Depression Setting Problem

[Avio]

Bought the MB-339 last week and I'm loving it much.

Noticed the Hundredth digit setting for the depression gun sight can only be set to max of 1, whereas the tenth and ones are able to go from 1 to 9.

Can the developer please look into this? Thanks.

 

[Avio]

Can the developer please response to this issue? This one seems definitely to be a bug.

[Ramsay]

On 3/27/2025 at 3:24 AM, Avio said:

Noticed the Hundredth digit setting for the depression gun sight can only be set to max of 1, whereas the tenth and ones are able to go from 1 to 9.

13 hours ago, Avio said:

This one seems definitely to be a bug.

This may be intended as +200 mils likely falls outside the gun sight's field of view ?

[Avio]

Saw on youtube that it could be set to the hundredths, maybe viewing could be done by camera shift.

[Ramsay]

21 hours ago, Avio said:

Saw on youtube that it could be set to the hundredths, maybe viewing could be done by camera shift.

Old youtube videos are out dated as the DCS MB-339A's sight size and depression adjustments didn't match the real aircraft and  documentation until recently.

These were fixed as part of the 30th October 2024 DCS Patch (however the manual and included training missions need updating to match this improved (realistic) behaviour).

Spoiler

DCS: MB-339A/PAN by IndiaFoxtEcho Visual Simulations

• Fixed. LOD issue: MB339 cockpit disappears if you are a certain distance/zoomed out enough
• Fixed. CTD during mission loading
• Fixed. Gunsight Depression Settings
• Fixed. Rear pilot not visible in external view
• Fixed. IFR hood not visible in external view
• Fixed. Rear canopy glass not broken after a rear pilot eject
• Added. Flight Director System
• Removed. gunsight depression tables from kneeboard (no longer applicable)
• Updated Flight manual:
  • Fixed. Missing translations
  • Added. Special Option description
  • Added. Flight Director System description
• Improved suspension behavior
• Improved coloured smokes (red and green)

https://forum.dcs.world/topic/341576-dcs-changelog-and-updates-2024/#findComment-5544747

Comment

It's possible the 0-1 hundreds thumb wheel's limitation is unintended (as there were some issues with how the depression settings effected the sight - since fixed), so only an IFE dev can say for certain if the current behaviour is intended.

 

 

Edited April 6, 2025 by Ramsay

[Avio]

Thanks for pointing out. Not sure where else may we get the correct and usable depression table values, now that the hundredth number cannot be changed.

[Ramsay]

16 hours ago, Avio said:

Not sure where else may we get the correct and usable depression table values,

Ivank created a list of depression settings for various Mk82 profiles in this post - I haven't  tested them  but they should provide a good place to start from i.e. ~140 mils

 

Edited April 8, 2025 by Ramsay

[Avio]

Ok noted thanks.

[troye]

Why is the developer not fixing this in the manual and training missions, seeing that this problem dates back several years. Or are we looking at yet another abandoned product like the Hawk and RAZBAM?

Edited April 4 by troye

[BJ55]

The absence of communication from the developers is worrying, I'm starting to wonder if we will ever see a G.91 in dcs.

Edited April 5 by BJ55

[bjdy]

They were so good at responding to messages here. Going from best in class to ?

[Osiris666]

I had the same problem - , the Mission would not progress passed setting it to 800. So i had a look at the clickabledata.lua in the folder Mods/aircraft/MB-339/Cockpit/Scripts and replaced the script code  . The Digit will now click in increments from 0 - 1 but for every one click it moves . I clicked 8 times then the 800 instruction cleared. So im guessing it sort of fixed the problem - Hopefully someone can fix the dial movement correctly 

 

-- Gunsight
elements['PNT_125'] = default_3_position_tumb(_('Power'), devices.SWITCHES, GunsightPower,478,false,nil,{SOUND_SW1})
-- elements['PNT_131'] = multiposition_switch(_('Mode'), devices.SWITCHES, GunsightMode,484,5,0.25,0)
elements['PNT_126'] = default_axis_limited(_('Brightness'), devices.SWITCHES, GunsightBrt,479,0.1,false, false, {0, 1.0}, false)
elements['PNT_127'] = default_button(_('Test'), devices.SWITCHES, GunsightTest,480,nil,nil,{SOUND_SW_NOSOUND})
elements['PNT_128'] = multiposition_switch_limited(_('Depression reticle x 100'), devices.SWITCHES, GunsightXxx,481,10,0.1,0,{SOUND_ROTARY})     ** I made the values the same as below
elements['PNT_129'] = multiposition_switch_limited(_('Depression reticle x 10'), devices.SWITCHES, GunsightxXx,482,10,0.1,0,{SOUND_ROTARY})
elements['PNT_130'] = multiposition_switch_limited(_('Depression reticle x 1'), devices.SWITCHES, GunsightxxX,483,10,0.1,0,{SOUND_ROTARY})

[BJ55]

The reticle depression rotaries are correct, it's the missions that need editing.