>>528735868
>plane looks like it flew throw 50 clouds of flak
>implying that doesn't look cool as fuck
but most importantly doesn't look bugged 90% of the time because it's a dedicated handmade texture specifically for that plane and not a zero effort shitass plopped on procedural png

>>528735948
the method was pretty archaic but they could have redone it with something like small transparent files of various damage types, without needing to copy the entire existing texture over, which would amount to around 1-5mb