Here (https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threa...y-integrity-halved.510083/page-5#post-7763454 ) FDev claimed that changing canopy health to 15 from 30 simply better reflected previous behavior, because canopies used to break at 50% instead of 100%.
However, I believe there is a more complex explanation that that. In this bug report from late last year (https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threa...-match-station-adv-maintenance-report.466514/) I show screenshots of a chieftain with 66% (or 4/6ths) canopy health in right panel, but 83% (~5/6ths) in the advanced maintenance.
If one accepts the advanced maintenance was correct, and right hand panel wrong, this math strongly supports that the canopy would indeed break at 50%, and that there was additionally a display bug causing the right panel to show 0% when this happened. This is because in these screenshots the damage according to right hand panel is twice that of adv. maint.
HOWEVER I am nearly certain that this was a big that was specific to the chieftain and a few other ships. While I can't go back in time to re-test, I am almost certain that I checked for other ships and for those ships the adv. maint matched right hand panel.
Combat pilots had always noted that the chief seemed to have a particularly fragile canopy compared to other ships. So my concern that is in "fixing" this bug for the chief, in fact what happened was that the fragile canopy of the chief was inflicted on all ships.
Mine was actually the second bug report on this; there was one in the PC forums as well. However, the new forum doesn't seem to allow me to search old posts - can anyone positively remember if this particular display bug was chieftain specific, or in fact affected all ships?
Any thoughts welcome.
However, I believe there is a more complex explanation that that. In this bug report from late last year (https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threa...-match-station-adv-maintenance-report.466514/) I show screenshots of a chieftain with 66% (or 4/6ths) canopy health in right panel, but 83% (~5/6ths) in the advanced maintenance.
If one accepts the advanced maintenance was correct, and right hand panel wrong, this math strongly supports that the canopy would indeed break at 50%, and that there was additionally a display bug causing the right panel to show 0% when this happened. This is because in these screenshots the damage according to right hand panel is twice that of adv. maint.
HOWEVER I am nearly certain that this was a big that was specific to the chieftain and a few other ships. While I can't go back in time to re-test, I am almost certain that I checked for other ships and for those ships the adv. maint matched right hand panel.
Combat pilots had always noted that the chief seemed to have a particularly fragile canopy compared to other ships. So my concern that is in "fixing" this bug for the chief, in fact what happened was that the fragile canopy of the chief was inflicted on all ships.
Mine was actually the second bug report on this; there was one in the PC forums as well. However, the new forum doesn't seem to allow me to search old posts - can anyone positively remember if this particular display bug was chieftain specific, or in fact affected all ships?
Any thoughts welcome.
