Friday, September 28 - Patch...First Impressions

Can you now hear that your aircraft has taken damage?

[epoch]

Originally Posted by Tree_UK

Can you now hear that your aircraft has taken damage?

Not that I could tell. When my Blenheim was fiendishly riddled with lead by ATAG_Snapper last night the only sounds I heard was the laughing coming from my 2 Spitire escorts on Teamspeak. I heard no impact or firing sounds. The first I knew about it was the screen going red (whereupon it was difficult to read the red damage text).

[Insuber]

Are the "quick flashes" of the bullet impacts on the enemy a/c back?

[ATAG_Snapper]

Originally Posted by epoch

Not that I could tell. When my Blenheim was fiendishly riddled with lead by ATAG_Snapper last night the only sounds I heard was the laughing coming from my 2 Spitire escorts on Teamspeak. I heard no impact or firing sounds. The first I knew about it was the screen going red (whereupon it was difficult to read the red damage text).

Well, to put a positive spin on the friendly shooting thing....I thought my marksmanship was quite good......

[epoch]

Originally Posted by ATAG_Snapper

Well, to put a positive spin on the friendly shooting thing....I thought my marksmanship was quite good......

It sure was of the highest standard!

Originally Posted by Kupsised

I've not had time to try anything other than the Su26 yet, but in that, yes you definately can. Machinegun fire makes a loud, nasty bang when it hits you now. I was so used to it being quiet or non-existant that the first few times getting hit I thought I'd taken serious damage.

Hmm I guess the hit sound issue may be plane specific? I definitely heard nothing last night. I was also shot down in a Blenheim over Oye Plage - I don't recall hearing any hit sounds then either.

[Kupsised]

Originally Posted by epoch

Hmm I guess the hit sound issue may be plane specific? I definitely heard nothing last night. I was also shot down in a Blenheim over Oye Plage - I don't recall hearing any hit sounds then either.

I was thinking the same thing when you said that. I'll go an give it a try in a different AC (Blenheim makes most sense) then report back in a few minutes.

EDIT: Weird, I just went up in a Blenheim against Hurricanes (to make sure it was machinegun fire I was hearing and not cannon) and still got the very loud banging hit sounds. This was all offline though, so maybe it could be the difference between online and offline? Again, I'll try and do a test and trawl around on ATAG begging people to come and shoot me down

[Kupsised]

Originally Posted by Kupsised

I was thinking the same thing when you said that. I'll go an give it a try in a different AC (Blenheim makes most sense) then report back in a few minutes.

EDIT: Weird, I just went up in a Blenheim against Hurricanes (to make sure it was machinegun fire I was hearing and not cannon) and still got the very loud banging hit sounds. This was all offline though, so maybe it could be the difference between online and offline? Again, I'll try and do a test and trawl around on ATAG begging people to come and shoot me down

Right, sussed it. Just went on ATAG and got shot up by a G-50 (so it was definately machinegun fire too) and absolutely no hit sounds. So, yes they are working offline, but not online. I'll post it to the bugs thread.

[Kupsised]

Originally Posted by Tree_UK

Can you now hear that your aircraft has taken damage?

I've not had time to try anything other than the Su26 yet, but in that, yes you definately can. Machinegun fire makes a loud, nasty bang when it hits you now. I was so used to it being quiet or non-existant that the first few times getting hit I thought I'd taken serious damage.