What have they done to my M8!

[Softail]

Since the new version my M8 has been almost useless.

B4 the new version life was good....two shots to a Panzer turret took it out....3-4 to the body finished it off.

Now...I pull up behind a Panzer....and I mean 10 FEET behind.   I have to plug him 10 times to kill him!

I'm hitting OSTI's and Wirrbles in the side armour below the tracks 8-9 times to score a kill.

Hitting a Panzy turret at 600 yards (used to be effective) now takes 4 shots (or more) to take it out.

What did they do to my 37MM?

and before someone says (and they will) "it depends on where you hit it."    Let me say that I am "probably" the most experienced M8 driver in the game.   If you see a Knight M8 running around....odds are.... its me.

613PSYCO

[Oldman731]

What did they do to my 37MM?

Sounds like they made it more realistic!

- oldman

[Rich46yo]

"My 37mms", the ones on the IL2, went from taking 4 to 8 perfect hits to a Panzers turret, to take it out, to 4 to 8 perfect hits to a Panzers turret. And thats with the Soviet NS-37 cannon, the one shooting AP over 900 ms.

Why just the other day I gave a panzer a good hosing to the front armor and I didn't do a thing to it.

And I'm like a God in IL2 circles. A veritable God!

Its a conspiracy. They are all out to get me.

[moot]

Since the new version my M8 has been almost useless.

B4 the new version life was good....two shots to a Panzer turret took it out....3-4 to the body finished it off.

Now...I pull up behind a Panzer....and I mean 10 FEET behind.   I have to plug him 10 times to kill him!

I'm hitting OSTI's and Wirrbles in the side armour below the tracks 8-9 times to score a kill.

Hitting a Panzy turret at 600 yards (used to be effective) now takes 4 shots (or more) to take it out.

What did they do to my 37MM?

and before someone says (and they will) "it depends on where you hit it."    Let me say that I am "probably" the most experienced M8 driver in the game.   If you see a Knight M8 running around....odds are.... its me.

613PSYCO

Then you shouldn't have trouble showing film, so we can debug or at least narrow down what's amiss.

[usvi]

Sounds like they made it more realistic!

- oldman

+1

[oceans11]

Then you shouldn't have trouble showing film, so we can debug or at least narrow down what's amiss.


LOL Amiss, so you are saying he is just missing ?

[Lusche]

a·miss  (-ms)
adj.
1. Out of proper order: What is amiss?
2. Not in perfect shape; faulty.
adv.
In an improper, defective, unfortunate, or mistaken way.

[moot]

It really sucks being a foreigner with an extra-anglosaxon vocabulary 
 

[oceans11]

a·miss  (-ms)
adj.
1. Out of proper order: What is amiss?
2. Not in perfect shape; faulty.
adv.
In an improper, defective, unfortunate, or mistaken way.

I was being a facetious

[oceans11]

a·miss  (-ms)
adj.
1. Out of proper order: What is amiss?
2. Not in perfect shape; faulty.
adv.
In an improper, defective, unfortunate, or mistaken way.

[BnZs]

Sounds like they made it more realistic!

- oldman

This was one of the guns they tested the other day on Lock 'n Load...didn't look terribly effective against plate, even at short ranges.

[Noir]

This was one of the guns they tested the other day on Lock 'n Load...didn't look terribly effective against plate, even at short ranges.

I guess HT watched it

[Rich46yo]

Taking a small calibre anti-tank gun out to hunt late war, heavily plated tanks? From ground level? And it takes 4 shots or more?

Sounds like they didnt do anything with it I dont remember one shooting any tanks in AH from a M-8.

See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fswvJcPcayQ 12 or 14 hits from a higher velocity 37mm on a downward angle, in 2 passes, to kill a Tiger the other day. BTW thats not me talking.

While the M-8 had some utility in the Asian theatre it was mostly a scout/command car and nobody in their right mind would want to take one against any armored vehicle. Most of all late war medium tanks and/or heavy breakthru tanks.

Its possible some lag was an issue as well. But I dont see HiTech changing gun effectiveness and not telling us. Plenty of times Ive cursed my guns and/or rubber bullets. I just never did so in the forum. And deep down realized it probably wasnt the game.

[RipChord929]

[quote But I dont see HiTech changing gun effectiveness and not telling us.
[/quote]

I HAVE seen it!!! Miracle ack starts killin at 5k with single cockpit shots.. And reduced 50cal effectiveness against ground targets... Overnight!!!  LOL!!! Not that I really care, But it IS TRUE!!!

[KG45]

I spend alot of time in the M8 - it still takes 2 directs hit to smoke Pnzr, T34-85, Osti and Wirb turrets. that's as good as killing them.

finally found out it take 4 shots to the 'chin' of a T34/76 to kill it, turret seem invulnerable to M8 37mm fire. i don't recall ever killing a M4 but don't often get into firefights with them.

and i just plain run like a girl from tigers, man.