Glitch landing kills in a tank?

[crockett]

Ok I just killed 15 GV's in a Tiger during a pretty good fight. I drove the tank all the way back to the base, stopped on the cement pad right next to a bomber hanger. I was on the cement and I confirmed that I was on the cement because I recorded the entire sortie.

However when I landed, I get the "you have ditched" message and I lose the gained perks for all the kills and the perks from the Tiger. So what is the deal with landing a tank? I've always thought all you had to do was land on a cement pad at either the town or the base, am I wrong?

BTW if this is a glitch and someone from HT wants to look at it, I do have the sortie filmed and have the screen shot of the lost perks. It's kinda lame to lose all the perks and so on after getting that many kills.  

I feel robbed because I'm fairly new to the tanks and that's the most kills I've had in a sortie.  

[kamilyun]

The base wasn't yours

[crockett]

Originally posted by kamilyun
The base wasn't yours

Yes it was our base. Ack was full up and wasn't shooting me.

Here is a picture of where I parked the tank to end the sortie.




(I just changed the DNS on the domain so the pic might 404 for some)

[kamilyun]

A saboteur?  

[hubsonfire]

Glitch. Same thing happened to me the other night on the runway. Dead center, middle of a friendly field, ditched.

[crockett]

Originally posted by hubsonfire
Glitch. Same thing happened to me the other night on the runway. Dead center, middle of a friendly field, ditched.

Good then it is a confirmed glitch so hopefully HT will too look into it.  The whole perks and so on isn't a big issue but being I just started the whole GV thing this tour for the most part, that's a good chunk of perks to lose because of a game glitch.

Means less Tiger dweebing for me



BTW this is the film..  6.5mb (54 mins)

 Film Link

It's loooog but you can fast forward it if you want.. The action starts about 17 mins in. and the "ditched" landing glitch is at the end somewhere around 50 mins.

(sorry I tried to edit the film with the editor to shorten it up but the views got messed up.

BTW tank spawn campers, this is the way to camp a spawn. I'm not big on camping spawns, but I ended up in the middle of it because I wasn't watching my map. I tried to fight my way out but they kept spawning so I had to keep fighting. After that another GV'er was there and had their spawn camped so I figured I might as well stay.

As a side note I was continuously moving and putting myself at risk, that and I left the spawn area a few times to give them a chance to re-up. I personally don't like the guys that just sit and camp, but I figure by keeping the tank rolling I was giving them a fair fight, because I was at risk of them spawning from anywhere.

[Rondar]

Hmm Strafing.. looks like dirt kicking up behind your tracks.  If you were moving any at all and not holding still you will get ditch, even on your own base.  I always shut engine off and slip tranny in neutral before I hit the end sortie button.

[Lusche]

Originally posted by crockett
Ok I just killed 15 GV's in a Tiger during a pretty good fight. I drove the tank all the way back to the base, stopped on the cement pad right next to a bomber hanger. I was on the cement and I confirmed that I was on the cement because I recorded the entire sortie.

However when I landed, I get the "you have ditched" message and I lose the gained perks for all the kills and the perks from the Tiger. So what is the deal with landing a tank? I've always thought all you had to do was land on a cement pad at either the town or the base, am I wrong?

I just examined the film. No glitch here. You were moving at the time you did end sortie. You came to a halt for a short moment, but then it seems you did roll backwards a bit, and the speed reads "1" on film viewer.
You probably weren't in neutral.

[BaDkaRmA158Th]

Well ither way it would be nice to have some kind of grace speed we can ditch at,even jumping off a f4u goin' 3-5mph on a runway is doable.
who cares if the plane survives, the pilot would still get his kills.

Ehem, and it would fix these minor..errors.

[RTO]

This use to heppen to me in AH1 as well.  A fellow squaddie would land same place fine  I would go to land only a few feet from him ON CONCRETE and get a ditch.  I lost much perkies to this.  I have found sometimes the ditch would occur if my gear was not in nuetral.  So maybe this is what happened to u ..............maybe.   Everytime I go to land tgr now I check gear position,  pause for a moment to make sure tgr is absolutely still and then i tower out................always with fingers crossed cause I never know really if it'll land successfully.   Losing tgr perks to this is almost as bad as getting killed because a gv drives up to the rear of a tgr and shoots his bb's ..........................com e on HT when you going to address this!!!!   We have collision modeling for aircraft  WHY NOT GV"S?????

[Scca]

Originally posted by BaDkaRmA158Th
Well ither way it would be nice to have some kind of grace speed we can ditch at,even jumping off a f4u goin' 3-5mph on a runway is doable.
who cares if the plane survives, the pilot would still get his kills.

Ehem, and it would fix these minor..errors.

While it does stink, when you are in a perk ride you need to take that extra second to make sure all is perfect..  I know, I have made a similar mistake..

[Bronk]

Originally posted by BaDkaRmA158Th
Well ither way it would be nice to have some kind of grace speed we can ditch at,even jumping off a f4u goin' 3-5mph on a runway is doable.
who cares if the plane survives, the pilot would still get his kills.

Ehem, and it would fix these minor..errors.

No minor error, thats the way it works.


Bronk

[crockett]

Originally posted by Lusche
I just examined the film. No glitch here. You were moving at the time you did end sortie. You came to a halt for a short moment, but then it seems you did roll backwards a bit, and the speed reads "1" on film viewer.
You probably weren't in neutral.

How is it possiable to be moving and end sortie? Any time I've ever been moving and try to end sortie, I alwats get a message saying something to the effect of "you must be stopped to end sortie"

I mean comon, honestly that's a little lame if that's true.. I can't remember but I think I even killed the engine b4 ending the sortie.

[Scca]

Originally posted by crockett
How is it possiable to be moving and end sortie? Any time I've ever been moving and try to end sortie, I alwats get a message saying something to the effect of "you must be stopped to end sortie"

I mean comon, honestly that's a little lame if that's true.. I can't remember but I think I even killed the engine b4 ending the sortie.

You can't "end sortie" in a plane while moving, you have to bail or stop first.  In a GV, end sortie (or dot command ".ef") will send you to the tower.

I know that several times I have stopped to take a shot in a tank.  If you don't stop 100%, you may start rolling again if you didn't put it in N or kill the engine.

It's a tough break that's for sure, just be more careful..  Consider it a lesson learned and move on..

[crockett]

Originally posted by BaDkaRmA158Th
Well ither way it would be nice to have some kind of grace speed we can ditch at,even jumping off a f4u goin' 3-5mph on a runway is doable.
who cares if the plane survives, the pilot would still get his kills.

Ehem, and it would fix these minor..errors.

Yea exactlly, if it's true about a slight movment, it's not like a freaking tank wouldn't stop on it's own if you jumped out when it was rocking back after a full stop.

Honestly it seems kinda lame to not have some sort of grace speed for this exact reason. I mean the tank rocked back wards after coming to a stop and I lose 15 kills worth of perks and the tiger perks.

I know voulching isn't a big deal in a tank specially at my own base, but because of vouching in planes, I've made it a point to  end the sortie as soon as I stop rolling. In planes I've never had this issue before, so I don't see why it should be a issue in tanks.

If it's really a issue, then you shouldn't be able to end the sortie until it stops moving, which is was I thought the case was.


Rondar,

the reason there is dirt kicking up is because I snapped the screen shot a few seconds early.. I just wanted to show where I actually parked the tank.