Realistc Chopper Damage When Landing

[PFunk]

Originally Posted by Mescaldrav

Nah i think its fine the way it is.....proper pilots dont smack their helicopters down hard, neither should you.....

Proper soldiers don't play like noob head smacktards but the Devs still code to discourage this don't they?

Best case scenario or ideal landings aren't what you code the limit for. You have to have a threshold that makes sense. Really its like driving a car in a game where the second you scape the curb with your wheels the tire goes totally flat. It isn't realistic but it also isn't acceptable just because you're supposed to not do it.

Its like the way they're changing the suppression effect so that when you shoot the ground right in front of you you don't suppress yourself. You aren't SUPPOSED to shoot that poorly but they still have to make it so that it doesn't ruin your day right?

[gclark03]

Originally Posted by TheScot666

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G a mod just admitted to making a mistake lol,

but good idea,but this should be for any heli really, Merlin included, they shouldn't sustain that much damage!

WHAT?! Mods aren't perfect? This is madness!

Moving on, I have no problem with this change, as long as some damage (30-40%), at least a little loss of control (for example, tail rotor or rudders), and perhaps some harm to the passengers (30-40% health) is incurred at high speeds. If they hit the ground by the skids at ludicrous speeds, everyone should die and the helicopter should be sent below 20%, but it should never explode until it hits the ground at another angle at equally ludicrous speeds.

In fact, this could be rolled into the 'movement' there's been to minimize all vehicle explosions in PR. I can't say whether you Devs have tried to implement that; if you have, this would be a great addition to the concept.

[AnRK]

It'd be nice if there were some way of having the broken tracks effect apply to choppers. That'd be kinda fun.

Good idea though, there are too many explosions in this game that shouldn't happen, unfortunately most of them can't be removed it seems.

[[R-DEV]Nickbond592]

Originally Posted by AnRK

It'd be nice if there were some way of having the broken tracks effect apply to choppers. That'd be kinda fun.

Good idea though, there are too many explosions in this game that shouldn't happen, unfortunately most of them can't be removed it seems.

it already happens, if you lose a certain amount of health in a chopper you'll lose rudder control it doesn't happen every time but its there, and if you take enough damage you're engine will cut out and you'll crash land and depending on altitude either blow up or manage to escape.

[[R-CON]Mescaldrav]

Originally Posted by PFunk

Proper soldiers don't play like noob head smacktards but the Devs still code to discourage this don't they?

I'm not sure how this illustrates your argument for making the chopper easier to thump down hard?


I'm surprised ppl find this such an issue is all.....I can think of a lot more things I'd want to fix with the choppers before I got to this.....most notably the way they behave on the skids\wheels....


Anyway, I dont find it a big problem.....

[[PR]CATA.Mobius]

Really, you'd have to do some severe damage to a helicopter to make it explode in real life. What's going to normally happen is the blast frag warhead used in most antiaircraft applications are going to damage the rotor blades or rudder, resulting in a loss of altitude and eventually a crash, although not at high enough velocities that the aircraft will explode.

[[R-CON]Alex6714]

There are some funky effects already on the choppers, except they only work in local server, not on a dedicated server.

[Waaah_Wah]

^^What effects exactly?

[Brummy]

Go play on Local and damage your chopper. It will start to spin heavily and eventually crash. Not like the mid-air explosion on dedi servers

[[R-COM]TheScot666]

so why doesn't that happen on Dedicated ones, cos that is very coooll!!