Prophet4no1

Woot Woot! I had my first successful mission on first pass! Second mission of the deployment campaign. The one where you bust the three bunkers and then help assault the village. Hovered about 7 kilometers away along the side of a hill. In a coordinated attack, myself and my wing man attacked all three targets in a few seconds. We then closed the gap and I lobbed all my rockets into the area that the tracers where concentrated taking out a few more soldiers. My wing man got a tad to close and was shot down by an AA gun. I got retribution by firing a few HE rounds into the AA emplacement. I then picked off the last few soldiers with the cannon until the FAC team said all was clear and I was free to go. Before leaving I flew over the village to inspect the damage up close and watch the attack team roll through. I banked right and made a 180 to head back. All of the sudden, to my surprise I heard these "tink tink, pop, tink" sounds. I look left and see a half dozen insurgents on the hill just below the cloud line firing on me! I rolling right into the valley to get some speed and distance, dropping flares in-case one of those guys has a shoulder launcher. I get about a 2 km gap before turning back and eliminating the threat with cannon fire. I take one more, closer look around before returning to the egress course and then RTB. Aside from a few scratches from small caliber rounds, I would say things went well. To bad my wing man did not make it. Sorry for blabbing this for those that could care less. I was just excited to do so well. Full realism with no tags. The way it's supposed to be done!

after reading those, my only real options are lables or keep spraying rounds into the trees. I really don't want to mess with LOD and have black blobbs all over the place. Guess I'll just keep practicing.

So, I'm going my first real combat mission. The escort one along the river. How do I get my wingman to engage the enemy? Since there are no vehicles all he does is fly untill he gets hit by a SAM. Also, what is the best way for taking out enemies you really can not see? I've just been spraying the areas I see tracers foming from with HE cannon rounds. Only get a couple kills. Rockets are pretty much useless it would seem on infantry. Please point me in the right direction. I will figure the rest out from there. Thanks.

Great read Fredert! Thanks! Learned a couple things and reaffirmed a few others.

Good stuff guys. Thanks.

So what is the best settings for gun and rocket straffing? Do you just pick and arbitrary point in the hud to point the Shkval to get laser range to the ground? It's kind of a handfull to manuve are close range and lock up the Shkval. Besides, I've seen some cool manuvers in some of the vids that I want to try, like circling a target while shooting with guns. Looks fun.

Tatu, the one hit wonder fake teenage lesbian singer? lol

Immersion is fine and dandy, but if it comes between play and immersion, I'll take the better game play. It's not a huge deal. Not as bad as playing STALKER. At least here I have subtext to read and understand whats going on. In STALKER everyone speaks Russian except main characters. Makes it tough to understand some of the other things going on in the game. But, I guess this is not the place for that. Back to flying! :pilotfly:

I'm not sure about the force sensing. Should be ok for fixed wing, but will be funky for choppers.

I just tried to fly my first campaigne mission. It's the one where you follow the Mi-24 around to learn the lay of the land. Only issues is that the pilot speaks Russian. All the other voice coms are in english, is there any way to get him in english too?

The dead ones are pretty easy to spot. So, I'm pretty sure I did not shoot any dead ones. But, you never know I guess.

There is a mix of things in the shooting rnage. Most look like Russina tanks though. Maybe they have thicker armor than the US tanks?

Just found the link to the logbook fix in this forum. Guess I answered my own question with the. But still need help with the missile question.

I did my first mission, the shooting range. Testing to see how much I've learned from all my practice so far before diving into full combat. Once I endd the mission (by crashing) I was awarded no points or kills at all. My logbook is all goose eggs except for deaths. As for the crash, I got a little overzelous trying to take out a tank with rockets and snapped the rotor blades. Also, is it normal for it to take three AT missles to take out a tank? Or are they cockscrewing into the ground before reaching the target?

I had this exact smae issue. For me it was becase I had a force feedback wheel plugged in and BS thought it was the FFB for my stick. As soon as I unplugged my wheel the trimmer and hover worked. For the most part. Every once in a while evrything goes all bonkers still, untill I crash into the ground.