Luiz Carlos

I have killed 9 in one mission using the Twin Vickers Tripe in campaign,full real DiD.(with auto-mixture on) The tripe is untouchable by Albatrosses,if you keeps turning and count with some luck, you can do the job. The thousand rounds helps a lot. Sadly I was killed four missions later in a nasty side slip stall... Doesn´t had too much time to cheer myself after having the kills confirmed...

Hmmm... Are those german pilots from Village People?

Yes,I´m Flying DiD too, but I have to say that I saved my pilot once, when I exit warp and the plane enter so violent spin that my right wing was ripped off. To me this isn´t a normal situation, so I saved him without pain in the heart. I´ll try to reach the 25 kills score and retire him after this. I´ll try the german side after this ( don´t like it very much , I find german planes a bit heavy,with excption of Dr1 of course. And the new medal system looks really great!

I´m flying with RNAS as usual ( I love their planes) Now I have a 21 kills confirmed and received four DFC.There is no other medals, or this is a bug that repeats the same medal all the time? Anybody knows what kind of medals we have in game by service and what´s necessary to earn a medal? I think a DFC is earned for each 5 kills, am I right? But I´m not sure if this is realistic or if was this way in WW1.( an English ace with a 60 kill tally had 12 DFCs?)

Yep, it seems that is nothing ou there in early 1916.It happens to me too. I think this is caused by the OFF stable not been complete at the moment,it will probably fixed by adding new early planes in the future. Try a campaign started in august/september 1916.There are more activity then.

a)Sopwith Camel b)Supermarine Spitfire c)Mirage III C

I would like to say something to you OBD guys. The most part of people here are veteran combat sim players , I suppose. We have experienced a lot of flight sims in the last what?fifteen years. Your masterpiece are been compared to us against nothing less than Il2,RB3d,EAW ,Aces of Pacific,red baron and some other sims and guess what? You are on the top of the list with your sholders against only the best. This is no easy to reach.For me you are a complete surprise.In a month , I have your team in my mind in the same height of Oleg maddox, for example. In many ways even better.I was resisting to buy your game because I hated so much in the past CFS3.It´s a mistery for me how you guys achieved to do a Picasso from a grafitti in the wall. THAT is talent, nothing else. I would like to say:we need you in the market.Now and in the future. We just can imagine what you could do with a more modern engine.You have the raw material to be the best in market for years and we all support you in whatever you decide to do. PS:put more videos in the net in other flight sim sites.Your videos convince me to buy OFF the first time I saw it.

I would like to say thanks to your all.The frame cap fixed the image freezing in the first atempt. I will try higher frame cap settings until reach the limit.

I use to kill everything , including the anti-virus before to start the game.I think the Frame Cap might work.I´ll do a try when I leave the office today.

is there a fix for the constant locking/freezing suffered in game? I have a good system Intel core duo E 8400 with Ge Force GTX 260 and 4 GB RAM, and I am able to reach 18-72 fps (18 over airfield) I have no graphics problem with settings 5-5-3-3-5-2 , with the exceptio of the occasional freezing in the image.The interesting is that the game continues to doing his calculations, because when the image unlocks, the plane "jumps" to another location and I learn to manage the stick trying to guess a way of not "jump" to a nose down position( died one time because this) I read something about a "Frame Cap" that could solve this. Do you have experienced this and knows a solve? Thanks in advance.

I take-off from Droglandt airfield going to Defend Airfield Patrol.Reaching Rougefay we engage the at least eight enemy A/C .I started to turn like mead, doing rolls, half-loops , firing every time any aircraft enter my sight without too much planning. I couldn´t fire more that two secs at time, because at least one or two Albs was trying to gain my six everytime. I was seeing enemy aircraft crashing in the ground but was not able to say if the was really my victories. In the end of mission , I had no clue how many I had shot down, so I fill the claim with five victories, expecting to down the bet until the claim was accepted by OFF manager. I was staggered when all the five kills were accepted!So I was doing after mission review when I discovered that I actually had shot down NINE Alb DIII! The maximum kill tally I had was three, so I know that probably will not happen again. But was really great and the fight is so great in this game, that you really feels rewarded. I cannot praise enough my beloved Tripe twin Vickers, what a fighter!

If you finish don´t liking the Camel at all, try the Tripe Twin Vickers, one of the most dangerous machines in OFF skyes.

I find it easy too and I know that I am not better than anyone... It makes me think that the trick may be going soft with the stick. If you are naturally careful to fly any crate you might not be entering in dangerous situations related to the flight envelope? Or maybe it is just waiting to killing me in the next turn...

But,Uncleal , I would like to add that after proper training,you CAN fly it without fear, but you have to learn the tricks.Yes,using the rudder in turns is a great tip, and becames natural with time. It´s not difficult to master it to any experienced flight simmer here.In real life they throw the poor young pilots into combat with 17 hours FLIGHT time(not COMBAT time) It´s like to fly this beast without having previous experience with ANY flight simulator at all. With the little difference we don´t have to risk our lifes...

