anyone fly the 110 or Ju87 there? They said they tweaked the elevator authority on both the planes. The Stuka looked like it was turning even tighter than before 1.52 to me though...
Ju 87 and Bf 110 had too good elevator authority on negative pich direction, causing pilots to redout too easily because of negatice G. I believe the fix does not affect ability to pull positive G's.
Unloaded Ju 87 has low wingloading and quite powerful engine, it will turn very nicely. However, turning ability has never won wars
I only tried it for one morning after 1.52 came out. Either there was a bug in the Hurri damage model, or I had extremely bad luck, because out of 3 missions, I took a total of 2 hits on my aircraft. In both cases they were mortal wounds to the pilot (the second being an outright instant death.) I didn't play anymore after that, cuz the Pacific CT setup was up and running. Anyways, out of all the other times I've flown in WWIIOL, I've taken three pilot hits at the absolute most.
This phenomenon is caused by more detailed damage model I think.
I very rarely get damage that causes my plane to be unflyable. Sometimes engine dies because loss of some fluid. On the other hand, almost every time I get shot down it is because of pilot wound or death.
Of planes I shoot down, roughly half of them catch fire which causes their destruction. Other half is a pilot kill ie. enemy plane seems undamaged but it flies to ground. Very rarely I see enemy plane to start spinning which is caused by damage to structures.
Large number of pilot kills is because bullets are tracked trough the whole plane. You can hit targets rudder, rear fuselage and then pilot with single 7.92 mm bullet. It is in fact easy to kill enemy pilot on purpose by aiming to cocpit area, even from rear because bullets will penetrate thin fuselage and then hit pilot.
In AH the bullet is stopped by that rear fuselage and it has no change to hit pilot. This means you rarely get pilot kills or pilot wounds.
