Barton

I used to run 500 meter convergence in the Bf-109 and other planes with hub and cowl mounted guns (like most Russian planes). I found that the extreme elevation put the bullets out further up at the range where I typically shoot (150-300 meters) and I could get hits with less deflection. I stopped doing that because it’s tedious to try to change it every time in IL-2 GB

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It was very difficult at first but that was the early stages of IL-2 BoS and they didn’t have a lot right with the game. Of course I can’t completely blame my failing on the devs. I did eventually start to pick it back up again. The biggest key in my opinion is the change in paradigm from aiming your guns like one would aim a rifle and aiming the way a falcon would. Instead of moving the guns to shoot at a target you maneuver the plane as a whole to attack your prey. In the latter you feel more at one with the machine. This way both flying and fighting feels more natural and intuitive. Of course if I can see both my gunsight and the enemy I will try to use the sight, especially for longer shots, but if I have to sacrifice my view of one or the other I will take seeing the enemy every time.

My aiming without the gunsight started in IL-2 1946 with the Fw-190. When you hit the button to get the “aim down sights†view you were low and to the right in the cockpit. It is terrible for deflection shots as just about any degree of deflection puts the enemy plane below your widscreen and out of view. I got away from this by positioning my pilots head so the the center of the reticle was at the top left corner of the collimator glass. This turned the top left corner of the glass itself into a half sight (having the bottom half of the sight as the left edge and the right horizontal as the top). This gave much better visibility. As an unforeseen side effect it also trained me to be able to visualize where my shots would land without it completely because if my head moved to the left I wouldn’t have any reference at all. I started to use parts of the plane outside of my cockpit, namely the two cowl mounted MG, to reference my aim. Once I started doing that it opened up a whole new can of worms. I was able to make shots and track planes you wouldn’t even be able to see while looking down the sight. If you look up some of my old montage videos from back then, specifically the “rock n rolling scissors†videos, you’ll see what I’m talking about. Steadily I found it a beneficial trade off of giving up sight of the reticle and gaining sight of the enemy plane. It’s much easier to aim without view of the gunsight than it is without view of the enemy.

LOL it wasn't anyone I'm familiar with.

First flights and impressions of Flying Circus early release https://youtu.be/WWBb1TMN1sc

The Spad 13 and the dr1. You couldn’t have picked two more completely different planes to release. Would have been better to release a DH2 and an Eindecker. Spad and Fokker will give the least interesting fights ever. Should have released the Alb D3 and The tripe. Oh well. Good thing I got a bunch of overtime last week. Time to pull out my credit card.

There are a lot of people who run single player as well and bad AI makes it hard to really get into. AI in Rise of Flight is just as guilty. I think the developers are on the razors edge financially because they’re trying to pump out new content more than ironing out what they have. Still lots of graphics issues I’ve run into and FM adjustments to be made (like the P-40s engine), but they’re concentrating on developing 3 new add ons. Granted I’m excited about the new content but I think they could and should be doing much more to correct what they already have. AI is a big one that needs to be corrected but I doubt it ever will be.

I’ll look when I get home

I still haven't finalized them yet but here they are

A series of defensive stands in the P-40

Jasta 6 is out here gobbling up awards like Pac-Man! Congrats, guys!

A bit late but Congrats to both Baron and Luft for very good streaks! Congrats to Baron for achieving what proved to be just outside my grasp! Wonder what new medal Klaiber will have to come up with when you hit 50! ~Salute~

The AI gets better with multiple planes but I would hope so. I use multiple AI fights to hone my SA in keeping track of multiple bandits and gunnery. They aren’t completely useless but even the best are anything but “aceâ€

The AI in RoF is beyond stupid. I’ve watched AI planes come in from hundreds of meters above, juked their attack, and then watched them blow all their energy and descend hundreds of meters below me. They don’t attempt to retain altitude at all. They’re worthless for anything other than cannon fodder to sharpen your aim.

Very beautiful! Great work!

Wednesday. Estimated date of delivery. May have to take Thursday off

Thanks for the advice, Luft!

A lot of the differences in the cards seems to come from the cooling hardware and minor details in architecture. Either way it’s from EVGA and they are extremely reputable with NVidia cards. I just hope I don’t damage anything in installation. I may have to order a liquid cooling system for my processor since my heat sink is about the size of a kitchen sink.

Couldn’t have had better timing. After messing around with budget cards for some time I got fed up with it and went the Nuclear option. Went on newegg and picked up an EVGA 1080 ti SC Black Series. Coughed up almost $800 for a back ordered card that should be here in a couple weeks. Could have gotten one sooner but it would have cost an extra $200 and the frugal side of me won the internal argument. After two days the back ordered cards have gone up $100 and the in stock cards have jumped from a little over $900 to over $1,300. Sweet Jesus

I used sharpen and 4K textures. Got rid of the stutter and as far as I could tell in QM the disappearing act, though I should do a bit more testing

I can try to draw up some plans if you want. It was all seat of the pants engineering. Vonrd - .....maybe. 🤔🤨ðŸ˜