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Originally Posted by ElAurens
Exactly FC99. Some of you old timers may remember that Oleg posted very long ago at UBI about this and said that if he made the pilot's "DM" realistic, no one would fly the sim.
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I don't claim to be an oldtimer on the forums. From a bomber, a fighter, head on, is a target of what? five square metres? ten square metres? Of which the pilots head is about 1/25 square metre. So when the bombers are hitting the fighters, one hit in 20? hits the pilots head, always killing him.
It's not the damage model of the pilot that's wrong (could be wrong, could be right, I don't mind it as it is), it's the frequency with which the pilot is hit which is absolutely out of order. This is not new, and not unique to IL*2, CFS1 used to have the same problem, there it was usually the engine that was hit (as is also often the case in IL*2), but the result was the same, the bombers got away too easily.
When bombers were sent unescorted by any side, in the real WW2, they were hacked down. The way it is in IL*2 and CFS1, the sensible thing would be to send bombers unescorted, they would destroy the fighter forces that opposed them.
Sorry for the rant, this has been bugging me for a long time.