Prematurely exploding KA50?

[Lava]

There's a survivable crash, and then there's a crash you can walk away from. BS currently doesn't model the trauma to the pilot from an incredibly violent crash. Instead the copter explodes. Hey, maybe you got thrown free and survived with 50% of your body burned and spent the next year in the hospital and the rest of your life crippled! Or maybe you got thrown onto the stick, or the HUD shattered and glass flew in your face, or debris slashed open your chest.

 

Instead of ED modeling all that, I'm happy with the compromise of exploding the chopper when, in real life, they'd say "This chopper is completely useless for us now."

 

You can think it's 'survivable' all you want. Ask yourself, though, how many real life pilots would have ejected earlier, fearing for their lives? Or perhaps not even pulled that maneuver in the first place :) All it takes is one bad injury and you can never fly in the armed forces again.

 

Think of it as "BOOM! No SANE pilot would have pushed it this far, and this is too unpredictable to accurately say if you will survive or not!"

 

edit: Perhaps the most fundamental reason the game doesn't have more accurate crashes: Where would you get the data from? How do you know it's accurate? You'd need a lot of data to put together an accurate helicopter crash model. A poster above pointed that out in a joking format.

Edited October 4, 2009 by Lava

[BlackFallout]

Ok guys point taken, but look at this.

 

This happened to me today and I found this video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMU_vxFGd8A&feature=related

 

KA50 smash's into ground with no rotors but does not explode?

[Lava]

I wonder if it didn't explode because it broke in two on impact? That sure looked like an explosion coming when it was plummeting from 400 meters @ 270 KPH :)

[RobC]

I found this one while i was looking at a bunch of the related youtube vids (anyone know the story behind this?) I'm pretty sure its a Puma

 

 

And I got a good laugh out of the one BlackFallout just posted, I think thats happened to me before as well :D.

Edited October 6, 2009 by RobC

[BlackFallout]

I found this one while i was looking at a bunch of the related youtube vids (anyone know the story behind this?) I'm pretty sure its a Puma

 

 

And I got a good laugh out of the one BlackFallout just posted, I think thats happened to me before as well :D.

 

Looks like the tail rotor nipped the ground and caused a loss of tail rotor authority.

[Doc. Caliban]

Whenever I have a premature explosion, I just say, "Sorry baby, it happens to all guys. It's just poor damage modeling."

 

On a serious note, the OP has a point, and no matter what your *personal* feelings are on the importance of the issue, it's still valid. Trying to invalidate it by saying, 'It doesn't bother *me*' is of no value in the thread, really.

 

My lest favorite kind of answer in a forum thread is, "Why would you want to do *that*?"

 

Just my 2 cents.

[sinelnic]

Here. If you find the damage modelling in this track "not good enough", then fine.

 

Best viewed from F3 view.

Beautiful crash.trk