Barton

Well I’ve never gotten any kills in my sleep so i cant say my pants are that good

My pants were made for me by a skilled Prussian Tailor who unfortunately was killed on the front lines in the early days of the war. I try to avenge him on every sortie.

Unless I'm performing a bounce, where I have time to align my sights in 6DOF, I just shoot by the seat of my pants. In WW1 aircraft you're usually so close it hardly matters. But then again I'm usually flying an Alb and the nipple on the front of the engine serves as a pretty good placeholder for a gun sight.

An overview of the flight as a supplement: In the first furball I was over an enemy forward airbase to try to help clear it for strikers. Most of the action was taking place below me and I played it safe keeping my speed and altitude up with an eye over my shoulder. I was looking for a target of opportunity and in a tight, low fight like that they can be a bit hard to come by. I did end up finding a couple. Caught a MiG in the vertical which was a remarkably reckless maneuver on his part that I didn't fully punish. Later I pressed an attack on an La-5 after seeing so many friendlies in the area I felt I could get away with it. Although it was pure luck that I lit him on fire with that shot as he dove for the deck. Kill or not I was pulling away to avoid getting over committed. I was surprised to find the Yak chasing another 109 in a slow climb in such a hot area and was able to make good on a blind side attack. Looked at attacking a low P-40 but he turned around on me. He knew I was there. I knew CIA_Elanski was on the server and that was probably him. I wanted to press the attack but I found another fight up high. It likely wouldn't have interfered with me if I did attack the P-40 but I figured there may be more enemies up by the clouds so I switched to the high fight. I did get a good hit on a well set up attack but I pulled out seeing the other 109 all over him. I had done very well until now but I chased him low after the other 109 broke off and he hit the deck, feeling all mighty. I didn't want to commit too heavily and leave myself too exposed but if he was going to fly level and not check his six I'd take an easy kill. Unfortunately, he saw me and evaded and I was going to call it off but I saw the other 109 join back in so I turned around to engage again. The other 109 got him turning pretty hard but misjudged an angle and flew into the trees. This left the bandit low and slow and I was able to pick him off. Fortunately nobody else saw the fight. I picked up an Pe-2 and thought about giving chase but I have my reservations because gunners have a habit of being ungodly lethal when they are not completely incompetent. Also, a Pe-2 when flown well can be a hard target to kill all on its own. I also spotted an enemy Yak high above me and decided to climb up under him and try to attack. He dove down below before I could get to him and I found another bandit above me as I gave a bit of chase so I peeled off and took stock of the situation. I engaged some of the fighters but really couldn't do much on my own as the only other 109 got himself shot to ribbons pretty quickly. After the Pe-2s vacated I looked for the fighters down low and found one. I set up an attack but his early evasiveness indicated he had a friend close by or he just had very good SA. I did find his buddy behind him but the one I didn't see was the buddy in front of him. I thought I had the lead guy when I had the middleman. I managed the situation as best I could as a 2v1 and managed to keep them from being able to coordinate too well but this allowed the third guy to climb and chase me. As I made my came down off the perch into a run on the second enemy I saw him pitch up into a vertical maneuver and I remember thinking, "this guy is baiting me" but I knew where enemy #1 was and he wasn't going to touch me so I pressed the attack. Upon taking damage I immediately turned for the trees and friendly lines. Fortunately I was able to keep ahead of him despite the damage I took. I had more energy than he did to begin with but I'm not sure if it was bad engine management or what that kept him from closing on me. He eventually clobbered a tree. The MiG didn't give up and chased me for a bit until it was obvious he wasn't going to catch me. I had thought about turning to engage him but I realized he wasn't gaining on me and if I turned to fight him I definitely wasn't going to make it home. He rolled into a split S to try to escape but he wasn't paying quite enough attention to his altitude and hit the deck a little more literally than he intended. Damage I had caused him earlier ensured I got credit for a kill when he went in. I tried like hell to make it home but with no radiator fluid to keep the engine cool I turned into a glider and ended up ditching about 5km outside the airfield. When the engine started to overheat I had two thoughts. Either cut throttle and try to putt in or run wide open and climb as much as I could until the engine gave up. I'm not sure option 1 would have worked, but option 2 definitely didn't. At different times in the flight I told myself to go home but I didn't. I had enough fuel and ammo to keep up the fight but one small break of my personal rules of engagement lead to another, and another, and before I knew it I was running home with my tail between my legs because I had bit off more than I could chew. Listen to your inner voice. When it speaks, its because you've subconsciously recognized something and you need to listen. If you don't think you have an inner voice you probably just aren't listening.

