Luiz Carlos

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.

I have flying early campaigns in the Nieuport 11 in 1916 and I´m starting to think something is wrong.The last one I deleted because after 12 hours of combat time I have seen nor even one enemy aircraft. I started a french campaign now in the third mission and no enemies until now, even when the mission is over the enemy airfield. Is this right?Maybe there is nothing related , but it´s happening after the 1.30 patch. I´m flying DiD ,100% realism, but using warping.

I bought it in october, when I was in NY on a trip with my wife.I find it in Borders and really is a gem, like you said. One thing I have seen in the pictures is the windscreen of the Nieup 11 , looks a lot less restrictive to the view than we have in the game. What you think?

Sorry by the noob question, but how can I fill all the details required (height, local in the map,time of mission,WITNESS?)Do i have to take notes? I finally finish my first mission in the tripe, had sucessfully attacked an airstripe,take mg hits, survived, and after that downed two Alb DIII.But I wasn´t able to fill correctly my claims, all I could write was that I downed two Alb but don´t had any clues if I had a witness.I suspect that after all the hard work I probably will not have any credits at all.I had tryed to review the mission to fill in more acurately my claims but was impossible, the screen was obliterated by the claim form...

Thanks,Winder. I was already looking in the workshops and found this button. That solved the problem.(not really a problem but a feature)

Ok,thanks.I suppose this happens more often in early scenarios?

In campaigns,when I hit the go to field button, I keep receiving this messages "non critical error:skin from plane... is missing from path OBD/campaigns etc Will be replaced for standart skin" Usually is referring to special ace skin. Then I press "OK" about ten times and go fly. I´m using 1.28 patch in a portuguese Win XP SP3 32

Are you doing a new model?

C´mon , I will really need to adapt to this ww1 machines because I have been beated so hard countless times, and I´m only in QC until now. Well, I only have 1 hour of flight time tomorrow night (took eleven days to mail arrives), let´s see if I adapt or things will became worse with time. Maybe my flying skills have deteriorated a bit because I´m using a saitek rudder for the first time in years and I´m still struggling to adapt with it too... Excuses,excuses,I need them to heal my smashed ego...

Thanks,I´ll try this way when my copy arrives.(fingers crossing)

Nothing wrong with your attitude. Thanks for explain it for us.

No problems , Parky. Pol´s statement makes total sense to me,about aces dying only in their historical dates. It adds to imersion.

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I´m not sure you understood what I was asking, but Pol did it and already answer my question. Thank you very much anyway.

Well , I didn´t know the airfields are mostly empty.(I´m still waiting the mail) I was hoping to be possible to weaken an enemy squadron by catching it with their paits down in their airfields(something that could justify the risk of facing AAA) So,you can fight with the same ace many times in the same campaign,if I understood well (AI don´t play DiD)

You can´t kill an ace? So,if you encounter a downed ace in the next mission,he looks like a zombie?