Love is in the air.

[Macklroy 2]

Those silly germans.

 

 

 

Saw these two german fighters flying 'inside' of each other this evening. I was certain that once they broke from their current heading they would collide and crash. No such luck. Instead they dove straight down and wiped out 2 of my flight before we dispatched the pests. I thought it quite odd and yet funny.

[Madmatt 0]

While I am certainly in no position to comment about the mating rituals of Germans (actually I have dated my share of German women so maybe I am, but that's another story altogether), I have seen the same thing occur from time to time with enemy formations. I thought it only happened when they are very distant (7-8 miles) from my own position, but maybe not if they were closer in your example.

 

It doesn't seem to be just German flights though, last night I saw this with a pair of Spads. I watched the *merged* flight for a couple of minutes but I eventually had to attend to matters closer to my own plane so I am not sure how long they stayed 'in-touch" with one another and if they ever separated or not.

 

I do know that the two planes did shift positions slightly so I don't think it was just a matter of a single plane being mistakenly cloned or something else video related.

 

My own slightly unenlightened guess was that the game engine sometimes *approximates* plane positions slightly when enemy flights are very far away to save on resource use and this sort of phenomenon is likely to occur every so often if that is indeed the case. Would seem to make sense, but as I said, it's just a guess and if they were close to your position, then I guess its something else.

 

So, when in your game, did they eventually become unmerged when they dove down on you?

 

Madmatt

Edited April 27, 2009 by Madmatt

[Hasse Wind 46]

Is that Albatros pornography?

 

Haven't seen anything like that in OFF before!

[+Paarma 0]

Can it be that the Görings albatros was born after that?

 

Is that Albatros pornography?

 

Haven't seen anything like that in OFF before!

[Olham 164]

Ziss iss purely ant only enemy propaganda material!

We deny, zatt any such planez or secret weaponz do exist.

Especially not our secret Albatros timeshift fighter, zatt is zere ant not zere, and can fly

through each other; top secret project - it does not exist, nor do we have any plans to

develop such planez.

Our existink weaponz ant planez are already strong enough to eliminate ze crumpetz!

 

Baron von Grosskotz, Head of Geheimwaffenabteilung*, Berlin

 

(* secret weapons department)

[Rickitycrate 10]

Reminds me of the Bald Eagles around here. They do amazing things in the air, grab each others talons, fly upside down, freefall and screaming like mad.

[Jammer28 0]

I wonder if thats where United Airlines got their slogan: Fly United

[Typhoon 5]

Quick! Someone throw a bucket of water on them.

 

Tony

[Luiz Carlos 0]

Quick! Someone throw a bucket of water on them.

 

Tony

Hmmm...

Are those german pilots from Village People?

[Bullethead 12]

Hmm, that's the perfectly normal Albatros Z.I "zwilling". I know it looks strange, but they really built them that way

Edited April 28, 2009 by Bullethead

[catch 81]

Is that Albatros pornography?

 

Lol. Doppelgänger sex maybe ?

[Hasse Wind 46]

Shouldn't this thread receive a PG rating?

[UK_Widowmaker 571]

Hans and Jurgen could no longer keep their 'Little Secret' from the Kommandant!

[Olham 164]

Those silly germans.

 

This is neither silly nor funny - what did you think, where the Albatros come from?