right now bombs are only used for historical weapon with not much use. it weighs more than any other weapons and there as hard as finding a needle in a haystack to precisely bomb a target. there not much use in the game so someone brought up an idea of time-era(wwII) missions but i suggest bomb sights either being a hud display or a camera type view to improve effectiveness of dumb bombs.
if theres one thing i hate its people thinking im bossy or even overly-suggesting stuff so this is just 'food for thought'
or.. is it just me and my clumsy simple-minded ways (again) that cant use bombs?
It hard for me aim the bombs too. But I have gotten a lot better at it but I’m not perfect.
https://www.simpleplanes.com/Mods/View/767005/Advanced-Targeting
no it's good
It's just food for thought. No need for big wall of text:/
I doubt they will ever be added into the game anyway.
@CDUflappy That still doesn't really work... And it still can accurately aim it. There is a LOT more than just dispersion and speed at work here. There is also angle, detacher strength(if any), terminal velocity of the bomb(Idk if it has one, but keep that in mind), weight of the aircraft as a whole, weight of the bomb, drag of the bomb(kinda ties in with the terminal velocity), the gravity of the game, and on and on and on and on. It just doesn't really work. I certainly don't see KSP doing it(well, it kinda does, but it also kinda doesn't), much less a lot of other games. And honestly, the bombs actually give a challenge. It's supposed to be hard to aim.
@NovaTopaz I was refering more to a Hud crosshair that would move along the ground and can disperse and shift depending on the speed. But stuff like these do make a good simple game overdone.
TBH, you can't really make bomb sights. Seriously, it's trial and error. Bombs don't follow a bomb sight, and the ones used on bombers, while good, only worked on a level, flat, and straight flightpath, and even then, it was a crap shoot wether it would land near the target. WWII, the biggest target you could reliably hit with a bombing run from a strategic bomber, was a city. Think about that. Sure, dive bombers can hit small targets like tanks, but their dive bombers. They come within a few hundred feet of their target before dropping their bomb. It's literally point at target, drop bomb, pull up before you hit something, and boom. Dive bombing required practice. No bomb sights, no cameras, no nothing, just eyesight and the plane. Strategic/heavy bombers and even medium bombers usually couldn't hit the broadside of farm, even if their life depended on it. That's why they carried so many bombs, because they were so horribly inaccurate that the only way to hit most targets was to dump tons and tons of munitions on top of it without any regard. Of course, that's WWII, but still...
Yeah we need bomb sights, or even a type of cockpit for the bomb aimer.
@Sniper16 Too late for that, it's that game where they grind up and "can" your pet, right?
It's really, really hard to aim but then that's how the real thing is.
Its not you. Those bombs are hard to aim.