Hi, I just got my Su-34 and trying to bomb bases in Air Sim. I normally would select the weapon I use and mark CCRP on the base, but this time it wouldn’t allow me to release the bombs until I exited the weapon selector mode. I didn’t choose to use bomb series bc I don’t want to throw all bombs at once. Can someone help me with it?
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Fire Secondary weapons and drop bomb series being bound to the same binding is fine. This is the setup I use. Just everytime you go to drop, it will give you that error message. With weapon selector enabled, it will drop because of “fire Secondary weapons” and with it disabled, it would drop the selected bomb series.
I would suggest unbinding keybinds for:
- Drop bomb
- Fire Rocket Salvo
- Drop guided bomb
though because, they might be causing issues.
With the attack angle shown in that image, it is also possible the ballistic computer is actually not dropping the weapon either.
So try this. Remove the bindings from said controls above.
Enable weapon selector and target a base
Fly level over that base whilst pressing and holding space bar (you should get a “weapon permission release” thing at the bottom of the screen)
and see what happens
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Thank you for your advice. I did what you suggested but it still puzzles me. Is there a way to released bomb series while in weapon selector mode? It seems that bomb series would only drop if you exit the weapon selector mode, no matter what keybind you have on “Drop bomb series”. I tried to set this keybind to be different with “Drop bomb” but it didn’t show difference. The only way was still to exit the weapon selector mode.
Plus, I think there is a keybind for “automatic release bombs in CCRP mode” (something like that) but it never actually “automatically releases” bombs for me, but what it would do is to restrict you from dropping bombs when it’s not in the range of CCRP.
I mean, this part of the game seems unnecessarily confusing and counterintuitive. What I would expect is that, with weapon selector on and CCRP enabled, I can choose to drop single bombs or drop bomb series.
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You can set a keybind for “Secondary weapon ripple quantity”. Which, when in weapon selector, will allow you to cycle through some presets for how many bombs you want to drop. Its a different selection to bomb series but has most that you need. The only thing it is really missing though is a “drop all” option, there is “S” which is sequential release, which works fine most of the time, but not when lofting your bombs.
That is best you can do.
Bomb series use to work whilst in weapon selector, but it ignored your selected amount and just always dropped everything sequentially, I personally prefer the current setup, but I know others were disappointed about the change.
How CCRP is meant to work is that the aircraft will release the bomb at the correct time to hit the target, providing you’ve aligned to the target correctly. By default, that is how it will work. When you toggle automatic release bombs in CCRP, it switches from auto-release to manual, so you have to hit the button at the correct time when the interface tells to hit the target.
Ive personally not used the setting at all, because I want the computer to handle the release, it allows me to do things like lofting the bombs (basically pulling back on the stick and throwing the bombs at the base)
CCRP is a mess, but between ripple quantity and the CCRP settings we currently have its “fine”.
Ive got a full guide written for using CCRP, having a quick read:
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What’s “weapon selector mode”?
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Weapon selector is a different method of choosing and firing a weapon.
Rather than having different bindings for different weapons, you instead cycle through your weapons available and then fire the selected one. It can be a little clunky at times, but generally gives a lot more flexibility.
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As in fire Primary and Secondary weapon, instead of every weapon class on a separate key?
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Yeah
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You cannot use bomb salvo in weapon selection mode due to a bug that gaijin decided it wasn’t worth fixing so they disabled this feature
bad take
horrendous even
cripples your ability to use weapons without the weapon selector
The only time I have weapon selector disabled is when im using bomb series specifcally to dump all bombs in a loft attack that doesnt align with a set ripple quantity.
Has never been an issue for me.
Not sure what’s the problem. I normally release 2/4/8 bombs in CCRP in a single pass. Didn’t try cont. release, though.
I dont think OP knew about ripple modes.
“S” is fine in level flight for most bomb loads, can be a bit problematic for really big bomb loads though.
The issue is when you try to loft, most of the bombs will miss with “S”. So i really wish there was an “A” option like the “All” option for Bomb series.