The strange case of the bouncy bombs

Originally Posted by Vengeanze

Skipbombing is how we did it in Pacific Fighter; go in low and high speed to make the bomb bounce of the water into the ship. So no bug - like already said it's a mix between forward speed, alt and delayed fuse.

I think you may be confused, maybe its possible to skip with a stuka maybe if they were dropped horizontally, but the idea of the dive bomb is so the bomb is falling as near to vertical as possible.
Same too with the He111 with the bombs being stored vertically when they release they tumble at first then after TV they are going near vertical with not as much as horizontal movement compared to horizontal loading

[Vengeanze]

Originally Posted by BigPickle

I think you may be confused, maybe its possible to skip with a stuka maybe if they were dropped horizontally, but the idea of the dive bomb is so the bomb is falling as near to vertical as possible.
Same too with the He111 with the bombs being stored vertically when they release they tumble at first then after TV they are going near vertical with not as much as horizontal movement compared to horizontal loading

He was flying fast at low alt so the bombs where probably not armed on impact. Can't see how the stacking and dropping of the bombs would affect anything in that situation. But like you said I'm a bit confused.

[Conte Zero]

30 more minutes at work, then I'll be free to fly and test tactics and techniques for the bombing thing. Can't wait, CoD is really addicting now that the first patches gave it a good health level.

I want to try the vertical dive bombing with the Stuka, too.

Beside the false "problem" I highlighted, I think the physics of the bombs are extremely good, they rumble and fall from the bay in a realistic way, you almost can "feel" the weight of every single bomb. Identical to hystorical footage.

[Conte Zero]

guys, I have tried several options, but still my bombs won't explode, no matter what speed or height Im flying at

do I miss anything? for example, on a HE111

ctrl+W to arm bombs
ctrl+B to open bombs bay
button on my joystick to drop the bombs

... and nothing

[rob63]

Not sure if related but was playing the British campaign and downed a HE111 over the water. Instead of crashing into the water it bounced and rolled several times and then came to rest on top of the water. Definitely a LOL moment. COD is entertaining in unexpected ways.

[335th_GRAthos]

I manage to get the 2 x SC500 of the ME110 explode, no problems except for the usual "jumping jack" attitude.
Everything but a dive-bomb will result in bombs jumping like yo-yos (which is absolute rubbish).

The problem I have is with the SC250 of the Bf109E-3B
Only 20% percent of the bombs actually explode, the rest just lands all over the place without detonation.

Go find....