Dedicated Cannon Button

[rancid trail]

-For quicker use of the cannon in a pinch
-Can use cannon and pylon guns simultaneously (cannon feels underpowered now imo too so helps with that)
-One less weapon to cycle through
-When using Joystick using triggers for bomb release and jammers etc is weird

[wheat nimbus]

I agree with this one 110%. This is a feature on many modern fighter aircraft, like the F-15.

[rancid trail]

I think its on all. Its not just a realism thing though, i think it will make the cannon more viable in a missile meta and the auto cannon paied up with the cannon will make them more useful.

[wheat nimbus]

For sure. It's a lot easier to use the cannon when you can just press a button to fire it instead of having to cycle to it

[rancid trail]

Yeah. Exactly. And typically cannon is used in a merge where you need to slit second fire at something passing your nose. Right now we have to consciously decide to use the cannon, which means most people just missile spam then use it as a back up.

[wheat nimbus]

Yeah. The rare case when I use it is if I'm either out of missiles or I'm wallowing around about 200-400 yards behind an enemy aircraft and I have plenty of time to select it

[sharp pebble]

f18

[brave forum]

if i might expand on this idea, have the option to configure custom keybinds to specific weapons
so if you load for example 20mm gunpods, AGM-48, AGM-68, and IRM-S1 you could fire each weapon with a different bind so you don't have to quickly switch through the menu and miss a brief window of oppertunity

[wheat nimbus]

That's too much

[rancid trail]

wat

[wheat nimbus]

Hornet does have a single trigger for everything, but at least it has a mode selection switch that let's you turn on the gun quickly instead of having to cycle through all of your weapons to get to it

[rancid trail]

I see

Need to play more DCS

[small oak]

basically cannon salvo?

[sharp pebble]

it is used for all air to air, air to ground (except for the gun) is still the pickle button

[wheat nimbus]

Ah, that's right

[main lion]

What if we could do this for all weapons

I mean not a necessity, the cycle system should remain, but it would be cool to seperate the jammer or laser from my trigger, my finger doesnt like being gripped in a raised position like that for a long period

[sharp pebble]

i would count them into guns, they have to be held

most other weapons are just click

[late sky]

A dedicated direct fire weapon button (laser/cannon)