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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: Softail on November 14, 2006, 03:09:09 PM
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I have been noticing more and more some strangeness around me. Well, besides the normal strangeness. I have been experiencing what I can only call .... "Shots from the after life."
Here is the scenario....I dive in on an Osti....I smoke its turret. I do this from about 600-400 out and see the smoke billow up. I pull up....fly away with a satisfied feeling of accomplishment....then I look behind me. What is this? Tracers? from a smoking Osti? I get fired at for about 2 - 3 seconds and then the tracers stop. The osti ditches and I get the kill. On a couple of occasions I have gotten killed by the smoking Osti. PS: no supplies are out.
Scenario Two: I'm 400 out from a panzy. I light up his turret with my panzy. I see the smoke rise. Then to my horror....I see his gun barrel turn.... pointing now straight at me me...and it FIRES! I am dead. From a panzy that has no turret.
When flying.... I get that passing shot....I "think" I hit them in the cockpit, but there were no hit sprites. I get ready to reverse and then they explode behind me after a couple of seconds.
So I am "assuming" there is "something" up with my settings/configuration. I upgraded to FIOS last week but still see the same effects. I have a ping rate of 47ms on the login screens. Is there anything "I" can do to address this?
Thanks.
Softail
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Osti and Panzer, is it possible you only damaged the engine?
On the planes I see that too sometimes. It is no more than a second but it feels like a lifetime in the midle of a fight. Most likely lag.
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Maybe, just maybe you only killed their engines. the turent smoke and engine smoke look alike and also appear almost (to me anyway) from the same location.
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Smoking vehicles can mean a disabled turrent, but they can also only mean a disabled engine. You only know for sure which damage was done when you either see them firing turrent (meaning engine is out) or driving (meaning turrent is out).
I on occation get hits without hit sprites, Im unsure what the cause of that is, but it happens sometimes.
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Originally posted by Softail
I have been noticing more and more some strangeness around me. Well, besides the normal strangeness. I have been experiencing what I can only call .... "Shots from the after life."
Here is the scenario....I dive in on an Osti....I smoke its turret. I do this from about 600-400 out and see the smoke billow up. I pull up....fly away with a satisfied feeling of accomplishment....then I look behind me. What is this? Tracers? from a smoking Osti? I get fired at for about 2 - 3 seconds and then the tracers stop. The osti ditches and I get the kill. On a couple of occasions I have gotten killed by the smoking Osti. PS: no supplies are out.
Scenario Two: I'm 400 out from a panzy. I light up his turret with my panzy. I see the smoke rise. Then to my horror....I see his gun barrel turn.... pointing now straight at me me...and it FIRES! I am dead. From a panzy that has no turret.
When flying.... I get that passing shot....I "think" I hit them in the cockpit, but there were no hit sprites. I get ready to reverse and then they explode behind me after a couple of seconds.
So I am "assuming" there is "something" up with my settings/configuration. I upgraded to FIOS last week but still see the same effects. I have a ping rate of 47ms on the login screens. Is there anything "I" can do to address this?
Thanks.
Softail
Scenario #1- U smoked his engine....not his gun, thus he's still able to fire his gun, he just can't move.
Scenario #2- See answer for scenario #1.
Scenario #3- I would say that's lag and we all suffer it from time to time. Theres really nothing u can do about, I'd say ur settings are fine.
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Today i had a UFO our a invisible plane. All alone in middle of two bases i was chasing down a 38 fire a couple mg and i got hit. Like kill shooter I checked the map and scanned the are but only the 38 was around. Strange!!
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Originally posted by Softail
I have been noticing more and more some strangeness around me. Well, besides the normal strangeness. I have been experiencing what I can only call .... "Shots from the after life."
Here is the scenario....I dive in on an Osti....I smoke its turret. I do this from about 600-400 out and see the smoke billow up. I pull up....fly away with a satisfied feeling of accomplishment....then I look behind me. What is this? Tracers? from a smoking Osti? I get fired at for about 2 - 3 seconds and then the tracers stop. The osti ditches and I get the kill. On a couple of occasions I have gotten killed by the smoking Osti. PS: no supplies are out.
Scenario Two: I'm 400 out from a panzy. I light up his turret with my panzy. I see the smoke rise. Then to my horror....I see his gun barrel turn.... pointing now straight at me me...and it FIRES! I am dead. From a panzy that has no turret.
When flying.... I get that passing shot....I "think" I hit them in the cockpit, but there were no hit sprites. I get ready to reverse and then they explode behind me after a couple of seconds.
So I am "assuming" there is "something" up with my settings/configuration. I upgraded to FIOS last week but still see the same effects. I have a ping rate of 47ms on the login screens. Is there anything "I" can do to address this?
Thanks.
Softail
I have seen this exact same thing... Turret hit on osty and see it start smoking from my plane but it will fire for a sec or two befor the damage registers on his end.... I would just put these occurances down to lag.