These things are made with a ‘good enough’ mindset. If an open canopy affected flight performance, people wouldn’t use it.
Honestly, I doubt that the developer of the PGM designed them to crash into the ground before reaching the target when launched from low altitudes. On the contrary, the developer claims they have a range of 15 km when launched from low altitudes. And as you can imagine, this isn’t an isolated case in the game.
Ok, such cases of course. I was talking more about for example inadequate air/ground stores of Swedish aircraft compared to their counterparts from other countries, things like that.
Bugs are bugs, and need to be corrected, sure. But a wide canopy frame or comparatively modest (but realistic) ordonnance or weak (but realistic) engines is not a bug…
Well, then report it to the developers, you’re the game master. Bug reports about the British have been left unfixed for years.
That’s not the job of a game master, and we game masters are players like everybody else and have no more force to influence devs than anybody else…
What a mess you have there. By the way, do you know who can inform the developers that in the current patch, two new planes were added to the game, both armed with those damn broken missiles? It sounds unbelievable, but it seems like the developers are unaware.
Sorry to come over cross, but what do you mean with “what a mess you have here”?!? We all have our jobs and functions, and can’t really meddle with issues outside of our fields and responsibilities. So much should be obvious, companies work like that. GM’s don’t mess with technical issues, devs/tech mods don’t tackle chat moderation.
As to who to inform: Write a well documented bug report, just like everybody else, or if the report already exists, support with clicking “I have the same issue” and/or add helpful comments to it if still open. That’s the one and only correct way to go about this.
I’ve zero clues about modern jets,
but at least for WW2 naval aviation it was standard practice in some aircraft to open the canopy on approach to the carrier for visibility at least.
Of course, this is done at very low speeds appropriate for landing on a carrier. But hey, some definite and regular examples do exist!
… Coincidentally, trying to open your canopy in a wildcat, hellcat or earlier zero models (a6m3) is not possible at all. I havnt flown the m5 yet.
No tech tree A6M5 can open the canopy, maybe the premium A6M5 Ko from the pacific pack can. A6M6 Hei also can’t.
What situation? In spite of many claims, it now provides no sound advantage.
Gaijin puts such heavy work into their models…
check back in 2035 and they might get around to updating the models
Check the suggestions forum section.
99% is NeW vEhiCleS
The target audience wants new silly undeveloped 3D models. The snail gives.
101%
Great post
Some bloke just racked 20 kills while being shot down once using this exploit. How the hell is this still allowed? This topic is like a year old already.
You can change the sound files in this game. They literally exploit this “”“”““bug””“”“” by using some easily audible sound as the enemy plane’s sound, then open their cockpit and follow their ears.
There is one particular player who has been doing this for literal years and the game master’s just can’t give a damn about it. I report then the bloke just keeps mowing down the enemy team with a K/D ratio of 10:1.
Change sound files. Choose a night map with jets. Keep low. Open cockpit then rake all the kills. And literally none of the GMs give a damn.
Then it’s not an “open canopy exploit” anymore now, is it? If you have to MODIFY THE GAME FILES to make it work, then the issue isn’t the open canopy lol
you don’t need to modify the sound files to make it work, but it will enhance the result if you do
No, it doesn’t work at all if you don’t modify your game files. You can be behind someone and they’ll only hear you/you’ll only hear them when you’re basically touching them.
I’m playing Ground SB after F-4E, MiG-27K and Su-17M4 joined 10_2 lineups, the amount of players that flying with canopy open is crazy, jets and helicopters, I can say it is 80% of players I’m seeing are opening the canopies of their aircraft to get the hearing advantage, which means sound penalty of Gaijin is not doing the job. And if some people are changing sound files to enhance this illegal advantage then it is even worse.
