Small animation question

[Beebop]

1 hour ago, pocketshaver said:

its not a lie when people go about claiming that 59 hits with 50 AP should do the same damage as 10 rounds of HE

What's that got to do with "data pack errors" and the inability to log on or see custom skins and mods ON/OFF?

These would seem to be more pressing issues than the hitting power of ammo.

BTW, are you related to Rosanne Roseannadanna?  "It just goes to show you, it's always something — if it's not one thing, it's another."

It seems to me you aren't looking for help, you're looking for a new pond to troll in.

Sorry, too snarky.

[TheAngryGamer_VR]

Can I just say, I really don't want to encounter pocket in a server. If he is ramming planes just to see how much wing he can lose. I can't begin to imagine how much aggravation he would possibly cause on both teams even though he is only on one team. And god forbid he discover SRS. 

[Rjel]

1 hour ago, Beebop said:

BTW, are you related to Rosanne Roseannadanna?  "It just goes to show you, it's always something — if it's not one thing, it's another."

What this thread really needs is Emily Litella to cap it off.

[Angry_Kitten]

why would i use an online voice chat thing.... most of you cant keep a coherent conversation via text editor.. 

 

id hate to HEAR what a voice chat would be like.. 

 

hmmmm   nothing but constant griping, whining, nothing but endless screaming on 50 ap being useless, just lots of nonsense. 

 

And ramming planes was a valid out for all sides during the war. Especially during the battle of britain.

[[CPT]milopugdog]

7 hours ago, pocketshaver said:

its not a lie when people go about claiming that 59 hits with 50 AP should do the same damage as 10 rounds of HE

IMHO, we should just do the ol'switcheroo for damage dealt between the Mk103 and Browning M2 .50 cal.

[354thFG_Drewm3i-VR]

30 minutes ago, pocketshaver said:

 

 

And ramming planes was a valid out for all sides during the war. Especially during the battle of britain.

Seriously, what planet are you from?

[Winkysmith]

36 minutes ago, pocketshaver said:

And ramming planes was a valid out for all sides during the war. Especially during the battle of britain.

What!?

 

 

I don’t think so.

[Beebop]

1 hour ago, pocketshaver said:

And ramming planes was a valid out for all sides during the war. Especially during the battle of britain.

So you heard about Sonderkommando "Elbe" without learning anything about it, mixed that in with  a mish-mash of pseudo-kamikaze, stirred in a dash of Marvel/DC Comics, baked it in a pan lined with pulp fiction and came to this conclusion? 

 

And thus was born the World Wrestling Federation.

 

At this point I'll say to this conversation....

Buh-Bye Now!

[AEthelraedUnraed]

2 hours ago, pocketshaver said:

And ramming planes was a valid out for all sides during the war. Especially during the battle of britain.

 

1 hour ago, Winkysmith said:

I don’t think so.

 

The 31st of September, 1940.

 

"For God, King and Country! May the British Empire last ten-thousand years!" the group chanted in unison. It was somewhat of a comical sight, with the festive colours of the Union Jack tied around their heads as bandanas. Still Johnson had to cry a little as he climbed the wing of his Spitfire and opened the cockpit. It was sad to see the aircraft in this shape - where once the Hispanos had proudly protruded there now were holes, covered with a small piece of red tape. There was no need for them after all, nor for his Brownings which had likewise been removed. The cockpit too was missing some equipment. "Me too," Johnson smiled with a dry grin as he sat down, the seat feeling awfully hard without the usual parachute. Like the Spitfire, he too was an old and worn-out warbird with little more use against the overwhelming forces of the Luftwaffe. He suddenly noticed a wry taste in his mouth. The remnants of his final cup of tea perhaps? Or was it fear? No - as Johnson started the engine and took off into the early morning sun, he knew it was definitely not fear. He was proud and happy to dive into the Bismarck, or failing to find the ship, to fly on to Germany and into the nearest city center. May the British Empire last ten-thousand years!

[Monksilver]

5 hours ago, pocketshaver said:

And ramming planes was a valid out for all sides during the war. Especially during the battle of britain.

 

You might want to read the below.

 

According to the now common account, on 15 September 1940, known as Battle of Britain Day, Sergeant Holmes was flying a Hawker Hurricane fighter when he spotted a formation of three Dornier Do 17 bombers of Kampfgeschwader 76 heading for central London, to make a bombing attempt. As he made an attack on one of the bombers, the bomber fired a flamethrower at him, and Holmes' windscreen was covered in oil.

The flamethrower, obviously intended for use on the ground, did not work as intended at 16,000 feet, producing a jet of flame only some 100 yards long. The oil did not catch fire, and instead covered Holmes' windshield. As the airflow cleared the oil away from his windscreen, Holmes saw that he was dangerously close to the Dornier, and ramming the stick forward, passed beneath the bomber.

I made my attack on this bomber and he spurted out a lot of oil, just a great stream over my aeroplane. blotting out my windscreen. I couldn't see a damn thing. Then, as the windscreen cleared, I suddenly found myself going straight into his tail. So I stuck my stick forward and went under him, practically grazing my head on his belly.

