Author Topic: Puffy Ack Laser Accuracy  (Read 1757 times)

Offline Shuffler

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Re: Puffy Ack Laser Accuracy
« Reply #15 on: January 14, 2017, 01:10:45 PM »
I'm wondering if maybe the puffy ack damage model over the city strat could be looked at? There seems to be some rather inconsistent damage going on.

For example...

Scenario 1:
I went up the other night to hit a city strat in Lancasters as it was a close spawn and losing Lanc's better than losing say a set of B29's. Due to the close proximity I took 25 % fuel and was only able to get up to about 10,000 Ft or less. I made 2 full passes on the strat with minimal puffy ack damage at that low altitude and was able to go back and land all 3 bombers

Scenario 2:
Last night I went up in B29's again to hit a city strat. This was an almost 2 hour round trip flight taking off with 75% fuel and arrived at the strat at 28,000 ft. Puffy laser ack hit me and INSTANTLY I was on fire and lost a bomber.

Now...I'm all for puffy ack and having damage but the above 2 scenarios seem just a little lopsided to me. Lanc's are not the most durable planes as we all know, especially at low alt over puffy ack. B29's take a lot more damage and at almost 3 times the altitude get blown to bits after 1 ping. It seemed to be previously when I would get hit almost always there would be damage (i.e. - center fuel tank gets hit) - not instantly getting set on fire.

Could someone take a look and see?

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Re: Puffy Ack Laser Accuracy
« Reply #16 on: January 15, 2017, 09:16:48 AM »
For science, I bombed the city strat with the twin flak bases.  30k B17's, Lost one to fire on the way out, lost a 2nd drone after I was long gone, but I think it was because I had a good amount of speed and hit auto climb.  Was looking over clipboard maps when I heard it explode.
Then tried to land my last bomber on a friendly CV but HeidyHo and Navy84 kept turning it at the right moment on purpose to cause me to break apart.
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