Bomber Formation Ditch Bug

[PropNut]

Not sure if this one has been reported yet....I was flying a formation of B26s yesterday ( I have noticed this since AH2 change over)   I was being chased by an LA7  (which I killed) and he got both of my engines in the lead bomber  In AH1 you could just ditch the first bomber and the engines would restart on the other two and off you would go. But since AH2 every time i try this the first buff crashes and you switch to #2 about the time the wings come off of it too  then as ya switch to the last bomber  its wings come off . So the way it is now   if you lose your engines or have to ditch your bomber your going to lose all three.  ANyone else seeing this ?  Or is this some new set up?  

One other thing I noticed is that when gunning its almost like Im shooting through the fighter on my 6  this is especially noticable when fighters are up close   (maybe D200 or less)  I killed alot of fighters with buff guns in AH1 but something is quite strange as it is now.

[devil22]

im seein the same thing with the ditching of buffs. ya ditch 1 and lose all 3. kinda frustrating as when in a buff, but 1 helluva way to get 3 kills in a row. ive also seen the same buff gun problem. also i was in a japanese torpedo bomber (sorry i cant remember its designation it wasnt the KI birds, but 1 of the others but not the zeros, what does that leave, i can see it in my mind but cant read the numbers in my mind.) i got shot down and soon as i hit the tower the game froze up. ne1 else had that problem.

[SKDenny]

Originally posted by PropNut
Not sure if this one has been reported yet....
One other thing I noticed is that when gunning its almost like Im shooting through the fighter on my 6  this is especially noticable when fighters are up close   (maybe D200 or less)  I killed alot of fighters with buff guns in AH1 but something is quite strange as it is now.

Close but no cigar. The formation guns only converge at 1000 yards now. If you go to the off line game and type /.target 400  you will see where your guns are hitting. What you will find is that the drone guns are hitting left and right of the target. Therefore makeing a hole for enemy fighters to sit in and kill you. Just one pair of 50cals is not enough to kill a fighter in close. My take is to just bail and wave at the fighter on your way down.
SKPappy

[Easyscor]

Originally posted by SKDenny
Close but no cigar. The formation guns only converge at 1000 yards now. If you go to the off line game and type /.target 400  you will see where your guns are hitting....

AH1 was the same.  The difference is the same fine grained hit areas noticed/complained about by everone.

I've asked htc to allow firing all the guns from a single buff as an option in addition to firing only the current position or all positions but I didn't expect nor have I gotten a response, it doesn't seem to be a priority.

The biggest issue is the real and prerceived transfer of damage between the buffs.

We know that visual damage was being transfered (fixed now.)

We also know that if your tail gun is knocked out on your lead buff, it's knocked out on the drones too.  The only way to recover the guns in the other two drones is to bail from the lead plane.

PropNut posted about damage transfering between the lead and the drone. I think it extends beyond engine damage.

I think bullets which travel through the location of the lead plane after it's blown up are registered as hits on #2 even though it isn't in that location yet.  I hope to have a film to send in soon.