fixed Many aircraft don't crash when shot down but rather perform unrealistic crash landings

[p3t3rmax]

I have a lot of missions that I build myself without any fancy scripting, just use regular mission builder features. Since a release or two ago many planes that get shot down do not crash but rather perform quite unrealistic crash landings onto the terrain and then lie on the terrain, sometimes half buried. They then seem to disappear after a while.

[NineLine]

Can you supply a track of the issue?

[Tank50us]

21 hours ago, p3t3rmax said:

I have a lot of missions that I build myself without any fancy scripting, just use regular mission builder features. Since a release or two ago many planes that get shot down do not crash but rather perform quite unrealistic crash landings onto the terrain and then lie on the terrain, sometimes half buried. They then seem to disappear after a while.

I mean, pilots have managed to pull off such landings in the real world, so I don't see how that's a bad thing.

[p3t3rmax]

I will try to get a track when it happens again. Here's a screenshot. That is not realistic. I often try to crash land when shot up and this is not survivable. Attached one of my missions. There is no scripting, just bog standard mission editor. I try to build nice big battles and jump from side to side into different planes, depends on where the most fun is  PMS-BeslanMountainAttack02.miz

Another one

[p3t3rmax]

Have been re-flying the previous mission without any weird AI crashed but just had this older mission do it - started mission, flew for a while till I had a CFIT, let the mission run for a while with AI planes then took the screenshot of the crashed AI plane. Updated to the latest stable version before I started, installation is only a few months old as the laptop is quite new. I reran the track to see where this crash happened but it did not happen again in the track - checked it a few times. I noticed before that the crashed plane would disappear after a while.

PlanceCrashTrack.trk

[Flappie]

Thanks for the track.

I think impossible landings are not the most important issue here. It's the impossible landing attempts. I created a simple mission with an A-10A flying low surrounded by mountains. Once damaged, its pilot tries to go back to base, faces a ridge he cannot climb... and doesn't eject, nor try to avoid it. AI pilot has no survival instinct when it's facing a pilot's greatest enemy - the surface. I'll make a request to devs.

no ejection when pilot is unable to climb a ridge.trk

Edited January 7, 2022 by Flappie

[p3t3rmax]

Hi Flappie

You have a point with the AI planes crashing easily into obstacles like mountains. I've often seen that as I like to create big missions, often in the mountains, with lots of planes and armour and often see the planes crash for silly reasons as you say - watching the AI armour fight is interesting as they really clobber each other.

I do still see unrealistic crashes though, something that did not happen on older versions. They often crash land and then disappear after a while.

[Flappie]

A fix is in the works.