Hauksbee

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.

Just as I get past the 'perpetual stall' stage and feel as though I've got a chance, I am suddenly plagued with a tendency for my Triplane to go into a spin that lasts forever. Until I hit the ground and then it kicks me back to 15,000' and does it some more. Is there a way to stop it?

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?

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. [?]

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.

Mingers?

Now I'm really impressed!

Well put

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?

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

On occasion, I've seen pilots leaping from their planes...a little black lump drifts away and disappears. This morning I had a pilot and gunner both bail and they [or one of them] passed within a few feet of my Tripe. [Not the best screen shot.] My God! There's a whole person there. With flying suit. Incredible. [i think I dated that guy's sister last year.]

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?

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?

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.

Stuka races? Brilliant!

Oh Jaysus! I knew it would come to this. Fly in the rain and get buried in the mud. Or wear the white feather. Bloody Hell!

Quite right. The new skin does not overwrite the old. I only mean that with a template you have the comfort of knowing that an object, say, a lower wing/underside has a prescribed area. An area beyond which the texture is overlap, or excess. And, on a template, the parts can be labeled. I see in several of the skins I've looked at, the artist has occasionally tucked a label or a note in open 'dead' space. These frequently were helpful. [Ah. So that's what that part is.] But perhaps too, I'm getting ahead of myself and inventing a solution where there is no problem

Amen! to that. And the SE-5? When I started OFF, it was the only plane I could keep in the air.