June 24, 2011 - v1.02.14821 Release Patch

[JG52Krupi]

Originally Posted by Strike

played the new release for a while now and I am happy to see that improvements are being made

Still a way to go, but we're moving in the right direction!

+1 Loving the new E1 just can't seem to get used to the E3s cannons.

[David198502]

Originally Posted by JG52Krupi

+1 Loving the new E1 just can't seem to get used to the E3s cannons.

now that we have the E1 i think that something is wrong with the aiming of the E3 cannons. i use the same convergence with the E1 as with the E3, but now i actually hit my targets without any problems.
i like the E1 as well, but is there any difference in performance to the E3?

[JG52Krupi]

Originally Posted by David198502

now that we have the E1 i think that something is wrong with the aiming of the E3 cannons. i use the same convergence with the E1 as with the E3, but now i actually hit my targets without any problems.
i like the E1 as well, but is there any difference in performance to the E3?

From my rather limited time flying I would say that the e1 handles worse (stalls quicker) than the e3.

The cannons always go higher than my MG so now that the convergence is working we can play with the settings.

[Rather peeved]

what on earth happened to the promised community liason person who was going to keep us up to speed with what was going on?

they seem to be determined to communicate less - not more. perhaps they are slowly attempting to distance themselves from the whole project.

[David198502]

Originally Posted by JG52Krupi

From my rather limited time flying I would say that the e1 handles worse (stalls quicker) than the e3.

The cannons always go higher than my MG so now that the convergence is working we can play with the settings.

yeah i have that impression as well, but is it as fast as the E3??today i had some really strange situation where i followed a hurricane in a shallow dive, shot at it , but missed because it breaked away, i decided not to follow the turn but climb to come back later again.i was pretty surprised as the hurri was suddenly on my six outclimbing me and eventually shot my enginge dead.

[Lixma]

Originally Posted by David198502

yeah i have that impression as well, but is it as fast as the E3??today i had some really strange situation where i followed a hurricane in a shallow dive, shot at it , but missed because it breaked away, i decided not to follow the turn but climb to come back later again.i was pretty surprised as the hurri was suddenly on my six outclimbing me and eventually shot my enginge dead.

Happened to me, too.

http://simhq.com/forum/ubbthreads.ph...ml#Post3324359

[David198502]

well i always believed that the bf is a better climber than the spit, and way better than the hurri.
all the pilot notes that i have read state that against the hurri and also the spit you should fight vertical
i never even considered beeing outrunned or outclimbed by a hurri which had less energy than me,...and by the way it was no ai that killed me but a player.

[Frequent_Flyer]

If you are flying against AI they seem to always out perform the virtual pilot.s machine. If I am attacking aformation at full throttle, my squad mate always pass me, out climb etc.

[ZaltysZ]

Originally Posted by David198502

yeah i have that impression as well, but is it as fast as the E3??today i had some really strange situation where i followed a hurricane in a shallow dive, shot at it , but missed because it breaked away, i decided not to follow the turn but climb to come back later again.i was pretty surprised as the hurri was suddenly on my six outclimbing me and eventually shot my enginge dead.

There is a catch with Rotol Hurricane. If BF changes its speed and needs to adjust its pitch, it is very likely that Hurricane will outperform it because of CSP. Mistakes in pitch change (too earlier/too late/wrong RPM) and BF pilot may get into trouble. The safest way is too extend and begin gradual steepening climb while accurately managing RPM. More aggressive flying requires very precise work with pitch, but fortunately it is not so hard anymore after this patch.

[jimbop]

Good tip, thanks ZaltysZ.