Ammo counter of Bf109 Nose cannon still NOT fixed...

[JG4_Nemesis]

...Topic says it all...would be such an easy fix to make it count from 200 to zero once, instead of counting from 100 to zero, reset to 100 and do the same again. This is not how the counters worked.....impossible actually. When will this be fixed??? Was reported in early access autumn 2014 already...

[JtD]

It's probably still not fixed, because it still is historically correct.

[JG4_Nemesis]

I think I got it.

 

If there was a SZ500 in place, Olegs model is right, if there was a SZ100 in place, current BoS counter should be correct - but how do you know for sure if you have got 20 or 120 rounds left to fire?

 

Looks like it all depends on whether there is a "SZ500" or a "SZ100" mounted for the nose cannon. SZ100 would make much more sense for the MK108 109s, but baybe some MG151 109s were also equipped with a center SZ100...

 

Edited January 10, 2015 by I/JG27_Nemesis

[Finkeren]

If there was a SZ500 in place, Olegs model is right, if there was a SZ100 in place, current BoS counter should be correct - but how do you know for sure if you have got 20 or 120 rounds left to fire?

 

If you fire the cannon and the cowling MGs in conjunction (as most pilots did) then you can just look at the counter for the MGs and get enough of an idea to tell for sure. If you're firing the cannon only, then I guess you're paying enough attention to what you're doing to know if you've fired 80 or 180 rounds. I've never had any trouble telling, but then again I'm not betting my actual life on it and am far less stressed out than real life pilots would've been (In real combat situations you'll often find that many soldiers reload their rifles having used up less than half the ammo in each clip, most likely because of the fear of being caught in a bad situation with an empty magazine)

 

Looks like it all depends on whether there is a "SZ500" or a "SZ100" mounted for the nose cannon. SZ100 would make much more sense for the MK108 109s, but baybe some MG151 109s were also equipped with a center SZ100...

 

The reason the SZ100 was chosen was because the 200 rounds would've filled less than half of the scale of the SZ500 when full, making it much harder to read accurately as the individual round fired only moves the bar 1/5 of that of the SZ100. It was considered a better compromise for the pilot to have to know (or guess) whether he had fired more or less than half his ammo supply and have the counter be much easier to read accurately. As it is, you can read the counter to within 5 - 10 rounds with just a quick glance, that would be imposible on the SZ500.