He attacked the second Dornier, causing a crew member to bail out.

I got to the stern of the aeroplane and was shooting at him when suddenly something white came out of the aircraft. I thought that a part of his wing had come away but in actual fact it turned out to be a man with a parachute coming out. I was travelling at 250 miles per hour, it all happened so quickly, but before I knew what had happened this bloody parachute was draped over my starboard wing. There was this poor devil on his parachute hanging straight out behind me, and my aeroplane was being dragged. All I could do was to swing the aeroplane left and then right to try to get rid of this man. Fortunately, his parachute slid off my wing and down he went, and I thought, Thank heavens for that!

 

Holmes then spotted the third Dornier apparently making directly for Buckingham Palace. Holmes quickly climbed ahead of it, to avoid any machine-gun fire, then swung around to make a head-on attack. However, he ran out of ammunition, so Holmes decided to ram the bomber.

As I fired, my ammunition gave out. I thought, Hell, he's got away now. And there he was coming along and his tail looked very fragile and very inviting. So I thought I'd just take off the tip of his tail. So I went straight at it along him and hit his port fin with my port wing. I thought, That will just take his fin off and he'll never get home without the tail fin. I didn't allow for the fact that the tail fin was actually part of the main fuselage. Although I didn't know it at the time, I found out later that I had knocked off the whole back half of the aircraft including the twin tails.

Holmes' plane began to dive to the left, and was no longer responding to the controls. As the Hurricane went into a vertical dive, he bailed out. As he climbed out, the air-stream caught him and smacked him down on to the roof of his Hurricane. Then, as he was thrown backward, his shoulder hit his own tail fin. When he finally managed to pull his ripcord, the jolt shook off his flying boots and he found himself swinging violently about. He watched the Dornier crash near Victoria tube station.[9] Holmes landed in a narrow back garden, and ended up dangling inside an empty dustbin.

 

But I don't  think this one off can be taken as a general tactic. Certainty not by  any pilot over enemy territory. As this story shows ramming destroys both planes and Holmes was lucky to survive it. 

Edited July 18, 2021 by Monksilver

[SIA_Sp00k]

Not advocating, just sayin....SOVIET RAMMING

 

During the Great Patriotic War (WWII to anyone outside the USSR), there were many cases where downed Soviet aircraft crashed into either German aircraft or ground objects in a maneuver known as a “ram”.  Soviet pilots carried out more than 600 rams during the war. Thanks to their application, it was possible to destroy a large number of enemy soldiers and enemy equipment.

 

Then, there are the Germans themselves...German rammers

 

".......The pilots would fly fighters stripped of all weapons and armor to make them as fast as possible. “The fighter would then dive at its target, the aiming point being the trailing edge of the bomber’s tail surfaces or the control surfaces of its wing,.....”

 

and the Japanese who of course, need no introduction...

 

[SidtheGit]

On 7/15/2021 at 5:39 PM, Beebop said:

Ever consider getting in touch with the Danger Dogz?  I know some of them quite well and they are a very welcoming group.  All you have to do is ask.

"You have to ask the right question." - Dr. Lanning, I Robot

 

 

Thanks for the mention Beebop  We are indeed very welcoming and there are some incredibly patient people amongst the DangerDogz, many technical problems have been solved over varying periods of time and we usually get there. I think it's fair to say that most issues we have come across are down to user input/error, game faults are uncommon.  

 

Cheerzen

 

DD_Sid

Edited July 18, 2021 by SidtheGit

[LukeFF]

9 hours ago, pocketshaver said:

And ramming planes was a valid out for all sides during the war. Especially during the battle of britain.

 

Sir, please put the keyboard down.

[Chief_Mouser]

44 minutes ago, LukeFF said:

 

Sir, please put the keyboard down.

 

It's true I tell you! My father rammed a Spitfire into a water pump in Reading! It was on the low-loader he was driving at the time but it definitely proves it!

[DD_Arthur]

On 7/15/2021 at 5:39 PM, Beebop said:

Ever consider getting in touch with the Danger Dogz?  I know some of them quite well and they are a very welcoming group.  All you have to do is ask.

 

DangerDogz initiation ceremony

[Beebop]

? My, my!  These are the guys to teach you low level flying! 

I'm surprised that the grass is so tall at your field.

Edited July 18, 2021 by Beebop

[-332FG-JP122]

Can you link me the post where people are saying they want .50s to act as 10 he rounds? Pretty sure all we asked for is some correction to the ammo belt and for an aerodynamic penalty for the hits we get....

[354thFG_Drewm3i-VR]

11 minutes ago, -332FG-JP122 said:

Can you link me the post where people are saying they want .50s to act as 10 he rounds? Pretty sure all we asked for is some correction to the ammo belt and for an aerodynamic penalty for the hits we get....

No we just want the switcheroo between the 20 HE and .303s/.50s.