ditches

[acepilot2]

Has anyone noticed how cool ditches are now?

It seems alot easier to ditch now, too.

Ditching is now very exiciting and can now happen from most angles and areas (as long as you are at low speed.)

For example, I was taking a 190 of a carrier and some bug caused my propeller to go out.  I fell off the deck and hit the ground nose first. My plane instantly started to tumble across the water like a rock skipping across the water, my plane falling apart more and more with every impact.  It caught on fire as it is finally tumbled back onto its belly and rested there.  I saw the cv approaching and the cv then started pushing my aircraft across the water (no joke) and eventually it flipped over and i got the messege you have been killed.

Another incident was I didn't get enough e after takeoff andI stalled.  I ditched rather nicely, just like I would land, only I wasn't on a runway and I didn't have any gear down.  The impact gave the plane a jolt and I just looked ahead of my cockpit as grass and bushes raced by my plane, the sound of grinding steel kinda irritating my ears.  My plane had yet to lose any parts, but ahead of my bent prop I saw a small cluster of about 4 trees.  My left plane wing ended up clipping the trees and it tore right off as my plane did a 180 degree spin in the dirt where it finally came to a stop.

wtg htc on the ditches:aok

One thing I would like to see is a little "cutscene" of your plane tumbling across the ground when you crash, like in warbirds.  Actually right now that pretty much happens, just at high speeds it just does the old "you have been killed messege."

Sometimes I have been shot down and tried to ditch and my plane hit the ground and did a barrel roll in mid air where it blew up upon impact...seeing crash wipeouts like this would be cool.

The new damage model is coming nicely toghether-i am anticipating the damage model when you shoot down another plane...I would like to see it along the lines of CFS2, where you shoot a plane and debris comes off, then if you hit the engine it catches on fire...in the current ah the engine seems to only catch on fire until half your plane is missing...

[zmeg]

I noticed that taking off from a carrier you have to get at least 1 wheel off the deck 20 feet from the end of the deck or you loose your prop. I wonder if this is a bug or a feature, if it applied only to aircraft that are not carrier based it would be a useful feature imo.

[Kweassa]

The ditches are very good, however, the physical model of it all doesn't seem to be finished yet.


 For instance, the first few seconds of ditches are as exactly as one might expect to be - lot of scraping, plane bouncing around..

 However, at the last stages of the ditch, even when speed is almost diminished, the plane bounces into the air up and down like a rubber ball, or a kid on a trampoline.

[acepilot2]

Originally posted by Kweassa
The ditches are very good, however, the physical model of it all doesn't seem to be finished yet.


 For instance, the first few seconds of ditches are as exactly as one might expect to be - lot of scraping, plane bouncing around..

 However, at the last stages of the ditch, even when speed is almost diminished, the plane bounces into the air up and down like a rubber ball, or a kid on a trampoline.

yeah I noticed that happens sometimes. Just needs a little tweaking.  But its beta;)

[Ecliptik]

I still don't like how there seems to be a hard line between getting killed and managing to ditch.   I always either instantly die or manage to touch down and slide on my belly with little damage done, and the speed difference between the two situations is only 10-15 mph.  It's almost like bringing it down (gear up) at 100 mph will be safe, but at 115 mph you just explode.  (Speeds are hypothetical).   Obviously the faster you ditch, the more likely it is that the plane will break up while skidding across the ground, but you'd have to be going pretty fast to instantly die if you bring it down gently.