4.12.2 de-bugging

[Mabroc]

I always found it funny that P-51, P-40, Bf-109 got damaged engines with overheat and loss of power when hit or instantly died with a good burst of fire but the P-39's have no noticeable loss of power and usually can fly 10+ minutes at full combat capability smoking a lot.
Even when they have almost the same engine and amount of oil than a P-51 and P-40, lots of oil tubes around the engine that you easily perforate meanwhile doing other damage to the engine from a 6 o clock firing position.

[Pursuivant]

Originally Posted by Mabroc

I always found it funny that P-51, P-40, Bf-109 got damaged engines with overheat and loss of power when hit or instantly died with a good burst of fire but the P-39's have no noticeable loss of power and usually can fly 10+ minutes at full combat capability smoking a lot.

This does seem strange, since one of the reasons that pilots disliked the P-39 was the fact that the engine's position made it more vulnerable to engine damage in combat.

Given that a particular model of engine had the same cooling and oil cooling needs regardless of which plane it was mounted in, it would make sense to just have overheat and engine damage models standardized around a particular engine rather than a particular plane.

Maybe not for inline engines where the plumbing and armor could vary, but certainly for radial engines.

[Mabroc]

Well, since the first IL-2 game the P-39's and then the P-63 enjoyed the russian "enhanced" engine survivability capable of still giving full power while heavily smoking. I have been flying this sim online for years and the russians planes seem to have less HIGHLANDER engines now but the P-39 still can fight you in a bf-109k4 at 5000m meanwhile smoking for a long time, and not on the defensive precisely.

[THOMO]

I Installed 4.12.2 today then I started it. all went normally until I chared my finnish campaign: the screen was completly filled with the presentation bar and no way to go out of that!!! it was running smoothly until then.