Damage Model Bug Stomping - Part 2

[Pursuivant]

Originally Posted by dimlee

While doing your tests, did you ever see a damage caused by the projectile which MISSED target aircraft?

Using arcade mode, it's very easy to see if projectiles which miss the aircraft's physical model hit the damage model. You'll see "arrows" hanging in space where they hit the damage model.

There are a very few cases where the DM doesn't match the physical model, but they are mostly landing gear models and a few cases where the tail surfaces aren't properly modeled.

I saw no evidence that the P-38's damage model was so bad that it modeled the area between the horizontal stabilizer, tail booms and trailing wing edge as part of the plane.

What I did see is incredibly bad damage modeling that makes it far too easy to break the P-38's control surfaces, stabilizers or tail booms, and which doesn't model important engine systems.