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Title: Well that was disappointing
Post by: Vulcan on March 24, 2017, 10:36:07 PM
Trying to fight 3 p-40s, insta-deathed by a distant ship puffy ack (and no the P-40s weren't even running to their ack).

Maybe next time de-tune the ack, or allow friendly damage from puffy ack on friendly aircraft.

Title: Re: Well that was disappointing
Post by: viking73 on March 24, 2017, 10:50:31 PM
Agree. Engine taken out by ship puffy ack. I play FSO to fight other players, not have the game shoot me down. Other FSOs usually have ack turned way down so it's just a distraction. This current FSO seems = to MA.  :mad:
Title: Re: Well that was disappointing
Post by: ImADot on March 24, 2017, 10:51:20 PM
Ack was set at 0.4 of normal MA strength, pretty standard for FSO. There is no setting to adjust friendly versus enemy damage.
Title: Re: Well that was disappointing
Post by: Vulcan on March 25, 2017, 05:39:47 AM
Ack was set at 0.4 of normal MA strength, pretty standard for FSO. There is no setting to adjust friendly versus enemy damage.

There is a conspiracy theory that the ack has got better in AH3, maybe it needs to be lowered. I've added a request into wishlists for puffy friendly damage options. Maybe one day...
Title: Re: Well that was disappointing
Post by: captain1ma on March 25, 2017, 09:04:04 AM
did you try flying away from the ships? that usually helps, so does speed.
Title: Re: Well that was disappointing
Post by: Nefarious on March 25, 2017, 09:44:51 AM
I don't think it was the ack strength as much as the number of fleets. I don't recall any recent setup that has had 5 fleets bunched together like that.

We lost several every frame to 1 ping ack hits, myself included in Frame 1.
Title: Re: Well that was disappointing
Post by: waystin2 on March 25, 2017, 09:47:18 AM
did you try flying away from the ships? that usually helps, so does speed.
Common sense will get you shot Sir!  :D
Title: Re: Well that was disappointing
Post by: Nefarious on March 25, 2017, 09:55:47 AM
did you try flying away from the ships? that usually helps, so does speed.

Well, when the objective IS the ships, you have to fly at them at least once.  :D
Title: Re: Well that was disappointing
Post by: Drano on March 25, 2017, 11:02:32 AM
Well, when the objective IS the ships, you have to fly at them at least once.  :D
Haha! Well yeah there's that!

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Title: Re: Well that was disappointing
Post by: branch37 on March 25, 2017, 11:07:25 AM
In my opinion, flak damage is just part of it.  I hope we dont get to a point where the puffy is there only to look at.  I get it it sucks.  Ive been killed by enemy puffy before.  It sucks even worse when its not even at the target, or a neutral factory gets you.  Flying into a concentration of fleets isnt much different than flying into a swarm of 109s in a P-40.
Title: Re: Well that was disappointing
Post by: waystin2 on March 25, 2017, 11:24:28 AM
In my opinion, flak damage is just part of it.  I hope we dont get to a point where the puffy is there only to look at.  I get it it sucks.  Ive been killed by enemy puffy before.  It sucks even worse when its not even at the target, or a neutral factory gets you.  Flying into a concentration of fleets isnt much different than flying into a swarm of 109s in a P-40.
:aok
Title: Re: Well that was disappointing
Post by: TequilaChaser on March 25, 2017, 11:51:55 AM
That was some awesome looking P-40 camouflage....
Title: Re: Well that was disappointing
Post by: SFRT - Frenchy on March 25, 2017, 12:58:30 PM
Yep it happens. I got hit over Europe flying 30 million miles over a city. I think you guys did awesome yesterday as you saturated the target area with fighters right away, you controlled the zone ... the drawback was forcing you to loiter way too long in that stuff waiting for the bombers. Couldn't have it both ways. :cheers: