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I don't have one myself, but everyone I know who has one absolutely loves it and would'nt fly without them. From what I understand, you need to take your time setting it up and configuring it correctly, but once done, its superb. Hope this helps Preach

For ground targets the most effective way for me, if there is a large battle and the front lines are mixed up, I used padlock - its more dangerous but with a bit of practise manpads won't be a problem. If its a clear cut mission when the target is well behind the front lines, bomb from altittude using cbu's. For fighters it takes more practise, you need to learn to distinguish where friendly flights are and keeping a good situational awareness. Before you go to take off, look at where the friendly flights are on mission briefing, what type of flights they are, what they are doing, if they are on ingress or egress. If you softlock a target and you noticed is comming on hot on you, then hardlock it, wait a few seconds and listen for any buddy spike calls, if no response is received then generally you are free to fire. If a flight is medium aspect or low aspect to you, hardlock it and see what happens, if its an enemy flight it will normally manouver and start evasion procedures. (again listen for buddy spike calls) As previously mentioned, use AWACS if you have them to declare targets, or vector to target. Get used to asking for the nearest threat aswell. Use softlock when calling awacs targets incase you upset an enemy flight and force them to engage you, which could be a problem if they are no threat, not your target and you have more important things to worry about. Softlocking them won't send their cockpit alarms going nuts. Preach

Install Falcon AF........, then copy and paste the entire clean install folder to another directory. So you have Default install + a duplicate called a different name EG: Falcon 1. Red viper uses the registry keys from the default installation so RV will install over the 'proper' install. Take "Falcon 1" install, edit the global.cfg file and fix the directories it points to. Its only like 4 lines. Falcon 1 is what you will use to play default allied force. The Default install is what RV will use. Easy! Preach

no worries, i must have reassigned it when I started. Simpler option on keyboard for AA is just Enter, and AG is Backspace. Or assign it on the joystick, much easier lol

Hold right 'shift+.'(del) on the keypad to cycle. Keypad - right on the keyboard, 2nd button in, bottom right. make sure you cancel any override mode as previously stated by press C

You guys would learn it 20 times faster if you get a more experienced vpilot to take you up for a flight while talking you through it + it'll save you on printer ink.. the manual is abit big ^^. Ask nicely, and you may receive.

Why don't you try 100% realism? It may seem complicated at first but its by far more enjoyable. As for the sweep, you must decide which targets to engage and which not to. Most likely as you said you will almost always run out of ammo, at that point as Awacs for RTB, and see what they say. They may tell you to RTB or tell you to continue on the sweep - at which point you will tell the AI to take the lead, as he will probably have some slammers left. Try to discipline yourself not to fire at everything within the radar range, only engage targets that you deem a threat or which are flying through your space. TOS = time on schedule - ideally you want your own ETA to match the TOS as closely as possible.

Yes, undestroyed aircraft stay at the base until the base is destroyed or taken over by ground forces. So if the mig is lucky enough to survive, he will continue to fly until the aircraft from his home plate is depleted. Each airfield is assigned a certain amount of aircraft. Go shooter (AFAIK) = your wingman will engage first the targets you/the mission/the circumstances assign. The idea is the two planes are supposed to be supportive of each other so its unlikely in a real situation you will have No1 and No2 in a flight engaging at the same time.. unless breifed otherwise or it is completely nessessary if both planes are under threat. Preach

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Don't be afraid to nose down 5-10degrees to 'help' you maintain your energy. For now, pass it by and continue your training, as you become more and more familar with the plane and systems you'll start to find it alot easier and you'll understand under what conditions you can turn, and you'll start to adjust and tweak your stick/controls/plane. Don't get too hung up on it, you need a few hours flying/dogfighting/sam evasion to really learn how the plane handles. Or, get someone to teach you lol Preach

hmm how strange, here's a random idea... get someone you know in you squadron or friend with a fully updated and working falcon to copy their speech files and the sound files you are missing and paste them directly onto your machine.. of course thats an idea which has little chance of working but it's worth a shot. also, run a diagnostic on your sound card, maybe its now limiting the number of sounds played (update/driver failure/system settings), also a very long shot atleast you can then narrow the problem down. tbh, I'm abit stumped Preach

strange, provided you are turning up the volume if you start on ramp starts...(I've forgot a few times) I'd simply suggest the fastest way to fix this would be a fresh install with a fresh full patch. Praech

