investigating Finally saw a warbird explode

[kennyuk77]

Seems like I was putting insane amounts of rounds into aircraft and would never see any explosions then bang! This guy explodes right in front of me from some .50 cal rounds

[kennyuk77]

 

[grafspee]

Looks more like annihilation to me

[Ala13_ManOWar]

Why does it look like the Spitfire is flown with keyboard?

[peachmonkey]

puff pastry..

... something's super odd with this one..

[DishDoggie]

It is odd but after putting 500lbs of P-51 fifty cal led into that guy and he flys away like no problem i'll just fly back home and come back tomorrow. I kinda like seeing this. lol 

[kennyuk77]

53 minutes ago, Ala13_ManOWar said:

Why does it look like the Spitfire is flown with keyboard?

It's me moving the camera with the mouse. I use a HOTAS.

[BIGNEWY]

Ive asked the team if it is intended, if anyone has a short track replay example on Caucasus terrain please attach it

[kennyuk77]

8 minutes ago, BIGNEWY said:

Ive asked the team if it is intended, if anyone has a short track replay example on Caucasus terrain please attach it

Not on Caucasus but here it is

spitmeexplode.trk

[NineLine]

Thanks I will take a look.

[sigfan86]

Looks like someone enabled the "shot by 45acp" feature

[NineLine]

Track didnt play back right, so I will try to replicate. If you get a new track with the latest Open Beta drop it here. 

[NineLine]

So I just dropped about 30 109s and no explosions... So right now I cannot reproduce. 

[kennyuk77]

10 hours ago, NineLine said:

So I just dropped about 30 109s and no explosions... So right now I cannot reproduce. 

Here is another angle, strange explosion effect on the ground

[NineLine]

Any mods?

 

[kennyuk77]

3 hours ago, NineLine said:

Any mods?

 

None at all, I just play the stable version

[NineLine]

Oh stable, let me try there as well, maybe something broke and its fixed now in OB or something weird. 

You see this everytime you shoot a 109 or only this mission?

[kennyuk77]

1 hour ago, NineLine said:

Oh stable, let me try there as well, maybe something broke and its fixed now in OB or something weird. 

You see this everytime you shoot a 109 or only this mission?

Just this one mission, been playing with the spitfire quite a lot lately and that is the only time I have seen that

[Doughguy]

Those new .50cal rounds have some stopping power now!

[DragonSoulkin]

On 4/13/2023 at 4:16 PM, NineLine said:

Track didnt play back right, so I will try to replicate. If you get a new track with the latest Open Beta drop it here. 

Actually I've seen this once with the F18 on Syria. Unloaded the gun into an F14A and it just exploded the same way as in this case. I've only had it happen once though.

On 4/13/2023 at 12:06 PM, kennyuk77 said:

It's me moving the camera with the mouse. I use a HOTAS.

Us F5 when trying to view a target in the replay (or live). It locks the view on the target from the selected plane's position.

[Digitalvole]

Spitfire with .50 cal? I’ve been away, has this been added or am I getting some wires crossed?

[Gunfreak]

44 minutes ago, Digitalvole said:

Spitfire with .50 cal? I’ve been away, has this been added or am I getting some wires crossed?

No, DCS spit doesn't have .50

[Digitalvole]

5 minutes ago, Gunfreak said:

No, DCS spit doesn't have .50

Thanks, didn’t think so. I did get excited for a minute though, ah well.

[kennyuk77]

10 hours ago, Digitalvole said:

Thanks, didn’t think so. I did get excited for a minute though, ah well.

Ah yeah I meant 3.03 some later Spitfire IX had .50 cal's though

[Digitalvole]

12 hours ago, kennyuk77 said:

Ah yeah I meant 3.03 some later Spitfire IX had .50 cal's though

Wasn’t there a joke about the effectiveness of the 3.03’s that the only way to shoot down an enemy was to fill it with so many bullets it was too heavy to fly?