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daemir
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Myles
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Millitron
United States2611 Posts
On June 12 2013 09:05 Myles wrote: Pilots seem to die a lot quicker now...not sure how I feel about that. I'm pretty happy with the patch overall, though. Its because many planes now have upgradable armor for crew compartments. There'd be no point in armor if pilots were unkillable anyways, which was the case in mid-high tier planes with crews with good vitality. I wouldn't be surprised if they added improved armor upgrades to more planes in the coming weeks. | ||
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Blisse
Canada3710 Posts
I'm not a fan of how different my planes fly to each other now though. But I think it's a bit more realistic. | ||
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Vaelone
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Rah
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10734
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Oh and can you bail out or something in historical without losing your plane? I'm actually tempted to get those golden eagles, I have a million free exp right now... | ||
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Skilledblob
Germany3392 Posts
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Rah
United States973 Posts
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Sylvex
United States127 Posts
Right now pilots seem a bit easy to KO and a single bullet was enough to turn my entire Ki-61 red (every party was darker pink or straight up red). 37mms are still super powerful. I think MGs are in a pretty decent place except for the pilot kills. Killing people with the tail gun on my A20 seemed harder, but that could have been a number of factors. I was still able to bring now a P39 who tried to get right on my tail, but not before he got 1 of my wings black and I couldn't turn except to hit the water. Haven't messed around as much with the 20mms. I've heard the F4F and F6F American planes had their flight models tweaked into a mess of unable to maneuver at all, but I'm passed those and use the corsairs which seem to have come out ahead overall. The Japanese fighters still have no armor but the addition of the heavy fighters is nice. Will have to pick them up to test out. I still think the game is most balanced at tier 9 and below and with the addition of the KI-45s you can field a decent line up of 7-9 with 5 planes. The Bf109s don't seem to be as scary anymore, even though they supposedly got buffed. The increased MG damage makes them less invincible if you can get a bead on them. Still needs more testing. On June 13 2013 21:44 Rah wrote: I notice I've been getting points to put into each plane individually. Does it matter what I train at first, are they easy to retrain later? Was looking at the vitality one. As far as I know you can't retrain them ever. They retain "training" for every plane you pay to put them in though and their skills apply to the crew in general. Don't put any points into "Gunners" if the planes that crew flies have no gunners (all fighters). Heavy fighters and attackers usually have 1 or 2 gunners while bombers will often have more so if you have a crew you want to designate as your bomber crew you might want to save up to buy points in "experienced gunners." Why that is so prohibitively expensive to increase, I'm not sure. I guess to make people buy eagles for accelerated training or something. At this point I would dump points pretty heavily into vitality. All my planes had about 30 vitality and i almost never lost my pilot except in head on engagements, now it seems to happen a lot so I've been trying to bump them to 40. I think they also reduced the required amount of crew points to increase it though. Not sure, could be remembering incorrectly. Aside from that I would go for reload speed in the ground crew section to something like 12 if you play arcade (affects in-air reload) and then G-force tolerance. | ||
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Millitron
United States2611 Posts
On June 13 2013 18:33 10734 wrote: What do you get when you fill up the xp bar on a plane? Oh and can you bail out or something in historical without losing your plane? I'm actually tempted to get those golden eagles, I have a million free exp right now... When you fill the xp bar, that plane makes 1/5 as much xp from then on. You still make just as much money. If you bail out, you don't have to pay for a new crew, so free repair time (and maybe repair cost?) is a little lower. If you crash land, you also usually pay less than full. If you land on a runway, wait for repair and rearm, then bail on the runway, it costs nothing. Don't get free xp. If you're going to get lions, buy a premium plane, and/or upgrade some crews. You get more bang for your buck. | ||
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Hitch-22
Canada753 Posts
Also add me if you want, AceOfBaron | ||
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Blisse
Canada3710 Posts
On June 13 2013 15:52 Vaelone wrote: My wings keep getting ripped off everytime someone farts in my direction now sigh. This description is very accurate. I wish you could buy a block of armor to put around your plane... Also my poor F6F is useless now. | ||
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Creegz
Canada354 Posts
On June 15 2013 08:02 Blisse wrote: This description is very accurate. I wish you could buy a block of armor to put around your plane... Also my poor F6F is useless now. Try flying a Ki-43 hahaha. I took one shot from a beaufighter. One. Shot. Tore my wing clear off. That being said, now it's just become better positioning instead of taking damage. If anyone wants to play my name is Creegz in it. Same as this board ^_^ | ||
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10734
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What do you guys think of the new patch? | ||
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Skilledblob
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Payer
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