B-29 Super Fortress

[aenigma]

I was just wondering why Skuzzy doesn't want to add the B19. I get that it's pressurized, but just make it super perked. The only perked bomber option is the Ar234 and that's next to useless. Several hundred B19s were produced and used, granted mostly in the Pacific Theater, but they were in the war. Skuzzy if I could hear directly from you that'd be awesome.  

Lilvader (Assassin's Inc.)

The 234 is FAR from useless. If three guys can take down the town in one pass in the 234, I would safely say it is far, far, from useless.

[Skuzzy]

What Karnak said.  I have ZERO input as to the direction of the game.  I find out about new stuff almost the same day as you do.

[Spikes]

http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php?action=search

[texastc316]

skuzzy your still a god!

[Skuzzy]

Nah.  I am more akin to a target drone.  A slow moving one at that.

[Chalenge]

The B29 has a mystique about it that would be tough to overcome because urban legend has assigned the aircraft a reputation of performance it never had in real life.

[Rich46yo]

Its news to me the 234 is "next to useless". Back when I had a K/D average in the 1-3 average I was careful not to call anything "useless" cause I figured I just didn't know the aircraft good enough. The 234 just has a narrow scope of use. However in that scope it is without peer and almost unkillable. Ive been spending a lot of time in them again and think they are a great perk bomber. We need another perk bomber but they were a great choice for their "fun" factor alone.

Anything that cruises at 455 mph and drops 3,300 lbs of bombs, X 3 = 9,900lb, is not "useless".

[Spikes]

Its news to me the 234 is "next to useless". Back when I had a K/D average in the 1-3 average I was careful not to call anything "useless" cause I figured I just didn't know the aircraft good enough. The 234 just has a narrow scope of use. However in that scope it is without peer and almost unkillable. Ive been spending a lot of time in them again and think they are a great perk bomber. We need another perk bomber but they were a great choice for their "fun" factor alone.

Anything that cruises at 455 mph and drops 3,300 lbs of bombs, X 3 = 9,900lb, is not "useless".

It's a nice "minute-man" GV killer too.

[Yeager]

This game will never be complete without the Superfortress.  If HT doesn't auger in (or turn into a desert hermit) I would expect the B-29 to make an entrance into the game eventually.

I for one love the airplane and would love to command those remote powered turrets.  The 20mm tail cannon installed in the earlier models would be a great tool to shoot!

[Anaxogoras]

More kittens...

[E25280]

I for one love the airplane and would love to command those remote powered turrets. 

And right there is what is keeping it from the game IMO (based on pure speculation).  That has to be a coding nightmare trying to get a command that would allow you to adjust the convergence of the remote turrets on the fly.  Without that ability, the remote turrets would be very difficult to use effectively compared to the guns we have in buffs today.

[1Boner]

If the remote turrets are such a programing nightmare, leave them out for now.

Get the plane into the game with mannnable turrets and add the remote feature down the road in a future update.

Or not.

[Bronk]

And right there is what is keeping it from the game IMO (based on pure speculation).  That has to be a coding nightmare trying to get a command that would allow you to adjust the convergence of the remote turrets on the fly.  Without that ability, the remote turrets would be very difficult to use effectively compared to the guns we have in buffs today.

Really... umm drones already do that now do they not?

Edit: I don't see how it would be any diff than say... The top turret firing when all are fired from say the tail gun.

[Lusche]

Really... umm drones already do that now do they not?

Edit: I don't see how it would be any diff than say... The top turret firing when all are fired from say the tail gun.

I think the problem could be more the graphical part in modeling the remote stations.. just like why we still don't have the Ar234 periscope yet: Clipping errors.

[Bronk]

I think the problem could be more the graphical part in modeling the remote stations.. just like why we still don't have the Ar234 periscope yet: Clipping errors.

That's what I was lead to believe.