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Offline Bored123

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Random failures
« on: May 31, 2016, 02:12:57 PM »
It would be cool to have random failures. Something just out of the blue, not often.

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Re: Random failures
« Reply #1 on: May 31, 2016, 02:33:39 PM »
I am the random failure in my squad.  brought supplies 3 times in a row to a base take.  I am not trusted to bring another goon.

but the question is, why would you think it's cool?  random engine failures or mg would only upset customers.


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Re: Random failures
« Reply #2 on: May 31, 2016, 03:01:10 PM »
@OP -- No thanks.
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Re: Random failures
« Reply #3 on: May 31, 2016, 03:07:29 PM »
It sounds great and all for reallistic effects, but if my plane farts up for no reason in a video game I'm going to be angry. Already gotta deal with random puff ack, AAA and all that. Most people have enough problems keeping a whole plane in the sky. I think it would end up being complaints galore and inevitably piss everyone off.
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Re: Random failures
« Reply #4 on: May 31, 2016, 03:40:43 PM »
Like Demon said it sounds good on paper but in practice it's not fun. Wait until your engine dies in a fight or your 100 perk B29 has a random engine fire and explodes. I would prefer to keep the status quo.
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Re: Random failures
« Reply #5 on: May 31, 2016, 04:00:12 PM »
-1

We don't need anything else for people to cry about.... :bhead

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Re: Random failures
« Reply #6 on: May 31, 2016, 04:02:30 PM »
No  :old:
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Re: Random failures
« Reply #7 on: May 31, 2016, 04:09:56 PM »
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Re: Random failures
« Reply #8 on: May 31, 2016, 04:18:13 PM »
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Re: Random failures
« Reply #9 on: May 31, 2016, 04:21:56 PM »
It would be cool to have random failures. Something just out of the blue, not often.

We already have that.  We call them discos.

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Re: Random failures
« Reply #10 on: May 31, 2016, 04:39:34 PM »
We already have that.  We call them discos.

This

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Re: Random failures
« Reply #11 on: May 31, 2016, 09:50:57 PM »
There's a reason this game has a binary damage system (ie your wing is perfect until it breaks)

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Re: Random failures
« Reply #12 on: May 31, 2016, 11:06:14 PM »
+1, just because it would be fun to see a La or a Yak tearing off the plywood covering the wings in a high G pull up  :D
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Re: Random failures
« Reply #13 on: June 01, 2016, 03:21:30 PM »
+1, just because it would be fun to see a La or a Yak tearing off the plywood covering the wings in a high G pull up  :D

This was an historic problem that plagued the Russian plywood coverings on La and Yak wings. This made me think about all the complaints concerning the Yak3 having armor plating like a Tiger2. Did some testing offline with La5\7, Yak 3\9u, Mossi6 and P47-D40 as a control. I single shot all of these planes in the drone circle from 200yds with the P39Q 37mm, Yak 9T 37mm, Ta 152 30mm, K4 30mm and the P39-D 20mm.

All shooting was into the rear of the fuselage to test the kill ability of the round.

1. - 37mm US and Ru - One shot destroyed all fighters.

2. - 30mm - One shot destroyed all fighters with the exception of the Yak3 one time took an oil hit then second 30mm destroyed it. I shot at the Yak3 for testing one extra time after each time I shot down the other planes as a comparison. The oil hit, then second round killing the Yak3 occurred only once during this.

3. - 20mm - up to 5 shots was the maximum of 20mm for any plane and that was the P47 most of the time. Average for the La5\7 was 2, Yak-9u was 2, Mossi6 was 3 and the Yak 3 all over the place, sometimes 2 and up to 5 at times.

I performed an additional test with the 20mm of shooting sub 200. All planes went down 1-2 rounds, with the Russian planes going down with single hits. Seems 200 and beyond has some effect on the effectiveness of rounds. The La5\7 and Yak 3\9u at 200 were easy to miss with all the cannon round types slipping past the fuselage or over the wings. Then considering the small cross section and my observation about 200 yards, it's quite easy to think the Yak3 has Tiger2 armor plating. Also depending on where in the 200 distance showing from the icon, I ran into at least once the La5\7 needing 5 rounds to take them down and the Yak 3\9u.
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Re: Random failures
« Reply #14 on: June 01, 2016, 04:40:57 PM »
This was an historic problem that plagued the Russian plywood coverings on La and Yak wings. This made me think about all the complaints concerning the Yak3 having armor plating like a Tiger2. Did some testing offline with La5\7, Yak 3\9u, Mossi6 and P47-D40 as a control. I single shot all of these planes in the drone circle from 200yds with the P39Q 37mm, Yak 9T 37mm, Ta 152 30mm, K4 30mm and the P39-D 20mm.

All shooting was into the rear of the fuselage to test the kill ability of the round.

1. - 37mm US and Ru - One shot destroyed all fighters.

2. - 30mm - One shot destroyed all fighters with the exception of the Yak3 one time took an oil hit then second 30mm destroyed it. I shot at the Yak3 for testing one extra time after each time I shot down the other planes as a comparison. The oil hit, then second round killing the Yak3 occurred only once during this.

3. - 20mm - up to 5 shots was the maximum of 20mm for any plane and that was the P47 most of the time. Average for the La5\7 was 2, Yak-9u was 2, Mossi6 was 3 and the Yak 3 all over the place, sometimes 2 and up to 5 at times.

I performed an additional test with the 20mm of shooting sub 200. All planes went down 1-2 rounds, with the Russian planes going down with single hits. Seems 200 and beyond has some effect on the effectiveness of rounds. The La5\7 and Yak 3\9u at 200 were easy to miss with all the cannon round types slipping past the fuselage or over the wings. Then considering the small cross section and my observation about 200 yards, it's quite easy to think the Yak3 has Tiger2 armor plating. Also depending on where in the 200 distance showing from the icon, I ran into at least once the La5\7 needing 5 rounds to take them down and the Yak 3\9u.
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