S. E. Dailey wrote:
Aircraft and weaponry hadn’t even started to be effective enough against tanks to make any meaningful impact during WWII, let alone WWI.

From all accounts I have read/seen/heard allied airpower was a major factor in stopping panzer attacks during WWII. I'm pretty sure the Hawker Typhoon and the Ilyshin Il-2 were quite effective when it came to destroying tanks.

Otherwise this thread is pointless. Its a video game. If it was realistic it probably wouldn't be as much fun. Suck it up ladies.

Viper10{WP} wrote:

S. E. Dailey wrote:
Aircraft and weaponry hadn’t even started to be effective enough against tanks to make any meaningful impact during WWII, let alone WWI.

From all accounts I have read/seen/heard allied airpower was a major factor in stopping panzer attacks during WWII. I'm pretty sure the Hawker Typhoon and the Ilyshin Il-2 were quite effective when it came to destroying tanks.

Otherwise this thread is pointless. Its a video game. If it was realistic it probably wouldn't be as much fun. Suck it up ladies.

If it was realistic, then you wouldn't have a tank magically appear next to your chute when you land, or when you choose to jump out of your tank, you automatically appear at your base before the bombers get there. Speaking of automatically returning to base, that wouldn't happen if you were shot down either, not to mention being shot in the chute, or on the ground after landing you would be DEAD, out of the game, popping up posies.

Viper10{WP} wrote: From all accounts I have read/seen/heard allied airpower was a major factor in stopping panzer attacks during WWII. I'm pretty sure the Hawker Typhoon and the Ilyshin Il-2 were quite effective when it came to destroying tanks.

Otherwise this thread is pointless. Its a video game. If it was realistic it probably wouldn't be as much fun. Suck it up ladies.

I've probably read/seen/heard some of the same sources.

You might find this article interesting too:
Ground Attack Aircraft: Myth of the Tank-Busters

Yes, a pretty much pointless thread . . . and, just like the unwritten rules we've been pointlessly hashing over in this thread (and so many, many others) what makes something fun is subjective. I hope we're all getting some level of enjoyment from this video game . . . if not, why are we playing it, and wrestling over this pointless minutiae in the forums ad nauseam?

As hard as it may be to fathom, some folks enjoy as much reality as they can get (short of physical harm) in a video game, that is marketed as a simulation of WWI dogfighting. Once again, it’s all subjective.

{GI} E*A*G*L*E wrote: If it was realistic, then you wouldn't have a tank magically appear next to your chute when you land, or when you choose to jump out of your tank, you automatically appear at your base before the bombers get there. Speaking of automatically returning to base, that wouldn't happen if you were shot down either, not to mention being shot in the chute, or on the ground after landing you would be DEAD, out of the game, popping up posies.

It would definitely be a different type of game.

Have you ever played a game/simulation that dropped you from the match when you were killed? They're out there. It inspires a whole different kind of gameplay.

You may not be loosing anything physical, but being denied access to the match/arena/etc. isn't fun at all. Experience/immersion players don't want game death, and the greatest/fastest score progression is usually found in those matches so the stat masters don't want to be shutout either.

They also can include some kind of campaign chain; just like our training levels, if you don't complete the required match, you don't get the next (bigger, better) stage of the campaign. You typically get to a point where you're forced to use teamwork to progress.

If John Lennon played DF:

Imagine...


Imagine there were no difference,
if you carried or if you dropped?
no parachute to jump from?
a pistol was all you got?
Imagine all of dogfight, shooting head-on happily?....

Imagine there were no squadrons...
I wonder if you can.
No us and them nor dogma...
A brotherhood of man....
Imagine all of dogfight, sharing all the map...

You may say that I'm a whiner....
But I'm not the only one....
Let's go make a bunch of rules now....
And try to ruin all the fun.

Imagine a smaller map now...
It's easy if you try...
No sneakers to suprise you...
One less reason to cry...
Imagine fewer options, complicating everything....

Imagine no one tanking...
No one walking too...
Let's be done with team chat...
Game and world chat too...
Imagine all of dogfight...
Respawning endlessly....

You may say that I'm a whiner....
But I'm not the only one...
All of my friends support me...
Because I'm the most honorable one!

[NLR] McFate wrote: If John Lennon played DF:

What do you mean "if"?

He's in the same squad with Elvis.

pmoon1{WP} wrote: Gunzz, You know I love you man, red or blue I don't care you are always fun to have in a game. I think you have knocked me down with a tank more than any player has done it with a plane. I think when you spawn into a tank it should have a bent barrel but you would still manage to smack me in the face at 1200 ft! Don't take it so personal when someone makes smart ass comments, I sure wouldn't have wanted that post directed at me but we all (or most of us on the forum ) tend toward having a smart ass dry sense of humor and he definitely has a talent for writing that makes it sting even more.

