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Title: Gun Safety
Post by: Brownien on August 23, 2012, 11:14:11 PM
I would like a Gun Safety to be implemented. A simple button to toggle safe and fire for all weapons for when in areas of non combat, to prevent accidental friendly fire and ammo wasting. :aok
Title: Re: Gun Safety
Post by: Skyguns MKII on August 23, 2012, 11:40:25 PM
we have something even better! ITS CALLED PROPER GUN CONTROL  :lol
Title: Re: Gun Safety
Post by: guncrasher on August 23, 2012, 11:41:15 PM
 :O.   now I can truly say this is the first time I seen this wish.    :cheers:.



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Title: Re: Gun Safety
Post by: guncrasher on August 23, 2012, 11:42:51 PM
we have something even better! ITS CALLED PROPER GUN CONTROL  :lol

yeah this is great let's add gun laws to the game  :bhead :bhead


semp
Title: Re: Gun Safety
Post by: Lab Rat 3947 on August 24, 2012, 12:01:09 AM
to me, Gun Control is the ability to hit your target    :old:
Title: Re: Gun Safety
Post by: Krusty on August 24, 2012, 01:11:03 AM
:O.   now I can truly say this is the first time I seen this wish.    :cheers:.

Actually, been wished for before. Specifically on bombers with big external bombs, like centerline Stuka. B5N comes to mind. No forward guns on her, so you can't have guns selected. Any accidental bump/click and your torp is gone.

I don't know if it should be standard, but some keyboard toggle would be nice as long as it was something always OFF by default. Though, it WOULD add to the list of excuses for lost fights.... "My safety was on! Otherwise you'd have been toast!"
Title: Re: Gun Safety
Post by: RngFndr on August 24, 2012, 09:00:02 AM
"KEEP YOUR HANDS OFF THAT DAM ELECTRIC ARMING SWITCH" - Dick Best
Title: Re: Gun Safety
Post by: Brownien on August 24, 2012, 03:25:09 PM
yeap! thats all I mean is a simple programmable toggle button. I tend to leave my finger on the trigger throughout my entire flights because there is simply no other comfortable way to hold the joystick and fly!
Title: Re: Gun Safety
Post by: RTHolmes on August 24, 2012, 03:36:01 PM
I dont want to run into you at the range :uhoh
Title: Re: Gun Safety
Post by: bangsbox on August 25, 2012, 05:56:33 PM
"KEEP YOUR HANDS OFF THAT DAM ELECTRIC ARMING SWITCH" - Dick Best


 :aok
Title: Re: Gun Safety
Post by: Skyguns MKII on August 25, 2012, 10:25:18 PM
yeah this is great let's add gun laws to the game  :bhead :bhead


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Title: Re: Gun Safety
Post by: Brownien on August 27, 2012, 07:38:36 AM
give me my button!  :noid
Title: Re: Gun Safety
Post by: guncrasher on August 27, 2012, 12:50:27 PM
give me my button!  :noid

I bet you hear that a lot  :noid.

semp
Title: Re: Gun Safety
Post by: Traveler on August 29, 2012, 09:04:02 AM
I would like a Gun Safety to be implemented. A simple button to toggle safe and fire for all weapons for when in areas of non combat, to prevent accidental friendly fire and ammo wasting. :aok

Do you see it as just one switch, all guns hot or cold? Or by trigger, firing circuit?  a switch for each weapon, primary or secondary?
Title: Re: Gun Safety
Post by: RTHolmes on August 29, 2012, 09:09:10 AM
btw there are different ways to replicate this functionality already using AH modes, joystick software etc.
Title: Re: Gun Safety
Post by: Traveler on August 29, 2012, 12:06:33 PM
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.
Title: Re: Gun Safety
Post by: RTHolmes on August 29, 2012, 12:41:22 PM
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.
Title: Re: Gun Safety
Post by: Rob52240 on August 29, 2012, 01:02:16 PM
Are you trying to end up with a waiting period on .50 cals and cannons?
Title: Re: Gun Safety
Post by: Brownien on August 29, 2012, 09:14:01 PM
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.  :noid
Title: Re: Gun Safety
Post by: guncrasher on August 29, 2012, 10:35:47 PM
ok time to explain it to the kids.  here's some visual aids.


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


semp
Title: Re: Gun Safety
Post by: Lab Rat 3947 on August 30, 2012, 12:12:00 AM
what about the switch for the gun heaters that had to be turned on first then turn the  safety off, & then fire  :headscratch:    :old:
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.    :old:
Title: Re: Gun Safety
Post by: RTHolmes on August 30, 2012, 04:36:49 AM
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.  :noid

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 :rolleyes:
Title: Re: Gun Safety
Post by: Brownien on August 30, 2012, 09:23:50 PM
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).
Title: Re: Gun Safety
Post by: guncrasher on August 30, 2012, 10:36:13 PM
borwnien seriously we all feel your pain, oh who am I kidding, we are laughing  :rofl.


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

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Title: Re: Gun Safety
Post by: Brownien on September 02, 2012, 10:34:22 PM
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>
Title: Re: Gun Safety
Post by: kvuo75 on September 04, 2012, 11:34:27 AM
why not buy a joystick with a safety?

x52 has one, av8or has one,
Title: Re: Gun Safety
Post by: Brownien on September 04, 2012, 09:51:21 PM
Sooooo kvuo75, are you a knit, or a bish? If so, you better take cover!  :noid (Target aquired) :aok
Title: Re: Gun Safety
Post by: kvuo75 on September 04, 2012, 10:08:54 PM
Sooooo kvuo75, are you a knit, or a bish? If so, you better take cover!  :noid (Target aquired) :aok
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been bishop for awhile since they are usually outnumbered when I'm on
Title: Re: Gun Safety
Post by: Brownien on September 05, 2012, 05:48:10 PM
Oh in that case, I'll have to go fight the bish more often!  :aok