My Camel pilot died yesterday with 6 confirmed and 4 pending,DFC, in 8 missions. He falls in a combat against 6 Albs , had downed two before taking shots from three more on it´s six. Probably they cut me a cable, because I lose aileron control.It was difficult not to ending the mission to save my pilot, but I fly DiD, so I let the man find his fate. The Camel is so agile , that in normal fight conditions you are out of range of an Albatross.You can turn on a dime, it climbs very quickly, and the two Vickers helps a lot in finishing fast your opponent. I can fight one versus two Albs without too much fear,(not WITHOUT fear), usually bagging the two. The range is about 333 miles, so good that I fly with 60% of the tank in most missions. And, yes, TrackIR4 will help you a lot because upward view is not very good.

Yes, I put an Eindecker down once that plummet slowly to the ground.I was after him, just having the sweet taste of victory,waiting for the right spot of crash to fill my claim form.It ignites a flame, only seconds before impacting .It really looks like real life, indeed. Cheers to all devs efforts, here too!

I revert to normal DM, too, after reading a lot of combat reports and seeing Eddie Rickenbacker´s episode in "Dogfights" I realize that probably was much more easier to down a plane that in Hardcore. I was a Lieutenant in the Brazilian army , (doctor) and I was able to fire a MAC field machine gun once(7,62 mm french build) Well ,that does A LOT of destruction in my point of view.I imagine what it could have done in a wood and canvas full of gas airplane.

Well I always take note of everything, but when I was filling my claim form , I was brutally interrupted by the...WIFE! So,I send the form forgotting to put the witness.When I saw what I did i think:Man what a idiot! Maybe in future patches Pol could include a way to correct claim form filling interrupted by wifes?

Anybody already do this stupid thing like me and had your claim confirmed?

In my first attempts with the Camel I actually broke the left wingtip into the ground in the take-off run just after have applied throttle. (and there are people that say OFF doesn´t have torque modeled) I learned then to apply right rudder, a little aileron to the right and accelerate slowly to avoid this happens again. I think the Camel was so agile because it has some degree of instability,besides the very concentrated center of gravity. The problem was that flight computers have not been invented yet and that instability caused a lot of fatal crashes too.

When I´m gaming for a while, from times to times, the screen freezes for 10-15 secs but the simulation seems to going on, because when it unfreeze, it does it in another position, like the game was doing all the calculations. I never experiences lock up or CTD, just this weird freeze. I´m using a Intel E8400 , 4Gb RAM with Geforce GTX 260 , at 1680x1050 and sliders 5-5-3-3-4-2 and I have smooth frame rates all the time, with some slowering over my airfield,but still smooth. Anybody are experiencing this image freezings?

What a wonderful fighter.It´s impressive that OBD team could reproduce the natural behaviour of the Camel( turn left nose up, turn down nose down) It´s nimble, climbs very fast, turns in a dime, the two Vickers can do a beautiful work... I´m flying DiD , 100% realism(using warping) an so far have 7 claims in three missions (still pending) In the first days with OFF I try to fly the Camel , but I had a nasty stall when I was in the six of a Alb DIII, low over the frontlines. I gave up with the Camel, but now seems we are understanding each other... I need to care of this pilot , because until now I wasn´t able to confirm 5 kills in any of my campaigns... Í declare myself a very happy masochist pilot of the OFF community.(we are all masochists flying this HARD sim and loving it don´t you know?) I´m not saying you are a sadist ,Pol

If you was hit in the engine and forced to land in the field, can you leave the plane to avoid been hit?

I was flying near Verdun in early 1916, in Esc 3 "Cicognes".I have done 10 missions and nothing. I supposed that Huns was flying Eindeckers in that time period,aren´t they? Did germans had no mono or biplace represented ingame at this time? Well, I have deleted the campaign, because it was sterile too, like the English one. I tryed a german campaign at same time, flying an Halberstad DII , with regional air activity setting to heavy and started to see RAF Be2c (I had shot down one) It really amazes me the WAY it´s go down. They don´t explode or lose a wing with few bursts , in a arcade way,but instead, demands a lot of lead into the fuselage and engine,starting a fire, that gradually grows up, the two seatter then slowly loosing altitude until crashing in the ground.It´s so hard to put one down sometimes, that I go down near to the ground with this one, just to see it crashing , to take notes in the map in order to do a more accurate claim form. In other sims, I will never get loose from the enemy formation, because I probably will put down 3-4 enemy A/C. Not so easy here,chap.

I´m currently in the "Cicognes" squadron (Guynemer´s) . if you guys are saying this is the way it is intended by the devs , it´s good to me.I will log some more hours until I have the chance to bag some huns or to be bagged by them.