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Title: Free grouping of weapons
Post by: Lusche on July 20, 2012, 07:31:35 PM
I would like to see an option in hangar, where the player can assign weapons to "primary" and "secondary" as he likes.

For example I do not like the 2 different 20mm guns in the 190A-5 both "to be secondary", I would like to be able to fire the long barreled MG 151 together with the BB guns as primary and add the short range MG-FF as secondary when getting close.
Or being able to fire the Mk-103 separate from the MG-151s, by setting the MK as "secondary" and the MG-151 together with the smaller guns as "primary".

Title: Re: Free grouping of weapons
Post by: Butcher on July 20, 2012, 07:35:03 PM
+1 certainly a great idea
Title: Re: Free grouping of weapons
Post by: SmokinLoon on July 20, 2012, 08:06:51 PM
A decent and legit wish, no doubt.  However, if fighters had 2 triggers for the most part and HTC has the guns grouped as they were in WWII, then I vote to keep them as is.  I'll give HTC the benefit of the doubt on this one. 
Title: Re: Free grouping of weapons
Post by: TDeacon on July 21, 2012, 01:31:55 PM
+1

MH
Title: Re: Free grouping of weapons
Post by: Volron on July 21, 2012, 02:08:01 PM
Was it something that pilots did during the war, changing what trigger fired what group of guns?  Was it something that was common or did only a select few do it?  If the guns are historically set and it wasn't common practice, then I will have to say no.  However, if it was common practice for pilots to do this, then I don't see a problem. :aok
Title: Re: Free grouping of weapons
Post by: WING47 on July 22, 2012, 11:49:26 PM
+1  :rock
Title: Re: Free grouping of weapons
Post by: smoe on July 24, 2012, 02:28:43 PM
I would like to group all my 5-cals in the (especially for the US planes) set to primary and only have bomb loads and drop tanks on the secondary.
Title: Re: Free grouping of weapons
Post by: FBred1 on July 24, 2012, 04:53:00 PM
sounds like a great idea.
+1
Title: Re: Free grouping of weapons
Post by: ScottyK on July 25, 2012, 01:50:05 AM
I would like to group all my 5-cals in the (especially for the US planes) set to primary and only have bomb loads and drop tanks on the secondary.


You can do this, just make mode 3 the same as mode1, then set your primary weapon to fire all.  I have this set on my Saitek Av8r, one flick of a switch im from mode 1 to 3 and your bombs/rockets are secondary.
Title: Re: Free grouping of weapons
Post by: Bino on July 25, 2012, 10:55:27 AM
I would like to see an option in hangar, where the player can assign weapons to "primary" and "secondary" as he likes.

For example I do not like the 2 different 20mm guns in the 190A-5 both "to be secondary", I would like to be able to fire the long barreled MG 151 together with the BB guns as primary and add the short range MG-FF as secondary when getting close.
Or being able to fire the Mk-103 separate from the MG-151s, by setting the MK as "secondary" and the MG-151 together with the smaller guns as "primary".

+1  :aok

...or even have a "tertiary" weapon?  (Might be too complicated for too little gain.)
Title: Re: Free grouping of weapons
Post by: STEELE on July 25, 2012, 02:19:26 PM
Real 190s had on/off switches for all 3 banks,  1 for mgs, 1 for 20s, 1 for 30s,  and they did fire them seperately as needed
Title: Re: Free grouping of weapons
Post by: smoe on July 25, 2012, 02:28:33 PM

You can do this, just make mode 3 the same as mode1, then set your primary weapon to fire all.  I have this set on my Saitek Av8r, one flick of a switch im from mode 1 to 3 and your bombs/rockets are secondary.

I may need a some more help here.

I currently have "Button 0" set for "Fire all guns", but when the secondary weapons select is drop tanks/rockets/bombs (no guns), only 2-out-of-6 .50-cal guns will fire in a p51. What I want is have "Button 0" fire all my .50-cals no matter what is selected in the secondary weapons box.
Title: Re: Free grouping of weapons
Post by: lyric1 on July 25, 2012, 02:55:10 PM
 :aok
Title: Re: Free grouping of weapons
Post by: ScottyK on July 25, 2012, 09:52:42 PM
I may need a some more help here.

I currently have "Button 0" set for "Fire all guns", but when the secondary weapons select is drop tanks/rockets/bombs (no guns), only 2-out-of-6 .50-cal guns will fire in a p51. What I want is have "Button 0" fire all my .50-cals no matter what is selected in the secondary weapons box.


 I see what your saying now, i appologize.  :salute
Title: Re: Free grouping of weapons
Post by: guncrasher on July 25, 2012, 11:45:02 PM
I may need a some more help here.

I currently have "Button 0" set for "Fire all guns", but when the secondary weapons select is drop tanks/rockets/bombs (no guns), only 2-out-of-6 .50-cal guns will fire in a p51. What I want is have "Button 0" fire all my .50-cals no matter what is selected in the secondary weapons box.

no, it's either you are ready to fire rockets/drop bombs or fire all the guns.  I like it that way and I'll tell you why.

let's say I am chasing some guy and want to make him nervous, so i fire the primary which is 2 mg's just to get him nervous, instead of wasting bullets by firing all 6 mgs.  when I have a target solution then I will fire all 6 mgs.  this is only possible because we have 2 mgs set as primary and 4 as secondary.  same for the spitfire.  I dont want to waste canon so i do a quick tap of the mg's to make the guy nervous while saving the canon for when i have a good shot.

I wouldnt want to always fire all weapons all the time, it's a waste of ammo.  would you really like to fire all 30mm cannons in the 262 for a kill?  that would be a waste of 30mm.  same for the il2, I never fire the primary which is mg's to kill tanks it's a waste as it cant damage a tank and obscure the target, I only shoot the 37mm cannons.

if you drop bombs/rockets and keep forgetting to press backspace then it's a training issue for you.


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