Javito1986

I had no idea, thanks for the heads up! That's absolutely worth checking out. The only MMO I play is EVE Online, though it's pretty intermittent (the past few weeks I've only been logging in to keep my skills training). I'll definitely look into LotR now that it's free, sounds awesome Yesterday morning I started Valkyria Chronicles on the PS3. Now that is a lovely game. Gorgeous artwork, really fun tactical gameplay. In the 90s I loved Final Fantasy Tactics and Tactics Ogre so this is right up my alley. Shame I have lots of work to do this upcoming week, not likely to play Valkyria or continue my Royal Flying Corps career 'til Thursday night.

Man, that's actually really amazing. I don't even like Oblivion and I would love to play that. I didn't expect Minas Tirith to look THAT good. I'm big on Middle-Earth, The Hobbit was one of the first books I ever read after I picked it up from my elementary school library years and years ago.

In Goshawk Squadron they consider booze to be "squadron equipment", just as important as petrol and spare parts. Keeps the pilots from thinking too much, keeps them warm in the air, and apparently prevents an upset stomach from inhaling engine fumes

Welcome! Enjoy your stay on the Western Front, just be sure to wipe your shoes on your way through the door.

I for one am thankful for OFF and all the people on this lovely forum. Hear hear . What's everyone up to this weekend? I for one will be eating, working off the eating, spending time with the wife, and shooting down Boche machines. For those chaps outside the U.S. who don't observe the annual banquet... maybe take some time off work anyway! Yes I'm taking a break from writing this term paper due at midnight tonight. Frankly I'd rather be at home in my cockpit having my starboard wing shot off by an Albatros...

As of this morning, no snow in my corner of the Midwest just yet but we're expecting it any day now. Snow isn't all fun and games but all in all I'm happy to live somewhere where we have all four seasons. I always say that lazy people can't live in a winter climate. No matter how lazy you are you're still going to have to bring out the shovel during winter and do some old fashioned laboring. Also, having a winter makes one appreciate the other three seasons all the more.

I've been teaching myself programming with C# and animation with Blender this fall so this topic hits close to home. They opened a program in Media Arts & Game Design at my university just this fall, I'm thinking seriously of making a detour through there and getting a minor (or hell, maybe even a major) in game design before I ship out of the uni. Right now I have a major in Spanish completed and am finishing a major in Public Policy & Administration. I LOVE programming games and creating my own animations for them, and I'd very much enjoy spending time with like minded individuals learning C++ and 3ds Max and Maya. C++ is a bit too hardcore for me to try and learn without any previous programming experience, which is why I'm learning C# with XNA first. I really love it, might just be my calling in life.

As far as modern games though, all the ones mentioned so far are great (though I'm not much of of a fan of Bethesda and Oblivion/Fallout 3... Fallout New Vegas is a different story but it's made by the original Fallout devs!). This year I've played Mass Effect 2, Metal Gear Solid 4, Uncharted 2, and Final Fantasy XIII. Of those, MGS4 is the best, closely followed by ME2. Here's some old games you fellows should try. This is my shelf over at Good Old Games. Mentally add Planescape Torment, The Longest Journey, and Baldur's Gate 1 & 2 to the list and you've got yourself enough non-flight sim gaming bliss to last you through next Thanksgiving.

It's a bit possible with RSS I think. Part of the problem without RSS is simply that you fight waaaaay too much, an unrealistic amount even! In RSS you at least get to go on leave once or twice a month and you usually don't fly in bad weather. Plus if you get sent back to the homefront you get some good time off. Certainly a lot more survivable than flying 3 combat missions a day, every day, for years on end!

OH DEAR GOD. That would've given me a heart attack if it were my campaign, he passed so close to you I was sure you were about to have a horrific head on.

Lmao, that's exactly how I got into OFF last year. Swampy, if you like Red Baron 3D then OFF is the next step up the ladder. Go browse the Reports from the Front, DiD, and Survival in the Air threads. Read the after action reports, have a look at the flying manuals written for various aircraft, you'll see what I mean.

Damn kids and your damn aerial tomfoolery!

No don't worry, it wasn't my install. I was just flying the SE5 really, really badly I'm getting the hang of her now though!

