4.12.2 de-bugging

[Woke Up Dead]

Originally Posted by Janosch

So, the bar on Yak-9 is basically solid, as in you can't see through it. In A6M5c, there's transparency - I'm assuming that's the armor glass I'm looking at...

Could the bars be, in theory, result of poor cutting or handling of the glass during plane assembly or manufacturing the parts themselves?

I don't think so. Why realistically represent one element whose faultiness was caused by bad manufacturing, while so many other elements on Soviet and other planes known not to be manufactured well are represented in the game as working just fine? Also, I don't think refractive properties of glass can change because of bad cutting technique of its edges.

Within the Yak family it's only the Yak-9 series that have this problem with the armored glass (they all have it with the top of the gunsight). The very similar Yak-1B does not, the fairly similar Yak-7 and 1 do not either. Was the Yak-9 the first Yak in game?

[Igo kyu]

Originally Posted by Woke Up Dead

I don't think so. Why realistically represent one element whose faultiness was caused by bad manufacturing, while so many other elements on Soviet and other planes known not to be manufactured well are represented in the game as working just fine? Also, I don't think refractive properties of glass can change because of bad cutting technique of its edges.

Within the Yak family it's only the Yak-9 series that have this problem with the armored glass (they all have it with the top of the gunsight). The very similar Yak-1B does not, the fairly similar Yak-7 and 1 do not either. Was the Yak-9 the first Yak in game?

I think the Yak 9 is the earliest plane in the game to have armoured glass windscreens, despite Hurricanes, Wildcats, P40s having them earlier in real life.