4.12 development update discussion and feedback

[ElAurens]

The HE round has been in the game since the beginning, and it's one of the reasons the .50 BMG has been less effective than it was historically. It was deleted in 4.11.1

The new belting is far better.

The in game P 47 has always had a constant speed prop, all US aircraft have them.

[ElAurens]

From the 4.11.1 readme...

Changed .50 cal belt from APIT - AP - HE - AP to APIT - AP - API - AP

[310thDiablo]

Originally Posted by ElAurens

The HE round has been in the game since the beginning, and it's one of the reasons the .50 BMG has been less effective than it was historically. It was deleted in 4.11.1

The new belting is far better.

The in game P 47 has always had a constant speed prop, all US aircraft have them.

El....then why can't teh Jug have auto prop pitch settings? And you are right about teh he round. but it is still week with having 2 ap rounds instead of adding 2 more api rounds. The power rating is higher for api or apit. Would be a harder hitting belt load.

[ElAurens]

Originally Posted by 310thDiablo

El....then why can't teh Jug have auto prop pitch settings? And you are right about teh he round. but it is still week with having 2 ap rounds instead of adding 2 more api rounds. The power rating is higher for api or apit. Would be a harder hitting belt load.

Constant speed is not the same as auto pitch.

With constant speed prop the pilot selects the rpm and the prop will adjust the blade angles to keep constant rpm no matter where the throttle is set, within the prop's range of course.

Auto pitch is like the German system on Bf 109 and FW 190, a very different thing.

[310thDiablo]

awww ok. I see said the blind man. So we have no way of setting a constant rpm on the Jug then to make use of it. I will continue to have to adjust prop pitch.

[JtD]

You cannot adjust prop pitch, you can only change rpm.

[EJGr.Ost_Caspar]

Indeed - the HUD message is misleading.

[Tigertooo]

Will the "shared kill" also be available online (DF servers and COOPS) ?

[310thDiablo]

Originally Posted by JtD

You cannot adjust prop pitch, you can only change rpm.

So are you saying I am not really changing prop pitch even tho that is what is set in my keys it's really jsut adjusting rpm?

[ElAurens]

Yes, that is how a real constant speed prop works.

The pilot cannot choose the angle of the blades, he chooses the rpm and the blades adjust automatically to keep the desired rpm, so that for instance, in a dive the blades would get more and more coarse to try to keep the desired RPM as speed increased, and in a climb they would go to finer pitch to keep RPM up as the aircraft slowed.

The lone exception to this on US aircraft is the Curtiss Electric Propeller. It could work in 2 modes, as a normal constant speed prop, as described above, or the pilot could go to a manual mode where it worked as a variable pitch prop, like a 109 with it's auto prop disabled, where the pilot directly sets the blade angle. It is not modeled correctly in the sim on the P 40 and P 38 aircraft that used the Curtiss Prop.