Perpetual Repair Cycle

[JupiterJoe]

@-Rudel-  When a repair is completed, the Corsair comes crashing down and this tends to damage the aircraft more often than not.  I suspect it's not aligning with the ground level (or Carrier deck, which may cause damage to aircraft and Carrier on every landing) properly.

EDIT:  It appears the left main gear is getting damaged after a repair (see indicator in attached screenshot):

 

Edited July 24 by JupiterJoe

[Andrew8604]

Is that supposed to be as if the aircraft is up on jacks for repair?  I think they should get rid of that.  Just fix what isn't working on the aircraft.  Don't do the animation of the jacked-up aircraft.  That's my suggestion.  I mean; to be realistic, the repair timer should be like 1 to 300 hours depending on damage, not 180 seconds.  But no one would wait for that, of course.  It's probably an obsolete feature.  Most people just eject and go grab another aircraft, I think.  But at least get rid of the "raising of the aircraft" part of "repair".

But I'm pretty sure this is an ED thing, not the F4U module or Magnitude 3's doing.

Edited June 22 by Andrew8604

[razo+r]

52 minutes ago, Andrew8604 said:

Is that supposed to be as if the aircraft is up on jacks for repair?  I think they should get rid of that.  Just fix what isn't working on the aircraft.  Don't do the animation of the jacked-up aircraft.  That's my suggestion.  I mean; to be realistic, the repair timer should be like 1 to 300 hours depending on damage, not 180 seconds.  But no one would wait for that, of course.  It's probably an obsolete feature.  Most people just eject and go grab another aircraft, I think.  But at least get rid of the "raising of the aircraft" part of "repair".

But I'm pretty sure this is an ED thing, not the F4U module or Magnitude 3's doing.

The aircraft gets lifted so it doesn't get stuck in the ground, probably. Like when one gear is stuck in, repairing would just pop it out and now it's stuck below ground. So by lifting up, they make sure everything is well above the ground.

[JupiterJoe]

I concur, but in this case when the aircraft is lowered after repair the gear sinks below ground level.  The sudden jolt to bring the aircraft back to ground level breaks the gear.

Edited June 22 by JupiterJoe

[Firebugs]

The aircraft goes into a jittery state when it is lifted and when it drops back down the jitter motion can slam the tail down causing a rebound.  I have had it happen so hard that it actually tips the plane up on its nose, bending the prop, which was what happened right before this video was taken. 

 

 

[Andrew8604]

I had a case where after landing on the carrier, I accidentally retracted the gear instead of the hook (I hit the wrong switch on my hardware).  Engine was running so it bent the props.  I did a repair, and the aircraft was set down with left main gear partially retracted.  Tried a repair again and same thing.  Then I figured out if I pump the hydraulic hand pump several times, it extends the partially retracted gear and I'm good to go...hydraulic pressure had been zero.

 

[450Devil]

This happened yesterday to one of my flying mates when he did a repair on the Wolf Pack Warbirds server. When his Corsair dropped to the ground following the repair it bounced onto it's nose. Other team members have also reported damage being caused by the repair process.

Another curious Corsair damage model is the propeller being bent backwards after taking hits from an enemy bomber. This also happened yesterday on the Wolf Pack Warbirds server when I was attacking a Ju-88 from its rear aspect. 

[JupiterJoe]

Still a thing after today's patch.