Severe damage vs. critical hit

[Casse27776]

Check my result in this mission. Wonder how I can make 5 destruction and 5 severe damage, however only 3 critical hits. Does that mean I have to be gentle with the enemy, as not to damage too much, however enough to get the critical hits. Just today needed 36 critical hits for ‘normal’ challenge ??? This challenge seems rather tough in view of above considerations.

[kangoo1963e]

noticed the same in Air AB. Had to get 100 critical hits for special task. easy task before the change to the new system was implemented. but after 4h i had only 17 as far as i remember.
changed to a kill task and that worked as intended.

[Dodo_Dud]

The critical hit problem exists at least since the 15th of February.

[_Poul]

There are already two topics about this issue:

Critical hits are broken as of 15th of February or nearby

Just got a t2 task “make 10 critical hits”. Usually, this is a matter of a game or two. But I have now killed 29 planes and 10 assists, and only got credit for 6 critical hits. Something broke during the last update or the one before. Wonder if it is related to this: “The detachment of an aircraft wing when the allowable load is exceeded is no longer counted as a destruction, the same as with the tearing off of flaps or landing gear.” So if 30 kills yield ~6 criticals, you need 50 kills for …

Critical hits in Air RB / broken & hard to get

I am not sure if the majority of Air RB players had the opportunity to follow the thread of the fellow Air AB players, they have discussed the fact that critical hits become much harder to score than before the 15th of February 2024. I’d like to draw your attention to the posts of the fellow player @_Poul - they describe current effects in general and with examples for Air AB; should be worth your time to read them. Especially when he combines the low amount of crits with upcoming changes in wt…

[BleedingUranium]

Nothing here is new in a general sense; it’s always been possible to outright kill a plane without actually getting a Crit in the process.

Don’t think of Hit/Crit/Severe/Kill as stages of damage, but rather simply different, separate types of damage. As for “trying” to get any specific type, that’s generally just a recipe for frustration, as has always been the case (trying for assists, trying for fires, etc). Just play the game normally and you’ll get them.

[Dodo_Dud]

@BleedingUranium

Just play the game normally and you’ll get them.

This is poor advice at the moment. It was true before the 15th of February, because if you had a game with 10 kills and some assists, you also had like ~10 critical hits. Now you need like 50 kills to get 10 crits. So the correct advice is to swap assist tasks in arcade air.