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I’ll be posting it from my perspective. Glad I was able to record it

Saw this post of a video of a guy getting shot up in a 262. I think I know where those .50s came from https://forum.il2sturmovik.com/topic/61056-lucky-me-262-returns-to-base-with-one-engine-on-combat-box-server/

I flamed a 262 yesterday and he dove away putting out the engine fire and RTB’d. On a side note I am absolutely in love with the P-38

Yeah I thought that would have done more damage. I also didn't kill the P-47 I shot right after that. Reviewing the footage revealed he saved it from that stall and flew home. I can more believe that with the Jug's reputation but I expected more from the P-51 wing hit and the bounce on the Spitfire.

I think it is a step in the right direction. Much less gratuitous dismembering. Though I think some are a little too strong. A lot of the Russian early war planes were a lot of plywood and they seem to take a beating like they’re made from steel. More fine tuning but it is better that you have to be able to put a lot of shots in where they count to get a kill instead of a few lucky rounds taking a wing off

THIS! THIS IS ON MY BUCKET LIST!

With GLOC you have to have it in game and it certainly is a factor in actual combat. It affects everyone differently in real life because of conditioning and even the build of the person. This can't easily be translated to online fighting in a sim like IL-2 and the most fair thing is to have everyone the same, so the only thing different is the pilot skill and the aircraft performance. Outside, at least, the presence of a G-suit like the P-51s have. In the other video I posted you could easily see the effects of G-fatigue and the difference between having a G-suit and not. The P-51 easily pulls a few more Gs than me without blacking out because of this. I really don't have a problem with this. It is just hard to get used to because GLOC was such a small part of the game before. You really had to pull like a madman to blackout. But that's just not the case in real life. The only way I could see them implementing a gradual GLOC sensitivity in game is having it be linked to Virtual Lives on the server. But this would require servers to record another variable of a pilot's interactions on the server. I also feel like this would be something some shitheads would try to game. Just taking off and flying around in their own backfields, far away from any combat, just pulling Gs and trying to build conditioning before going into an actual combat. Maybe they could make the GLOC a little more forgiving, assuming that everyone's pilot is a little more conditioned. This would help the game a bit I think, but I really don't have much problem with it. I have adjusted a lot by incorporating more negative-g maneuvers to force the blood back into the head of my pilot. It is also useful for fooling opponents when used well. It's part of how I was able to defeat both this 109 and the P-51. Later on in the next sortie on this same server, flying another MiG, I met this same pilot and had another fight with him, but this time I pulled into greying out in a high speed turn down low and he GLOC'd into the trees trying to follow me.

I can't tell you off the top of my head which one is the ASI, I don't think I even ever looked at it in this video.

I made a post about this in another thread about the updates, but in Jimmy Doolittle's autobiography "I Could Never be so Lucky Again" he describes ordering all bombers in the North Africa campaign under his command to use 500lb bombs instead of 1000 lb bombs because it was nearly impossible to kill AA guns without a direct hit. I foresee more people using more conventional bomb loads from now on. How close of a near miss? If you put one withing a few feet, probably. Especially a medium or light tank. Maybe not a Tiger. But there is a HUGE difference in the blast pressures from 5 and 25 ft from the epicenter of an explosion. I think the fact that every Tom, Dick, and Harry was off trying to level entire fortifications with SC1000s and 1800s all the time vs the fact that most of the bombs dropped in the war from all sides were 500lb or less (outside of special targets, obviously) is indicative of the damage model of bombs being a bit overpowered. There is a reason why bombs are laser or GPS guided these days.

Cutting my teeth in high speed late war dogfights on the Combat Box Server. https://youtu.be/MXTyDuiv9XE

Lol Right

I think I have an extra sata cable. I ended up just getting a 500 GB SSD. Should be plenty and they were half the price.

I found a couple 1TB SSDs on Amazon for about $110. I will probably just buy that and port all my games and other software to that. Thanks guys

My SSD is a bit on the skinny side when it comes to storage capacity. 225GB isn't a whole lot in these days. Any suggestions? Is cloning a drive easy?

Maybe you should...turn the other cheek?! . I’ll let myself out.

I’d be happy to exchange some patches with you Larner! But I hope you get more of mine, though. Call it generosity.

I might use those to denote times I got wounded or heavily damaged and still made it home in FiF

Just a good memory. I’ll leave the kill markings to the II./JG1 side and WW2. Whenever we get a tournament for it that will count kills anyway

I'll have to request the emblem be moved rearward on the fuselage so it does not cover the lettering under the cockpit. As it is the lettering sticks out on either side. Otherwise it is perfect, and I scored 4 kills (Balloon, 1PL Camel, Random Dolphin, and AI 2 seater) on my first outing with it flying with Dudley on the J5 server (although it was really low population).

S! Jaus

Thanks Vonrd!

Actually, just make the rudder green like the rest of the tail section.

that looks great!