I'm running off a "gaming" laptop so unfortunately there's no card upgrading for me without getting a whole new computer. I should have gotten a real computer in the first place but alas I was young and foolish when I got this comp. Funny thing is the screen was too heavy for the laptop's hinges and they cracked, now the laptop's screen won't stay upright anymore. Thankfully the wife got me this nice HD monitor last year, I just hook up the laptop to this. But basically I can never take the laptop anywhere so it may as well be a PC except I can never upgrade it. Lesson learned! I'm betting by the time P4 comes out I'll be out of college and have a career with actual income, then I can get a really sweet rig. Hell I might even get that Obutto gaming cockpit they reviewed over on the Hardware forum and live like a king

Louvert cooked this beauty of a Camel up for me. I'm in love with it! The DG are the initials of my name, 1986 being the year I was born, but the best part is the tulips on the side. They represent my wife and when I showed them to her she just thought it was the neatest thing in the world. In fact I can now devote more time to OFF than before because she knows I'll be flying this kite around. The Camel's already a pretty plane, but this one's gorgeous. Cheers to Louvert, many thanks to him and the rest of this community

Heh, I didn't even notice that similarity of vocab

It's a brilliant move indeed. The veterans on this forum dispense wisdom on fighting the Bosche and a managing marriage with equal enthusiasm.

Things've gotten better. I toasted two Huns last mission by diving on them then zooming away as fast as I could. SE5's not much of a turn fighter like my old Camel was though. Had a really good read through of the RSS manual before flying and kept better control of my mixture settings, didn't stall out this time and was able to keep her steady. Bit of a learning curve but it's gotten better! The RSS manual is indispensable. If I didn't have it as a resource I'd still be a tumbling mess in the air.

Those are the tulips I'm going to place over the graves of my enemies after I bury their dead stupid Fokkers in the mud!!! ... Whoo , that bit of aggression wore me out

I'm having a bear of a time flying the SE5 in my new RFC campaign. It's nothing like my old Camel at all! Though she's definitely more stable, and god bless her for that because the way I slip and slide haplessly in the sky the Camel would've spun out and been done with me in a heartbeat. I've been reading through the manual posted here over and over. The trouble is I just can't keep her steady. She slips left or right too far and I correct with rudder in the opposite but then she just goes too far that way. She doesn't just stay bloody still. Finding the right mixture setting is difficult and she tends to feel very, very underpowered. Extremely underpowered. She's fast but it feels like something's missing. I know the Hispano-Suiza engine wasn't so good (it's April '17), could that have something to do with it? Last mission I just could -not- line up a shot on any Hun. Fired some 450 rounds and only 13 hit home... 3% accuracy! My Camel pilot had a 17% average accuracy, and by the end of his career he'd routinely come home with 28 - 30% accuracy. I don't like to fire until I get a good position and am -very- close, but I can't get in that close to any Hun right now and I wouldn't trust myself to be able to avoid a collision if I did. Tips welcome because at this point I feel like a complete noob in the air and am staying as far away from the Huns as I can. Going to fly again this evening after work and I'm worried some damn Jasta pilot who's been in this thing since the Fokker Scourge will have me for dinner.

'86 was a good year! Minus that business with the Challenger. Curiously, that was some 9 months before I was born and the news of it broke at the same time the doctor was busy explaining to my mother exactly why she'd been feeling nausea the past few days

Welcome! Whenever chaps start mentioning wines and their years, I always seem to remember that hilarious scene in The Blue Max when Stachel offers Willy the Countesses' wine. "Excellent...................... what year is it?"

That is absolutely obscene. In fact it's outright vile. I can't imagine when it was that WW2 so completely overtook the American public's memory of WW1. I remembered the Paths of Glory today. Now that is one hell of a great WW1 movie. So damn sad too. It's going to be 2017 soon, I for one am anxiously anticipating the French government releasing its files on the 1917 Mutinies.

Yea I was freaking impressed let me tell you. When Lou asked I told him any old picture of a tulip off Google Images would do. I was NOT expecting anything like that , that blew my mind at how great and fitting it looked on the side of the Camel

AI is a bastard to program, you'd have to really delve deep into CFS3's code to get at it. Then again I suppose OBD obviously has access to that. Once you did though I suppose you'd have to implement a way for the AI objects to attack their enemies only up until a certain point or variable, then break away. It'd be hard to decide what those variables would be. Ammo? Superiority of the enemy craft? Morale hit (friendly casualties)? From my understanding the rookie AI right now is set to retreat quite more often than the aggressive AI. I suppose you just have to narrow it down and enhance it a bit more. It's not really so much a matter of "retreating" anyway, rather "Okay chaps, that's enough for now, let's head home". Things have gotten better though. Back in RB3D an engagement was do or die. You had to kill each and every single one of the enemy planes, and if you ran they would pursue you all the way back to your aerodrome. Rowan's BoB came out not too long after, it had really great AI I always thought. The Germans will always disengage you after a while, though I suppose the programmers can always base that on a very consistent variable (their fuel).