Is it possible?
Posted: 30 Mar 2010, 03:24
Not sure if this has been thought of before. I am sure it has as it is a simple and obvious thing. Is it possible to have damaged bombers drop out of formation when damaged. I often seen bombers trailing black smoke from both engines yet still flying along in formation, on course and easily maintaining height and speed.
I have a couple of times seen a bomber lag behind (mainly my aircraft) after taking some damage but it is not often.
Is there a reason this may not be possible? CPU overload etc because of 400+ bombers all needing accurate damage/speed/height calculations?
Maybe if it was too complicated to add a damage/speed model, would it be possible to say make the undercarriage drop (say 20% chance of this happening)when the damage gets to a certain level. That may be enough to slow the aircraft enough to make it look like it is "limping along" But only having a 20% chance (or similar) of this happening would not make it happen all the time as that would then become boring and obvious if every bombers wheels dropped ever time.
Thoughts?
I have a couple of times seen a bomber lag behind (mainly my aircraft) after taking some damage but it is not often.
Is there a reason this may not be possible? CPU overload etc because of 400+ bombers all needing accurate damage/speed/height calculations?
Maybe if it was too complicated to add a damage/speed model, would it be possible to say make the undercarriage drop (say 20% chance of this happening)when the damage gets to a certain level. That may be enough to slow the aircraft enough to make it look like it is "limping along" But only having a 20% chance (or similar) of this happening would not make it happen all the time as that would then become boring and obvious if every bombers wheels dropped ever time.
Thoughts?