BF2S Forums How to fly: Some tips

Hey Zen

I'm practicing your great lessons from some days and have a noob question for you pilots

How do you keep tracking where the floor is after many loops and other faster manuvers? I'm struggling to get my head on the up right position after that...

Zen

I have every thing on high + AAx4...

After some time practicing things get easier. The only problem I face now is some times I flight too high or out of limits and stall. Is there any thing I can do to recover a plane from falling?

(got a like new MS/FF2 and eager to become a good pilot)

Thanks

Last edited by RafaDel (2006-11-08 07:44:35)

i have a question for zenmaster

how did you changed fonts in-game?

yours look pretty nice

thank you fellow canadian

One last thing, I dont like the base of support too much on this joystick. Sometimes I hit the wrong button aiming for the map view, and the base isnt very wide for my liking. 2 hands on the joystick is basically required, your left has to hold the thing in place. Like I said, mine doesnt calibrate correctly but its still useable. But I noticed in some of Zenmasters videos, he'll switch to rear view on the first climb of a split S and the plane stays nice and level. I cant get this luxury which is frustrating.

I'm just learning to fly now. I literally had like a 5:180 k/d ratio before reading everything in this thread, watching videos, etc...

I'm like 1200 points short of first sergeant atm, and I think for my next ~100 hours of playing I'll spend 90% of it flying jets. So I should improve alot as time goes on and hopefully we can get a nice aviator discussion going on here.



For the moment, what are your favorite "good matchup" maps? I only know of the J-10/F35 maps, which maps have the J-10/F-18 matchup? I believe Fusche has a pair of F-18's but I'm not sure...and maybe Zatar has F-18's vs. Migs? I cant really remember. Anyways my BF2 is fucked right now, I cant use my mouse when I enter a server which just happened today. Kinda frustrating when your only 1000 points shy of next rank so hopefully I can get that sorted in the next few hours and get some flytime in over the next few days/weeks.


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Sorry one FINAL last thing, Zenmaster I tried to download Joy2Key and your original link is dead. Maybe the site is down, maybe the developer stopped support and dropped their website, but I cant find the program anymore. It would be kickass if someone still had the installer kicking around and could upload it somewhere for us new aviators to use. I spot shit all the time on the ground and use it as a huge advantage to myself and my teammates. I have watched you spot air threats and chase them via minimap and I would really like this option for myself, in fact I'm thinking of switching my air controls up a bit if I can find this program.

One disadvantage to my control scheme I noticed is that my thumb is either on afterburners, or its on the POV button swapping views, OR its on flare drop etc.. So I cant drop flares while burning, and likewise I cant swap to rear view and back while burning. Probably not a huge deal because it only takes a split second to swap, but it still seems like a mild disadvantage. I also utilize the chase cam alot while hard turning + burning, you know the cinematic type view, I forget the name.

Last edited by turkeybacon (2006-11-09 14:52:01)

Ask and ye shall recieve:

http://files.filefront.com/jtk379enrar/ … einfo.html

Mouse1 is already bound to trigger in the config file.

So I just got a joystick to help out with some flying and its working great. But in Battlefield 2, my X axis and twist are inverted. I changed the settings and tested it outside of BF2 and it works fine, but no matter what I do it stays inverted in BF2. Any help would be amazing.

Last edited by pyscofrawg (2006-11-10 10:09:51)

Awesome. It works great now. Thanks.

SlightlySto0pid wrote:

Dear Zenmaster,

Is the joystick actually better than the M&K in BF2? I can understand it being 100x superior in flight sims and (dont know how you could compare, but irl) but I simply cannot adjust to the joystick ... flying around I do fine with the joystick, but when it comes time to aim or bomb I just can't do it. I'm a terrible pilot still, but I've downloaded the SP 64 player maps and am practicing a lot on bots...Anywho, I searched around my attic for an hour to find my joystick (same one you pictured in your guide, MS Sidewinder 2) so I'd like to put it to use. Is it just practice or is it a preference thing?

It is unquestionably better - it just takes practice. You should get the hang of it after about 1-2 weeks of a few hours a day. You should be able to master it for BF2 for both planes and choppers after a few weeks. Choppers will take longer to learn, but you will have a lot of fun with both planes and choppers in any game once you learn how to use your joystick - it is exactly like riding a bicycle.

Good luck,
Zen.

There is a good video on bombing bu it takes practice. What you want to do is this:

Get at a nice high altitude. Never fly with your missiles out, always keep your bombs out. Fly at about 200 ft. When you see a tank or apc or w/e go at a downward angle of 45 degrees or steeper flying straight at it. Turn on the thrusters so you are going very fast at a 45 degree angle. At about 40-60 ft release the bombs and puul up as to not kill yourself. It should hit most of the time after some practice.

To get single bomb mode you have to resupply and pick up only ONE bomb right?
Or can I pick up one them circle around and pick up another?

O wow I really need some help with the shitty F35b
Zenmaster do you have any tips or do you just stay with the J10

I like to F35 a lot. Yes I know it sucks, but it is a great bomber. But I shall advise this, never fly with your missiles out because once you are caught in an F35, your dead. Your best chance is to slow down to a complete stop until your enemy passes, or get to a high altitude and stall. The F35 is also very accurate with it's guns. If you are a good shot it is very easy to take out a heli while in bomb mode.