BF109 - Can't we just have the gunsight in the middle?

[choctaw111]

Originally Posted by ChrisDNT

No, simply let it where it is and just change the parallax of the aiming, as the pilot, in real life, didn't move his head to aim, but just close his left eye.

Close left eye---cntrl E

Trust me. It really works LOL

[Robotic Pope]

Originally Posted by choctaw111

Close left eye---cntrl E

Trust me. It really works LOL

lol

I doubt any pilot closed his eye in combat. Deprives you of 3d view and distance estimation. Just give us a button that has to be pushed throughout aiming that moves the head automatically to the right position while keeping head shake and g effects. Bingo. The current way is not more realistic as viewing hardware is not simulating real movement well and making it unrealistically difficult to aim with the 109 compared to other planes.

[KDN]

Keep it the way it is, please
As Kimosabi (and in different words Cheesehawk) said...it is part of the simulation

No trained marksman ever closes an eye.

[tranquillity]

Oh come on, stormcrow,
just practice a little with your TrackIR and soon there won't be a reason to change a thing.
shouldn't be too hard to lean left a little for shooting.
quite a good exercise to keep your head steady. if you can not do it you really should practise..
or you try to tweak your trackIR profile.
always try to find the mistake on your end first.
I think the present solution works very well, no need to change.
sorry.

How conservative you all are

I make a proposition that allows everyone to aim his fashion (it won't even prevent you to use the current way), which is at LEAST as realistic as current state if not more realistic, but all you do is to pressume falsely that I don't have enough flight time with the 109.

[TUSA/TX-Gunslinger]

I like it the way it is.

It makes the German fighters feel different.

It works just fine for me with 6DOF TrackIR 5

Lean a little to the right - presto - crosshairs.

In all the years of Il2, I have to admit - I never heard this one.

S!

Gunny

Because in IL2 old you got view through off-centre sight by shift+f1 without limitation of virtual head movement

[TUSA/TX-Gunslinger]

Originally Posted by TUSA/TX-Gunslinger

I like it the way it is.

It makes the German fighters feel different.

It works just fine for me with 6DOF TrackIR 5

Lean a little to the right - presto - crosshairs.

In all the years of Il2, I have to admit - I never heard this one.

S!

Gunny

Originally Posted by 41Sqn_Stormcrow

Because in IL2 old you got view through off-centre sight by shift+f1 without limitation of virtual head movement

Many posts since your response.

Well, I've been using 6DOF with Il2 Mods off and on for a few years, and this isn't a huge departure from that - as far as functionality goes.

I have to admit, I do not like the new Shift-F1 a great deal. All I'm doing is leaning over a little bit and moving up in the gunsight - this should not limit my head traverse.

I think a better solution for me is to map TrackIR pause key to my controls, and just Pause the TrackIR when I've centered the gunsight in normal view.

While I'm on the point of views - I've been focusing the last few days on bombers and turrets. I do not like the traverse limits of view within those turrets. Your view is quite constrained. Look, if I'm going to be stuck in a small bomber turret - at least let me look around!

Back to the 109, I like the offset - In fact I like it better than having the RAF/US setup with this great big gunsight in the middle of my view. I only shoot a small fraction of the time I'm flying, the rest of the time I like the fact that the sight is out of the center of my view.

Just my 2 cents.

S!

Gunny

[frenchfly]

Like most of you have already stated, leave it the way it is. Put a little time in and tweak your TrackIr profiles or use the required buttons to do the job. This is a simulation not a semi-lation.

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