plane physics

[martyr]

what do you want to do, lean out the window and shoot at 'em with a repeater? you need a second crewmember if you're gonna use moveable weapon mounts

[Dharkbayne]

I mean, be able to point the aircraft down more.

[EarlyDawn]

In general, PS' physics suck. Nothing moves with any momentum or weight. The buggy "floating" when they jump hills is absurd.

[Riyu]

Target Seeking Missiles.

I believe that's the solution to "real dogfighting". Currently as it stands, reaver rockets are fairly useless versus aircraft. As a result, nearly all pilots engage one another with guns. Guns create lengthier fights and do not promote a feel of danger when approached by another aircraft. Being hit by guns simply means you have to waste time by afterburning to the nearest base for repairs.

I propose the following:

Both Mosquito and Reaver should have an added alt fire mode. Alt fire gives a target seeking missile that has a target lock like the TR AV Stryker. Each box of ammo is the same size as a Reaver rocket box or the 12mm chaingun ammo box. Each box of ammo holds 5 missiles. 2 second delay between the firing of each missile.

4 missiles to destroy a Reaver. 3 missiles to destroy a Mosquito. 8 missiles to destroy a Liberator. 12 missiles to destroy a Galaxy. Missiles do absolutely 0 damage to non-aircraft. Similar to the Stryker, you can break missile lock by flying behind mountains, trees, etc.

P.S. It's completely ludicrous that MAXs and hand-held AV weapons have missile locks, but large aircraft do not.

[Dharkbayne]

It should do damage to infantry, but be such slow fire and low damage to them that it wouldn't be worth it

[Jagd]

Actually it's ludicrous that any weapons are lock-on. Cheap AA MAXes with virtually unlimited ammo ruin the fun for every halfway decent pilot out there, time and time again. Camera or laser guided air-to-air missiles would be nice, as long as there is a player controlling them and not an automated bit of AI.