Landing?

[Jazzy Jase]

Originally Posted by maxqubit

weird? my altitude is still around 450??

0 on your altimeter is sea-level. Not all ground is at sea level!

[H Lecter]

Originally Posted by maxqubit

^ and ^^ ... i realize that. Nice but useless, because what is the use e.g. on Tiger Hunt gameplay wise i mean

It's not supposed to have a use on Tiger Hunt. It just shows your altitude over sea level like it does in a real WWII aircraft. Apart from that I never check my altitude when I do a strafing run - at least in this game you have enough visual information to see when you have to pull up.

[The_Goalie_94]

Originally Posted by H Lecter

It's not supposed to have a use on Tiger Hunt. It just shows your altitude over sea level like it does in a real WWII aircraft. Apart from that I never check my altitude when I do a strafing run - at least in this game you have enough visual information to see when you have to pull up.

I was wondering why that tree was getting bigger...

[elneilios]

Originally Posted by Anton Yudintsev

Explosion happens if you damaged plane too hard to take off and THEN get new damage.
For example, rip off wing and then damage prop.

This seems like strange logic to me... If a rule was decided to be implemented in the game whereby anyone that is too damaged to carry on flying explodes, why did the developers decide that sustaining *new* damage when reaching the ground was required to trigger this? I would have expected that just simple contact with the ground should = explosion in this case.

Of course it would make much more sense that if the damage sustained from the crash had affected the engine / fuel in some way that an explosion would occur, but if say the landing gear fell off, that shouldn't really trigger a bang. But I guess this goes back to the old argument over being able to ditch the plane...

Edit:
With this logic in mind, does that mean its actually entirely possible to ditch the unflyable plane without exploding as long as its a very smooth crash?? I think someone here posted a Belly Landing video in fact, I just assumed it was a flukey game bug that allowed it.

[ThatYoungGameGuy]

check out my belly landing man!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4i4chG2T7Y

[trk29]

Originally Posted by ThatYoungGameGuy

check out my belly landing man!

Please don't post your video in three threads, it has it's own thread.

Thanks

[manintrees]

Thanks for posting a screen shot of the goals screen. I notice that Robert Johnson is one of the listed pilots. Is this a coincidence or what? Robert Johnson was, I believe, the second highest scoring ace for the US in WW2.

[Patchou]

Originally Posted by elneilios

I think your right, I just had several more attempts, and hitting the props definately did it. I managed to land without killing the engine so I think that proves it. HOWEVER.... according to Anton, you explode if your plane is too damaged to take off again, why didn't I explode??

Well, I can confirm that you can crash without exploding.

In Sim Mode, in Tiger Hunt, while I was looking for the Tigers but desperate to find them, I decided to land in a small river, to smoke a cigarette and eat my sandwiches before going back to my Tiger hunt. Well, I finished in the trees undamaged but landed

I decided to take off, quiet difficult with a tree in front of me. The game finally decided that I was crashed and i had a Zoom out, the occasion to admire my shining Mustang from above which looks like a grey cross at the end of the zoom out

Patchou

[SleepTrgt]

So you landed not crashed?

[Patchou]

Well I first landed. but I was blocked in the trees. (damned planes there is no reverse function)

When I attempted to take off using the WEP during, let say 3-5 sec, without really moving, It says that I was just "crashed".

But the plane didn't blew up and I didn't have the mention "crash landed" as others had.

EDIT: So yes I didn't crash