Hi guys Long time no see.
Hi everyone,
Bill T. here, known as WINCO41 and just WINC with the on-line CFS-3 Flyers who meet once a day during week and similar at W/ends. We have been at this now for some 20 years and it is an absorbing hobby of pitting yourself against other live flyers who are determined to erase you from flying any game you look into.
. We also yap a lot on the Team Speak 3 Comms set up by Sim Outhouse, to the point of being thought of as unruly, childlike, demented, ancient fossils who are not understood by rest of the World. While most of that is true, what we'v
e found is a great outlet for aggressive fun and combat, in WW2 style, that is spurred on by insults slung backwards and forwards between us that could take a while for a newcomer to get used to, ---------However, that is what we do. But. A newcomer is actually treated with great respect, their capabilities for this are adjusted to as is required and we will run extra games of different difficulties to match their comfort zones while they assimilate and learn. We do not throw them in the "Deep End" at all. The idea is that they gain a lot out of the flying and live combat experiences and what they learn from us is valuable to them. When they get up to flying and shooting happiness, we don't shoot back, till they actually start shooting us down.
We also understand and appreciate what you guys do and have been doing for many years now in the line of CFS-3 modifications, skinning, etc, etc and we have always felt that your experiences married into the on-line games are a big help. So we do like to pick your brains from time to time and from this, we can fly in all Windows, including Win 11 ( which I use ) we have been able to create an extra basic game expansion of extra aircraft, ( Our thanks to FRE and Firestorm ) which fly about 2 % reality from the original WW2 A/C. I fly the Curtis P-40B, B-17 and Beaufighter when I'm flying Allies and George when flying Axis A/C. This is in the weekday 95% hard to fly team games generally run as hosted ext. I.P. by Gustoo-One eye- or Firestorm. Gustoo likes to fly the Axis FW-190C mostly and he does very well in combat with it. What I like about the now discarded by Microsoft CFS-3 is that we have free reign to alter it as we please, ( No commercial interests in it at all ) wheras in other on-line systems of WW2 you have to do what you are told by game owners.
There are a few small problems of CFS-3 on-line flying, LAT being main one, but after a while, you do get used to this and don't even notice it, its handy to fly away underground to escape being mauled by predatory other side flyers who are all trying to out "Vulch" ea. other to get their game points up. If you don't touch your controls, sometimes U can fly straight thru a mountain ( sometimes---not always--lol ). We do carry bombs on our fighters ( where we can) called "Eggs", they cause havoc when dropped low down at exactly the right time in front of "The enemy". We do run missions from time to time, mainly if someone asks. And my pet questions to you guys who haven't tried the on-line WW2 live combat is:-
1) Come and join us,( we'll help you ), even if it is only to have a good yap on team Speak.
2) Is it possible for someone to make an "Aircraft Carrier" that doesn't collapse just as you are landing on it ? and would you do that for us ? Carrier Landings are a most difficult thing to do without that happening to you and this would be a great asset to have in CFS-3,( like they do in IL2 ).
Thanks for reading. Bill T.