Originally posted by DamnedRen
There was an important difference between AW and AH. In AH if you got into too close, say D100, fired and blew the guy up you have a very distinct possibility of being downed by his debris.
If you get too close to an enemy fighter and shoot it with cannon rounds you may well take damage, but not from the debris, from the explosive effect of your own rounds.
You can test this offline by taking a Tempest and taxiing the nose very close to a building then shooting at it.
I assume that If you make a guns pass on an aircraft, GV or building and get very close while hitting it with cannon rounds the same thing will happen. So if your own cannon rounds can damage you, it would be pretty easy to mistake that for damage from debris.
More importantly, if you are that close to an enemy, but you don't actually collide, and maybe you even get a message saying the other guy collided with you, it may be that you take damage from your own rounds, and it would be an easy mistake to assume you took collision damage. This is probably a big source of confusion and might explain why some people think they are taking damage when they don't collide, but the other plane collides with them.
Badboy
