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Game Play Tips
BF 1942 MP Demo Game Play
Flight School 101
Are you having trouble flying? Do you consider those airplanes as
nothing more than flying coffins? Are your buddies making fun of
you while they fly upside-down underneath those bridges?Well, read the following and soon they'll be the ones running for
cover when you appear in the skies overhead. If this is your first
time flying, you'll want to try the single-seat fighters first.
Then the dive-bombers and finally the B-17 Heavy Bomber. Good luck
and good hunting! Note that the B-17 will only be available in the
full game.
- Is the fine art of flying with the mouse eluding you? If so, try
the style preferred by the developer, DICE, keyboard kombat. You
can have a more stable flying experience by using the arrow keys
on your keyboard, without all the ups and downs of mouse flying.
And if that doesn't suit you, grab a joystick and try flying with
that. But be warned, this isn't a flight-simulator...so the game
won't support all of those nifty feature like a hat-switch and
whatnot.
MOUSE FLYING
- Is your natural inclination when flying to pull back or push
forward to go up? In either case, Battlefield 1942 supplies you
with the controls to do either. To toggle the invert function on/
off go to Main Menu>Options>Controls>AIR tab and check or uncheck
the INVERT MOUSE box.
MOUSE SENSITIVITY
- Setting the sensitivity of the mouse control can affect how easy
you control your airplane. To change this setting go to Main Menu>
Options>Controls>AIR tab and move the slider up or down. To see if
the setting suits you, try climbing to altitude and dive then pull
up abruptly. You can always PAUSE the game; press ESC to go the
main menu and change the setting on the fly. Press ESC to go back
in the game and see if it's how you like it.
- Dropping bombs is all about skill and putting the iron on the
spot. Practice makes perfect, but in general you'll always want
to drop that bomb sooner than you might think. The bomb will arc
forward because of momentum. Use the camera controls F11-12 to
see how they bombs drop.
COCKPIT VIEW
- While in the cockpit, hold the mouse-look button down (default
is Left SHIFT) and use the mouse to look around. Release the
button to go back to regular flying with the mouse.
NO COCKPIT VIEW
- If you want to really experience flying as it was meant to be...
press F9 when you are in the cockpit. This will turn the cockpit
view OFF (provided the server has Nosecam turned on). You can also
fly in 3rd person mode by pressing F10.