Author Topic: So what happened to the TBM? (Read 1756 times)

Tarmac · « **on:** December 05, 2003, 12:15:43 AM »

What'd it do? Did something change, or did someone discover an easter egg?

Octavius · « **Reply #1 on:** December 05, 2003, 12:33:46 AM »

Tarmac · « **Reply #2 on:** December 05, 2003, 01:09:52 AM »

Logged in tonight. MOTD was "Due to a bug in the flight model of the TBM, we have disabled it."

B17Skull12 · « **Reply #3 on:** December 05, 2003, 01:11:51 AM »

heard that at 30k it would go 600 mph:eek: no cheat FM bug

1K0N · « **Reply #4 on:** December 05, 2003, 07:16:14 AM »

I often fly a TBM up to 30k to bomb a nme carrier!?

Tarmac · « **Reply #5 on:** December 05, 2003, 01:51:37 PM »

That's it? seems like it'd be a rare enough occurance that nobody would care.

Octavius · « **Reply #6 on:** December 05, 2003, 02:21:00 PM »

hehe! I'm gonna try this out offline real quick.

ra · « **Reply #7 on:** December 05, 2003, 02:28:06 PM »

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Originally posted by Octavius
hehe! I'm gonna try this out offline real quick.

Report how it went tomorrow.

Octavius · « **Reply #8 on:** December 05, 2003, 03:26:42 PM »

Took 5 minutes with wind.

30k: turned wind off, let it settle. No real difference noticed.

40k: a little wonky. speeds around 250 indicated.

50k: Flew around like a zeke with 5-6g flat turns. Weird indeed =]

Put it in a nose dive and never really broke the 600 mph barrier. Wings ripped at 2k and death ensued.

2nd try I turned wind off at 35k, stalled and began to spin. I could NOT recover no matter what I did til about 4k. odd

artik · « **Reply #9 on:** December 06, 2003, 12:44:59 AM »

You know - probably the planes that had been seen flying 450 knots (never heard about 600) was after dive? I dived with it from 20k and I was at speed of 400 even 500 but slowly I returned to my normal speed - this plane is good diver probably even better then 109g10 or P-38 that compressed at 400-450 knots. I do not know.

If it is bug - how can it be reproducted?

Anybody can ask the guyes who flew this TBMs at 600k. How did they do it?

Hajo · « **Reply #10 on:** December 06, 2003, 04:11:10 PM »

Was filmed.....it's a BUG......at 27K the TBM outran an ME163.

Ack-Ack · « **Reply #11 on:** December 06, 2003, 07:00:13 PM »

Maybe it was a map setting but the day they had announced on the MOTD that the TBM was disabled, I along with a few others were able to spawn TBMs in the hanger and fly them. I never took the time to grab to 27k to see if I can out turn a Me163 so I don't know if they were put back in because they were fixed or if someone just forgot to change the arena settings after the reset.

ack-ack

Wadke · « **Reply #12 on:** December 06, 2003, 09:24:00 PM »

Offline...no wind:
Took TBM to 27K and dove it straight to deck.....only thing that fell off when it pulled out was the rudder....wierd? i dunno

moot · « **Reply #13 on:** December 06, 2003, 09:52:18 PM »

it has to be some fluke out of the ordinary conditions, otherwise simply firewalling the throttle in level flight would have been spotted by HTC when they modeled and tested the thing before release..