I have been reading the recent complaints on the forums that higher tiered matches are filled with IL series attack aircraft. Thread after thread, post after post, same stuff being said. So, after my brief pause in playing Planes, I wanted to see for myself, if I would encounter a similar series of situations.
Looking back now, starting at 1313 hours might not have been the wisest of moves. Good thing I don't put a whole lot of stock into superstitions, but the collection of coincidences that follows, it might make me rethink that stance. Dusting off my Gloster Meteor, I prepared for the coming events. I saw that 440 players were online, I wondered how many of them were queued up....
....perhaps, I also picked the wrong time of day to do this too! 14 players in queue and after 15 of the quickest seconds I have experienced in a long time....
....this is what MatchMaker gives me. Okay, two GA for my team, one for theirs. I have seen it much worse than that.
I performed very poorly. Okay, let's just chalk up this first match as a warm up, shall we? Next....
....I get this. I won't go too far into the details, but the first enemy plane I spotted, sent a "remove Q from the sky" rocket before I had a chance to react. My team lost that one too.
Ah ha, top tiered plane! Enemy team, prepare to feel my wrath!
Seems my wrath is broken. Next battle brought me here....
Would my wrath be fixed in time?
Nope, still just as broken as my smoking plane doing the deathdive in the background.
Come on, my luck has got to change here, sometime, right?
Well, well, well, what do we have here? A three man Flight on my team! There is an opinion that some people want others to believe; Flights are overpowered. I am here to tell you, if you believe it or not, they aren't. A Flight is only as good the communication, aircraft and skillset of the players that are in the package. And, I am still not seeing this flood of IL's that are supposed to be flying around.
This is the point of the battle where I was removed. Although I lived longer then I did during the previous sorties, once again, I was still playing poorly. However, I did get a few good hits and the enemy P-51D and A6M5. Notice most of that three man Flight is wiped out?
Hmmm....didn't expect to see those results, did you? To give their due credit, the Westland P.1056 was flown beautifully. They landed their shots perfectly and evaded with a well executed series of Boom and Zoom maneuvers.
Just over 30 minutes of gameplay was today's session. Despite what some will say after reading this, I didn't see any of the "hordes" of Attack Aircraft that was claimed to have "infested" upper tier battles. However, not saying they don't exist, just must have been laying low, knowing I was coming out of my hangar, poor flying and all.
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