feldwebel

I have been reading over everyone's responses and have been very pleased with your helpful comments. Unfortunately, the quote above wasn't very helpful and is quite possibly the most snobbish thing I have read on these forums. I think you're the one who is feeling an inappropriate sense of entitlement; read your post carefully if you want to know what I'm talking about. As for you even considering me as having a sense of entitlement, can you give me an example? Was it because I chose to use the word "horrible" like I am magical and made it so? Let me retrace my steps and walk more carefully through the eggshells of my ignorant banter and your ironic post. With that aside, thank you everyone for the helpful comments. I'll be honest with you all, I was under the impression that everyone on here was a complete tw*t after going through a few of the threads and reading what people had to say to each other. I figured I would try and post a topic that somewhat addressed something I thought could be improved and be a tw*t at the same time in order to get some answers. I don't want to go into my entire thought process concerning my rudeness, but rest assured I regret being a snatch. Yeah, I know. I do know it and was feeling frustrated and generally being an asshat. I do play falcon; I was frustrated at first; and, I got tired of being confused and went crazy studying the game and came out of it all feeling very accomplished and proud of having had actually learned something.

Hmmm... I was just doing some training missions learning how to use the weapons systems, and some of the training I did in Falcon supplemented what was being taught, and it all sort of came together. Now I just need to learn how to land correctly with the radios and what not. What I didn't realize before was how important the whole SOI thing is. After changing my SOI around a bit, things are making more sense. Sorry for the negativity, but in my experience it seems to get everyone amped up to the point where they start saying rude things--understandably so because that's the point. And, afterward, people really go out of their way to find a real solution. Not an excuse.

Um, I've learned to play, and regularly play, Falcon 4 Allied Force. In other words, no, H.A.W.X. is not my thing. I can't tell you how many time I have heard that overused, trite suggestion in other message boards from people who are in love with the sound of their own voice. There are training missions set up in the Allied Force manual that explain the concepts of what it is about to teach and then has you follow steps. In my opinion, that is a great way to outline the material and teach it in an effective way. I do understand that this is not the same game, so I'm sorry if I hurt your feelings; it wasn't intentional. Somehow writing "poor form" and "not very constructive criticism" in your post seems very ironic....

Okay, this is more like it. So the manual should come first and the videos are supplementary?

The training in this game is horrible. Not only does the instructor sound like he is reading the instructions off of a piece of paper in a mono-tone voice, he uses wayyyy too many acronyms and never explains stuff fully. I just tried the navigation tutorial, and all it told me was that I needed to start switching frequencies around. The manual is probably the only effective training tool aside from having someone walk you through.