Pilot kills after latest patch

[PatrickAWlson]

Is it just me?  I have been PK'd by the AI five missions in a row.  First burst.  No damage to the plane, no tracers flashing by, just switch to external view.  These guy would make Carlos Hathcock proud.

 

Or nobody else is seeing this and I just suck.  

[Jaegermeister]

You just suck....

 

no, totally kidding, but it hasn’t been happening to me. I have been flying FC since the patch came out though. I have had a new experience of bullets zipping past from behind that I never heard before, and Archie splattering on the metal and fabric with new sounds.

[PatrickAWlson]

29 minutes ago, Jaegermeister said:

You just suck....

 

no, totally kidding, but it hasn’t been happening to me. I have been flying FC since the patch came out though. I have had a new experience of bullets zipping past from behind that I never heard before, and Archie splattering on the metal and fabric with new sounds.

 

I really do suck, but usually I get killed in more interesting, prolonged ways.  I am also grossly out of practice so maybe I am presenting the perfect target.  I was just surprised at the consistency, the frequency, and the immediacy so many times in a row.  One shot head shot five times in a row.

 

Oh well, let's see what happens the next five times.  

 

[Jade_Monkey]

Are you referring to FC or wwii?

 

I only got pk'd online once, so nothing out of the ordinary. 

[PatrickAWlson]

3 minutes ago, Jade_Monkey said:

Are you referring to FC or wwii?

 

I only got pk'd online once, so nothing out of the ordinary. 

 

WWII.  Flying an Me109 F4 with armored headrest. 

[Jade_Monkey]

Hmmm could be bad luck, but since weapons and airframes have different characteristics now, i wouldnt completely rule out some issue.

[RedKestrel]

I’m noticing the opposite. Pre patch I seemed to be getting PKd a lot. Now much less frequent. Mostly in the Jug. I would not be surprised if something has changed airframe to airframe though.

[Sybreed]

In sp I've died twice and one of those time I've been PK'd. But, I noticed I kill a lot more pilots than before. I'd say 60% of my kills were pilot kills. 

[gimpy117]

I mean AI sometimes shoots really good in this game. went after an ME 110 in multi tonight, come out of a maneuver and his gunner immediately snap shoots my engine. basically had to turn for home, but I damaged him too 

[busdriver]

3 hours ago, PatrickAWlson said:

Or nobody else is seeing this and I just suck.

 

I died via PK in MP Saturday by an insanely gorgeous 90 degree deflection shot...plus guys said my P-38 made a pretty fireball. Yeah...I suck.

[Gretsch_Man]

4 hours ago, PatrickAWlson said:

Is it just me?  I have been PK'd by the AI five missions in a row. 

Hmm, I don't know if this happened by chance, but since the latest patch, I have been PK'd twice - by my own AI pals!!

 

In both cases, I was right behind an enemy fighter, just shredding it to pieces, when suddenly the same thing happened to me from behind. As it turned out,  I was twice blasted out of the sky by one of my own AI squadron mates who obviously didn't gave a damn that I was actually inside his line of fire - he pulled the trigger anyway. I guess he figured a Ritterkreuz is just more important...

[Horna]

I've been drinking flying almost non-stop since the patch and been wounded a couple of times and killed by AI once. Killed by squirrels, a "few" more.

 

P.S. I didn't know that tanks will try to shoot you with mg's if you wander in their LOF, that was surprising!

[PatrickAWlson]

Consensus seems to be that it's a string of bad luck or I present a uniquely easy target ... thanks for the feeback

[216th_Jordan]

4 minutes ago, PatrickAWlson said:

Consensus seems to be that it's a string of bad luck or I present a uniquely easy target ... thanks for the feeback

 

If it is against AI there could also be another cause: AI aims better now. Also headshots are modelled now. And as head position also moves the head hitbox looking back at your attacker for example makes you a lot more likely to get killed.

[kendo]

Haven't noticed anything out of the ordinary myself.

 

So, yes, seems to be a run of (extraordinarily) bad luck, especially as they made the body hits less lethal:

 

59. The severity of a wound depends on the impact area: a head hit is more critical than a body one while a body hit is less severe than it was before;

 

[ShamrockOneFive]

I've found there to be more nuance. I've been wounded a couple more times were I would likely have been dead in the past. There seems to be more in-between states which seems to be a thing across the entire damage model. I LIKE IT!

[=FSB=Man-Yac]

@=FSB=HandyNasty Pareil que toi sur TAW. Sauf que tu vas brouter des arbres en plus ?

 

Same as you on TAW. Except you're going to be grazing on extra trees ?

Edited April 13, 2020 by LukeFF

[Joe_an_general]

I have been playing offline campaign, flying a Mustang. Not PK'ed yet but I managed to get a 109 on my tail and it shot a big hole in my canopy.

 Appeared to miss the pilots head by inches.

[Zeev]

My pilot was instantly killed few seconds after quick mission builder.. 
But happened only once.

[gimpy117]

i'm noticing some interesting behavior in the A-20

 

109 20mm shots seem to absolutely wreck the entire crew. lucky if 1-2 bursts doesn't kill the pilot and gunner 

 

[Sybreed]

29 minutes ago, gimpy117 said:

i'm noticing some interesting behavior in the A-20

 

109 20mm shots seem to absolutely wreck the entire crew. lucky if 1-2 bursts doesn't kill the pilot and gunner 

 

I tried 30mm on them and they weren't that effective. You need to focus fire the tail to destroy it completely otherwise you'Re almost wasting ammo.

[Lusekofte]

This is simply not helpful.  I know that a 20 mm or 30 mm armed fighter got more than enough cahonas to shoot down my A20. With gunners that warn you after getting hit there should be absolutely no problem. 
I flown some career missions medium settings on density both bombers and fightercareers. 
Nothing new in my opinion but the enemy fired at me only managed to put some holes in me bith before and after this patch

[gimpy117]

1 hour ago, Sybreed said:

I tried 30mm on them and they weren't that effective. You need to focus fire the tail to destroy it completely otherwise you'Re almost wasting ammo.

im talking about crew kills 

[busdriver]

Witnessed possible first double PK in a Havoc over Kuban mission. Running away from a 109 just above the trees with tracers flashing past. Get PK'd, game switched to external view in time to see a 109 crash into me. The mostly undamaged (no leaks, flames or smoke) 109's nose simply dropped and it just mushed into the rear of my A-20. Checked the Event Log and a MiG got credit for both of us.

 

 

 

[PatrickAWlson]

So I flew three missions and no PKs.  Guess that was just an odd stretch combined a bit with the new DM.