[V20 Stable 24/12/2013 - Air Combat] Destroying leading heavyfighter destroys all

[llunak]

I had 3 heavyfighters flying around and I had only one Condor and one Foxtrot available, which is not enough to shoot down 3 heavyfighters. But since there was a terror site and they were in the way, I thought that maybe I could manage to shoot them at least one by one. So the Condor and Foxtrot intercepted them. Heavyfighter 1 (I'm not 100% sure, but I think it was number 1) locked onto the Condor, while heavyfighters 2 and 3 went after the Foxtrot, which activated afterburner and lured them away, allowing the Condor to take down the first heavyfighter and then escape with afterburner as well. However, even though 2 out of those 3 heavyfighters still remained fully functional, this fight removed the whole squadron. This is obviously rather exploitable.

[Myrmuzduur]

This is the same with a corvette with escorts: if you shoot down the main craft, the escorts disappear from the geoscape.

Obviously, the heavy fighter you shot down was the main craft in that group and the other 2 were it's escorts.

[llunak]

I understand that, but it's not "obviously". If a corvette with 2 escorts gets shot down, it's mission over, whatever it was. If one out of 3 more-or-less-equal fighters gets shot down, there's no good reason why those 2 couldn't continue (except for it being coded this way now).

[Matthew]

It might work as intended - the escort part of it. I can recall talking about this issue to Chris. I have to ask.

[llunak]

It technically might work as "intended", but one Condor and one Foxtrot being enough for "destroying" 3 (heavy)fighters feels like exploit to me.