The learning curve for this game is obviously very steep.
After ground looping about 15 Messerschmitts I've decided the instructions for this monstrosity are definitely lacking. There should be a diagram of each airfield and the audacity to place a spawned plane a mile taxi from the best takeoff position is at best questionable. I've lost more planes to taxi and take off accidents than is enjoyable. But the failure to include an individual airfield positioning map to facilitate take off is inexcusable. Obviously pilots would know airfield configurations and to have to study them from a plane one can't exit in the name of "realism" is ludicrous.
I've tried and I've died, died, died, died. It is definitely not enjoyable.
Now over the course of my several hours of play, I've actually shot down more aircraft than I've lost. It's 2 to 1 in my favor and my lost plane I nursed back home across the channel missing an elevator.......she seemed to be functioning correctly until I had to nose up upon approach.
Obviously a head tracking system is essential and understanding how to position for unobstructed views, but when one can't fairly play the game without a head tracking device or having the fields of view distorted from one snap or pan position to another it's debatable as to what kind of game you have. The same concept applies to the failure to include enemy padlock. If you don't have head tracking and you don't have in game padlock you are essentially blind. So in the name of quasi realism obstructed game play is what remains absent head tracking. A little concession to a larger fan base seems to be in order.
Other peeves, there is no way the 109's takeoff sluggishness can remotely be suggested as realistic. Nor the high altitude nimbleness of the Spitfires. Sure the 109's can out climb, out dive and out race them at most altitudes, but that's the way it was. That high altitude nimbleness of the carburated British planes however stretch credibility.
Still, it's intriguing and I'm working upon the head tracking, making my own top notch device. Just need the PTC fuses to be sure the motherboard isn't toasted.
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