shooting things out of the sky looks crap

[Banyan101]

Originally Posted by Helios

I very much doubt a crashing heli travelling at speed would just stop dead after hitting the ground on a sloped hillside.

Just to confirm as well, rotor blade damage is in the game, have seen it with my own eyes. Tis pretty gruesome

Agreed, but kicking up dust when it hits the ground (collision event) and having the helicopter slow down more before it starts rolling would add much needed weight to the animation. The devs might be able to use a deformed artillery explosion animation for the dust effect.

[Gunrunner]

Yea thats true.. Kiowa's are really fragile.. or so i heard.

[Witchhaven]

Every helicopter can be brought down by concentrated small arms fire.

And the MI-8 in the video wasnt particularly fast. Maybe it received small arms fire over a longer period of time

[element1108]

Originally Posted by Fozzy Bear

But with what is the question? I hardly doubt small arms fire is going to bring down an Mi8, which is pretty much built to take severe punishment. Now if a Stinger, LAV's main gun, Mk19, or .50 cal was firing at it and downed it then that's realistic.

Small arms fire will bring down an Mi8 if the pilot gets shot and killed. I'm a flight sim fanatic and the helicopter coming down didn't bother me. Like Viiiper said it's an infantry sim so that's where the weight is modeled. To model all working components in a helicopter would be for the most part a large waste of resources due to the fact they play a relatively small roll in the game.

In the grand scheme of things this seems very minor.

[viiiper]

I asked you guys nicely to stay on topic, read the OP again, he's talking about game animations.

/all off topic is being deleted.

[Legolasindar]

Originally Posted by viiiper

It's a game, it's not a helicopter sim. it's a infantry combat sim.

If we were yo compare other game then you might have a case but they all generalize model destruction. It's the way games are made, the helicopter is a simple husk model (empty shell) it has no real interior nor does it have real moving mechanics driving the fake rotor, it's just a spinning (animated) object, there is no weight assigned to it like in a real flight sim. and even those are far and few between.

I understand this is infantry sim, i always say same to my friends, ArmA and OFP is infantry sim.
But i only say can use diferent animation for rotor broke, not instant stop, CM can add progresion stop of rotor for helicopter. I not demand autorotation feature (but is good feature), only say rotor not stop at instant

[Fozzy Bear]

Originally Posted by viiiper

I asked you guys nicely to stay on topic, read the OP again, he's talking about game animations.

/all off topic is being deleted.

I know you did and even added some text under what I posted. I could have PMed him the info. but the other readers would have assumed I made something up and had no information to support it.

[Futuristic_WarMachine]

Of all things you guys want from this game, CM is trying to polish the experience this "problem" is a total nitpick in the big picture and has no impact on gameplay just a visual feature and of all things this doesn't need to be taking up CM's time to polish the experience and the actual gameplay of the game.

[viiiper]

If you want to talk about the thesability of shooting helicopters in reality compared to a game (this game) then make your own topic and plz don't off topic the OP's thread about his option on the ingame anim.

[Crinkly Pinkly]

I'm not really too bothered if the shot down animation isn't amazing, I don't really plan on getting shot down anyway. I seem to have a knack at surviving.