Just got the plane on sale, hoping to have some fun with it. Well after hitting multiple 109s with 20mm and doing absolutely nothing, this really pisses me off. What really makes it worse is i hear it has been an issue for awhile.
4 20mms should hurt, not tickle EA. FIX IT!
It was with 50% discount that’s why
Plus one. I want my money back. This airplane is useless.
Thats exactly how I felt after getting the Hurricane Mk4 at the new years sale. They never got it functioning either, yet they didn’t remove it from the sale list or at the very least warn players that it was not functioning. Not only that, but they claim it’s supposed to use AP shells for its 40s, which are bugged and don’t work, but even that info isn’t listed anywhere. I bought it with assumption it fired HE shells like pretty much all the other high caliber aircraft cannons.
On paper the Tempest should be a beast. In reality it’s worse than the biplanes in Moscow. Literally.
Old issue. 20mm and higher caliber plane cannons, namely Hispanos, SHVAKs and cba-learning-the-name-of-Japanese-20mm-garbage do next to 0 damage. Hispanos (which are installed on the Tempest) are the worst of the list. All were fixed in some patch, but reverted back to garbage couple of weeks later for reasons unknown. The funny thing, German cannons work extremely fine. They shred.
P.S. Tempest has absolutely disabled pilot with unbelievably garbage stats allocation.
Lesson learned on this crap. Buying a product that doesn’t work. Nice one DF!
That’s weird… It seems to be inconsistent. For example the Spitfire in Tunisia, with it’s 4x 20mm hispano, only requires you to TAP once to see the enemy fighter disintegrate…
It should have the same effect with premiums…
YES, 12.7MM> 7.62MM>20MM is simply hilarious
This is how the developers have tragically weakened the air cannons. whether in tunisia or normadnia, and even in berlin, the cannons of the planes should grind infantry. 20mm rounds, even if they don’t penetrate planes, should have the power of a grenade.
And once again, I am asking for the restoration of realism from CBT and the fight of planes should be like in WT, i.e. a quick series and the guy falls.
I’ve been playing in berlin now and the cannons of soviet planes have the same problem. The 23mm and 37mm do too little damage to aircraft, a tank would be too close to the ground to penetrate it, and infantry is completely invulnerable.
interesting. they are supposed to be the exact same gun, hispano mk II with same belt.
i know that in wt where they took the planes from, hispano HE has a weird mechanic that it has a delay between hitting and exploding. in wt it used to be so long that in faster dogfights the HE would simply explode out of the other side of the target, dealing minimal damage. if they imported this mechanic it could cause great inconsistency.
also the belt isn’t as good as in german cannons; it’s only half HE.
anyway, it should be a good cannon.
Yes they fixed a bug with these, I remember several patches ago, short burst blew planes apart! Think something is up again.
Has this beeñ logged on CBR, Jira bug?