All maps, all payloads,all Aircraft, coop. Aviar explain it better than me:



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I think that's the key thing here. In user land its fine but with a dedicated server and a client joining there are problems.

The dedicated server is the problem with V1's

Ok server setting with bomb fuses off, I only use fuses on so never see the problem.

I'm just curious whether such bugs are planned to be fixed in the close future in a hotfix (4.12.2?), or we should wait until 4.13 comes out next (?) year? ;):)

Ki-43 III wing tank fires initially produce flames but no smoke, then smoke but no flame.

Additionally, fires in the wing tanks don't seem to further damage the plane's wings or cause risk of explosion, nor do they trigger a bailout by AI pilots.

I believe this is normal behavior as of 4.12. The intention is to replicate those times when there is a fire but its clean burning and there is no smoke... sometimes the fire goes out (in a dive for example) and then there is just smoke left over as the fire goes out... its not perfect but its not bad either.

If there is more damage done then the fire with no smoke turns into a fire with smoke and thats when all sorts of bad things happen :)

That just seems strange, since a gasoline fire is normally at least a bit smoky. Also, even for a pure fuel fire there will usually be other things like paint and rubber from the self-sealing fuel tanks burning.

I've subsequently seen this. Heavy damage to the wings plus more severe fire also triggers bailout.

Is it just me and my crummy flying or does the P-40M seem extremely vulnerable to "critical hits"?

I've been flying a lot of 1-1 missions against the Ace AI Ki-43II (i.e., 2 0.50 caliber guns, sniper-like accuracy within 200 meters) and it seems like even a single second of gunfire will do something terrible to my plane.

If I'm lucky it's just a jammed gun, more typically it's some control surface rendered inoperative, a pilot hit or really severe engine damage which results in the engine conking out within seconds. Mind you, the actual plane never breaks apart - or even shows heavy damage, it's almost always a pilot kill, messed up controls (usually 2-3 at a time) or inoperative/flaming engine.

This seems at odds with Clive Caldwell's assessment that the P-40 "would take a tremendous amount of punishment, violent aerobatics as well as enemy action," plus the fact that the P-40 had armor around the engine and cockpit which allowed it to survive head-on passes against the Ki-43.

Mind you, I think that the game gets the P-40's basic ruggedness right in terms of light damage/heavy damage/broken damage modeling to the airframe. It's just that there seems to be something wrong about the likelihood and severity of critical hits.

Flying against another contemporary opponent, the Bf-109F, I'm getting much the same sort of damage, although the Bf-109's programming makes it much less likely to take head-on shots and Bf-109F Ace AI doesn't seem to have the same inerrant accuracy as the Ki-43.