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Feedback and Suggestions / Re: Pilot Training
« on: May 16, 2013, 08:01:34 am »
Im typing this out on my phone, so please excuse any errors in what I may type.
I purchased this game a couple days ago and I wasn't sure what my first role should be, even after the general consensus being to start as a engineer or a gunner, so I took it into a sandbox practice match. Fixing things was alright, and I wasn't any good at gunning at all, so I decided to take control of flying the ship. Started out slow by learning to adjust the positioning of my hand on the keyboard to allow muscle memory to adapt to needing to play with the R and F keys, then I moved onto flying my ship through some wreckage that I found on the map. Ended up only getting about 50 minutes of practice in before having to go to work.
Came home from work and decided I would go for engineer in my first real match, but fate didn't have it go that way. Literally nobody on blue team wanted to pilot a ship and they were jumping into engineer and gunner slots, so I was forced to pilot my own ship if I wanted to play. Worse still, the first map it threw me into was a 3v3 at Water Hazard . Luckily for me my crew did have mics and I believe it was my gunner had experience as a pilot and he was able to give me helpful tips about how I should angle my ship so I could have the most effective gun pattern lined up towards the enemy (silly me decided.my first ship should be a junker) and we ended up winning 5 matches in a row with a basic flak and chaingun junker. I apologized after the first match for any mistakes I may have made, but the guy said not to worry about it, and said that I had flown the ship as good as he would have.
If you need any help, even though Im fairly new, I am willing to teach you what I know if you decide to pilot a junker.
I purchased this game a couple days ago and I wasn't sure what my first role should be, even after the general consensus being to start as a engineer or a gunner, so I took it into a sandbox practice match. Fixing things was alright, and I wasn't any good at gunning at all, so I decided to take control of flying the ship. Started out slow by learning to adjust the positioning of my hand on the keyboard to allow muscle memory to adapt to needing to play with the R and F keys, then I moved onto flying my ship through some wreckage that I found on the map. Ended up only getting about 50 minutes of practice in before having to go to work.
Came home from work and decided I would go for engineer in my first real match, but fate didn't have it go that way. Literally nobody on blue team wanted to pilot a ship and they were jumping into engineer and gunner slots, so I was forced to pilot my own ship if I wanted to play. Worse still, the first map it threw me into was a 3v3 at Water Hazard . Luckily for me my crew did have mics and I believe it was my gunner had experience as a pilot and he was able to give me helpful tips about how I should angle my ship so I could have the most effective gun pattern lined up towards the enemy (silly me decided.my first ship should be a junker) and we ended up winning 5 matches in a row with a basic flak and chaingun junker. I apologized after the first match for any mistakes I may have made, but the guy said not to worry about it, and said that I had flown the ship as good as he would have.
If you need any help, even though Im fairly new, I am willing to teach you what I know if you decide to pilot a junker.