IL-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Stalingrad Discussion

[JasonPratt]

You should ride along with us as top gunner sometime, Gus!

[Sir Slash]

Have you got a chair for him to stand on? SORRY, I could never resist a cheap shot.  :hide:

[Tuna]

Not to be a 'cheap' shot, but can you raise your seat in this game? Pain in the butt taxing in that JU-88 from the pilot position!

[Gusington]

Stack of phone books and I'm fine.

I've been trying to hook up with you guys but the timing has been off.

Hopefully in the next couple of weeks during the holidays we can make it happen.

[Jarhead0331]

I may want in on some of this action...

[JasonPratt]

Something Tuna and I discovered, is that on most (all?) public servers, you can jump into someone else's aircraft to help as a gunner, but if you do then you're locked into that position unless you quit the mission. The pilot can jump to any gunnery position (as usual) but guests in his aircraft cannot.

This is suuuper annoying when there's only a two-person team in a craft with multiple gunnery positions. I understand that the point is to manage the drop-in / drop-out nature of being a gunner, so that anyone can join and should be able to know beforehand what slots are open to join in. But it's still  :P

[Cougar_DK]

Nice pictures Tuna!

It looks super sharp. Whats your screen resolution?

[Tuna]

Nothing great, something/1080 I think.  lol, at work so cant look. But it's a 22 inch monitor, which isn't huge nowadays.

[Tuna]

Agree with JP, they should let hop in people man other positions, maybe even Bombardier. But I guess that would piss you off, if a stranger popped in there.

[Gusington]

God knows the damage I could do just hopping into a bombardier's position.

[Tuna]

Maybe if they have pilots the power to control who can hop in. then let them change positions?
Question, do you have to own the plane to hop in?

[JasonPratt]

My guess is probably not, although I've owned the planes I've gunned for you. When I look at the list, I can see planes apparently available for me to gun for, which I don't necessarily own. But my guess is mainly based on the crafts clearly being on-disc DLC, just like Kuban: we flew around that wonderful Kuban mp campaign map, despite me not owning Kuban!

[Toonces]

Not to be a 'cheap' shot, but can you raise your seat in this game? Pain in the butt taxing in that JU-88 from the pilot position!

LOL, I probably told this story before, but when I was in flight school, I was too short to fully deflect the rudder pedals in the T-44, which is pretty much required for any single engine work.  So I had to fly with my NATOPS manual behind my back...like a really thick phone book...in order to boost myself forward enough to fly the plane!   \m/

[Gusington]

^Brother

[JasonPratt]

I understand that in Cliffs of Dover, which is much more detailed than the BoX games (though now under management by the same team, so hopefully fixes will be coming in for problems), the He-111 (which already has a nice view) actually has a command to open the top hatch and raise up the seat to look around. It even pops up a little windshield!