Aiming. Is it just me?

[Trickyricky]

Is it just me or did aiming just become harder over night?

 

I am relatively new to flight simming - I´ve spent like 50 hrs in CloD, maybe 30 in RoF and most practice I got in BoS.

So not a total newb but far from simming the past 20 yrs or something like that

 

I don´t consider myself to be a good marksman - on the contrary.. I am a pretty bad shooter.

But it got better over time and at least offline I managed to take down several enemies in one sortie.

 

The last two days... things seem to have changed... I just hit loads a fresh air.. but no planes.

Did you experience something like that yourself?

Or should I just drink one or two beers before flying next time?

[Leaf]

I'd go for the beers, if I were you. 

[fjacobsen]

Drink some beers.....

 

I´m not sure if anything has changed.

On good days I´m an Ace, on bad days i´m just a sitting duck.

 

Today I made a furball in QMB.

4x BF-109F2

4x FW-190A3

 

vs

 

4x LA-5

4x Yak-1

 

All set to be veterans.

 

I got 4 kills and was unhurt.

On other days I´m shot down constantly without hitting anything.

 

FinnJ

[VBF-12_Snake9]

Don't know if hit percentage in implemented yet, but in il2 46 10% to 12% hit percent was considered good, depending on what plane you were flying.  TnB, BnZ would of course make a difference.  While in ROF with slower planes somewhere around 20% is doing well.  Like others have said until convergence gets corrected on some planes, just point and shoot from the hip.  I know with the 190 you actually need to aim above the target for the cannon rounds to drop onto it.  The 190 right now is kind of like a double barrel shotgun.  It just blasts lead everywhere. 

[Trickyricky]

Well.. maybe it´s really just me having two bad days in a row.

 

Don't know if hit percentage in implemented yet, but in il2 46 10% to 12% hit percent was considered good, depending on what plane you were flying.  TnB, BnZ would of course make a difference.  While in ROF with slower planes somewhere around 20% is doing well.  Like others have said until convergence gets corrected on some planes, just point and shoot from the hip.  I know with the 190 you actually need to aim above the target for the cannon rounds to drop onto it.  The 190 right now is kind of like a double barrel shotgun.  It just blasts lead everywhere. 

 

I fly BF 109 F4 only atm, so convergence ain´t really a problem since I never use cannon-pods.

In order to fly the 109 as it should be flown, I BnZ and try not to turn with my enemy (need to work on my discipline though ^^).

Can´t tell you anything about my hit percentage, but flying a sortie with 4 vs 6 planes (like to be under pressure I guess ^^) I managed to wreck 4 planes several times and still had some ammo left.

So this should be okay... not the last two days though.. merely could take down 1 plane firing all my rounds.

[keeno]

Hey Tricky,

 

no its not just you. I'm a fairly lousy fighter pilot with very iffy gunnery skills. occasionally I do ok-ish online but the other night I sucked huge. After 2hrs I totalled a truck and got a shared kill, jesus! I guess its just practice.

 

Keep at it.

[216th_Peterla]

Same here buddy. I use to be terrible one days, other days mediocre and so lucky others. I think also the peripherals(joystick, pedals and whatever) help you a little if they are good.

[ducs]

I find aiming in this game easier than all other flight sims save for no convergence settings yet.

 

The engine actually feels realistic and intuitive for shots as opposed to other games where I've felt I'm fighting against latency and shit damage models.

[Meng]

I find aiming in this game easier than all other flight sims save for no convergence settings yet.

 

The engine actually feels realistic and intuitive for shots as opposed to other games where I've felt I'm fighting against latency and shit damage models.

 

I agree.  You can do deflection shots by instinct because the engine works very well.