I am also having issues learning to pilot the aircraft in this game, if anybody has any tips or tricks they could throw my way it would be appreciated.
Also is it possible to use a 360 controller just for vehicular use?
My kid is sick so i got a minute. Air combat in PS2 sucks coming from a flight sim background, its relatively basic but can be quite fun from a kill everything point of view. Kind of somewhere inbetween il2 and world of planes. Not dead serious and kind of gamey but sometimes a blast. Anyway, my 2c.
You cant think of this as a flight sim, made it hard for me to get into. Hover makes mavity much more of a factor, instead of relying on forward momentum. They would have been better off not bothering with hover, would have made air a lot less effective against ground. Up your mouse sensitivity. Biggest tip is to assign a key to pitch up, that way when you want to do a loop or tight turn you just hit the key, dont have to go mad with your mouse. I use my mouse thumb button.
The SA for all the fighters sucks, its fiddly to look around and even then you can see a little bit of side and up, thats it. So spend a lot of time in external view for the greater field of vision except when attacking. When being attacked from behind, loop. Running is a mugs game because all the advantage is the enemies. Hes in your (massive) blindspot and youre in his killzone. Unless youre close to friendly AA or your warpgate, turn fast and try to get on his tail or its the end.
The resticted fov can work for you too, If you get behind an enemy fighter unload your guns first then fire a missile as theyre harder to hit with guns when evading and missiles dont miss. Two missile hits will bring down a vanilla fighter, two and a bit for an esf with armor so starting out with a burst always comes in useful.
You should cert into the categories you want. The top category, acquisition, decreases the wait between respawns which is useful. You must get the flares, they buy you an extra life. After that its pretty much what you fancy, although the radar, whilst nice to have, comes in a category where you need damage repair or armor. The choice of chassis again is up to you but note theyre all rubbish until the second or final tiers (100,200,450 i believe).
The fighter can have either air2air missiles or air2ground rockets and the same air/ground choice for a gun. You can mix, i use an air2air gun and rockets but obviously if you know the role youre going for choose one or the other. Buy night vision for your rockets because seeing the enemy becomes a WHOLE lot easier day or night. Get the cheap upgrades to ammo capacity (1 and 10 certs i believe) and upgrade the rest at will. Remeber you dont hit what you cant see. Render is a real pain in this game so the bigger the fight, the shorter the distance. Huge amount of maxes on the crown in a tight bunch? If you stand off and lob rockets at where you know they are it wont cause any damage unless you can SEE them too. This is a huge pain, because by the time you are close enough for the game to decide to render that max, he has been seeing you for enough time to line up and start shooting - which means youre dead.
Anyway its fun, but dont take dying too seriously, theres really not a lot you can do about it!
Makes sniping impossible.
