Ammo Load-outs?
 

Ok I have seen a few people in scattered threads talking about this problem, but has anyone managed to get customized ammo load-outs to work at all?

I can set them in the planes screen, and they are saved there if I leave the game and come back, but I can find no way to actually select my custom load-outs in any kind of mission. Single player mission that is, I haven't tried multi-player yet.

The only way I know how to use them, is to edit the mission you want to fly in the FMB and select your flight and choose your custom ammo belt. Then save it, and now that mission will have your custom ammo.

I got mine to save in FMB, but I'm not sure about one thing . Is that all there is ?

I ran out of ammo in a very short space of time. I was firing in targeted burst to conserve ammo (just went to limited ammo after having it on unlimited).

I would like to know how to correctly make the loadout for, eg. the Hurricane.

for each weapon (there are 8 I think) how many belts can you load ? Do these need to be armed or loaded on the fly ?

I didnt fly IL-2 classic with full switch, so thats why I don't know these things.

The ammo loadout (i.e. AP-HE-BALL) pattern repeats over all your ammo. Sorry mate, there isn't many much ammo in hurri or spit. Short bursts or you will be run of it instantly.

Only the bomber gunners and the 20mm on the Bf-110 can be reloaded once the initial ammunition has be used up.

Yeah I've had no luck getting them to work outside of FMB settings either. You can save your convergance in the "quick" plane menu, but only on a profile you made in the FMB. As far as running out of ammo goes, yeah, it sucks. Get used to the idea of getting a kill or two if you're really lucky. There's only something like 11-14 seconds worth of ammo, and that goes really fast.

That's hard news. Thanks for the info though.

Saving a profile in FMB and using it in 'quick' sounds OK.

I have managed to change my load out for the plane in online multiplayer. I go into the plane section. Find the plane I want to adjust the load out for and select that then click on load out. I then change the type and convergenes as I want. I click save but just save it as custom can't rename it. Then I click ok, not back, and then click ok out of the plane section as well. So when am spawning plane at the base my load out appears to be loaded with the changed convergences. Remember your convergences get changed for each gun not for all at once. Also seams to be plane type dependent so need to change it for each different type of plane you want to fly.

A universal covergence setting that applies to all guns would be useful, alongside the ability to set each gun.

Yep, I agree....would make things a bit quicker and I wouldn't forget to set it for a couple of guns like I have done.

Also, I would like smoking tracers for the Brit planes......someone said that the mkIV(?) tracers were smoky.....is that correct?
Actually, it would be nice to have any tracers for the spit in single/quick missions.....I'm still not seeing any - how about everyone else?

Yes ,there were smoking tracers used in the BoB. I'm not talknig about 20mm cannons. Check out some original gun cam footages. It's perfectly modeled in BoB2:WoV by the way.

However, having to fiddle around in FMB to get the loadouts right - and not even then does it work - is unacceptable IMO. Whatever happened to the good old Il2 QMB?!

I did...
 

In the begining the Spitfire Mk I did only have "empty" loadout.
I did go to the "PLANE" menu and there selected the Group "RED".
Then the type of aircraft "FIGHTER".
Next in the left handside the Spitfire Mk I.
At the botom right side "LOADOUT".
This is the long part, you need to create for each gun, there are 8, a ammo belt there are 350 rounds per gun max.
Save this settings, this is important.
In the mission menu you have loaded you can change the load-out of every plane using the one you have created or the one provided by the game.

Have a nice game.

The hole weapons load out screen is just a mess, it needs a complete reworking
every time you go into planes menu, you have to select you plane, when it should remember what you was doing the last time you were in there, or there should be a save button in the planes menu, and not just in the weapons loadout screen.
And the load out screen just does not work, unless you use the FMB:confused:

Yeah, spit tracers are still invisible for me as well, default belting or custom.

For tracers do not put one or two but four of five near each other.

Its not that with a lot of us
The Weapons Loadouts, Just do not Work , unless you use the FMB