Landing?

[xNikex]

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??

That happens sometimes and it will usually say you 'crash landed' and then the camera will zoom out. If it didn't, then you just got lucky.

[elneilios]

Originally Posted by xNikex

That happens sometimes and it will usually say you 'crash landed' and then the camera will zoom out. If it didn't, then you just got lucky.

Yeah no zoom out, just was sitting in the cockpit not going anywhere fast. (Except if I shot the guns I would manage to creep backwards!)

[xNikex]

Originally Posted by elneilios

Yeah no zoom out, just was sitting in the cockpit not going anywhere fast. (Except if I shot the guns I would manage to creep backwards!)

Yeah, that was a neat feature I also noticed the other day lol. As far the camera not zooming out, I guess you made one hell of a landing.

How did you manage to break your wing off and come to a stop anyway?

[The_Goalie_94]

Wow, that reminds me, i think this is the first game with a real dense forest. I landed and broke my wing off a tree in a forest, and was sitting their in the forest just admiring how real it actually looked.

[xNikex]

Originally Posted by The_Goalie_94

Wow, that reminds me, i think this is the first game with a real dense forest. I landed and broke my wing off a tree in a forest, and was sitting their in the forest just admiring how real it actually looked.

Lucky...

The other day, I had broken my wing off on a tree and just spiraled only 10 meters above the ground for like 10 seconds until I hit a house.

[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.

[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.

[David603]

Nice pictures, they really show how the landscape detail has been improved from the PC Il2s. The Alt at 450 thing is because the game measures altitude above sea level, not above the ground where you are.

[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!