Profectio

First. Thanks for welcoming me :) (i have experience in ArmA 2 but i haven't been on the forums since i started back in 2011) Second. Yeah, it's only a suggestion of a change in the damage models to actually include the landing gears being damagable. I know it's hard to include in the current engine, and that it would be a hassle to work in one suggestion from one buyer into a whole product with alot more buyers. However usually when i crashland helicopters in A3 after getting hit by AA, usually i like to bank to the side quickly to loose some of that forward momentum when close to the ground, however when crashlanding at the side the rotors continue to spool down and causes updrift. You cant negate this updrift therefore when landing sideways usually choppers tip unto the sides and explode. I've had this happen to me alot and it's just very hard to crashland without exploding, my expertise in flight simply just can't help me and that's what annoys me. I've kinda allready tested what we allready have by trying to crash onto the landing gears/fixed struts we have now and from that i can conclude it's plausible for future choppers to have shock absorbant wheeled landing gears like the mi24 and mi35. I understand the concept of constructive criticism and i believe that this kind of analysis of the current damagemodel would fall under constructive criticism. Also when you have to adapt the TOH models into A3 it would be something to definately think about. Off course it's the dev's choices wether they want to listen or not, i'm actually happy with the A3 project as a game and i can only foresee an positive outcome :)

As this is a developer thread, and you ask for your buyers opinion, i'll be happy to take the task to adress one thing i find very troublesome about the game currently. I'm talking about helicopter landing gears/struts, when you crash a chopper sideways, the landing gears wether it be wheels or fixed struts, just absorb all the force which makes you bounce to the side and explode. I've had this happen to me a number of times and usually if you're using wheels like on the ka-60 or blackhawk, breaks would makes the wheels take most of the force but they would still be destroyed. I would like for landing gears struts/wheels to be breakable upon crashlanding or making too hard of an landing. Like if you have an ah-9j, your fixed struts would break off so would your rotor if you hit the ground too hard, and the eggformed cockpit would just roll across the ground or explode depending how hard you hit the ground. TL;DR I would like for landing gears to actually absorb force and break properly instead of causing the chopper to act like a bouncy ball and flip onto it's side causing an explosion