Author Topic: New Damage Model  (Read 2344 times)

Offline Karnak

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Re: New Damage Model
« Reply #30 on: March 12, 2010, 12:30:22 AM »
Especially the lower caliber machine guns that right now only make nice little holes in your plane.


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Actually, I think the change will favor cannons even more than they are now.  I think the idea that little machine gun bullets are more likely to cut control cables that larger explosive cannon rounds is dubious to say the least.
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Offline Saxman

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Re: New Damage Model
« Reply #31 on: March 12, 2010, 07:14:45 AM »
Actually, I think the change will favor cannons even more than they are now.  I think the idea that little machine gun bullets are more likely to cut control cables that larger explosive cannon rounds is dubious to say the least.

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The point we're making is that cannon are already more likely to inflict outright catastrophic part failure (IE, knock them off). That's not going to change. A snapshot by Hispanos is very likely to knock a plane's wing off altogether, which is not going to change. What IS going to change is that a snapshot by Brownings is going to be more likely now to impact the target's flight characteristics, whether by destroying the control cables or chewing up the airfoil.
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