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There is not much a B-17 can do when it comes to an engine fire from combat damage. They didn't have a fire suppression system for most if not all of the war. Even if they did the fire suppression systems of the time were not great. So your standard procedures for putting out an engine fire due to mechanical issues probably will not do much in case of combat damage fire. So when an engine is lit up by combat damage there is 100% chance there is much more going on in that engine, it's most likely down cylinders and other issues. As well the fire in DCS will spread. Even fuel fires from tanks will spread and continue to spread damage. I am sure there was special circumstances throughout the war that a crew managed another solution but for the most part getting out of the aircraft was the most plausible outcome. Missions are pretty time-sensitive, so even a B-17 with one engine down is not able to keep the speed it needs to in most cases so if the fire were to stop or the engine damage did not cause a fire, the AI would (and does) feather the engine and return to base. If the B-17 is say the lead in the formation, it will drop out and another B-17 will move into lead of the formation. If you are seeing something beyond this, feel free to upload a track here. Thanks!

Can you give a track of what you are seeing? We have different levels of leaks so some leaks are stronger than others.

Please give some examples with tracks and whether it's single player or MP, it makes a difference as well.

Thanks for the feedback, let me ask.

BIGNEWY and I have reviewed and requested some tuning of the reflections, although they look more dynamic like our newer offerings they do seem too intense still. We have requested a review with the F/A-18C team. Thanks.

Team has let me know that this is correct, that you will not get DL from other aircraft unless they are airborne, no DL when they are on the ground. Thanks.

Thanks all for your patience and information/tracks. We are looking into this one hard now.

Sorry for the delay in seeing this, I will try and recreate some of your examples and kick this can again. Is the P-51 and Spitfire the worst for you or are there others equally as bad. Thanks. NM, I am on it with some help from GA, he said the updates to the FC3 have some glass issues.

This is already reported, but this is in the wrong section this is for updated DM for WWII aircraft, not ground units. Thanks.

Yet no track. We need tracks of this, it could be some sort of weird MP desync, it could be something else. Without a track, I cannot see what happened.

It's hard to say what happened here without a track. Even the size of the smoke matters, smaller trails are smaller leaks, and larger ones are larger. The AI will always do their best to make it back to base. The case of the Ju-88 sounds like an issue but I cannot reproduce this. That said, you may think you hit an aircraft the same way each time, but because of the details in the DM you may not always hit that aircraft the same even if from a ways back it looked like it. But right now I am guessing, I jumped into a P-47 and did a few tests on both the Ju-88 and 109 and the results were what I expected, so without a track I cant say for sure what you experienced, it could even be MP desync if this was on a server. Without a track its impossible to say what happened. That sounds like a bug for sure, but without a track I cannot report, I have not been able to reproduce something like this.

I cant promise when it will happen, but wanted to acknowledge it at least. Thanks.

This was requested a while ago internally. Thanks.

This has been added internally, you should see it next patch. Thanks all.

I am not sure what this means. Are you once again insulting me right after asking for help? Supply a track of what you are doing and maybe someone can help you. If you want to continue the insults, that is your choice.

If you want someone on the team to take a look, please supply a track. Thanks.

If you want us to take these reports seriously, please report without the added sass please. Thanks, I will take a look. This seems like a very reasonable request.

This is noted by the team, thanks

You know I want to help you, but these posts are very rude. Please include a track, evidence and I will take a look but please post bugs with all the info required such as tracks and without all the extra insults and jabs. Please.

FInd me the info when you are sure and I will bring it to the team. Thanks. I'll just take the rest of the post as venting. Please make sure you are giving us all the info when reporting a bug. Thanks.

It sounds like it might not be aligned properly but it would be best to include a track so we can see for sure. Thanks.

Hi, did you see this note in the changelog? Fixed: Datalink doesn't work after cold start. When starting or restarting the aircraft, the MIDS switch must first be set to OFF. Only set to ON after the GPS switch has been set to ON for 60 seconds and the DED TIME page displays GPS SYSTEM. Let me know if you are having an issue beyond that. Thanks.

Thanks for the feedback, @Reflected make sure you use your contacts within Closed Beta testing as well. We will bring this up to Ugra. Thanks.

You will need to give us more information. We cannot solve such an issue with a screenshot. Please supply a track along with your log files. Your dxdiag file would be nice as well. If this is right after the update understand you might have some freezes as shaders rebuild. If not repair, remove all mods and try again. Thanks

Hi, do you have some reference that is publicly available showing this? If you are unsure you can DM it to me. Thanks.