Friday 2010-11-12 Dev. update and Discussion

[swiss]

Originally Posted by winny

Also, some of the RAF pilots didn't like having the last 4 rounds in the incendiary guns to be tracer because thay noticed that some of the German pilots were waiting till they saw them before they engaged.

I doubt it, since you could use this behavior in your favor.

[winny]

Originally Posted by swiss

I doubt it, since you could use this behavior in your favor.

It's true.

Gunners in US torpedo and dive bombers in the pacific used to throw empty ammo cans out of their cockpits to bait Japanese fighters into getting cocky and approaching from behind instead of slashing attacks from above or the side.

[1.JaVA_Sharp]

Originally Posted by IceFire

I remember reading the report as well. One of the USAAF fighter groups (or perhaps it was just a single squadron) decided to remove tracers from their loadouts. They found their overall scores were going up. Possibly because the enemy was not alerted by the tracers flying near their plane and possibly because it forced the pilots to not rely on tracers and instead do range/angle calculations completely in their head.

Depending on the virtual situation the lack of tracers may be or not be a useful feature. Either way I'd love to see customizable loadouts. If someone wants to not use tracers...great. If someone wants to load up a ton of tracers then ok.

easy solution: tracers or no tracers become a difficulty option. But what does Oleg say?

[winny]

The way I understand it the 2nd loadout I mentioned, (no tracer) was deemed to be the better option because if you missed when you were bouncing someone (as most BoB encounters seem to have started) they didn't know about it, if you miss with tracer it let's them know you're there.

[Daniël]

Originally Posted by Trumper

A huge majority of real fighter pilots never scored a kill let alone made "Ace".
In reality a large percentage of us will get shot down,injured and killed before getting any hits to take the opposition down.

About 5% of the pilots was responsible for about 40% of enemy aircraft that were shot down. The other pilots couldn't shoot or were too busy to not get shot down so they could not fire.

[Icewolf]

Originally Posted by 1.JaVA_Sharp

easy solution: tracers or no tracers become a difficulty option. But what does Oleg say?

good question but I think it already has been asked but worth repeating.

BUT there is so much idiot spam on this thread I doubt Oleg reads it anymore

I'd like a few preset options for online games in a pulldown menu. Sort of like in IL-2 when you can select your bombload/gun loadout/fuel. That way people who like lots of tracers or non will have that option.

Another option or addition to that could be people saving their preferred tracer/ap/inc/ball loadout on their PC's then that preset being an option for them when they play online.

[klem]

Originally Posted by Blackdog_kt

I think this has been confirmed by mr. Maddox himself very recently. It's either in the thread about the Igromir expo, or even in this very topic. I don't know if it's a feature we'll see right away on release, but i have a distinct recollection that he did talk about personalizing the ammo belt loadouts being included in the simulator at some point.

http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthread.php?t=6909

See questions 44, 89, 94. No definite info on which types though. Can't remember if there were any more in the 20 pages of Oleg's Answers I filtered on but I do remember question 44. Maybe have a look yourself?

Why do these good threads start and then die? Maybe because it was supposed to be a collection of Oleg's answers (which we would all like) but before the end of page 1 everyone and his dog started dropping 60 pages of their own opinions on top of what was looking like a valuable service. Still, it looks like everyone got bored by July and moved onto the Friday updates. Yes I know I'm moaning. I've been trying to get a couple of questions some attention for a while now.

Maybe I just need a stiff drink.

I'll stick to filtering on posts by Oleg.

Finally finding my way around but it hasn't been that easy.

[Blackdog_kt]

Actually i think i got glimpse of it in a much more recent thread. I'll try filtering Oleg's posts by date or searching within this and the Igromir thread.