I've come to the conclusion that nobody actually knows how the collision model works and I have a film to back that up. For those that claim that your end has to see a collision to receive damage, that's BS.
In this film I clearly never make contact with him and receive the collision and lose a wing. Now if it had said "Geist has collided with you" I would have been fine with it, because I've always thought both should receive damage in the first place. But instead we miss on
BOTH ends and I still get the "you have collided" message and I go down. He was going down anyways because I had already shot one off one of his wings off but now instead of me getting a kill on him, he gets a kill on me.
As I said before, this wouldn't be an issue if both planes would receive damage already, I would have been completely fine with it, however this film is just to show that the collision model doesn't even work like its supposed to now.
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