I unlocked the JU-188 and enlisted 4 gunners with all enemy detection perks and such.
I was hoping to do some carpet bombing but I get taken out by enemy planes non stop because my gunners hardly ever shoot at them.
This plane is hopeless without gunners.
The forward gunner and most others have yet to fire for the first time, after I used the plane about 6 times.
Even when I chase the enemy they wont fire.
I cant help him more than this…but still he wont fire.
Holy crap…
I checked the bug report website and indeed there are many reports (dating 10 months back) that the gunners dont work.
So I spend days grinding useless planes to get to the JU-188, spend silver and a gold order to buy all those planes and 4 gunners, spend upgrade points to level up the gunners to maximum, fixed all the perks so they can see the enemy well, spend gold for squad upgrade orders and more silver to upgrade the plane AND NOW I CANT EVEN USE THE DAMN THING BECAUSE OF ANCIENT BUGS???
Seriously man…we all love this game, but the speed in which bugs are fixed is a disaster.
Every few months an update comes, fixing only a few minor bugs, and the rest just keeps on bugging.
Yeah, I’m not happy about that either.
The work is so slow that I suspect there are only one or two actual developers at Darkflow.
If that is really the case, that developer may die from overwork.
I would like to see a better development system.
If I remember topics from ages ago corretly then the problem in your case is that the turrets can not aim directly at targets nearing the crosshair.
Your target will be to low for the top turrets to shoot but to high for the lower turrets to be able to shoot and similar applies to the turrets facing to the side.
So in fact the Ju 188 has a blindspot directly infront of the plane which makes engaging planes in a chase needlessly complicated as you cant fly strait at the target.
But then again it is DF are importing old bugs is way to common so it might just be bugged gunners again.
I tried again and noticed something.
When I just got the plane, it had level 3 and I upgraded immediately to level 4.
Tried the plane, no gunners firing (or perhaps 1 or 2 poor shots).
Then I posted this topic, complaining about the performance of my gunners.
After that I upgraded the plane to level 5 and tried again.
The gunners fired more.
But still they didnt hit sh*t.
I chased an enemy paraplane, I think my gunner may have shot at him but missed.
Then came enemy bombers, that is a good test for my gunners.
See for yourself, the front gunner opens up (finally!) but shoots blanks.
My tailgunner opens fire to the rear, where there is NO enemy plane (I checked).
He is supposed to turn his turret forward I think…
One or two good bomb drops and I can upgrade the plane to max level 6.
We’ll see if that has any effect on the gunners…
its hard to see from that angle (3rd person), but there is a slight trick to chasing a plane, you dont point your nose right at it.
Someone put it into image form a while back, I cant remember who it was or where, But you want to point your nose below your target to get the best gunning arc and chance to hit
(I used 3rd person because the replay suddenly shows 1st person zoomed in)
I watched a 2 months old video from a CC.
He was having fun just flying around and chasing planes and let his gunners take out fighters and paraplanes all around him.
They got plenty of kills.
I guess the gunners were still fine then.
My gunners now absolutely dont even come close to shooting so much.
They dont even shoot at a passing or approaching or tailing fighter who shoots at me.
But I will keep trying.
