Tank Main Gun Noise

[Chalenge]

Yeah, that's not a sound you would hear from a medium range or close shot. Maybe a plunging fire shot from an M4 at 10k, but it's probably the sound of plunging artillery fire from large caliber weapons. Tank rounds are moving much, much faster and much, much flatter. To detect where the shot came from you would have to hear the impact and the report, as well as the round passing and even then it would be a ballpark estimate. In complex terrain it would still be a matter of finding cover first.

Hollywood takes a lot of liberties.

[ccvi]

First it's passing by (over head), then hitting (somewhere near), and last it's being fired (from further away)?
Ffffff, tuck, booom? Isn't the direction encoded in the Ffffff part at best passing left/right/above, but the origin basically only encoded in the booom part?

[Chalenge]

Yes, but you don't hear much since the round is passing by so fast. If the tank is more than 3.2k away you won't even hear it firing, so all you get right now is the impact. You can do a "back azimuth" by assuming your tank center was the aim point. I think it might even get to be more confusing with the sound of the round passing, because of the way sounds are dynamically modified by the game.

[save]

In a tank with the engine on you do not hear anything except beeing hit.
Remember many tanks require engines to be turned on to use its elecrical powered turret, else they need to be turned by muscle power.

[DLXIRON]

In a tank with the engine on you do not hear anything except beeing hit.
Remember many tanks require engines to be turned on to use its elecrical powered turret, else they need to be turned by muscle power.

Well there is some more realism that we dont have in this "realistic" game!

Dougie

[Chalenge]

Well there is some more realism that we dont have in this "realistic" game!

Thankfully! Or else we would have large manuals for each airplane and tank and even fewer players.

[ccvi]

fewer players

Different players.

[Chalenge]

Different players.

Come to think of it, if they could get 700+ players in the same arena with a study simulation then the manuals would be worth it.