2026 and we still have abusers / cheaters with opened canopy flying around mach 1,5 perfectly hearing incoming missile without any visual or MAW help… unbelievable
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People are still complaining about this?
well when its still a thing which gaijin wont fix coz they are lazy…
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In my opinion, all pilots should be able to open their canopy (unless prevented by the real life plane’s built-in safety systems) and there should be realistic consequences for doing so (I.E. drag, wind buffeting, noise, impaired vision and even tear-off, )-PERIOD.
Thunderians demanding “Lock all cockpits!” are being short-sighted.
IL-2 pilot krupinsky opens his canopy to poke his head out, check six then he closes canopy for flight efficiency.
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did you flew any airplane? listening to anything by poking head in 250 kph in AIRPLANE is nonsense… The whole problem is that abusers have they canopy opened on supersonic pressurized jets without any drawback with very very improved hearing of missiles and planes around him which is just utter nonsense. And at this state its abusing of broken mechanic ea cheating
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There has already been a fix applied to combat this issue a year and a half ago:
If you think this issue is back then that is likely a bug that needs reporting. You can bug report it here (just search a bit first so that you don’t report something that is already reported and known about): (Gaijin.net // Issues)
A guide on how to report bugs can be found here: ([Navigation] Technical Knowledge Base | War Thunder Wiki)
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I feelz yah frustration, Hans. I follow the threads and I understand the problem.
Now, YOU please read carefully what I said regarding “realistic consequences” and I’m confident we’ll be in agreement.
Iirc, it might not actually be open.
Server side Vs client side can differ with this, so to everyone else it’s open, to the actual player, it’s closed.
They also added a sound effect for open canopy that mitigates it a lot iirc.
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I have another issue with the canopy.
I’d like an option to make it fully manual to open and close.
It’s annoying when it rattles open and close while taxiing. With the exception of some older generation aircraft like the F-4, it’s not common to open a canopy on the runway immediately after landing. If I wanted to do that, I’d do it myself.
I have a friend who makes video works, and he was also troubled by this.
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At 245 the only thing you’re going to hear is “whoooooosh”. Very, very, very loud.
Damn, the sole act of opening car window at 130km/h basically drowns out everything with o erwhelming wind noise.
But hey, if you feel adventurous, wear some glasses/facemask so you won’t get pelted by a stray rock and stick your head outside at 130km/h and tell me what did you hear.
And it scales up with speed squared essentialy, so at 245km/h you’d have like 3,5 times the noise.
And then remember your own plane does not really have mufflers. It has a short exhaust that transmits all the noise from rapid gas expansion in your huge-ass engine, not much unlike constant machinegun fire.
And in case of jets it gets much, much worse.
i play very long time to tell if it was server issue or he did actually evade missile because he had opened canopy to abuse sound system in this game.
Don’t need canopy to do that. There are sounds mods that do it too. They really need to banned, but no idea how whilst still enabling legit ones
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This whole thread reminds me of that occasional F-5A player you’ll see flying around with the cockpit open wiping out entire lobbies.
i use a sound mod to make my rwr / msl locking sound unique at different planes, with a normal msl launching / flying sound and no music player missile (i think it’s actually a type of cheating).
gaijin should separate msl flying sound away from customized sound mod.
Yep, that would be a good solution. Sound volume settings in general should probably be a little less configurable for a PvP game actually
Still crazy how the canopy can’t rip at high speeds
Most, if not all do. At least the few times where ive taken off from a carrier and the canopy has decided its going to open at the last second has usually always result in it being ripped off, the only exception being the Harrier that I can get slow enough to close it.
So if you are seeing someone flying around with the cockpit open at high speed, my first assumption would be a server side issue making it look open, even if its actually closed
Oh alright didn’t know that, good to know then
My bad!
I was distracted while commenting and have made edits. IL-2 krupinsky DOES open his canopy but at low speeds to see but I was assuming (probably wrongly) “to listen”.