Ok, what I don't understand if API was already modeled in game why was it not included in the US aircraft ammo loadout? For some reason I thought it wasn't modeled.

They are some API in belts, but the purpose of my mod was to put ONLY APi.....

Don't know the reason at all.... :rolleyes:

But results are interesting and showing great differences between the differents DM...... Some japanes planes are highly (too ?) flammable..... but depending.... ki 61 resist much better than zero (normal), but, generally, german planes resist generally much more..... it is not allways so easy to shoot down a FW...... perhaps marketting reasons ? don't know at all. SO, i like to see sometimes FW burning (rarelly, but happen), or 109 just have little smoke, slow rolling and... falling to ground instead explode or show great pyrotechnics effects....

(sorry, my english is very poor, hard for me to good describe what i mean....)

Billfish, I saw your question to josse. I’m sure he can come up with some documentation to interpret it his way. However, I don’t see how it’s relevant.
Even if someone could prove that his weapons hack is perfect and as close to the original rounds as can be, it would still be WRONG.
It’s wrong for many reasons.
It’s wrong because Oleg didn’t give him permission to hack it.
(Oleg, correct me if that’s changed)
It’s wrong because no majority group of online flyers elected josse to correct weapons for IL2.
It’s wrong because he and his friends are sharing it and showing others how.
It’s wrong because some are abusing it online.
The list can go on and on.
It’s wrong because... It’s WRONG. If it were perfect, it would be perfectly wrong.

In all the years I’ve been flying IL2, I have never seen a weapons hack ntrk like the one here. As soon as he releases a weapons hack and brags about it for attention, wham, we have mod guns in servers immediately. I find it hard to believe it’s a coincidence and not somehow at least related.

Some will say but but but there are other hackers who have the tools and know java. I’m sure there are, but those hackers at least kept there mouth shut and we didn’t notice their weapons in online severs immediately. Just because someone makes a “tool” or a baseball bat, it doesn’t mean that people can pick it up and bash others over the head with it. Please don’t tell us the but but but others hacked it first crap.

Josse, could you please climb into your java and go to all corners of the web and retrieve all of your hacked guns that you have allowed to be downloaded by the dishonest players. While you’re at it please retrieve all of the mods of your mods. Please ask those people to forget what you have already taught them. If you miss a couple of the honest players we don’t care, but be sure to get the ones back from the dishonest people.

To whom it may concern: If you’re playing with yourself offline and feel your gun is too small and need to enlarge it to reach satisfaction… please keep it to yourself.

If API, and it is, was already modeled in game, why in the hell did Oleg decide to keep it the way it is for the .50 cal weapons? It makes NO sense to me and now I'm pissed! lol

This is how a lot of the community is starting to feel about some things. These simple things that could have been done but we were told it is imposible.

Glad you said that, as yes, Maddox games most certainly did....Was it in their initial research? Most likely yet to the naturally limited degree of a single person or group. What they did do however was very willingly take subsequent data collected by numerous community members and apply it.

The proof? Numerous changes to numerous weapons when they were supplied with REAL DATA not just "a cuz I thinks it is not right". I can also tell you for a fact that changes were also made to FM's, DM's, Weapons, Ammunition, Armor and so on three simple examples being the "loss" of Ki-61 rudder trim, the activation of Ki-61-I-Hei fire extinguishers, and the addition of self sealing armor proofing to the Ki-61 fuel tanks though the difference between models and their level of protection applied by 1c I cannot say deffinatively........All of those changes inspired from my research......You also must realize (as I'm quite sure you do), that once production numbers based upon s/n that applies to change points and models is supplied, a decision must be made.

That decision requiring to take into consideration the percentage of aircraft having each change, how prevalent was it in combat, is it better to show the difference between models or have them so similar there is no reason to have another and so on.....As an example the Ki-61 has 3 models in the sim....The differences though minor to extreme have nothing to do with what you see.....Yet they did affect the planes performance which we do notice, weight being a good example of that.

Was every change made? Nope, in fact quite a few were not. Yet they were not due to the degree of work it would entail to apply them........Now, that's 3 aircraft in the sim, those changes made while all the others had folks hammering on 1c about their own faves.

I can also tell you for a FACT that a Breda SAFAT round has no where near the power or effectiveness of a Browning .50 Cal., it doesn't even stand up to a Ho-103 of the Japanese, accuracy also very well documented YET....It's basically "just a cuz".

He also subsequently to my question answers only...."But results are interesting and showing great differences between the differents DM...... Some japanes planes are highly (too ?) flammable..... but depending.... ki 61 resist much better than zero (normal), but, generally, german planes resist generally much more..... it is not allways so easy to shoot down a FW...... perhaps marketting reasons ? don't know at all. SO, i like to see sometimes FW burning (rarelly, but happen), or 109 just have little smoke, slow rolling and... falling to ground instead explode or show great pyrotechnics effects"......

Yet that gives absolutly no reason why he feels that........As to the Ki-61 however, I can tell you precisely.

...and that's the point, changes are being made as to "feel & want"....and though Josse is making them to what he "believes" they should be by feel, he is also "showing" people how to make what they "want".....and many "want" something much more then what was actual.....Like swapping out rounds in a belt.

So let me ask this then....Of the 3 rounds offered in the Browning .50, which does the most damage in the sim and was that what all planes used?

Now remember, only those who use this mod online have that adjustment.....Think that's right?....

This has become a very, very, very tiresome excuse.....As everyone understands language barriers and the explinations have been given over and over.

Point blank it has been explained by Oleg over and over throughout the years that....

To make certain changes required more work then they had time to do....
To make certain changes would mean the sim would never of grown as to content.....
To make certain changes were beyond the sims capability....
To make certain changes would cause imbalance (as in how come the FW has 500 diff. bombs to chose from yet the P47 has 3)....
To make certain changes would require reworking every plane in a particular way....
etc..

If you cannot understand why every single want or correction is made upon demand by a small group trying to generate new product to generate a paycheck to survive.....Then it's time for many here to discover what it's like to get paid by results, not hours.

How the world works....Even the company anyone here works for whether you realize it or not.

So "No, it cannot be done" is a fine answer....Means for whatever reason be it the software, time, or keeping a sense of balance they could/would NOT do it......No is as accurate and good an answer as yes.

K2

So, as discuss here lead nowhere, as i feel exhausted by those fruitless discuss, i now move to my next works .....

I have exposed how i feel and work, time to go on in my todo list......

Have fun, and happy new year,

Cheers,

Josse

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uf_josse, if your work is as dedicated as your old skin mods at il2skins -- assuming same josse -- many people will enjoy your mods. I often used some of your skins back when I played the sim.

For almost five years running that I have observed, a certain minority of hostile behaving anonymous public server computer gamers have been accusing Oleg's Offline and Online play customers of "wanting to cheat online" for desiring additional customizing or modding abilities in this sim.

There is nothing new under the FB sun. :grin:

Welp, guess i'm not getting a simple answer to my simple questions....