[1.2.x] Aviator Arsenal - World War 2 aircraft weaponry (v1.3)

[tetryds]

14 hours ago, Rath said:

Are any of those part going to do anything?

Yep, they are antennas.

You won't need stock BDA's weapons manager, ai module or radar receiver anymore.

[Rath]

Yess

one of yhem could be a barometer, that was one of the functions of the weird bulb IRL

[tetryds]

Update is really close now

VintageXP is fixing up some problems with rockets (which finally seem fixable) and I am checking every config before going live.

And yes, this means BAD-T v2 is not far ahead.

[Rath]

_YES

Whose Idea was it to include the font that must not be named in the Forum?

Bring me their head.

[Rath]

That's not comic sans??!!!

 

huh?

[TUKE]

The competitions back!!!!! 

 

Not really competition, just another part of the market. I'm back to KSP and working on expanding TAS once again now that a lot of RL stuff is out the way.

Got custom sounds/fire animations etc yet???

[tetryds]

Aviator Arsenal QA is almost over!

We are polishing some features and making sure everything is working as it should

[tetryds]

Update v1.1 is out!
Changelog is too big to fit this post.
Joke, but we did indeed change so much we will have to take some time to realize everything.

[MightyDarkStar]

Yes, yes.... This is looking extremely nice so far, @tetryds. Congratulations to you and the whole team for coming so far!

I hope to see some more turrets, like perhaps the four-gun turret you would see on a Lancaster or Boulton Defiant.

[He_162]

You could also make various new guns for Japan.

Type 5 30mm cannon

Type 99 mk1/mk2 20mm cannon

Type 97 7mm machine gun

Type 3 13mm machine gun

Those would be really neat, and cool!

[UnknownEclipse]

Maybe when you are done with ww2 era weapons you can move along in history(Vietnam, Iraq, now) great work these look amazing

[alp3r]

My Ho 229 has been waiting for this..

 

 

Edited February 14, 2016 by alp3r

[SuicidalInsanity]

They say a picture is worth a thousand words....

[tetryds]

@SuicidalInsanity that's... beautiful *tears*

It's great that the only survivor was the one you were focusing at.

But we really need to make the AI avoid head-ons a bit.

[SuicidalInsanity]

Its not quite as bad as it seems - I ran that 5v5 battle a few times, and that fratricidal bloodbath was more the exception than the rule - most of the time things went like this and turned into a glorious furball:

Spoiler

 

[tetryds]

Oh, okay, and how is your performance running battles with so many planes?
Or did you go easy on the part count?

[SuicidalInsanity]

Those ten aircraft were 390 parts. Lag wasn't too bad; enough to be noticeable, but not enough to turn into a slideshow; maybe 20-25% slowdown? Main issue was setup time and keeping track of things; aircraft like to pair up and duel, once I ended up with planes spread out over 20km or so. Factor in the amount of debris in the air once things got underway, and switching between crafts became troublesome. As an experiment to see what a 5v5 fight would be like, it worked well enough, but I can't recommend it for doing a series of competitive dogfights.

[tetryds]

Oh, yes that would lag a bit, BAD-T allows 80 parts per craft, on a total of max 320 parts.
My laptop can handle 250 parts at 30fps-ish, 320 makes the timer mostly yellow.

 

Anyway, while KerbalStuff is down here is a dropbox download link: https://www.dropbox.com/s/z2b5j400nqao7se/AviatorArsenal-1.1.zip?dl=1

[Aerolfos]

On 15.2.2016 at 2:42 AM, tetryds said:

Oh, yes that would lag a bit, BAD-T allows 80 parts per craft, on a total of max 320 parts.
My laptop can handle 250 parts at 30fps-ish, 320 makes the timer mostly yellow.

 

Anyway, while KerbalStuff is down here is a dropbox download link: https://www.dropbox.com/s/z2b5j400nqao7se/AviatorArsenal-1.1.zip?dl=1

Well, thank you, thank you, and thank you. The stats stuff is absolutely fantastic (Already picked out my guns.), models look great, and I can avoid Curse.

[Gnoyze]

@tetryds This is an awesome mod, why hasn't it showed up on CKAN yet? Also, where can I find the rules for the BAD-T competitions? I would like to try this out Edit: Just found that the BAD-T is over. Little bummed but I'll keep an eye out for the next tourney :3

Edited February 16, 2016 by Gnoyze

[tetryds]

Aviator Arsenal will not be available on CKAN, mainly because it has dependencies on BDArmory.
About BAD-T, don't worry the next tournament will start soon(tm), there is a lot of balancing left to do and I think I managed to come up with a fair points system for the weapons.

[Gnoyze]

1 minute ago, tetryds said:

Aviator Arsenal will not be available on CKAN, mainly because it has dependencies on BDArmory.
About BAD-T, don't worry the next tournament will start soon(tm), there is a lot of balancing left to do and I think I managed to come up with a fair points system for the weapons.

Makes sense and awesome (I already have BDA installed, I'll just add it in) I'll start working on planes, after having fun with the different guns XD

[tetryds]

Just to make it clear, the weapons on this pack are already balanced, the balancing I am talking about are the engines and rules.
And a possible DMG_MULTIPLIER tweak on BDArmory's config.

[BahamutoD]

tetryds, if you can think up a "competition mode" for AI where they fly off to certain positions before beginning the fight, i'll see if I can get it into BDA as a settings menu option

Edited February 16, 2016 by BahamutoD

[Gnoyze]

Ah, gotcha, and that's what I figured as different engines/mods et cetera will need approved or restricted

4 minutes ago, BahamutoD said:

tetryds, if you can think up a "competition mode" for AI where they fly off to certain positions before beginning the fight, i'll see if I can get it into BDA as a settings menu option

Maybe a sort of "capture the flag" where they will fight around a craft/base thing that has a certain part, fighting to have control over the base?