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Title: Smoke Puff Hit Indications
Post by: xtyger on January 15, 2012, 04:43:35 PM
Sorry if this has been asked here before. Nobody I've asked in Midwar knows, or so they say:

Whey you get a hit on a plane, sometimes a puff of smoke follows the hit. Sometimes they're dark smoke. Sometimes light. What do they mean? Is there a difference between the two?
Title: Re: Smoke Puff Hit Indications
Post by: PFactorDave on January 15, 2012, 04:59:30 PM
I didn't think anyone actually ever shot at each other in Midwar...   :D

Interested to know if there is a difference between the white and dark puffs myself...
Title: Re: Smoke Puff Hit Indications
Post by: 1MADDOG1 on January 15, 2012, 07:23:21 PM
Black smoke = Usually Oil or Engine hit

White Smoke = Usually Fuel Hit

Usually....  :devil
Title: Re: Smoke Puff Hit Indications
Post by: PFactorDave on January 15, 2012, 07:26:41 PM
Black smoke = Usually Oil or Engine hit

White Smoke = Usually Fuel Hit

Usually....  :devil

Don't think he is talking about the streams of vapor that indicate a fuel or oil leak.  When shooting crossing high deflection shots you will often see a single puff of smoke as well as the hit sprite.
Title: Re: Smoke Puff Hit Indications
Post by: FLS on January 15, 2012, 07:42:00 PM
There is also a smoke puff with collisions. Perhaps it indicates damage while the sprites simply show hits.
Title: Re: Smoke Puff Hit Indications
Post by: EskimoJoe on January 15, 2012, 07:49:44 PM
Black puff, 30mm hit. white puff 20mm and below IIRC
Title: Re: Smoke Puff Hit Indications
Post by: PFactorDave on January 15, 2012, 07:56:13 PM
Black puff, 30mm hit. white puff 20mm and below IIRC

Thought 30mm gave a firey looking puff.  Pretty sure I have seen black puffs, and I never fly the tater birds.  Well, very rarely anyway.
Title: Re: Smoke Puff Hit Indications
Post by: EskimoJoe on January 15, 2012, 07:57:23 PM
Thought 30mm gave a firey looking puff.  Pretty sure I have seen black puffs, and I never fly the tater birds.  Well, very rarely anyway.

Yes, but the fire doesn't last as long as the black smoke IIRC.
Title: Re: Smoke Puff Hit Indications
Post by: chaser on January 15, 2012, 10:53:15 PM
I see black puffs ever now and then with bullets smaller than the taters.
Title: Re: Smoke Puff Hit Indications
Post by: Daddkev on January 15, 2012, 11:14:32 PM
 :noid :noid Now I want tatertots and im gonna puff, puff, :x :banana: :noid