Is there a way to do this? I'm tired of being shot in a head on pass only to have oil spraying in my face constantly, unable to aim or spot targets anymore due to my goggles continuously being coated in oil.

Move/turn your head into the wind, it should clear but it is going to come right back. At that point your part of the battle is pretty much over anyway.

Use the no-oil mod:

http://riseofflight.com/Forum/viewtopic.php?f=278&t=28471

CHEAT! LOL, no probs, Jk.

I know it will sound a little snarky, but avoiding getting shot is a great way to not have constant issues with oil on the goggles. I rarely see the oil effect anymore. I actually credit the beta Career for that. When it first came out, I couldn't keep a pilot alive for more than one week. I looked carefully at my decisions on when and where I engage the enemy and modified a number of things to ensure I would stay alive and that I would only get into fights when it was to my advantage. And, when I get bounced, I prioritize escaping and establishing an advantage before going offensive. Now I can have a career last months. And I fly Dead is Dead, which just reinforces treating your virtual life with care.

You mentioned head ons. Start by not getting into those situations to begin with. Once your engine is spewing oil, you have very limited time until it dies altogether, so spotting and targeting other aircraft is no longer the priority. Getting safely down to ground on your side of the lines is.

But to answer your question, the game doesn't provide a way to use the scarf to wipe off the goggles. There's debate over how effective that would be anyhow as it most likely would just smear the oil. It would be a cool effect if you could wipe them though. It would remove the majority of the splotches, but leave a smeared film that should still distort your view a bit. Of course, even after you wiped them, they would get splattered again until your engine died or you turned it off.

If your seeing the oil effect you may as well switch your engine off, then the oil goes away.

I don't use the mod myself. I just thought I would point it out to someone who might appreciate it. I agree that the effect is overdone (how does the oil go through the windscreen?), but I choose to leave it on.

Me too...I like the extra challenge of finding a clear spot to peek through!

People #%&*$# when games aren't sim enough and people #%&*$# when games are more simmy. This community is both the biggest cesspool of the gaming community as well as one of the kindest, it's amazing.

+1

Lol…Post of the day RP

Imagine that. The community is not monolithic.