[REPORTED] AI B-52 Crashes on Takeoff

ironroad · December 5, 2014

Good evening everyone,

I was recently creating a mission and noticed that the B-52 can not takeoff successfully for any airfield on the map. The other heavy bombers, transports, and tankers do just fine, but the B-52s always nose dive into the end of the runway. I tired adjusting the takeoff weight via fuel and ordinance, but to no avail. The AI seems to want to nosedive the aircraft and speed up to 200kns after climbing a few hundred feet off the ground.

See the trak file here for more information.

Yet Another Bug As We Are Paying to Be Beta Testers.trk

Phantom_Mark · December 5, 2014

Naming your tracks like that is hardly going to help is it.........

You do realise it is impossible to make a game 100% bug free ?? please don't come back with the but there is 10000000000x bugs ,it is a state of mind I am highlighting here.

ironroad · December 5, 2014

Naming your tracks like that is hardly going to help is it.........

Are you asking a question, making a statement, or just thinking out loud?

You do realise it is impossible to make a game 100% bug free ??

Humm...after years (decades) of playing flight sims (including the original LOMAC) I was not aware that.

please don't come back with the but there is 10000000000x bugs ,it is a state of mind I am highlighting here.

Ok, but there are at least 10x (not 10000000000x) that I have noticed recently, I will continue to call them as I see them and hopefully they will just be glitches on my end and nothing major that hurts or prohibits anyone else.

SkateZilla · December 5, 2014

100000000000x that you've seen recently, but only 6 posts and a blatant file name that's a stab at ED Testers.

streakeagle · December 13, 2014

For the record, I had a MiG-21bis mission that intercepted 6 x B-52H that used to work flawlessly. The B-52's would taxi to the runway, take off in order, then form up and carpet bomb an air base. Now, no matter what waypoint settings I use, the B-52's lift off, get a few hundred feet in the air, retract gear/flaps, then nose over into the ground.

I created an entirely new mission and got the same results.

If the B-52 starts in the air flying level, it does not nose over into the ground.

This is a very recent bug, maybe as old as when the Bf-109 was added or newer.

Kolyma · January 8, 2015

Still does this for me even when using a script to dynamically spawn a B-52 on the ground. Spawning from any in-flight posture works.

Any update on how to get a B-52 to take-off without crashing?

streakeagle · March 23, 2015

Bump! Is this an issue which can be corrected via a user edited lua file until ED gets around to fixing this? Or did something change in the core engine that will require ED to fix it?