Aim like an ace: smarter gunsights for air and sea
Landing shots on a jinking target is the hardest thing in the game. We didn't make it easier — we made the gunsight honest, so when you trust the pip and miss, it's on you, not the game.
Trust the pip again
Air-to-air gunnery is all about deflection: you can't shoot where the enemy is, you have to shoot where they're going to be. The lead pip is the little marker that tells you where to point for that. The catch was that the old pip didn't account for everything — so good pilots learned to distrust it and eyeball their own correction.
Now it does the full sum. It factors in how fast you're moving, not just the target, and it accounts for the fact that bullets drop as they fly. Put the pip on the enemy and pull the trigger, and the rounds actually go there. Deflection shooting is still a skill — you have to track smoothly and pick your moment — but the gunsight is now telling you the truth.
A gunsight that's almost right is worse than none, because it teaches you to second-guess it. The goal was simple: if you miss, it's your aim, not the pip.
Your fixed crosshair got the same honesty. It's now set to the exact distance where your guns converge, with bullet drop already baked in — so a snap shot dead-center at the right range lands where the crosshair sits.
The battleship shows its work
Crewing the big guns got a major upgrade to the cockpit, so to speak. When you plot a target, the ship now lays out its entire firing solution on a clean readout: the range and bearing, the powder charge it's using, how long the shell will be in the air, how high it'll arc, and whether it's a flat shot or a high, plunging one over the hills. It even tells you the size of the pattern your salvo will land in — and flags when a spotter is linked and tightening it up.
It turns the gun from a mystery into an instrument. You can read the solution, understand why a shot is going to loop over a ridge or fall short, and adjust like an actual fire-control officer. Long-range naval gunnery goes from guesswork to a craft you can get genuinely good at.
The small print
None of this would be worth much if it slowed the game down, so a chunk of this update was quiet tuning under the hood to keep everything running smoothly even when the map is packed with guns and planes. You won't notice that part — which is exactly the point. You'll just notice that your shots land where the sight says they will.