110 too much smoke?

[Tavingon]

Originally Posted by katdogfizzow

New game coming engine coming out soon should fix it

Sweet, can't actually say how much Im looking forward to it!

[Insuber]

Online, you can change the ammo belts and avoid tracers and phosphorous ordnance. This reduces the bullet smoke to a minimum. Muzzle smoke is not affected thou.

[Sven]

Originally Posted by cheesehawk

You definitely had smoke that you could see from the cannons. Watch the early parts of this film.

Yes but that's not the problem here. From the pilot notes in my earlier post, it is clear that that smoke did not trouble the pilots vision at all. In cliffs of Dover the smoke from the gun barrels blocks my view when shooting under certain angles. As seen in that video of yours the smoke doesn't blind the camera at all. The tracer smoke is too widely spread in Cliffs of Dover IMO. Also, this smoke was added to increase gunnery effectiveness, it wouldn't make much sense if it troubled the pilot.

[He111]

I always thought that was steam, from hot lead contacting very moist air. Apparently one disadvantage of having guns in the nose, unless you placed them under the aircraft?

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Originally Posted by He111

I always thought that was steam, from hot lead contacting very moist air. Apparently one disadvantage of having guns in the nose, unless you placed them under the aircraft?

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He might be talking about the smoke exiting the gun barrels from the propellant gases being released.

[Insuber]

Originally Posted by Sven

Yes but that's not the problem here. From the pilot notes in my earlier post, it is clear that that smoke did not trouble the pilots vision at all. In cliffs of Dover the smoke from the gun barrels blocks my view when shooting under certain angles. As seen in that video of yours the smoke doesn't blind the camera at all. The tracer smoke is too widely spread in Cliffs of Dover IMO. Also, this smoke was added to increase gunnery effectiveness, it wouldn't make much sense if it troubled the pilot.

Sven is right, the smoke of tracers is overdone. It hides the target even in 109, I had to change belting to avoid that.

[jojovtx]

The major culprit of the smoke obscuring view is the cannons. You can not change the loadout in anyway to reduce smoke. I have no tracers in my cannon loadout as every round is a tracer and smokes too much.

Yes, I agree my drop in framerate is and should be attributed to my older laptop. I am unaware of any possibility to "upgrade" my GPU. I also am told by Cyberpower, Clevo, and Corsair that I can't upgrade my RAM.

The complete obscuring of a target due to essentially firing smoke grenades is a game problem. The smoke needs to be turn down, dissipate faster, or no spread so much in order to not impact pilot visibility.

[jojovtx]

Originally Posted by cheesehawk

You definitely had smoke that you could see from the cannons. Watch the early parts of this film.

Yes and that is a narrow stream of smoke, so lightly colored, that it neither impacts the pilots vision nor obsures the target when firing. It is so lightly colored that even just a slight change of angle the smoke dissappears with the change of background.

Currently the smoke is too strong an affect. I am already on medium settings and get mid 30's fps. If drop effects to low and I won't see round impact enemy aircraft or bomb explosions etc.

[TomcatViP]

Don't use the gunsight zoomed view.

Aim and zoom out before pressing the trigger.

I think the smoke is made for taht a,d it's just fine.

Chaps, this is not IL2 ! New game, new standards, new habits... and a lot of enjoyment ! (ok ok btw two L.exe crahes )

Pls note also on the vid above how well done are the the mini fire (incendiaries) in the game