I've long accepted the difference between testing your guns on a lake, verses a stream. Yes they're both water, but that's where the similarity ends. As your bullets impact the lake water, they kick up plumes of water. Yet streams create a dust cloud. I've been told it's just a blue line, very well, but that's the straightest stream I've ever seen

As a dedicated train hunter, my applause for the Locomotives and the rolling stock, but those track junctions at 90 Degrees, don't do much for the believability

Many times I'll kill my engine momentarily and listen for the Chug-chug-chug

Rumor has it there's a new version in the works for awhile now that improves upon a lot of things. We don't have a list of features yet but the screenshots we've seen so far show an awful lot of work on the scenery and terrain. We shall see what we shall see. And not a moment before they want us to.

Hellshade

UncleAl, I often think you miss the fact that there's a war going on,
and that you are not taking this war seriously!
I wonder how you always got away with your flying below the Eiffel Tower or the Tower Bridge,
or even bombing the House of Parliament - not to speak of your "happy motoring your Sopwith Pup
through the beautiful landscapes! For a soldier this behaviour is simply outrageous!!
It almost makes me wonder, that you didn't shoot at the train, but listened to it's "Chug! Chug!"
But in the next moment you are shooting at lakes and rivers, and note the difference of the impact in the water.

I guess, you have added a totally new dimension of how to use OFF, which the devs had not even dreamed of.
(But then, someone must have put the Ford Model T and the Bicycle in there... ??? ...)

When I paid for Phase III, it became Mine . . . to do with as I pleased
One big difference of many between Between HaH and FSX is when I squeeze the trigger in FSX it applies the brakes

PS . . to tell the difference between a river and a stream, if your bullets splash it's safe to attempt a landing with your seaplane. Yes it's true that Phase III doesn't have a seaplane, but Phase II did

Im late on reading this post. But i have this to offer!!

Uncleal:

You should be on the dev team as a testor!
I doubt they have someone with your particular insite
At any rate you would undoubtedly uncover the most miniscule faults for later correctio

Those who make fun of your efforts would be in possession of an even better product.

No fault uncovered is too trivial to document and leads us to higher aspirations

enough said! have a great day folks!

I'm very bad at keeping a secret, I can be bought

Might not be entirely unwelcomed to tone down the rockets just a bit, I dove too close to my target before firing, and got killed myself.

Being a new player to Off3, I don't fly around like you Uncleal and find or look for things that might take away the immersion factor of the game. Like Olham mentioned there is a war going on and I am in it for the hunt and fight. To each his own. But one thing that killed it for me fighting a low level scrap was flying by a river that was curving around a fairly long and large hill. So much so, that I was affixated on flying to see where it lead too, in that I got shot down and killed. I had put in a long time as this German pilot flying a DII with over 20hrs and 16 kills.

Regardless, I love this game and having a ball with it.

It used to be called a simulation, that's how the older hands look at it

Those just starting out with it, call it a game

Guess it all depends on how much adventure without harm is asked for

In case you don't actually know, the rockets are a hard code of CFS3, they belong in WW2 on a P47 as far as destructive power is concerned.

In R/L in WW1, the rockets were only used for balloon destroying, and they were only used because the incendry ammo early on was extremely dangerous to the shooter. By 1917 the ammo became safer for the shooter

and the rocket vanished, as it was 50/50 who would be destroyed the balloon or you or your wingman