Where does everyone arrange MP games for WOE? I've saw this hyperlobby thing but noone is ever on. Preach

Lo all, Just a quickie here. So I've made a WOE dogfight video of various bits of me.. (If not found give it a little while until its finished processing) So anyways, I was looking for some advice, I want to add sound track to it or maybe effects (yes i am a nublet for not recording the sound ingame) and just jazz it up a little. my question is... what sound track do you think suits this best? Or is the video too crap for a soundtrack? any suggestions cheers Preach

Tonight I'll be online from 2230 onwards if anyones online for a flight. hamachi details are above. see you there

ok ok...... NATO 1, 2 + NATO ENVIRONMENT I think we can all agree on these... Oh... figured multiple installs.... just copy your whole WOE folder and paste it somewhere and rename it. Works the same. Now I have WOE stock, WOE NATO and WOE <looking for mod>. I'm in the timezone GMT anyone else......? Have you all got XFIRE - add me - ryan856 HAMACHI go forth and download (www.hamachi.cc) this Godsend..... then join Network name - Flightnight Password - flightnight How are you lads (and ladies?) fixed for sometime this Saturday..... seeing as im off work and the woman is going away I have the whole day nag free :fans: BTW if anyone reads this tonight 24/01/07 - I'll be on hamachi for the next 3 hours or so, give me a shout if you fancy a flight. Cheers, Preach

^BUMP^ Any more interested people, there must be more than 4 people who's up for a blast on WOE? Preach

Yeah I tried that before I posted.... not alot of life out there im afraid :(

littlesmoke you fancy a game of WOE now? I tried to send you a PM but messed it up so... let me know any of you got XFIRE? my id is Ryan856 If anyone wants a game of WOE tonight let me know on xfire. Preach /ok back on topic

hi all, I've had a search and no luck so..................................... here goes Is there anyway to make the MP dogfights or co-op missions in WOE at night? (without downloading user made missions) I've had a look at some .ini's but could'nt see anything really but I am only brand new at WOE so excuse the ignorance! Preach

I have..... IL2 (no expansion just original) WOE Falcon 4.0 CFS1 CFS3 I was aiming this topic more towards WOE as I've played multiplayer to death on the other games. If we all use hamachi, just setup a channel and all join so we can see each other and just hop into the host. I have'nt figured how to do multiple installs on WOE but I'm running, the NATO1,2 and environment + the "woe_airfield_1,2,_3_&_4_lighting_mod". I setup a HAMACHI Channel: Network name - Flightnight Password - flightnight Both the name and password is case sensitive, and using hamachi everything is much easier, we have to need to mess about with gamespy or hyperlobby or anything else, just join the channel, and click on LAN game and hey presto..... done and dusted. Can we get abit more interested or will there only be the 4 of us lol Throw some thoughts and feelings people, the more the merrier... after we get abit of interest, maybe work on which mods for all to get etc? Preach

Just wondering if anyone here has a 'flight night' where everyone can just join and dogfight or arrange co-ops seeing as there's no squadrons around? Anything like this happen? If not should we try and arrange something? anyone?

Is there any WOE players that have managed to do this? I fully understand all 2 sims are on the same engine and have similar files, but I have tore apart my installation and thoroughly checked and cross referenced with the knowledge base articles with bugger all luck I will give my wife to anyone who can come up with a solid, 110% working solution, with the exact files to edit Cheers, Preach

Thanks but i did say.... I spent almost 2 hours looking for and editing alot of the files in WOE to try and add a carrier and it would'nt work as, I have already said, the content and the filenames are different. So I edited the next closest match, and various others in many combinations to no avail. If someone has already done it, can you please send me the files or list EXACTLY which files you edited with what. I am fully away of what the knowledge base says, so do not just 'pass' me on again. Preach

Ok, will look into the mission editor.. but what is the 'legwork'. I don't understand what I have to do Can you tell im new at this?