Took my first spin on WoL for the month and came up just short of returning my plane home after what I thought was a 2v1 turned out to be a 3v1.

I think he said the rate of fire was adjusted via the gas port and tuning the recoil spring but I'm not going to try to fish that out of the video. I really liked the animation. It's amazing how something that looks so incredibly complicated is in fact a series of very simple and ingenious mechanisms. I certainly would not be inclined to reload a magazine on a Lewis gun during a dogfight. Would be interesting to see this implemented in FC by either disallowing stick inputs during reload or losing the magazine overboard if you start throwing the plane around in the middle of a reload. Not sure how well that would be received by Entente pilots, but I've always found it fascinating to be in the middle of a violent turn fight in RoF while reloading the overwing gun thinking, "this could never happen."

Pick up as many of the add-ons as you can. More planes, more playing. Can always go back on another sale and pick up the "collector" planes.

The tracks list but it has an error when you try to play them. Ctrl+F! gets you back into the cockpit. If you just hit F1 it has a narrowed FOV and won't zoom as you did as it was happening (if you were adjusting this during the fight).. Ctrl + F1 brings it back to the way it should be. Don't know why this is. Russians, I guess...

I lost a shit load of old tracks from the recent update. A couple that weren't too old that I really wanted to use for videos. Oh, well. Thought I would have learned this lesson by now but recent experience proves otherwise. Not sure when I'll get enough material for more videos as I have found time to play very fleeting.

So there’s a back story to my relationship to this song and the short version is it was in a motocross video I used to watch as a kid when a I rode dirt bikes. The tune stuck with me but I never remembered the name of the song or band. The other day it came on the radio and it’s been in the back of my head for at least 3 or 4 days with no signs of going away. At least there are worse songs to be stuck on.

It is hard to believe it’s been so long. Still remember editing them like it was just last week

Throwback to my first ever kill montage set to a techno/dubstep beat. Lots of good action both offensive and defensive. The one that got it all started!

Thanks guys I just learned how to “pause†the video like that. Have to split the track and take a screen shot. I screwed it up in the first half of the video but I got it worked out by the end and didn’t feel like going back and re-doing the beginning. The screenshots make it easy to edit in arrows and the like with MS paint. I’ll probably do a few more of these in the near future with better commentary.

I got a request for commentary and felt the need to oblige. Hope you all enjoy!

Both shots at 1:25 and 1:40 were beautiful. Good video!

They were both chasing the other 109 as he was going vertical. Not sure why the one I was chasing was going after him as he had no chance of getting a shot. I was also pursuing him. Both of the Migs were on comms but it seemed like they were having a hard time coordinating who they were after as they both seemed to engage the same guy all the time. It worked well for them until it didn't. I was just about ready to saddle up on one as I was growing tired of chasing them around.

I have to hand it to both of these pilots for how well they handled their planes right up until the end. I was continuously surprised at how hard I had to push to get at them. It would have been a lot easier if the other 109 was a bit more in tune with what was going on. He was indispensable as a distraction that allowed me more freedom in engaging but that was about it.

One day, maybe. But I have another plan to get the most realistic experience in 2019.

Nah, I'm done with it. I put on the mod but I'm not going to spend days on end tweaking this crap. Not when the lenses will constantly blur everything no matter where I position the headset and not when my current setup works perfectly. There's nothing you can do to this to get anything clear and visible as it is on a 40+" TV. I'd think about keeping it if I had time to play racing sims but I don't.

I’ll give this a try tomorrow after work but I’m not expecting much

I’m returning it. The resolution is shit even with my 1080ti I can’t see let alone ID any aircraft outside 3km unless it is shooting at something and the lenses blur everything just enough to make it noticeably worse regardless what setting I have it at. It is nice being able to see around posts so easily but it sure as hell isnt worth $350. I’ll gladly be getting a refund tomorrow.

getting VR set up is a royal pain in the ass.