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Title: Down in flames?
Post by: Squire on March 11, 2010, 06:03:22 PM
I noticed none of the WW1 a/c burn. Seems very odd, but I know its "early days yet"...fuel hits should be bad.  ;)
Title: Re: Down in flames?
Post by: kingcobradude on March 11, 2010, 06:12:57 PM

+1 the flames should burn through the rest of the plane
Title: Re: Down in flames?
Post by: Jayhawk on March 11, 2010, 06:16:04 PM
And make sure I can hear the screams of the pilot too.  :devil
Title: Re: Down in flames?
Post by: Squire on March 11, 2010, 06:23:18 PM
"And make sure I can hear the screams of the pilot too."

Geez  I thought I was cold, hehe.  :D
Title: Re: Down in flames?
Post by: lyric1 on March 11, 2010, 06:28:41 PM
Do we get the pistol option like in the movie fly boys? Or burn to a crisp until we crash or just jump to our deaths?
Hmm & I thought the other posts were morbid.
Title: Re: Down in flames?
Post by: horble on March 11, 2010, 06:29:22 PM
I haven't seen one burn yet either, but it probably doesn't help that most of my bullets headed to the fuel tank are going through the pilot first..
Title: Re: Down in flames?
Post by: LLogann on March 11, 2010, 06:34:08 PM
I burned last night.

And actually, I burned for a good 25 seconds, landed & ditched.  Might be a bug.
Title: Re: Down in flames?
Post by: Saxman on March 11, 2010, 06:34:33 PM
I saw a couple get lit on fire, mostly from AAA, tho.
Title: Re: Down in flames?
Post by: Squire on March 11, 2010, 06:43:20 PM
Only ones I saw burn were hit by AAA, and I saw enough go down that some should have been on fire...it was not that rare in WW1, far from it, as the fuel tanks had no protection of any kind ala A6M2 Zero.

Coding issue?
Title: Re: Down in flames?
Post by: LLogann on March 11, 2010, 06:44:53 PM
Although I cannot be 100% certain, I am more than fairly sure I wasn't a victim of AA. 
Title: Re: Down in flames?
Post by: DEEC0NX on March 11, 2010, 06:46:17 PM
Yeah! I want the pistol, wrench, and brick options for my planes  :neener:
Title: Re: Down in flames?
Post by: Karnak on March 11, 2010, 07:02:03 PM
Quotes attributed Major Edward Corringham "Mick" Mannock VC, DSO and Two Bars, MC & Bar:

"Flamerinoes - four! Sizzle sizzle wonk!"
"I sent one of them to Hell in flames today ... I wish Kaiser Bill could have seen him sizzle."

Yeah! I want the pistol, wrench, and brick options for my planes  :neener:

The pistol referred to in this thread is to shoot yourself so you don't have the 'fun' of burning to death.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7952995.stm
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From the BBC article:
But what Mannock - and many other pilots - feared most, was going down in flames, without a parachute, and burning to death. For this reason he carried a revolver in his cockpit, vowing that if his plane did catch fire he would shoot himself, before the flames devoured him.

As to your request, you may have noticed that a couple of machine guns have been mounted on each of these scouts.  All of these post-date, by quite a bit, the times when pilots were shooting at each other with rifles, pistols or even throwing things at each other.  Machine guns being somewhat superior to those methods.
Title: Re: Down in flames?
Post by: ebfd11 on March 11, 2010, 07:23:07 PM
I wanna see the pilots that do catch fire if they decide to bail be "flamers" falling to the ground...
Title: Re: Down in flames?
Post by: Squire on March 11, 2010, 07:24:32 PM
Looked at Cntr-D and FUEL FIRE is there, but I think the code to start a fire is set to too low a percentile chance or damage level, or whatever determines it. I see a lot of fuel leaks but nobody is ever on fire. There have been issues in the past, like the Mossie, where fuel hits produced too common a fire, but this is set too low for WW1 planes.
Title: Re: Down in flames?
Post by: Avanti on March 11, 2010, 07:32:00 PM
I wanna see the pilots that do catch fire if they decide to bail be "flamers" falling to the ground...

And just to add a little more epic, if you bail over water you should be able to do tricks eg; 3 and a half turn pike
Title: Re: Down in flames?
Post by: SIK1 on March 11, 2010, 08:15:41 PM
Ah wow  :O you guys need help.
Title: Re: Down in flames?
Post by: caldera on March 11, 2010, 08:58:07 PM
And just to add a little more epic, if you bail over water you should be able to do tricks eg; 3 and a half turn pike

"Triple Lindy"  Rodney-style.  :D
Title: Re: Down in flames?
Post by: Enker on March 11, 2010, 09:27:03 PM
Looked at Cntr-D and FUEL FIRE is there, but I think the code to start a fire is set to too low a percentile chance or damage level, or whatever determines it. I see a lot of fuel leaks but nobody is ever on fire. There have been issues in the past, like the Mossie, where fuel hits produced too common a fire, but this is set too low for WW1 planes.
Weren't WWI tracers smoke rounds, rather than tracers that emitted light? I do know that there were incendiary rounds, but what did they look like?
Title: Re: Down in flames?
Post by: Avanti on March 12, 2010, 02:20:49 AM
"Triple Lindy"  Rodney-style.  :D

Yes!
Title: Re: Down in flames?
Post by: Bruv119 on March 12, 2010, 08:41:42 AM
I noticed none of the WW1 a/c burn. Seems very odd, but I know its "early days yet"...fuel hits should be bad.  ;)

i thought this too at first squire,  that was until I sent a poor chap down in flames (he was in an F2B)

sizzle sizzle wonk!!
Title: Re: Down in flames?
Post by: Squire on March 12, 2010, 10:33:32 AM
Seems there are fires, but im questioning the coding re the frequency. I have seen a LOT of a/c go down in the WW1 Arena at this point, and maybe one? that was on fire, despite seeing many fuel tank hits, ect. All the bullets my own crates have taken, not a single fire so far. I just run out of gas. Even the self sealing tanks in the WW2 a/c in AH do catch fire, and I think the WW1 planes catch fire even less than those despite having no self sealing tanks or armor.
Title: Re: Down in flames?
Post by: Bruv119 on March 12, 2010, 12:30:29 PM
Seems there are fires, but im questioning the coding re the frequency. I have seen a LOT of a/c go down in the WW1 Arena at this point, and maybe one? that was on fire, despite seeing many fuel tank hits, ect. All the bullets my own crates have taken, not a single fire so far. I just run out of gas. Even the self sealing tanks in the WW2 a/c in AH do catch fire, and I think the WW1 planes catch fire even less than those despite having no self sealing tanks or armor.

I do agree squire, i feel more people should burn to death than where it is currently at.   

I will experiment in sloppy shooting and try and target fuel tanks rather than the headshot.  :D
Title: Re: Down in flames?
Post by: Squire on March 12, 2010, 03:05:05 PM
Fixed in patch 2. Very 1st kill post patch was a flamer. Great work HTC  :aok  :salute
Title: Re: Down in flames?
Post by: Squire on April 02, 2010, 06:34:00 PM
Since patch 4 we seem to be back to very few fires? Thread needs to be in Bug Reports, my apologies for putting it here, but I thought reply rather than a new thread.