So you decided to go high and do some "magic time"...after an eternity, you finally get in position at 3,000 ft...you check the play by play and decide the timings bad as some reds have just been shot and you know they will be spawning soon so you decide to hang out for a bit more way up there in the stratosphere...while circling around you look down to base and see those shiny hangars and wonder if you could just hit one from 3,000 ft up! You are tempted but you reason theres a high probility of missing with your single bomb so you dive, and dive and just as you are around 500 ft you are spotted by a Noushbag moraf, you twist you turn...but you are dead a millisecond before you push that bomb button...shhhhyyyyyiiiaaa.....wish you had just released it from 3k? Well you might be relieved to know, release a bomb above 1,000 ft and it just vanishes in thin air!

If you attempt to bomb above 1,000 ft, the bomb simply dissapears...its a ghost bomb!


$http://youtu.be/hFS5BucDuTw


If you attempt to bomb above 1,000 ft, the bomb simply dissapears...its a ghost bomb!

$http://youtu.be/165yEtmy4S8

Bombing hangars at 1,000ft!


$http://youtu.be/q8EH_85_Ugs

Davy Crockett style bombing (out take)

I like the footage of the successful bombing, wish we could carry 12 in multiplayer

I've bombed from 3k. successfully. Maybe the update has changed it. Have you tried in-game?
The vids are great! Thanks!

Very awesome...thanks

Paul Mantz, Jr. wrote: I've bombed from 3k. successfully. Maybe the update has changed it. Have you tried in-game?
The vids are great! Thanks!

Paul, being the inventer of "magic time", only you would have the balz to pull that in-game and nail it. I've witnessed you do it twice, once right under my nose as I was red and just taking off, I see the hangars bombed with no one in sight...I thought '' surely it must be a glitch' than I saw magic time on the screen just shook my head..infact, you inspired me to make thses videos

this is actually a protection mechanism. There was an old bug that a bomb would fall through the floor and keep going forever. It would make the game crash. So although I never see this happening anymore, what I did is that if the bomb falls for over 30 seconds, it removes it from the game predicting it has gone cu-cu.

I can increase it a bit more, maybe 45 seconds... that should give for about 1500 meters height.

oh and btw, they are not feet, they are meters. We use international system in here. feet, inches and such are really weird calculations.

zuperman wrote: this is actually a protection mechanism. There was an old bug that a bomb would fall through the floor and keep going forever. It would make the game crash. So although I never see this happening anymore, what I did is that if the bomb falls for over 30 seconds, it removes it from the game predicting it has gone cu-cu.

I can increase it a bit more, maybe 45 seconds... that should give for about 1500 meters height.

oh and btw, they are not feet, they are meters. We use international system in here. feet, inches and such are really weird calculations.

Im American and I wish we would toss out feet/inches. So dumb they are.

Is the airspeed in km/hour?

Whosethisguy wrote:

zuperman wrote: this is actually a protection mechanism. There was an old bug that a bomb would fall through the floor and keep going forever. It would make the game crash. So although I never see this happening anymore, what I did is that if the bomb falls for over 30 seconds, it removes it from the game predicting it has gone cu-cu.

I can increase it a bit more, maybe 45 seconds... that should give for about 1500 meters height.

oh and btw, they are not feet, they are meters. We use international system in here. feet, inches and such are really weird calculations.

Im American and I wish we would toss out feet/inches. So dumb they are.

Is the airspeed in km/hour?

Couldnt agree with you more Wtg. Completely useless in science.

zuperman wrote: this is actually a protection mechanism. There was an old bug that a bomb would fall through the floor and keep going forever. It would make the game crash. So although I never see this happening anymore, what I did is that if the bomb falls for over 30 seconds, it removes it from the game predicting it has gone cu-cu.

I can increase it a bit more, maybe 45 seconds... that should give for about 1500 meters height.

oh and btw, they are not feet, they are meters. We use international system in here. feet, inches and such are really weird calculations.

I had a bomb fall for over 30 sec and it hit the ground and exploded.

Captain Noushbag wrote: So you decided to go high and do some "magic time"...after an eternity, you finally get in position at 3,000 ft...you check the play by play and decide the timings bad as some reds have just been shot and you know they will be spawning soon so you decide to hang out for a bit more way up there in the stratosphere...while circling around you look down to base and see those shiny hangars and wonder if you could just hit one from 3,000 ft up! You are tempted but you reason theres a high probility of missing with your single bomb so you dive, and dive and just as you are around 500 ft you are spotted by a Noushbag moraf, you twist you turn...but you are dead a millisecond before you push that bomb button...shhhhyyyyyiiiaaa.....wish you had just released it from 3k? Well you might be relieved to know, release a bomb above 1,000 ft and it just vanishes in thin air!

If you attempt to bomb above 1,000 ft, the bomb simply dissapears...its a ghost bomb!


$http://youtu.be/hFS5BucDuTw

If you attempt to bomb above 1,000 ft, the bomb simply dissapears...its a ghost bomb!

$http://youtu.be/165yEtmy4S8

Bombing hangars at 1,000ft!


$http://youtu.be/q8EH_85_Ugs

Davy Crockett style bombing (out take)

What are the videos names?

zuperman wrote: this is actually a protection mechanism. There was an old bug that a bomb would fall through the floor and keep going forever. It would make the game crash. So although I never see this happening anymore, what I did is that if the bomb falls for over 30 seconds, it removes it from the game predicting it has gone cu-cu.

I can increase it a bit more, maybe 45 seconds... that should give for about 1500 meters height.

oh and btw, they are not feet, they are meters. We use international system in here. feet, inches and such are really weird calculations.

That explains a lot. McCudden and I spent a stupid amount of time one day tryin to shoot bombs out of the sky from 3-4k meters. One of us would drop from altitude and the other would chase the bomb. After a bit (30 secs, I guess), we'd always lose it. Never shot it (destroyed), by the way.

Looks like I'll spend some time testing in my next FFA session.

Ok, I'll increase it to 1:30 drop, that should give plenty of height, probably about 3km

and yes, all it's in kilometer, kilometer/hour. If you need to do physics calculations, trying to use the feet/onzs/beers system does not work very well.

edition.cnn.com/TECH/space/9909/30/mars.metric.02/
and
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter

Since then, I slap anyone trying to use the English system for physics calculations.

zuperman wrote: Ok, I'll increase it to 1:30 drop, that should give plenty of height, probably about 3km

and yes, all it's in kilometer, kilometer/hour. If you need to do physics calculations, trying to use the feet/onzs/beers system does not work very well.

edition.cnn.com/TECH/space/9909/30/mars.metric.02/
and
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter

Since then, I slap anyone trying to use the English system for physics calculations.

Just to warn you Zup, many politicians and the like here in England pay good money for a slap...

zuperman wrote: this is actually a protection mechanism. There was an old bug that a bomb would fall through the floor and keep going forever. It would make the game crash. So although I never see this happening anymore, what I did is that if the bomb falls for over 30 seconds, it removes it from the game predicting it has gone cu-cu.

I can increase it a bit more, maybe 45 seconds... that should give for about 1500 meters height.

oh and btw, they are not feet, they are meters. We use international system in here. feet, inches and such are really weird calculations.

So what you are actually saying is, By international standards, I am not Dentinhead, I am Bumpinhead.

Edit: I couldn't quote them all

I can guarantee that bombing a carrier above 1000 ft works.
I hit one from about 1500 last week. ..barely. ..lol.