Gun Safety

[Traveler]

btw there are different ways to replicate this functionality already using AH modes, joystick software etc.

AH Modes? how, isn't it assigened at the time of vehicle selection?  I understand that some joystick software may allow this but not mine.

[RTHolmes]

you can set them to switch manually and theres 4, so you could set up eg.:

aircraft safe
aircraft hot
vehicle safe
vehicle hot

might be easier just to superglue an improvised trigger guard to the stick though.

[Rob52240]

Are you trying to end up with a waiting period on .50 cals and cannons?

[Brownien]

Soooo, so many fail trolls out there. No not separate buttons for safe and hot, ONE single button that toggles safe and fire for all weapons together, primary and secondary. ONE single toggle button for all vehicles. 

[guncrasher]

ok time to explain it to the kids.  here's some visual aids.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTalnzcO0xk


semp

[Lab Rat 3947]

what about the switch for the gun heaters that had to be turned on first then turn the  safety off, & then fire     
First line is a joke; but then I thought how long would the time be before your MGs would fire? I have no knowledge of how long the heaters, I have read about, needed to be on before it was safe to fire them. I know there is someone in the community that knows the answers.   

[RTHolmes]

Soooo, so many fail trolls out there. No not separate buttons for safe and hot, ONE single button that toggles safe and fire for all weapons together, primary and secondary. ONE single toggle button for all vehicles. 

I thought I was being helpful by posting a workaround but apparently I'm a fail troll. In view of that:

-1

If you dont want to fire weapons/release ords then dont press the trigger dummy

[Brownien]

lol wasnt referring to you RtHolmes! but there are others, *cough* *cough* (semp).  All im saying is I have been in a situation where having hot guns are not best to be waving around, say FSO when taking off and forming up or in the MA when forming up for a mission, In both cases a quick accidental click can cause you to go down (possibly in a perk heavy plane!) and have to reup or ruin someone elses night as the case in FSO (I have had that happen to me in a recent FSO and got oiled while grouping up, I was ticked off to say the least).

[guncrasher]

borwnien seriously we all feel your pain, oh who am I kidding, we are laughing  .


I have 2 buttons that fire weapons on my stick.  If my little tiny girl hands can hold the ch stick without firing weapons then so can you.  the key to holding the stick is middle finger, ring finger and the palm of your hand.  or get a stick like the x52 that as a guard.

you need to get used to it, that's all, because if you have a button that will disable your "trigger" buttons then eventually you will have to enable it and you will still fire on friendlies or at the wrong time unless you teach yourself to not do it to begin with.

semp

[Brownien]

All I'm saying is that most, if not all ww2 aircraft had some form of safety. I see tons of people on these forums get burned for asking for something too gamey, or for something too simmy (simulation game based, ie random failures, engine start-up precedure). I don't see people getting told to get a new computer just because some people want better graphics detail, its made an option, just like the way I see this being added as a disableable option in the menu. those who don't want to use the feature will simply diable it, while many others (like the Devil Dogs [tm.]) would most likely all use it for the realism. I apoligize for the tone but I do not particularly like being bashed, although I dont mind the humor. <S>

[kvuo75]

why not buy a joystick with a safety?

x52 has one, av8or has one,

[Brownien]

Sooooo kvuo75, are you a knit, or a bish? If so, you better take cover!  (Target aquired)

[kvuo75]

Sooooo kvuo75, are you a knit, or a bish? If so, you better take cover!  (Target aquired)
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been bishop for awhile since they are usually outnumbered when I'm on

[Brownien]

Oh in that case, I'll have to go fight the bish more often!