A few wishes

[beau32]

Sometime down the road I would like to see these implemented sometime in the future if HTC could fit it into their schedule, (if it is even possible to code)

Ricochet's: Not so much on aircraft but when attacking ground targets, I would like to see bullets ricochet off of the ground/structures/ships.
video for reference http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjr8ZtEcrtE


Drop tanks set on fire: We have all done it before to where we have forgot we had drop tanks still attached when in combat. What about if someone shoots those drop tanks, they set on fire/explode (say give a time limit of either it burns out of fuel or explodes within so many seconds) Example at 3:37 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zv8rFPLN_Fg&feature=related

Gear drop due to damage:Pretty simple, keep the damage we have, but mix it up with this to where if hit the landing gear drops due to hydraulic loss (I know we dont have Hydraulic systems, this is just a Idea) this would hamper the handling of the plane and thus slow it down.
Example at :27 seconds http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aqJwHdMDK0

[SmokinLoon]

Not bad ideas. 

I'd like to see partial damage implemented.  Currently, we have all or none.  Meaning, if your elevator get damaged it is done for, gone, no can do, destroyed.  I'd like to think that sometimes just half of the elevator, or just a part of the flap, or just the out edge of the aileron get damaged and that the control piece still functions but at a loss of performance.

[Pigslilspaz]

Not bad ideas. 

I'd like to see partial damage implemented.  Currently, we have all or none.  Meaning, if your elevator get damaged it is done for, gone, no can do, destroyed.  I'd like to think that sometimes just half of the elevator, or just a part of the flap, or just the out edge of the aileron get damaged and that the control piece still functions but at a loss of performance.

That is one of the things they were testing with the WWI damage model

[Skyguns MKII]

Iv always wanted more realistic damage animations. Stuff like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQInfXXC5_s , Wings snaps with actual fire coming from the area of snapping, controlls heavily viberating, stuff like that

[Liberator]

Maybe stuff like flat tires too?

[skorpion]

+1 to each idea.

[skorpion]

Maybe stuff like flat tires too?

we kind of already have that with the halftracks and jeep. it says "XXXX tire damaged" on the damage list.

[Raptor05121]

Sometime down the road I would like to see these implemented sometime in the future if HTC could fit it into their schedule, (if it is even possible to code)

Ricochet's: Not so much on aircraft but when attacking ground targets, I would like to see bullets ricochet off of the ground/structures/ships.
video for reference http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjr8ZtEcrtE


Drop tanks set on fire: We have all done it before to where we have forgot we had drop tanks still attached when in combat. What about if someone shoots those drop tanks, they set on fire/explode (say give a time limit of either it burns out of fuel or explodes within so many seconds) Example at 3:37 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zv8rFPLN_Fg&feature=related

Gear drop due to damage:Pretty simple, keep the damage we have, but mix it up with this to where if hit the landing gear drops due to hydraulic loss (I know we dont have Hydraulic systems, this is just a Idea) this would hamper the handling of the plane and thus slow it down.
Example at :27 seconds http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aqJwHdMDK0

Ricochet's- We already have that. Drop a 1000K bomb from a couple hundred feet (going fast so it defuses) and see what happens. I learned the hard way.

Fuel Fire- Again we already have that. B-24. Nuff Said

Gear drop- Great idea but in the video I'm willing to bet the pilot dropped it to lose speed or in prep for emergency landing. IIRC hydraulic systems are separate.

[Liberator]

we kind of already have that with the halftracks and jeep. it says "XXXX tire damaged" on the damage list.

Oh, meant the tires on aircraft. Sorry about that.

[beau32]

Ricochet's- We already have that. Drop a 1000K bomb from a couple hundred feet (going fast so it defuses) and see what happens. I learned the hard way.

Fuel Fire- Again we already have that. B-24. Nuff Said

Gear drop- Great idea but in the video I'm willing to bet the pilot dropped it to lose speed or in prep for emergency landing. IIRC hydraulic systems are separate.

Are these all serious answers?

Ricochets are easy, do it like the video. You shoot a building, bullets ricochet all around, no where did I mention a bomb.

Fuel Fire: read my request again. I mention external drop tanks. You shoot a external tank that someone forgot to drop, it set on fire or explodes. Nuff Said.

Gear drop: very doubtful that the pilot droped the gear to lower speed in prep for a emergency landing. Especially when he is getting his   to him. Hydraulic systems lower and raise the gear, you shot the system in the right place, it releases the up locks and the gear free falls to the down position, which is exactly what happens in the video. Even the speed of the gear drop backs this up.

[SmokinLoon]

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[beau32]

pushed the wrong button

[Raptor05121]

Are these all serious answers?

Ricochets are easy, do it like the video. You shoot a building, bullets ricochet all around, no where did I mention a bomb.

Fuel Fire: read my request again. I mention external drop tanks. You shoot a external tank that someone forgot to drop, it set on fire or explodes. Nuff Said.

Gear drop: very doubtful that the pilot droped the gear to lower speed in prep for a emergency landing. Especially when he is getting his   to him. Hydraulic systems lower and raise the gear, you shot the system in the right place, it releases the up locks and the gear free falls to the down position, which is exactly what happens in the video. Even the speed of the gear drop backs this up.

Sorry I'm not trying to go against you, I was merely pointing out that we have some kinds of each and they should be easily implemented. If your own bomb or HE round can kill you, I'm sure the ricochets can be done. Are you talking damage wise as well?

Fuel fire: since the B-24 is on fire, just simply port over that to the drop tanks as well! Should be the easiest one.

The gear locks are not controlled by the hydraulic system. Unless you went under there with a hammer and banged them off or somehow mananged to shoot the locks through the wing, the gear isnt going to drop with a hydraulic failure.

[beau32]

Sorry I'm not trying to go against you, I was merely pointing out that we have some kinds of each and they should be easily implemented. If your own bomb or HE round can kill you, I'm sure the ricochets can be done. Are you talking damage wise as well?

Fuel fire: since the B-24 is on fire, just simply port over that to the drop tanks as well! Should be the easiest one.

The gear locks are not controlled by the hydraulic system. Unless you went under there with a hammer and banged them off or somehow mananged to shoot the locks through the wing, the gear isnt going to drop with a hydraulic failure.

Comming from the air at a decent altitude, I doubt you would be able to catch a stray round from a ricochet, though plausable.

Any fuel tank on a plane can catch fire, not just the B-24. The B-24 just happens to be easy to light up like the Zero.

For the gear locks, better start doing some research on landing gear and hydraulic systems if hit in the right spot, the gear will free fall.

[titanic3]

Landing gears DO drop due to hydraulic power loss. Plenty of videos on YouTube that shows it. I remember a clip of a B17 getting shot and you can see the landing gear stuck halfway between the up and down position.

While it'd be all nice eye candy, what happens if you drop the fuel tank that's lit? Or dive and rip off the hanging landing gear? Would be pretty pointless then if all that modeling and eye candy lasts for 10 seconds at the MOST.