Let’s face it. Life expectancy among pirates isn't very high. When everybody wants a piece of you, there's little chance there will be anything left after they all take their chunk. Your key to survival in Crimson Skies®: High Road to Revenge™, of course, is your fancy flying, but you also have to have common sense. Take this advice to heart … It just might save your life.
Know Your Environment Heading into unknown territory? Scout it out first. Keep your eyes open. Both cities and rural areas have points of interest that could help you when you're in the thick of things. Even if you've got a swarm of Cajuns bearing down on you like hornets with itchy stingers, you should still take mental note of where your allies are hiding.
You'll be glad you found that garage for repairs when your tail is on fire! A garage is always marked with a glowing neon sign that shows a wrench. Green means friendly, and it's worth the dough to get your plane repaired. Head on in when you need it, land, and the grease monkeys will fix you up and put you back in the air before you can say, "Razzamatazz!"
Be aware of your surroundings.
Use Your Brake Speed is cool. Speed is a rush. But speed won't always get you a kill, and what you don't knock out of the sky just might knock you out instead. Don’t think you're too macho to slow down. Your brake makes the world fly by just a little bit slower. Instead of speeding past your target, you can fly right alongside it or approach it with more control.
Don't forget that your targets are often moving. If your target is proceeding slowly, you may want to go slowly, too. This gives you more time to rain a torrent of bullets down on him.
Shoot into the Future This isn't the shooting range, Joe. If you stick your seeker on the target, the plane will be long gone before your bullets get anywhere near it. If you actually want to hit your enemy and do some damage, aim where it's going to be. This means you have to practice your ability to see into the future and predict your enemy's movements. Trust me, the more you practice, the easier it gets.
The only time this doesn't work is when the target is either flying straight at you or directly away from you. You can put your crosshairs right in the middle of your enemy's head. Makes it easier, you know? We love that.
Ready, aim, fire!
Anti-Aircraft Artillery Sometimes it pays to get down on the ground and use one of the anti-aircraft installments waiting for your tender touch. After you land and leap into the hot seat, you'll be able to swat your enemies out of the sky without having to worry about flying into a wall.
When shooting from the ground, hold your fire until your target is coming straight at you or away from you. They'll come, believe me. And when they do, you'll have them neatly in your sights. Tracking them across the sky wastes ammo and isn't as effective. They have to come at you to shoot at you, so just wait until they come begging for it.
Practice makes perfect.
Don't Gamble Pick your battles carefully. You'll have the opportunity to gamble when you have no choice but to take the risk or crash and burn. There will be challengers who want to test your skills and who will promise you money if you succeed. Don't do it until you're ready, though. A smart pirate knows when the risk is too big and the pay-off too small.
This brings me to my last bit of advice: Practice. Fly your wings off. Every good pilot knows you have to get as many hours as you can under your belt. The more flight hours you've got, the better you'll be in the air. No way around it. That's the only way you'll ever make it when the $#!& hits the propeller.