I was in a btc game last night that was a perfect example of what you are talking about. Blues were slightly outgunned and reds kept getting in close and shell the carrier. Was in another one where Chosen won bombs the carrier and flies to the closest shore and flies back and forth along the shore all like " here I am, come and get me" when I flew toward his carrier he parrals me then tries to get me to engage.
Any way I think you are right in that people are taking unfair advantage of the tank in the game

Lol...funny bro...my tanking still needs some work.

I don't take it personal with comments from certain players here. It's expected from them. I only dish it out to them because there's no place for trash like that, not here or anywhere. You know what, maybe it's because I have been around many children and elderly over the past 15 years that my morals may be higher than some others and I just don't like players that cross the line. I don't do it and I wouldn't want it in return. More than 20 years ago then yep, I was the same immature tool. Those days are long gone for me.

There are times in the game when I can understand a player getting shot down close to the carrier. Awesome job saying it the way you did about here I am. You nailed it with that. If someone got to bomb the carrier and has the easy escape especially when no one is firing at them, then get the heck out of there and head back home to reload. No need to take a cheesy way of get shot down to shell the carrier as well.

I gotta admit, I am even seeing myself pulling this move every once in a while. Every time I do I say to myself what a cheap play this is. So yesssss, I am gulity of it too at times.

Cricket wrote:

GHOSTRIDER1 wrote: Im so Glad we have you to be our moral compass. What would we do without you? I want to be just like you when I grow up.


If we're all such trash, and you sit perched so high above us all, why not just leave? Im sure we would manage somehow. We just don't deserve you.

We must look elsewhere for our new moral compass. Turns out D93 Big Gunzzz is a degenerate just like the rest of us. Here he is just yesterday encouraging me to abuse a glitch to win.

Shame on you, shame on you.

I don't know who decided to put me on a high moral pedistal. I am so far from being that kind of a person but yesss I do try real hard to be cool with all and be respectful.

So you caught me red handed. I am so ashamed. How can I ever face any of you ever again. Especially you cricket. I'm sorry and I will just uninstall DF and never return again.

Isn't the flag game the most glitched one out there? Aren't there times that no one can even win a game because it's so glitched up? Well in a game just before that one of my teammates got killed right after grabbing the enemy flag. When he spawned he still had the flag on his tail. Well that's what we all saw but he didn't. Well either way the game was all messed up. Flag games often do get messed up even to the point that it's ridiculous.

Now in that game where I am guilty as charged didn't I pretty much just enter the game before you picked up the flag? Then when you returned to our base I was thinking why the heck aren't you winning the game. You were flying around our base for a while. Eventually a red entered our zone and we dealt with him.

At this point I had no clue what you were doing or why our flag wasn't there. So whether my comment is a glitch or not sometimes it's the only way a game can be won or at least come to an end. So yup, I said what i said and will use that move when necessary.

I really am a degenerate in disguise. You found me out.

[M] GAW wrote: I too don't like the inconsistency. Not everyone gets the tank glitch. Same with Darkness, some can turn it off. Not fair.

If you don't want them tanking, either don't shoot them down or if you do make sure they don't reach the ground.

There is going to be inconsistency here in one form or another. It's just something we have to accept.

As for the darkness, that is something you can change. In fact I just did yesterday. I have always liked night games and never understood why players didn't. Well about a month ago it has become so dark for me that I literally could not see the planes from a distance. I was only firing at them from my experience of knowing where they should be. Well the darkness for me is mainly because my tablet has taken some abuse. Now it's brightness drops down to 70% when I play Df. And forget about seeing a tank shell. I'm already eating it before I had any idea where it was.

So yesterday I finally uninstalled and reinstalled DF and removed the night games. Here's how if you didn't know. When the app is reinstalling power off your device after the level 1 phase is complete. Now the night game are gone but I notice that I don't get bright sunny days. It's always a cloudy sky but it's a lot better than not seeing the plane at all.

If anyone knows that I didn't do this correctly please let me know.

Oohhh, maybe it's immoral of me to do this. Maybe I should just countinue playing where I can't see the planes at all. Nahhhhh!!!

W.D. Gaster wrote: "Trash"? "Immoral"? "Immature"? Isn't that a bit on the nose?

I'm no psychoanalyst, but I'm getting strong "repressed and abused male needs validation and tries to find it online" vibes off this guy.

Yep...I guess your right.

I came and visited your thread being a toolbag looking for the attention...Geezzz...get a grip!

Sounds like you perfectly described yourself. Thank you!

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Gunzzz,


You must have nicked yourself on one of their trolling hooks, now you've got blood in the water, and they just won't calm down. Stop gnawing on that hook every time they dangle it in your face; when they’re not getting fed they'll lose interest and swim away.

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Who likes the tank option and who completely hates it