Yes, thanks for passing that info Keystone. And thanks for discovering the bug in Panzerfaust weapon in online mode.
Sorry it takes so long, but recently I'm quite tired and didn't do much work... It would be faster but there were some problems with getting the awaited debug mode to work. In short, RO (and Unreal) has a chat spam filter, that filtered out most of the penetration calculations output... I had to drop the less important messages, shorten the rest, and try to make them coming from different classes to have bigger character limit. It now ony shows only the most important info, and I had to drop showing of damage calculations almost completly - they just didn't showed anyway, were filtered out as exceeding spam limits....
It now shows only
- range to target, shell impact speed (did I mention that I made more correct shell ballistics using real ballistic tables?)
- what tank was hit and what part of it - like "T-34/76 Front hull hit" - and it's base armor factor
- hit angle, angled armor multipler and final effective armor
- base "table" shell penetration and random modified effective penetration of that shot
now it should also write "Penetration" or "Ricochet" but sometimes it's filtered out, so don't count on it. Just look at final armor and penetration values, what is greater.
Then it usually should show final damage done (not showing all the calculations like damage type and multipler, random damage, hitbox damage - there is no place for it).
That's all but should make things more clear. Especially what part of target was hit and what was calculated armor and penetration values
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Now the other problems, after fixing the missing penetration sounds I was all happy, checked it on dedicated server (set one and the connected to it with second game instance) and it worked. Yesterday Keystone after connecting to my test server said, he doesn't hear ANY penetration or ricochet sounds AT ALL - to my great consternation... Have to investigate this today, don't want to release another bugged version with no sounds at all. Not sure if it was Keystone's or mod issue yet.
The thing with panzerfaust was, that my code setting different pitch-up values for 30, 60 and 80m ranges in iron sights, and resetting pitch-up to zero again when not in iron sights (for natural firing from the hip) was not working in online mode. So initial 30m pitch up was not set untill one switched range, and panzerfaust was falling short of 30m. To overcome this you have to switch ranges untill returning back to 30m, but I want to fix this properly for 2.06.
What else... in the meantime I set proper limits for hull MGs (pitch and yaw), only don't have data for T-34 and KV hull MG limits. I will set proper elevation limits of tank guns today. The reload of tank guns on the R key is finally working, after I educated myself a bit about client-server code relations and how to pass commands from one class to another.
The burning wrecks are no longer silient, the wreck-littered battlefield sounds like true inferno now
. The silience of burning wreck bothered me from the beginning, but I don't know much about effects so didn't try to fix this before. Oh yes, and I tweaked many armor values... fixed temporar6y the HE bug (against tanks), not in the way I want to yet, they still trigger ammo hixboxes, but for now I just reduced the HE damage by proper amount and it works about OK.
Maybe I should just fix sound bug and make debug mode, and leave all those changes above for 2.07 and that would bring 2.06 faster... But I just couldn't resist before making small improvements when they crossed my mind
P.S. The traverse speed of Stug and Su-76 is not based on specifications, because there is no specifications - the gun was hand traversed and it depended on traverse mechanism ratio how fast you could physically crank it... It was based on my personal feeling about how fast hand traversed mechanism could be operated. Don't know how many degrees one rotation of the hand wheel meaned. On Tiger, it was 0.5deg. On light tanks, sometimes 2deg/rotation. If it was around 1deg/rotation in the Stug, then whole 360deg rotation would need 360 rotations of the wheel. How fast one could operate such wheel ? I believe not more than 2-3 rotations per second on flat surface, and when the initial inertia of the gun was overcomed. So 360 rotations. 2-3 rotations per second, 180-120 seconds needed to turn 360deg, so rotation speed of about 3deg per second. The Stug traverse speed in 2.05 is 360deg in 100 seconds / 3.6deg/s, so it's even faster than that. I don't think it could be faster, at least untill I see better data supporting this.
