Author Topic: Fire and planes and HEAT! (Read 972 times)

Blammo · « **Reply #15 on:** January 12, 2008, 08:42:32 AM »

What about in the case of buffs? Sure, the people near the flames would be affected, but others (those not near the fire) would not. That means that in a buff (and maybe some other planes) that the gunners could keep flying, pilots could keep flying.

Far this reason I like the 30 (or 20 or 15, etc) seconds and boom rule. That way everyone knows that a flaming bird is going to go away fairly quickly. You could even do it this way: 30 seconds to boom once fire starts; after 10 seconds, guns go inop; after 20 seconds the engines fail; 28, 29, BOOM!!!

SlapShot · « **Reply #16 on:** January 12, 2008, 10:10:53 AM »

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Originally posted by Citabria
I think the best gameplay compromise could be achieved if the cockpit quickly filled with smoke that got more and more opaque till you couldn't see at all.

This is the best idea ... maybe HT could reuse some of the black-out/red-out code to achieve this.

Guppy35 · « **Reply #17 on:** January 12, 2008, 10:25:00 AM »

Another good reason to fly the 38. It keeps the fire away from the cockpit

hubsonfire · « **Reply #18 on:** January 12, 2008, 10:45:09 AM »

I shot a P47 near the wingroot with the maingun on a Firefly. The Jug burst into flames, and flew around for 6 minutes.

Yeah, the damage model where fire is concerned is a little lacking.

1redrum · « **Reply #19 on:** January 12, 2008, 10:49:10 AM »

why not just have the cockpit fill with smoke and flames .thereby obstructing the view

FiLtH · « **Reply #20 on:** January 12, 2008, 12:26:04 PM »

Ya fill up the cockpit with flames, and turn off controls except bail out.

Overlag · « **Reply #21 on:** January 13, 2008, 07:00:40 AM »

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Originally posted by Guppy35
Another good reason to fly the 38. It keeps the fire away from the cockpit

new rocket propelled p38

AquaShrimp · « **Reply #22 on:** January 13, 2008, 07:21:51 AM »

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Originally posted by hubsonfire
I shot a P47 near the wingroot with the maingun on a Firefly. The Jug burst into flames, and flew around for 6 minutes.

Yeah, the damage model where fire is concerned is a little lacking.

Dang, Jug survived a 76mm hit? Awesome.

Citabria · « **Reply #23 on:** January 13, 2008, 09:47:34 AM »

seems as the pilot would be in the process of being cooked in a furnace if they stayed in the cockpit their ability to manipulate the controls would be diminished.

combining the "do not move your controls so rapidly" code with the fire damage would be a logical step towards more realistic behavior from aircraft on fire.

Viking · « **Reply #24 on:** January 14, 2008, 01:57:15 AM »

The planes you people see flying around for minutes on fire are bugs. Planes that actually are on fire explode after about 30 seconds.

SD67 · « **Reply #25 on:** January 14, 2008, 04:43:18 AM »

I've been in a flaming zeke. I can tell you you get way longer than 30 seconds.

Pooh21 · « **Reply #26 on:** January 14, 2008, 05:25:25 AM »

AH zekes have a thick layer of asbestos over their rice paper and bamboo.