Check that all your guns on the Brit fighters are actually firing bullets

[Ataros]

Originally Posted by 5./JG27.Farber

especially if people have been fiddling in that file themselves!

When I opened it for the 1st time it looked messed up already because I created many profiles via GUI and used local characters for naming. At least this happened in one of early versions. Maybe this bug appeared during localization or the game just can not handle local characters.

However in many cases when people complain in TS that their guns do not fire they just assume that they have to see a tracer coming from every gun and separate splashes on the water when a group of 3-4 guns creates one bigger splash because guns are located very close together. (And are probably synchronized somehow between wings?) Some test loadouts which they did not save or loaded correctly.

Editing the file should help to set default loadouts to desired custom version and avoid mistakes.


EDIT: I edited the above post to include 4th part of settings. Check that all names in it are correct.

[5./JG27.Farber]

Originally Posted by Ataros

When I opened it for the 1st time it looked messed up already because I created many profiles via GUI and used local characters for naming. At least this happened in one of early versions. Maybe this bug appeared during localization or the game just can not handle local characters.

However in many cases when people complain in TS that their guns do not fire they just assume that they have to see a tracer coming from every gun and separate splashes on the water when a group of 3-4 guns creates one bigger splash because guns are located very close together. (And are probably synchronized somehow between wings?) Some test loadouts which they did not save or loaded correctly.

Editing the file should help to set default loadouts to desired custom version and avoid mistakes.

Exactly!

[jakman]

Originally Posted by 5./JG27.Farber

Exactly!

I did a new install and the only way to get loadouts to work is through the FMB.Also as the post stated it may only be a problem with the Brit.side so if you only play the blue side your not having this problem. Saved everything and used plain english but loadouts only work through the FMB.
I am trying to find that "user ini." file in Documents- 1C Soft Club-COD and there is no folder there named "user ini." the only one with user is 'conf user" and there are no loadouts in that file. Hope someone has a fix for this as it's a pain to have to use the FMB all the time, don't think the game was meant to be played that way. Thanks for all your input.

[hegykc]

I too did a new instal and still the same problem, loadouts only work through FMB.

I did not fiddle with any files directly. Only changed them in -options-plane-loadouts-save, and that's when I think the problem started.

[notafinger!]

1) I would recommend you disable Steam cloud. Then you will have direct control of you user.ini file inside the 1C Softclub folder. If you don't have a user.ini file or it's empty inside it is because of Steam cloud. Disable it.

2) Your custom loadouts will not work in singleplayer, it's been a bug since release. Configure your ammo belt in the Options > Plane screen and use Save As. Be sure to hit OK and not Back after saving. Now you can either join a multiplayer server to test or open a single player mission in the FMB, select your loadout, and play through FMB.

[Ataros]

When you do clean install it does not delete your Documents\1C SoftClub\il-2 sturmovik cliffs of dover folder unless you delete it manually. Then clean install does not overwrite Steam cloud files.

The user.ini file is located in this directory Documents\1C SoftClub\il-2 sturmovik cliffs of dover (last file in my list).

[jakman]

Originally Posted by notafinger!

1) I would recommend you disable Steam cloud. Then you will have direct control of you user.ini file inside the 1C Softclub folder. If you don't have a user.ini file or it's empty inside it is because of Steam cloud. Disable it.

2) Your custom loadouts will not work in singleplayer, it's been a bug since release. Configure your ammo belt in the Options > Plane screen and use Save As. Be sure to hit OK and not Back after saving. Now you can either join a multiplayer server to test or open a single player mission in the FMB, select your loadout, and play through FMB.

Disabled Steam Cloud and now have the User ini folder,the only thing is that in doing so I had to reassign all my joystick and keyboard settings from the default ones,a pain but not the end of the world.
I understand how to change loadouts for single missions via the FMB but how would one do it for campaigns such as The Enlightened Flourist Campaigne or any others as the FMB only seems to show single missions.
It is hard for me to understand that a game that has been on the market for this long and has had numerous patches not to mention the last one that is supposed to be the fix all has not addressed this issue.

[Ataros]

I guess the devs' idea was that a mission maker defines historical loadouts for missions and campaigns, not a player.

It is possible to copy and paste key settings to a separate text file if you want to delete the old one.

[Sokol1]

Originally Posted by Ataros

However in many cases when people complain in TS that their guns do not fire they just assume that they have to see a tracer coming from every gun and separate splashes on the water when a group of 3-4 guns creates one bigger splash because guns are located very close together.

What is strange is: I edit "Cross Country" mission just to put a "Boresight board", save and same folder.

Run the mission (graphics options all switchs ON.) - from game menu, not from FMB - select Spit 1 with default loadout, since I am no able to change this from menu.

Change convergences for 1000.

Taxi SPit to front Boresight board, and fire. See four hits for each wing. OK.

Note, If fire with some angle, the board go down.



Then I take off, put game in slow motion and shot in a nearby river, with plane diving maybe 15 ~20 meters from water, and see only two splash groups... ???

Why not 3 splash for each wing, since MG 3-4 and 6-7 are groupeds?

Sokol1

[Matt255]

I'm a bit curious, is it set in stone that every bullet hit in water (or ground) actually shows the impact graphics?

I don't think it's the case.

A two second burst with the British planes means like 250-300 bullet impacts. I don't think that it does display that many bullet impacts, but i might just make a screenshot and count.