made some great stuff over the years. Poor old Sir Graham allways being duped by Mordar .

[JOED70]

From My long ramble above , I am curious to know what your guys thoughts are on the Gravity settings for the differnent modes . That and the fact that if the Ground scores more damage the the attacking aircraft the ground wins ie crash no kill credit . lets say my 109 has a 1000 points of health Gilly comes along in his spit and blasts the hell out my wing with those lead peppering brownings of his that he so dam good with for 425 points My 109 flips over and augers in the ground now scores 475 points damage thus we get a crash not a well deserved kill. I think this is why the water seems to elimnate alot of the no kill crashs it seems to do no or very little damage .

thoughts???

[Gilly]

Originally Posted by JOED70

From My long ramble above , I am curious to know what your guys thoughts are on the Gravity settings for the differnent modes . That and the fact that if the Ground scores more damage the the attacking aircraft the ground wins ie crash no kill credit . lets say my 109 has a 1000 points of health Gilly comes along in his spit and blasts the hell out my wing with those lead peppering brownings of his that he so dam good with for 425 points My 109 flips over and augers in the ground now scores 475 points damage thus we get a crash not a well deserved kill. I think this is why the water seems to elimnate alot of the no kill crashs it seems to do no or very little damage .

thoughts???

It's certainly a good point. I have experimented both accidentally and on purpose with ground vs water. Was in a strike with dave,McQ and winny last night where McQ, dave and winny were team A with McQ and dave had 17's versus myself (17) and I think an IL10. We were on the Britain map and as such I had to bomb and travel like a nutter to keep up with their scoring. On a low bomb pass with winny behind me I dropped a full load from no height and accidentally bombed myself. So from an 8000lbs perspective the 8000lbs won!
Next one was were I had drdeath nobailer chasing me over the ships in an IL10 and having lost engines at 14k ft, glided down whilst bombing. I then could turn anymore and thought I try that over water. Even with the god canons blazing into my rear I managed to 'crash' rather than be shot down by dropping bombs as I glided in. Now I'm aware that a certain couboy carries bombs on his spit in most modes and deliberately bombs himself at ground level and it seems from testing this would also be possible over water. So to a degree whilst being over water helps it doesn't prevent it altogether. I've also noticed that should you clip a house or a tree then it also gives the kill as a crash so whilst what your saying it possibly true it does have exceptions. Just IL2 and it's quirks! After nearly a year of playing nothing surprises me with this game anymore.

[winny]

Originally Posted by JOED70

From My long ramble above , I am curious to know what your guys thoughts are on the Gravity settings for the differnent modes . That and the fact that if the Ground scores more damage the the attacking aircraft the ground wins ie crash no kill credit . lets say my 109 has a 1000 points of health Gilly comes along in his spit and blasts the hell out my wing with those lead peppering brownings of his that he so dam good with for 425 points My 109 flips over and augers in the ground now scores 475 points damage thus we get a crash not a well deserved kill. I think this is why the water seems to elimnate alot of the no kill crashs it seems to do no or very little damage .

thoughts???

I get the feeling that the gravity is the same thru all 3 modes, I could be very wrong but I can't tell the difference between an Arcade flat spin and a Sim one, you never really fall out of the sky like a stone. You're probably right about the damage system. You can land on water and not die till you go under (very quick!) It would make sense if it was based on a points system. I try and look to sse what damage I've got just before I go down and I've had 2 black wings, crashed and still not had the kill credited to the other guy.. I guess the colour coded damage is more to do with how it affects flight and a possible points system to work out when you're dead and who did it?
The saving grace is that it's one of those issues that everyone has to deal with and eventually you just end up laughing to yourself about how much lead you put into someone and still don't get a kill for it.

[Gilly]

The 'Beast' itself

[JOED70]

Originally Posted by Gilly

The 'Beast' itself

Wow so sleek and clean looking you europeans and your fashion savy hahah.
Keyboard looks like a precurser to laptop .