Hurricane reigns supreme online (why??)

[kozzm0]

I play the ps3 but I've faced a bunch of Hurricanes online and I have a hunch the matches you're talking about were unlimited ammo.

If so, that's the reason they do so good... what I've seen so far is the online is dominated by decent turners with machine guns. With unlimited ammo, using machine guns gives you a much greater number of chances to hit and do a bit of damage from far away. The Hurricane especially covers a huge amount of target profile with its guns. You can fire from much farther away than normal, before you're close enough for the target to effectively break out of plane, and if you can nick the target a couple times, it's easy to close in for the kill.

It does seem like the Hurricane overperforms in level turns, but it is a slow plane... a lot of people fly their planes too fast and expect to turn the corner on a much slower plane, when they should go 3-D first to slow down. Not implying that you all do, but it's pretty common.

Too bad limited ammo never works... there's no penalty for just crashing and respawning.

[cyclone70]

mmm overperforming in turns... huge spray target profile.... you dirty underhand dawgs in yer reetin' cheatin' machines. I'm sticking to the honest straight up Spit, safe in the knowledge when you smoke my arse it's cos you got the Hurri!!!

[FOZ_1983]

Originally Posted by cyclone70

mmm overperforming in turns... huge spray target profile.... you dirty underhand dawgs in yer reetin' cheatin' machines. I'm sticking to the honest straight up Spit, safe in the knowledge when you smoke my arse it's cos you got the Hurri!!!

Bloody shitfire fanboy hahaha.

Though when flying the hurricane....strangely.... i get more satisfaction from shooting down a shitfire than anything else haha. See you in the skies.

[Benrizz]

Originally Posted by FOZ_1983

Bloody shitfire fanboy hahaha.

Though when flying the hurricane....strangely.... i get more satisfaction from shooting down a shitfire than anything else haha. See you in the skies.

I'll give a try to hurricane. what's your sensitivity setting for that plane ??

But I must say. That I fell in love with my MKXVI. He is a chainsaw. You cut everything in half with that plane.

Since you did the hard lobbying for that plane on this forum, I see more hurrican now online. I guess the time has come for the british fashion week...

[FOZ_1983]

i have my sensitivity turned down 6 or 7 notches. Though i will only fly the hurricane if -

a) i see someone else using it
b) that someone else communicates

A pair of hurricanes helping each other can do quite well, but on its own... its a massacre

I usually stick the the Spit XVI online if im up against 109's but if i see IX's online then i'll switch that that as the IX can out turn the XVI.

So.....

you will see me in either a hurricane a IX or XVI. Most of the time its the XVI

[FOZ_1983]

Originally Posted by kozzm0

I play the ps3 but I've faced a bunch of Hurricanes online and I have a hunch the matches you're talking about were unlimited ammo.

If so, that's the reason they do so good... what I've seen so far is the online is dominated by decent turners with machine guns. With unlimited ammo, using machine guns gives you a much greater number of chances to hit and do a bit of damage from far away. The Hurricane especially covers a huge amount of target profile with its guns. You can fire from much farther away than normal, before you're close enough for the target to effectively break out of plane, and if you can nick the target a couple times, it's easy to close in for the kill.

It does seem like the Hurricane overperforms in level turns, but it is a slow plane... a lot of people fly their planes too fast and expect to turn the corner on a much slower plane, when they should go 3-D first to slow down. Not implying that you all do, but it's pretty common.

Too bad limited ammo never works... there's no penalty for just crashing and respawning.

the majority of us all play together online, now and again picking up a few new players. We play sim mode and limited fuel/ammo, we go full real.