I would say that if you are hit with almost every type of weapon that the impacts of the pieces of metal are pretty radomly placed.

Thats not true.

Come on Razorbalde you have been flying F4 long enough to realise that F4s damage modell is not a dmaage modell but simply rolling the dice.

How likely is it that a missile hit knocks out your HUD without any other effects?

Also there is zero connection between different damage. Hydraulic leaks never lead to the oil catching fire for example

Like Lucky_1 told you..,
WHAT YOU SAID IT'S NOT TRUE..
It's very usual do an inspection when the aircraft presents some failures.., or how could you check a leak oil if in your emergency panel is the light on..? if it's only a fuse failure..? you will eject from the plane BECAUSE A FUSE..! Only could be checked by a VISUAL INSPECTION, when other aircraft fly around you.
Sincerelly
Cruz

WHO'S ragging on WHO operator?

LOL!

I would certainly like if all planes had damage modelled like in IL-2, but some of our planes don't even have textures! Would love to see things flying away, bullet holes, and everything else, but I know it's not gonna happen unless the next Falcon gets 100 artists working on the textures and models, but I know that's not gonna happen either.

Mig Alley has a better damage model and it's a very old sim.

I cant see how it wouldnt be possible to add this in - It would only require modifying or adding in extra modules - assuming F4 was written properly in the first place with a modular structure.
It would take ages to do, it may affect stability and it is obviously not of LP's list of things to spend time on.

For now the best we can hope for is turning wheels

And as you can see they dont have senses of humor either...and the answers to your questions are all the same: You ask the enlisted Flight Engineer if you have a problem. And he will tell you what to do!

Oh and ejection is for cowards...you gotta ride it in man!



P.S. in case you can't tell I'm jerking your chain! "Lean Forward is just a nice way of saying 'Bend over!'"

imo i feel that grafical eyecandy is less important.. when there are tiny bugs here and there..

Sims are realy more about "the feel"

rolling wheels !...I will never play this sim again

Suspension of Disbelief!

Nothing closer to combat than Falcon 4.0:AF

The graphical aspect of a "damage model" is pretty much separate from the actual damage modeling itself. To model damage properly, you'd have to study the systems of an F-16 very carefully from a -1 manual or something and then program in realistic fault behavior patterns. This is the kind of simulator that pilots train on all the time before getting in the real jet. They get into the simulator and get various faults on top of faults thrown at them at worst possible times like take-off, landing, and so forth.

While I'm sure there's a good flight model and maybe even a 360° dome to display graphics in some simulators, I think they're still used primarily for "procedural" training. For example, you might use the simulator to practice your HOTAS and switchology skills during dogfights, but probably not so much for BFM training itself. You'll want to actually go up in the jet and experience the disorienting forces and sensations associated with combat maneuvers. When you do go up in the jet to practice that aspect of combat though, you want everything else to be second nature. That's what military grade simulators are for.

Falcon 4 is concerned with simulating every aspect of fighter combat from the war outside your jet to tiny details inside your jet. You might get everything you ever wanted for a PC combat flight simulation given 20 or so years of consistent development on a single product. That's assuming you have a relatively small coding team which is generally the case for PC sims. To just add a detailed damage model to Falcon 4 right now would take a small team of experienced coders several months I'm guessing. That's JUST working on the damage model full time. Forget about focusing on anything else. It might take longer... I'm not really sure. It depends on the level of experience the coders have with this type of fault modeling.

-Raptor

LOL.. love it