You really don’t want to see the first clues, but in the end you need to admit it to yourself.
You don’t see those far dots as easy as before. Your reaction time is that of a fully loaded TB3. In the last 20 missions you have been shot down 19, with 0 kills.
But alas, not all is lost. Immediate solutions are taken: overclock CPU from 3 to 3.6; overclock GPU clock and memory. Activate best performance video settings. Don’t forget vertical synchrony! A new joystick surely will not hurt either :rolleyes:
Try 47! I guess you can try to Find all available cheats to even the odds. I swear some of these guys online have found them, since their bullets must be radar guided.
Bah! Forget the young bucks with their crack shot aiming and slippery flying skills, we have the benefit of a developed rational mind capable of contextualising our plight and if that doesn’t work, we will most likely have forgotten all about it, two minutes later.
Went online last Thursday on a DF server with 51. It have been a while with no more than some casual flying and a few SEOW missions. It was a slaughter with me as the meat. I never saw them coming.
But it had nothing to do with the age. I am 41, and last spring I had no proble. It is not about age; Its about your level of training. The more you fly, the better you will be ;0)
I went online yesterday and the day before that, and the day before that, and the day before that, and the day… (you get my meaning).
For me, the more you fly, the more you remember how much more you’ve forgotten since the last time you flew.
I know how you feel Nepe and did the same stuff and even got a 42" screen to sit 2 foot away from and they are still bloody small dots lol.
After a spell of reduced IL2 flying I found the SEOW a total mind overflow but kept checking my six and staying with the lads as much as I could and slowly with more and more training and missions it has started to come back. The first SE back I managed to get a kill in the end, which was a real achievement in my books, but this next SEOW I ended up with 10, but more importantly nearly all of us survived and we saved Malta from the “badies”.
What we all need is decent wars and/or training we all want to get involved in that keep us flying regularly and together. These usually go hand in hand.
67 even better, 46 here, I was noticing most of us are coming up to our Golden years:rolleyes: I think our Generation was the first of the Gamers. I remember playing Pong, Space Invaders, Lunar Lander, and Pac Man when I was younger used to spend hours at the Arcade, I see not much has changed trough the years I’m still a kid at heart, now I have to take a bottle of Insure and Geritol but I still love Gaming.
Red Baron! I used to play this down at Pier 39 in San Fran when I was a teenager.
I also think this is why we got hooked on IL2 as our parents were children of the war and told us stories about that time. My father got me hooked on WWII aviation when he showed me the “Spitfire” and The Battle of Britain. Always knew I would grow up to be a WWII ace, lol.
When I was a kid we used to run around the playground arms out stretched and thumbs pointing forward, making ratta tat tat sounds and being Messerschmitts and Spitfires.
40 years later and I do the same thing on a PC
