Robert31178

Man the only thing I am noticing with the new patch is that 4 of us last night hard crashed to desktop, one right after the other, as we tried to engage two enemy planes, a MiG-29 and a MiG-31. As for better flying / more stable flying - how'd your first day go learning to drive a manual? The next? How about the third time? Were you getting better?

Any Zott sightings yet??

"Part of the problem with sims is you can just yank stick and pull 15g. In real life even 4-5 G is massive strain on the body let alone 7.5G or 9G." I remember seeing somewhere that USAF pilots are subjected to 9G sustained for a specific length of time in a centrifuge as part of their medical or yearly "checked that box" thing. I don't recall the length of time, but it wasn't long, and it looked absolutely brutal.

And a means to protect them! ~Rob

Man I don't care about any of that. My point is that the gunners were working, and now they don't, so an update that ED put out broke them. I won't whine about stuff that was promised, I will absolutely complain about stuff that worked that they broke. I also can totally understand ED's stance on "we update, you keep up" with the other 3rd party devs...BUT THIS IS THEIR MODULE!!! ~Rob

Yeah lol....exactly!! I mean, I wanna be able to feed my dog still, but outside of that....

Dang HF, in for the win again!!! Do you ever get sick of winning??? :-) ~Rob

I would love to see the "as sneaked" CH-53E, but it isn't even mentioned anymore by RAZBAM. If it's even a thought it's like #5 down the list of upcoming releases from these guys. Maybe they could recruit Nemeth.....

Jesus...the timing is PERFECT Banimal lol.....I just started reading "Hornets Over Kuwait" by Jay Stout, callsign "Guinness". He flew with the Warlords in Gulf War 1, and the book is very good so far. Guinness has a razor sharp wit and it bleeds over into his writing. Won't take me long to finish it!! ~Rob

Lookin ugly Sleip!! Not your work, it just pains me to see the Tomcat in anything but USN colors, historical or not. Well, maybe a USMC fakey/what if, but that's it lol.....

There is a really nice Vulcan sound in one of the Huey sound packs, not Skullz, and I can't recall the name of it since I don't use it. I'll see if I can dig it up for you. It's the one I use in my version Skullz pack to make it a more complete pack. I'll link you to the full mod and you can do your own dirty work...... ~Rob

Yep. Haven't had a chance to check if it's just a multiplayer issue, but the AI door gunners won't engage enemy targets now with mini's, however the copilot will if you have the cheek guns aboard - in fact he will try to engage enemies not even in his weapons field and waste all of his ammo unless you point the nose at whatever he's trying to engage. I have seen posts that the gunners work if you have M60's provided that they were on the a/c at mission start. I took them on my last squad night but never got close enough to the enemy to try them out. Whatever, it still seems an awful lot like a bandaide....... C'mon ED, it can't be a difficult thing? Again, you broke it, and it was working. This isn't us complaining about something promised to us way back, this was something we had that we now don't because of something YOU did. ~Rob

Huey gunners? Haven't seen any official updates....I know the Tomcat is the new shiny toy, but ED you broke a working part of the game. Can y'all fix it so I can go back to being a normal boring ass Huey aviator with gunners who tattle on the enemy when my attention is diverted to something else, like flying an aircraft that doesn't fly itself? ~Rob

I wouldn't ride int he back of Oghr's plane if you held a gun to my head......

I did up mine to 25, it certainly did help me out. Thank you so much!! ~Rob

He asked us to be patient......

Oh no, this one WAS a slick, I flew my last squad op with no weaps mounts BECAUSE THE DOOR GUNNERS ARE WORTHLESS RIGHT NOW!!

Seems dumb as hell. They've been working fine for years. ED broke them, goddamn fix them!

I think the thing that kills me with the sounds is that the modders are doing this anyways.....people like Skullz can do it but ED/BST couldn't? Not to take away from Skullz, but seems like professional devs SHOULD be able to do this!!

may I please have a copy of the Chinook with cockpit? ~Rob

Oh, and this start up gem lol....puh-leeeeeez can we have a sick ass'd start up sound like these vids????

Coupla more start ups..... 0:40 - 1:22 - 0:45 - And if this doesn't get your blood pumpin' then you might just be dead!!!

Awfully quiet in here...c'mon ED, fix our gunners already please!!!!

Sirius, yep! You have paint on aluminum, so right off the bat not so good. Then you add the salt air environment of a Navy asset....and this is EXACTLY what it looks like!!!

Thanks for the reminder Izzy! Hopefully someone will make a Zott skin for us, it's my second fav behind the original VF-143 skin! I was tickled to death when the demo was released and we saw the VF-143 did get one in the release!!