Smoke and fire?

[furbs]

Im still not seeing any smoke, flames or exploding aircraft online when getting kills.

Now i know not all kills would be like WOP with hollywood affects but ive got around 20 kills this week in the 109 on ATAG, both hurris and spits and ive not seen any black smoking aircraft, aircraft on fire or explosions.

In fact ive not seen ANY aircraft producing dense black smoke or fire anywhere online, bombers, fighters, allied or axis.

Ive seen the white wispy stuff and the oil leak affect, nothing else though nor has anyone ive been flying with this week.

I know someone is going to say they have seen it online, but surely we should be seeing it much more often?

Anyone else notice this?

[bongodriver]

No, I saw black smoke and fire yesterday, but have noticed a lack of hit sounds on my aircraft....got shot down twice without even knowing I was taking hits.

[MadTommy]

I defiantly see plumes of black smoke off downed aircraft, I also see explosions as they hit the ground.

The plums of smoke don't have a massive rendering distance, very hard to gauge this distance from memory, but if i had to guess i'd say less than a couple of miles.

[pstyle]

I see it often. Maybe 3/5 kills?

Vapour/ fuel trails are more frequent. Perhaps 9/10.

Seems the only place you get fire/smoke from is the engine.. can anyone confirm?
Other parts (fuel tank, coolant etc) seem to vent the white vapour.

[pstyle]

Originally Posted by MadTommy

I defiantly see plumes of black smoke off downed aircraft, I also see explosions as they hit the ground.

The plums of smoke don't have a massive rendering distance, very hard to gauge this distance from memory, but if i had to guess i'd say less than a couple of miles.

Yes, you only see the smoke up close. And it doesn't linger. Shame really.

[furbs]

Originally Posted by bongodriver

No, I saw black smoke and fire yesterday, but have noticed a lack of hit sounds on my aircraft....got shot down twice without even knowing I was taking hits.

I found if i turn up the sound in CLOD, then turn in down in windows mixer i hear it more often.

Hmmm...anyone got a pic of this black smoke online? im talking about thick black smoke, ive seen the wispy oil smoke.

[Bounder!]

Originally Posted by furbs

I found if i turn up the sound in CLOD, then turn in down in windows mixer i hear it more often.

I do this too and it definitely helps with hearing a/c hits although I don't always hear flack hits.

I do see both allied and axis fighters trailing black smoke/catching fire as they go down but it isn't as often as it used to be. Last night on ATAG I did see a Spit 2a take damage and his wing caught fire rather spectacularly and thick black smoke poured out of his wing so fires aren't limited to the engine. In general though you tend to see white vapor from water radiator damage and thin black vapor from oil leaks more often than thick black smoke from fire.

[JG52Krupi]

I got banged by 5 spits the other night and was pouring black smoke on fire and had to bail.

Looked good but when the aircraft got to a certain distance the smoke stopped showing, hope they improve this in the sequel...

[macro]

Have you checkef that you effects settings in options isnt set to low?

[5./JG27.Farber]

Originally Posted by furbs

Im still not seeing any smoke, flames or exploding aircraft online when getting kills.

Effects must be on high, I think. (Also set textures to original its not realted but it is awesome!)

Originally Posted by JG52Krupi

I got banged by 5 spits the other night and was pouring black smoke on fire and had to bail.

Looked good but when the aircraft got to a certain distance the smoke stopped showing, hope they improve this in the sequel...

Yup, you cant let your team mates low they have a leak with out getting to about 200 metres on them.