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Offline Chilli

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Land mode for new M4
« on: April 21, 2010, 04:20:50 PM »
 :banana: With the upcoming M4, I would like to see the option to direct rockets to a target within range like available on carrier 5 and 8 inch guns.  Simply, raising and lowering launcher, trying to estimate range like done with PT boats, just doesn't quite hit the target for me. 

Okay, so what if this is EZ mode, so is automatic bomber calibration, combat trim, auto climb, .... on and on.....  The simple fact for me, even with land mode, the chance of hitting a specific target will be greatly limited by one's estimation of where on the clipboard map that target is located.  It will however better simulate direction from a battle experienced tank commander.

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Re: Land mode for new M4
« Reply #1 on: April 21, 2010, 05:10:25 PM »
Oh dear.............





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Re: Land mode for new M4
« Reply #2 on: April 21, 2010, 05:14:14 PM »
uhh.....no? :headscratch:
but i will love being able to fire big boomie thingies in groups of sixty
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Re: Land mode for new M4
« Reply #3 on: April 21, 2010, 05:29:08 PM »
Haha, HTC has doen it again.  The M4 with the 76mm.  I like this.  The gun is on par with the 85mm of the T34 and the armor is decent.  It will be better than the panzer, can kill the firefly and the T34 and is capable of taking out the tiger from the right distance and direction..  I cant wait.


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Re: Land mode for new M4
« Reply #4 on: April 21, 2010, 05:31:11 PM »
Quote from: BigKev03 on April 21, 2010, 05:29:08 PM
Haha, HTC has doen it again.  The M4 with the 76mm.  I like this.  The gun is on par with the 85mm of the T34 and the armor is decent.  It will be better than the panzer, can kill the firefly and the T34 and is capable of taking out the tiger from the right distance and direction..  I cant wait.


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The 85mm T34 is actually a bit stronger if i recollect. But yes, this will create whole new GV fights. New strategy time!!! woot woot woot! my favorite thing to do!!! :banana:
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Re: Land mode for new M4
« Reply #5 on: April 21, 2010, 05:44:37 PM »
Quote from: 321BAR on April 21, 2010, 05:31:11 PM
The 85mm T34 is actually a bit stronger if i recollect. But yes, this will create whole new GV fights. New strategy time!!! woot woot woot! my favorite thing to do!!! :banana:
Now if we can only get a pather, jagdpather hetzer and jagdpanzar, king tiger, and M-18 Hellcat, it would bring alot of better gv fights to the game. :) :banana:
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Offline Chilli

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Re: Land mode for new M4
« Reply #6 on: April 21, 2010, 06:20:11 PM »
Yes, the Tank without any added gadgetry is awesome.  However, how many of you besides USRanger have tried to make use of rockets on vehicles?  It is a very cool effect, and ... hear me out. 

Enabling "land mode" for rockets will not pose any advantage with any tank vs. tank battle.  Heck, even if it had 160 rockets, I doubt if anyone using this feature would be anymore effective than a 5 inch gunner at hitting any specific target (ie. town buildings, hangars, etc). 

It would add more realism.  No reasonable commander would waste valuable rockets, tossing them blindly into the dirt without having some calculation for elevation and direction. 

Plain and simple, are the rocket launchers going to be functional or eye candy?
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Re: Land mode for new M4
« Reply #7 on: April 21, 2010, 06:27:23 PM »
One word:

Gunsight.

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Re: Land mode for new M4
« Reply #8 on: April 21, 2010, 06:54:08 PM »
Lushe,

I think what he's asking for is land mode to get the range estimate, then use the gunsight to set elevation.
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Re: Land mode for new M4
« Reply #9 on: April 21, 2010, 07:29:50 PM »
-1 nope IMO
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Re: Land mode for new M4
« Reply #10 on: April 21, 2010, 07:44:51 PM »
I wonder if we'll be able to salvo all 60 at once.

Can you say "framerate"?



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Re: Land mode for new M4
« Reply #11 on: April 21, 2010, 09:24:08 PM »
Quote from: 321BAR on April 21, 2010, 05:31:11 PM
The 85mm T34 is actually a bit stronger if i recollect. But yes, this will create whole new GV fights. New strategy time!!! woot woot woot! my favorite thing to do!!! :banana:
Depends on which ammunition you compare.  Very similar capabilities.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/76_mm_gun_M1#Comparison_to_Soviet_85_mm_guns
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Re: Land mode for new M4
« Reply #12 on: April 21, 2010, 10:52:34 PM »
Quote from: Scherf on April 21, 2010, 07:44:51 PM
I wonder if we'll be able to salvo all 60 at once.

Can you say "framerate"?



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I think so, but I believe it only shoots about 2 rockets per second so it'll still take half a min to launch them all.
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Re: Land mode for new M4
« Reply #13 on: April 21, 2010, 11:13:23 PM »
Cool.
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Re: Land mode for new M4
« Reply #14 on: April 22, 2010, 02:51:22 AM »
I think the reason that HTC put land mode into the game in the first place was to make carrier guns functional at range beyond any possible gunsight ability. 

Lusche, a gunsight is fine if all I am going to do with the thing is run into town or airfield and fire at point blank range.  If you have tried to fire rockets from a PT boat, you would know there is no gunsight.

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