Mid-air collision doesnt kill both planes

[cobray]

Got rammed by a D.520 today in a E104 and I was killed but according to the AAR the guy who rammed me lived. WTF is with that?

I dont fly alot. Is this normal? How is it allied fighters can ram axis fighters and live?

Please fix this or take the fighters out of the game until you do.

[eatthisvr6]

lol iv survived being rammed by zee germans twice in well over 30 incidents every other time iv wtfsploded

[delems]

Old issue, agree, both planes should die. But, as explained somewhere else, if I understood it right, one computer sees the incident as a near miss and lives, the other computer sees it has a collision and dies. Probably has to do with lag and that you don't actually see things where they really are.

[eatthisvr6]

Old issue' date=' agree, both planes should die. But, as explained somewhere else, if I understood it right, one computer sees the incident as a near miss and lives, the other computer sees it has a collision and dies. Probably has to do with lag and that you don't actually see things where they really are.[/quote']

y is it almost always the other guy that lioves though?

[jon8798]

A mid air collision won't necessarily bring down both planes. Read "Stuka" by Hans Ulrich Rudel. He tells the story of another stuka in his squadron being rammed by a Russian pilot (I forget the plane type) and still making it back the the airfield whilst the Russian immediately crashed.

[DOC]

not a bug

internet displacement due to latency

planes are not exactly where you see them in fast closing (ramming) situations, where closure rate is high

you might see a collision where the other guy did not (and he won't be killed for missing that collision) but in cases where both see it, both will die