The new CV guns

[milesobrian]

Greetings,
I noticed when the patch came out a week ago, that the update adds the effect to the big CV guns to give them trails.  Personally i like this effect and it has a huge strategic importance as it can help to indicate where the CV is.  However i was wondering is this how it was during the war, could  troops see these huge rounds streak through the sky, or was it an effect that only pilots could see?  Any additional information would be helpful and i would be grateful to learn more about this topic. 

For all i know the company just  added this effect to help you locate CV or so it could help you realize you are getting shelled.

[oakranger]

Greetings,
I noticed when the patch came out a week ago, that the update adds the effect to the big CV guns to give them trails.  Personally i like this effect and it has a huge strategic importance as it can help to indicate where the CV is.  However i was wondering is this how it was during the war, could  troops see these huge rounds streak through the sky, or was it an effect that only pilots could see?  Any additional information would be helpful and i would be grateful to learn more about this topic. 

For all i know the company just  added this effect to help you locate CV or so it could help you realize you are getting shelled.

I was wondering the same thing.  I would image that they could see trails, a 16 inch artillery shell breaking thou the air.

[Bruv119]

how about some High altitude vapor trails that fade out like the shells do and  some wingtip vortices when someone is pulling High G!  

Our machines can handle it I promise!

[MachFly]

I would imagine the large shells did have trails, but not all the time as it would depends on the weather conditions.

I doubt HTC would purposely do something that's unrealistic.

[AWwrgwy]

I would imagine the large shells did have trails, but not all the time as they would depends on the weather conditions.

I doubt HTC would purposely do something that's unrealistic.

Missing a ?

I think the trails are the easy and quick answer to the "dyed splashes" wish with the unintended anti-sneaky-shelling results.

Otherwise, unless it had a tracer in it's butt or you saw the actual shell flying through the air, other than anomalies of weather such as very high humidity, you would not see a trail.

The shells are not hot, they do not have their own propellant.  There would be nothing to see.

I have seen accounts of people seeing the actual shells but not what like we have.


wrongway

[RealDeal]

There are countless reams of film footage of battleships firing their main guns and I have yet to see any "trails" of any type.

RealDeal

[thndregg]

Another concession perhaps for game play, similar to one bomber pilot- three bombers?

[james]

Wow wrongway go to your corner. 

[milesobrian]

There are countless reams of film footage of battleships firing their main guns and I have yet to see any "trails" of any type.

RealDeal

This is why i am confused.  I wasnt there and at the time the films produced were of questionable quality and may not have been able to record certain things.


so why did they add it??  to help locate the CV or to know if they are attacking?

[Kazaa]

Looks awesome to watch though.

[Jayhawk]

This is why i am confused.  I wasnt there and at the time the films produced were of questionable quality and may not have been able to record certain things.


so why did they add it??  to help locate the CV or to know if they are attacking?

wrgwy touched on it, there have many many requests for some kind of system to track your shells.  Prior to the update, it was very difficult to tell what shells were your own while firing at a target.  This system allows you to track the shells and figure out what adjustments need to be made to your shot.  I don't think it's a perfect system, can they not design it so that only the shooter can see them?  Anyway, as ThndrEGG said, it's probably a concession to improve game play.

[Nemisis]

Looks awesome to watch though.

Confused the crap outa me the first time I saw it. I was making a torpedo run at a CV with most of the ack down, and when I saw the trails, I exlaimed "Oh chit!! The cruiser is shooting rockets at me" (one almost hit my plane).

[Flayed]

I remember back in AH1 I think it was, I was flying at 5 K or so when all of the sudden some big bellybutton tracers flew about a foot over my right wing as someone was shelling the field half a sector behind me....  Nothing better than to almost get HO'd by the cruiser lol.

[froger]

I was in the air last night watching someone toss 8"" shells up over the cloud deck.
   now that looked cool from 16k.
the trails seamed to go away upon reentry.



fun to see it is all.


that is all.......




froger

[MajWoody]

It's kind of cool to watch a fleet v fleet battle with all of the smoke trails now.