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Wow, impressive shot there, Widowmaker! Those Jasta 18 boys can get nasty. They once smoked my SPAD XIII pilot in co-op between D VIIs and Dr.1s. Here is my second sortie with Jasta 80 b in Alsace. We didn't meet any enemies, but the flying in that dramatic scenery and weather was great.

Widowmaker: I have a feeling that P4 may well exceed even our wildest dreams I hope you'll keep saying that, when you won't get a Snipe, old chapp.

The plane was easy - Morane Saulnier "N" type. The gun is a Hotchkiss Model 1914. Not that I knew this - but I have my sources. Maybe the same as you have.

Yes, Rabu, it was, long time ago. But it's a good site, and always worth a reminder. By the way - I'm missing UncleAl. He would normally say, that lots of these links are "chiseled in stone" "north of our position" (in the Sticky Threads). You're not seriously ill, Unc?

In Alsace with Jasta 80 b Started a new carreer with Jasta 80 b (Bayern); own new skin included. Our homefield name sounds rather German - Gross-Tanchen. Patrolling over Buhl-Lorraine, we spotted 4 Sopwith Strutter and chased after them. The whole weather situation in combination with the landscape was very dramatic, and I couldn't stop making screenshots. When we attacked the last and leading craft, I witnessed a new bit of OFF: the Strutter started turning and fought us! Yet there are still always surprises in OFF!

Looking better, isn't it, Carrick ? And if you find the way to the Anti-Aliasing, you would also get "real" wiring between the wings.

Yes, Creaghorn's tracers make it harder to know, if you hit. As an ace who's gone through many aces' lives, you will of course be able to shoot down unrealistic high numbers of enemy craft. So Creaghorn and others have concentrated more and more on surviving the war, cause that is the difficulty. As long as you fight rather careless (as I still do quite often), you can make lots of kills and medals. But to make it through the whole war - well, no one here yet made it (as far as I could see). Me, I am growing up in that point. More and more do I rather think about bringing back my wingmen, instead of making two more kills. You may have to limit yourself a bit in that aspect, to enjoy some realism.

BurningDaylight: So how hard can it really be for a guy like me? Very hard. I dare to bet, that you will not make it alive through the war with one pilot. With all aids switched off, you may have good times, when you receive a good fighter. But then the other side also gets better. You'd have to be an Ernst Udet or René Fonck to make it through the whole WW1. So, you're waiting for your challenge here!

SOW ?

Rugbyfan, you can adjust EVERYTHING in TrackIR5. - the real head movement angle it needs to check full six can be made wider or more narrow; so you could check six even with only 10° head turning, if you wanted - the speed and smoothness, with which all happens - you can "mirror" all diagram curves, or you don't, and adjust one side different to the other Once you have got used to TrackIR, you would never want to miss it again.

Thanks for the info, Sandbagger. I dreamt last night, that Pol was working on the model of this craft in a small room late in the night, while you tried to apply new taylormade skins to it, which made him nudge: "Not now, Sand - I need to get on with the wings first!" Only a dream - but you would be asthonished, how often my dreams somehow blend with real life...

Update July 24; 2010; 23:56 h Berlin summertime (= GMT + 2) DeathJester, California, added. (First pilot in Frisco !) All the maps are in post 1 of this thread

The "L" type? Thank you guys. I'm not fit with the French craft. Looks like a cuty to have in OFF, especially, if it could carry a machine gun. A pre-Bebe craft to dogfight the Eindecker, perhaps?

BurningDaylight, you wont see your pilot figure, when you are in cockpit view mode, which would be the most realistic way to fly a plane. That there are pilot figures in the other craft you see around you, is rather the normal way it would look - that you see a pilot. Someone must fly the crate. I dare to guess (and it's only a personal guess here, as the devs don't let anything out), that you could still enjoy P3 for some time. And it doesn't suck at all. Promised.

Well, I'm not sure, if the sim uses it, but I have moved your DM into the aircraft folder via Generic Mod Enabler, and I now see that folder "aircraft" in the right windown of GME. I'm not sure, how I could know, that it is used in Campaign though.

When was this built - looks like the Fokker E.V ?

Lou, you are right about most of Norway; but wide parts of the more settled Sweden and Finnland are more flat. Denmark even flatter.

Update July 24; 2010; 12:10 h Berlin summertime (= GMT + 2) Kilo33, Texas, added. All the maps are in post 1 of this thread

PS: before you start thinking, this sim was too difficult/hard: there are of course plenty of options to cut down the realism for training. So you can start it easy, and grow with it.

BurningDaylight, since no release date for P4 is even vaguely announced, it may still take some time. If you think about how easily you may spend 20 bucks on pizza, icecream, Cola and cinema or women I say: buying Over Flanders Fields is money spent, you WON'T regret. P3 is so damn good, that you will find it hard enough to develop a decent pilot quality, until P4 arrives, which may be even harder to survive. So, if you ask me (but I confess: I'm an ultimate fan!): BUY!

Depends on your graphic card, Carrick. I use an ATI card. For this card, I have the ATI Catalyst Manager. There I go to "3D" and click "ALL". Now I get all settings that can be clicked. Among them is AA (Anti-Aliasing). Best might be, you post here, what card you are running, so we might be able to help you detailed. You can also set AA in "Workshop"; there you click on "Graphics Config" as shown in my picture. Then you get a little pop-up menue; there you click on "file". Now you'll get the menue with "Resolution" and "Anti-Aliasing" values. First, you click on "Select resolution"; then you select your resolution for your monitor (see handbook, or google it). Don't choose a higher res. than your monitor's maximum is. Next, you click an Anti-Aliasing of "4 samples" or even "8 samples"; then click "OK" and leave the menues. This ingame setting doesn't work for all, but it won't do anything wrong to try. I must make the choice for that in my ATI Catalyst Control Center. I could even lead you to more advanced settings, but I would need to know your system (CPU & graphic card). If you want to, you should make a screenshot of your settings for me. Follow this: 1. open the "Graphics Config" menue as shown in my picture. 2. click on "File", then on "Custom Settings..." (there will come a warning, no panic, just click OK) [there you will find all the sliders for graphics detail. You should have Aircraft and Effects quality higher, the others can be lower - experiment with them, until you find the graphics not only look good, but also run smooth on your rig]. 3. click on "Window" in the top left corner 4. click on "Overrides" 5. now make a screenshot of that like this: press the "Print" key on your keyboard; then you leave OFF and open a program like "Paint", choose "New file", and then click both keys: Ctrl. and V Now you should have the screenshot there. Save it as a Jpeg or Bitmap, and post it here.

Yes, a balloon is a given target. You are sent out just to destroy this one Balloon. And it really only appears in the first line. So for everyone who didn't know that: even if you have shot down an enemy craft before you actually got at the balloon: always claim the balloon with the first line, then the aircraft. Otherwise you will loose the opportunity to claimit at all. BigAl, the easiest to fly craft in OFF are: - all Albatros - Fokker D.VII - S.E.5a - Sopwith Pup and Triplane - SPAD Just in case you get frustrated - the early war craft are the most challenging ones, but you may want to succeed somehow.

Do you need an assistant, Lou? Sounds like a great job! I can cook on a camping stove, read maps, and talk about lots of interesting things for hours. Think about it!

Made with love and historical knowledge - great video. Only thing I was missing, is the famous "flat turn" Voss made right at the beginning of the fight. But perhaps RoF FM can also not do that manoeuver.

You're right, must have been running twice. Now it worked fine for me.