It is driving me crazy, making this already bad plane borderline unusable to bomb tanks.
WHY tf is there a drop delay when pressing space??? makes it impossible to hit tanks propperly or bomb in air sim
Is there a way to disable this shit?
Edit: The issue is, there is a delay when dropping bombs while you are not level (rotated or diving)
I will open a bug report
Link to it: Community Bug Reporting System
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Didn’t notice any delay in a test fly. To ask the obvious; You’re opening (rotating) the bomb bay first?
yes i am xD but good question
You could also use CCRP. In CCRP I never observed a delay…
I will make a clip
Because, idk, maybe it’s got a bomb bay…
I just tested, the delay is not in test flight, only in normal matches… weird
I will try to get a clip in a grb match
I figured it out, when not level (so either diving or rolled by about 10°) the bomb drop sound (the click) plays but the bomb only drops arround 3 seconds later. When level it drops instantly
Bind the ‘open bomb bay’ key and open 5 seconds or more before you drop a bomb…
are you like slow? did you not read that i literally replied directly above you that i have it OPEN. I can see why you have a negative KD. How can you be so unobservant.
Also you don’t even own the buccaneer
Are you only dropping bombs from the bay, or dropping bombs from the wing too and its just the bomb bay ones that are delayed?
There is an issue where the bombs on the Buc seem to clip through the airframe when dropped
I figured it out, will edit the post and attach a clip.
The issue is it for whatever reason has a delay when not level
Rude…
(No wonder this game has a reputation for shitty members)
Doesn’t really matter, I still understand the plane and know what it looks like and it’s weird flippy bomb bay.
All planes with bomb bays do that, it’s realistic to avoid bomb collision in the bay…
Ive found on more than a few aircraft that when releasing bombs, especially with sequential ripple mode, that there is a delay between certain pylons. Harriers for example have this, the wing bombs drop rapidly and then there is a 0.5-1 second delay for the belly pylon for no apparent reason.
Wonder if it might be the same here. Ive never personally notice on the Buc S2 because of how I tend to drop bombs (4x Ripple mode to drop the N1s off the wings and then 4x to drop the Mk13 if running 16x. if running 10x + CM pods, then I drop 4x N1s, then 4x Mk13+2x N1s)
Then why do you not say that? I already answered that i had the bombay open.
How should i know that, that is a game mechanic? It is not written or explained anywhere. I even assume it is a bug as it plays the drop sound
Also, how dare you insult the Buc S2 :P
(I will forgive you though if its the Buc S1)
I dont think its an intentional game mechanic but rather a bug or bodge fix.
Bombs clipping/ghosting through the airframe seems to be quite a common issue on the Bucs of late
Agree as if it was intentional it would not play the drop audio
Because you said it right before I said what I did, so I didn’t see it before I said it.
Nope, the sound is just an ‘armed and ready for release’ sound, essentially they have a safety secondary that’s deactivated when the plane is at a low enough angle of flight.