Hauksbee

I've been getting the feel of the D.VII lately, but, so far, I've only flown the D.VII at the top of the list. How do the other two differ from the standard D.VII?

Yes! They're still nursing a grudge for 'the Fokker Scourge'.

Yes. Periodically. And frequently if I turn on FRAPS. But when mine locks, it resumes from where it stopped.

Exactly so! I was peeling off, going in for attack. Nothing violent or flashy. Very odd. Perhaps the developers have slipped a Trojan Horse into the code: the NRS Worm. On April 12, non-recoverable spins will start.

Yeah, but just think: a chance to fly something older, more primitive, more vicious and squirrely than a E.IIII. Definitely not for sissies.

'Flew the D.VIIF about an hour ago. This is the way to go. In a chase I could keep the nose higher than I've ever been able to with any other plane. And without getting constant yellow flashing Stall warnings.

Last night I pulled off one of those improbable, breath-taking shots, and would you believe it, I hadn't turned on FRAPS and it was two o'clock in the morning and there was no one I could call to tell 'em about it. It was the opening moves of QC, 15,000 ft., I'm in a D.Va stalking a gaggle of Nieuport 17's. I follow them through the top of a huge cloud and when we emerge I'm closing at the 7 o'clock position. The two lead Nieuports are strung out ahead, but the rest are flying in two neat pairs. I take the lead plane in the front pair. The shot is a bit on the long side so I start tapping the trigger sending 1/2 second bursts to see where the shots are falling. With a little adjust, I get my shots centered and just as the black smoke is starting, his squadron mate overtakes him, pulling into my line of fire. With all this going for me, I hold down the trigger for a few long bursts. He falls away, spinning, and I'm still lined up on the first Nieuport who peels off and flees but I caught him. So now I am very, very stoked, but also gnashing my teeth because I almost hit F9 to get FRAPS up and running, but didn't. "Damn!," I thought, "I'll never see a shot like that again!" But barely twenty minutes later the conditions of the shot happened again. [but I didn't get there in time.] So here's the kernal of the question: has anyone else noticed this tendency of Nieuports to arrange themselves in pairs?

Has anyone attempted, or performed, that skidding turn in a Triplane that Voss made famous?

Now that my gunnery is getting better, I find that the on-screen text damage reports always seem to descend like a blue drape right over my target just as it's about to do something spectacular...and ruins my trophy FRAPS captures. The better my shooting, the more it has to tell me about it. Where's the turn-off? Thanks.

Good shot. Has anyone's plane ever been hit by a falling pilot? It would be a most ironic fate to be 'shot down' by the falling pilot of the plane you just creamed.

There it is. Thanks guys.

The D.VII OAW. [?]

Mingers?

Now I'm really impressed!

Today I've had good luck with my shooting, but time-after-time [mainly today] I've crept up on an SE-5, unloaded on him, the top wing shreds and goes flying off, but as he spirals down...there's still a top wing in place. Has anyone else seen this?

Well put

B'demmed! A skinners heaven!

Cosmos33: Relax. It's 1918. Your disc is on its way to you just as fast as horse can pull.

You'll be amazed at how well they don't fly. You'll be stunned to discover that in combat, your plane wants to kill you first [assuming that it has not done so on take-off. You'll be asked to do the near impossible with planes that are sluggish, under-powered, unresponsive to the controls, and posses the most vicious flying characteristics imaginable. I think I can say [since I came from a similar background as yours] that your WWII experience will get you killed repeatedly. So...is this game fun? OH YES. I've had my disc for about a month, and I find that I've developed a completely new hand on the stick. Planes that wallowed like pigs and stalled perpetually now go where I point them. [beware the DH-2 and the Fokker E.III]. It was a great game right out of the box, but install the patch as soon as you can. If nothing else, it sharpens the effect of your guns. [Forgiving planes to start with: SE-5's and Fokker D.VII's] This game will change your life. Now as I enter a room, I find myself calculating a lead on the cat. [who's been doing the same to me for years.]

On a whim, I selected the C.II for a stroll over Allied lines last night. It was a very pleasent experience. It flew well, had a reasonable amount of power, was forgiving and didn't stall repeatedly. And it was nice have a rear gunner protecting my butt. I recall reading that the C.II was designed as a bomber but was so agile that they could fly fighter cover for bomber C.II's When were they operational? When my TrackIR gets here, I think I'd like to put a pilot in a German unit and fly a mission with it. Can you have a British pilot and a German pilot at the same time in OFF, and not be shot for treason?

Just re-watched the History Channel's Dogfights episode on WWI. In the fight between Brooks and the D.VII's, he shoots down four, but due to some technical nuance on awarding victories, he is only credited with two. What was the issue involved?

In the matter of skinning, I see much on Photoshop and Alpha Channels...but will the process support Bump Maps?

The AI may put some formidable pilots in the air, but it's nurturing cretins as company clerks. I mentioned in a former thread that after installing the 1.28 patch, I garnered four DSC's and a VC within 48 hours. In QC! Each time I closed out of QC, there was a new award. Lately, the awards page has not been showing up and I felt that the program had corrected itself. Not so. This morning while in the CAMPAIGN section [still looking for CAMPAIGN DATA!] I checked out the Pilot Stats. There I was, and all the awards lined up neatly at the bottom. Not only that, I discovered that I've flown 91 missions, [which only took 11.5 hours] and I've put in claims for 104 kills [ground and air] and clinched 71 confirmations. [i am obviously a much badder sum'bitch than I ever suspected!] But seriously...?

Not a hope! All guns on strongest, pilot is invincible, labels on, etc. Gim'me every edge I can get while I try to master these sluggish, viscious airplanes. However; my TrackIR is in the mail and when that gets here, I'll have to get honest and fly some campaigns. Share the discomfort.

Want to find the Skins Folder in OFF. The tutorial by 'gous' says they're in CAMPAIGNS>CAMPAIGN DATA>SKINS. But when I go to CAMPAIGN, I get a short movie [always worth watching] and then I end up here. I don't see CAMPAIGN DATA.