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Title: AH Tuning Question
Post by: Softail on November 14, 2006, 03:09:09 PM
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
Title: AH Tuning Question
Post by: BugsBunny on November 14, 2006, 03:19:38 PM
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.
Title: AH Tuning Question
Post by: Airscrew on November 14, 2006, 03:20:09 PM
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.
Title: AH Tuning Question
Post by: Murdr on November 14, 2006, 03:20:32 PM
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.
Title: Re: AH Tuning Question
Post by: Dace on November 14, 2006, 03:21:01 PM
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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.
Title: AH Tuning Question
Post by: FX1 on November 14, 2006, 04:35:43 PM
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!!
Title: Re: AH Tuning Question
Post by: Flayed1 on November 14, 2006, 04:46:36 PM
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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.