About That Bomb-Delay ... I May Have Found The Reason

[FoolTrottel]

May have come across the reason why one would appear to be blown to bits by ones own bombs, while one certainly has set a long delay...

Look here:

This is in a B25J-1NA, 1944, 4x500lbs 1x1000lbs loadout.

Long Delay, 5 seconds.

Yes, Long Delay, 5 seconds.

Look at the timings for the 1000lbs-er, what do you think will happen when you drop it?

When will it go ' BOOM ' ?

And, it will be the first one dropped. Guaranteed short mission, yes.

Scary, aint it?

Good news is, it's the same for 4.11.1m stock, and HSFX 6.0.16.

Have tried A20G, with 1000lbs 2x500lbs, and there too, the delay does not get set for the 1000lbs-er.

Have not seen it happen when using Low Level delay.

So, this may not be a bug at all, it's just to prevent us from being so silly to be trying to try and drop such a heavy load from that low a level.

Then again, Long Delay is only available when the 1000lbs-er is being used. Why would it be if it does not work ie. does not account the setting for that bomb? Could it still be intentional?

I dunno, and I'm pretty tired and fed up with testing this.

Oh, while testing, found a true bug, but it's in its form not relevant for us, though it does show the bomb fuzing code is not at all error-free : HSFX, Expert mode. (Does not occur in 4.11.1m)

Load a dogfight map, set Bomb Fuzes diff. to Off.

Get into the B25J-1NA-1944 (haven't tested others), take load out 4x500lbs, 1x1000lbs.

Set delay at 5 seconds. Press Apply, back to brief

Press Arming, look at delay: 5 sec. Press Apply, back to brief

Press Arming, look at delay: 0 sec. !!!!

But, this is with fuzes off, and we're not using that one, that way... so, not relevant.

(I had hoped by going back to the no-fuzes difficulty, we may revent running into this suicide bomb timing, but when there's this kind of an error in it... never mind)

Effin mods... effin' game... to bad there is no other...

Yeah, I know, should post this up at 242, but ... my registration confirmation there still hasn't materialised.

[FoolTrottel]

Read this thread on the subject please.