Sound of BRRRRRTTT seems to be broken

[DerZade]

Tested with FIR A-10 and vanilla A-10.

The sound of the gun (the BRRRRRTTT) is not audible to the ground troops unless the plane is passing directly over their head. The sound of the impacts seem to work properly.

Take a look at our super professional video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3jr0Qptyuc

Arma Version: 1.84.144923

Mods used:
@a-10_warthog
@fir_aws
@the_mighty_gau-8_avenger
@the_mighty_gau-8_avenger_-_firewill

[Zabuzard]

Thanks a lot. Especially for the video 👍

Unfortunately, I stopped developing for ArmA and maintaining this mod. However, please feel free to fix it yourself, or to grab someone who wants to.
Then, just create a merge request or let me know what to change and I will of course redistribute the fix.

My guess is that the ArmA sound-engine API changed again and something needs to be adjusted. Maybe the documentation provides information, otherwise it may help to take a look at other mods.

[DerZade]

After further testing we could get the GAU sounds sometimes working with the currently released version. Couldn’t really figure out a pattern when or why it works tho.

#2 seems to fix it for us.

[DerZade]

As mentioned in #2 already we played a mission with nomisums fixed version and the FIR_A10 and still ran into the same issues.

The only time the gun was audible for the ground troops is in this clip at around 0:37: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViogxvKcavw

Before seeing this clip I thought the sound didn’t work at all ^^ and this still sounds imho not right.

[DerZade]

After further testing (with the allegedly fixed version by nomisum):

We couldn't reproduce the faulty behavior with the vanilla A-10. But this will need further testing before I would feel good about saying, that it's fixed for sure.

MG-8 with the Firewill A-10 is broken for sure.
First of all there are no particle effects (the smoke emitted by the gun) when firing.
The sound seems to work fine at first, but after rearming with the FIR_AWS Missile Carrier it didn't work anymore, although the weapons and magazines before and after were exactly the same:

WEAPONS:
[
    "FIR_MasterArm",
    "Gatling_30mm_Plane_CAS_01_F",
    "FIR_CMLauncher",
    "FIR_RKT_Launcher",
    "FIR_AGM65",
    "FIR_GBU38",
    "FIR_GBU12",
    "FIR_AIM9L",
    "Laserdesignator_mounted"
]


MAGAZINES:
[
    "MG8_1174Rnd_Gau8_30mm",
    "FIR_240rnd_CMFlare_Chaff_Magazine",
    "FIR_ALQ184_2_P_1rnd_M",
    "FIR_Hydra_P_7rnd_M",
    "FIR_AGM65G_P_1rnd_M",
    "FIR_GBU38_P_1rnd_M",
    "FIR_GBU12_P_1rnd_M",
    "FIR_GBU12_P_1rnd_M",
    "FIR_GBU38_P_1rnd_M",
    "FIR_AGM65G_P_1rnd_M",
    "FIR_Litening_Nomodel_P_1rnd_M",
    "FIR_AIM9L_P_2rnd_M",
    "Laserbatteries"
]

Either firewill is doing some sketchy stuff in his scripts or this is an Arma bug. My guess is the former.