Petrovich Countermeasures

[Czechnology]

Both really want and need Petrovich to be able to set up the countermeasures on his own - it makes solo-flying in multiplayer a bit of a pain because you NEED a buddy just to turn on your dispensers.

[fargo007]

You can still bind all the keys yourself to make them work. 

 

And to see the status of switches, bind RCtrl-Rshift-keypad / and * to a hat and you can slide your view forward and look downward to see how they are set. 

 

These are also handy binds for managing your pit position. I like my own stick to match the one in the sim for the most part. 

[dorianR666]

5 hours ago, fargo007 said:

bind RCtrl-Rshift-keypad / and * to a hat

better even, make a custom snap view

[fargo007]

Yup, that would be better but won't work for VR folks tho.  

[q800]

Jesus... VR folks are like cyclists or even worse. They think the world revolves around them only .

Edited June 22, 2021 by q800

[fargo007]

5 hours ago, q800 said:

Jesus... VR folks are like cyclists or even worse. They think the world revolves around them only .

 

 

[Czechnology]

I wanna be clear that literally none of the options given work in most multiplayer scenarios. You cannot use the buttons or keybinds in the front seat from the pilot seat, including the suggestion of physically moving my camera into the operator cockpit. SOME multiplayer servers allow you to, to my understanding, but not the ones I play on, so I'm saying they need to have petrovich atleast turn the switches for the countermeasures on.

[fargo007]

That's fine, I'd like them to be activated along with the weapons, but all of this does work in MP, and I use the technique as a work around all the time. 

 

Multiplayer servers cannot limit which keys you can bind, or where you adjust your cockpit view.

 

 

[Japo32]

That is what I suffered yesterday in my first mission in MP. No way of activating the Countermeasures and also with VR.

It would be great if when activating the weapons (Control+w) Petrovich would turn on the countermeasures in the 1 position. Then also put two keys for the pilot to change chaff or flares selection, so that way we simulate we say to petrovich what to select. 

 

But this is needed fast in the next updates.

[fargo007]

While I agree it's needed for completeness sake, I still don't understand why people don't just bind the controls and use them. 

 

Every single control on the countermeasures panel can be bound.

 

Off a cold start in a multiplayer server I have no problem setting up and using countermeasures.

 

If someone is flying around with no CM active, they are doing so because they choose to.