Flying

[[AK]Bojan]

Yesterday on my day off I spent a fair amount ingame playing around. I decided to give the Tormentor a serious shot and see what I could do. I know as an Oppressor nothing cramps my style more than having an aircraft repeatedly take out my deployables, or have an enemy engineer smarten up and drop a few Anti Art turrents.

I gotta say I had a blast after getting use to the controls and having the ability to make hits on deployables on the run as well as the ability to do a little dog fighting action.

The GDF aircraft I think is easier to fly, as well as having more armor is tough to tackle in the sky but the tormentor has unmatched speed which with a little finess can be more valuable.

I seriously love the field ops class and sometimes miss playing on the ground, but I think having 1 or 2 skilled pilots is going to be one of the keys to victory. I know on a few campaigns I had all GDF deployables and turrents litterly shut down from the sky. I was able to spot the Moggs as the flew into to drop deployables and turrents and just made the rounds and disabled them as quickly as possible then went back around and actually destoyed them.

As well keeping enemy aircrafts out of the sky is a pluss for your team and when teamed with soldiers on the ground with a rocket launchers its not all that hard.

If your ineterested in flying I suggest practicing your little heart out cause its going to be one of the major factors to our teams victory in the ladder games.

[[AK]The Beast]

Does QW support joysticks? Seriously. Because I su-hu-hu-hu-huck at flying with the keyboard/mouse, but with a stick, I might actually stand a chance.

[[AK]Bojan]

I saw a post a while back about possibley adding support for a joy stick but as of right now I dont belive there is any.

Altho flying with the keyboard isnt all that tough. Its takes a little getting use to but an hour behind the yoke and I think most folks will pick up the basics.

"w" makes you go up when flying around I usually hold this button down. I let go when I am getting into position to attack.

"s" makes you go down. Watch out for rocket launchers, AA missles, and AVTs if you get to low. You wont have time to fire a decoy or get out of range.

I use "q" to turn left and "e" to turn right I may have remapped these.

"Shift" boost you forward

"Ctrl" is reverse used to slow you down or hold you over your target

"g" to bail out and "f" to open you chute. I tend to hit "F" repeadily when deploying a chute until it opens same for strogg.

Your mouse tips your nose up and down and tilts you side to side.

The rest is just practice.

[[AK]Hylander]

I spent a little time practicing flying myself over the weekend and found that clicking on the advanced controls actually made it easier to move around. I really wish I could use a joystick though.

[[AK]Bojan]

Ill have to try the advanced controls, I wonder what the differances are.

[[AK]Hylander]

Ill have to try the advanced controls, I wonder what the differances are.

It allows you more movement by removing the 'self-leveling' controls. I found it let me get in position better for firing, although harder to control initially. Mainly because I still get the mouse up/down axis backwards from time to time.

[[AK]Bojan]

I tried the advanced controls and can see where you can get more manuverablity but it will definetly take some more time to get good using it.