Replay link here
I somehow shot an AI bot and he exploded so hard my wing fell off… WTF?!?
wat
Some AI bots carry bombs, maybe it also exploded
prob shot the bomb it carried.
Fuel tank explosion can happen but I don’t think they actually have a “blast radius”
Yeah bombs exploding cause proxy damage again. Tends to make the air. assault games more expensive until you learn to stop shooting up close.
Realism…
I don’t think “realism” involves bomb being made of pure nitroglicerine and detonating from any semblance to the concept of “bullet”

(I hate this mechanic so much, or at least how lazily it was added)
its a balls way of going about it at least
you shot its bomb load.
bombs detonate far too easily from being shot at, you got splashed
pretty sure they shouldnt explode at all
unless its API-T it wouldnt detonate filler
its possible that an unlucky hit from a decent sized SAP-HE could but a .50 cal API-T one shotting every single piece of ordinance on planes is stupid. (.50 cal incendiary is overperforming significantly with late belts either way, its infuriating to see a 12mm outperform 25mm guns)
oh yeah .50 cals are way overperforming
seeing a 30mm MK108 crit a P-51 then watching the P-51 onetap me with .50 cal is top 10 most triggering things ive seen