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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: Nomde on October 11, 2002, 09:50:21 PM
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Ok, prepare yourself for a whine :)
How many have been having problems with the hit modelling (aka-aiming) as of the last release?
I've been 200-300 out and know my shots should have landed. Now, I'm not the best aimer, but I do have a good feel for where i'm shooting, and when you're 200 out and the nme plane is in the middle of the crosshairs, 50 cal's usually do land...... As I remember some luftleatherweenies whining about 50 cal's hitting lazer shots at 1k. :D
I know i'm setting myself up for this, so i'll put on my 15th century armour for deflecting the mud shots but.... is it just me?? :p
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Usually I can't hit squat, but lately I've having trouble missing.;)
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No problems here.
MRPLUTO VMF-323 ~Death Rattlers~ MAG-33
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Yah, I have been having trouble hitting my target as well.. I too am not the greatest aimer but from 400 and closer I usually dont miss.. Bullets seem to pass through planes for me.. But then again it might be a connecion thing... My biggest problem is P47 300 in front of me shooting me down because of some crazy warp.....:( It happens alot:(
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Noticed the same thing Nomde, have commented on it to squad members.
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Same thing for me... but something that might be causing it is my joystick and real life stress
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I've had this problem as well.. thought it might be coincidence but my accuracy has dropped off 3 full % points to back.. and it was only 13 or so to start with.
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I've been having trouble gunning too.... personally I just think its my crappy aiming. :)
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I'm not convinced that it's us, but I don't know what it could be.
The micro warps are more numerous now, and hits are not registering. Before we changed servers, I would always notice a "micro-warp" when the nme plane reached approx 6k and 3.9k distance. I understood this was do to the server syncronyzing the systems. Now, the "micro-warps" are more numerous and are occuring at distances as close as 900yds out. I have a fairly good hand at lead shots and they are not connecting like before.
The strange thing is, my hit % is up, but I believe this is due more to my paying closer attention to deflection shots and waiting till I know there's a clear shot.
I talked to Skuzzy about it the other day and he said that there should be some adjusting aim due to the new server and the timing differences. Even with that in mind my aiming just doesn't "feel" right. I can't explain it any better then that :p
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one shot....one kill!
Muhahaha
I Couldn't hit anything before, can't anything now. Sorry can't help ya Buddy.;)
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It changed for me, at least it's my feeling. now, I'm "reajusting" again and start to hit consistantly. I noticed the same thing when I went from modem to road runner and from road runner to an another cable company. I don't know if it's related.
Frenchy
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I've had aiming problems since I stopped playing 120 hours a month. :)
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You know - now that you mention it, I am having a MUCH more difficult time hitting 500 yard deflection shots with .50s than I used to. I just thought my aim was rusty ...
Nim
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My gunnery sucks to the point that I can't give a qualified answer. But to me it seems harder.
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I've noticed 50 cals don't seem to land as hard as they did...lit up a P-38 at least 2 dozen times yesterday and nothin' :(
Hispanos on the typhoon seem fine.
DmdMax
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No problems here.
-- Todd/Leviathn
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It's frustating after outflying someone that bounces u.
I turn the odds and get on his tail...i miss miss and miss
it's takin to long and than some niktard comes along within a few sec his fire hits dang ur death.
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my accuracy is about 4-5 % even in the stable all guns together p38
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I've noticed it too but I don't think your missing as much as it's just not registering. I flew against a 190-D9 the other night and I never even saw a hit sprit one. After a half a clip of ammo he finally did go down. It was at this point I notice he was missing parts even though it never registered. Other times I have been D100 dead six and the same thing. One thing I did notice with the .50's I had to aim a bit higher then normal on a dead six shot to even see the hit sprites. As I see it, it may be a timeing issue between the two aircraft and mostly when it's in heavy combat.
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Ermm I thought damage/hit sprites were done on your own FE, and I've almost always missed the shots I aim for anyway :)
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Originally posted by Saintaw
I thought damage/hit sprites were done on your own FE
Right Saw, but the only reference we have to determine our aim is true is when we see the sprites. If the hits are not registering on our end, how do we know we're hitting anything but air?
I know that hits are not registering as they once did. What changed? The only thing I know of recently is the server change we just had, that's why i'm asking if anyone has experienced the same.
When you get down to it, it's all subjective but there is a difference.
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Bah! laser guided Allied Swhiners! . :D :p
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No problems that I have noticed
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LOL Midnight, if you were any closer to the server you'd have a direct link :)
Although not all are having this problem and in my case it's not all the time. It seems at least on my part to be on the small maps in the very crowed areas, where the micro warps seem to happen.
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Couldn't hit much before, now I'm missing straight and level d200 targets.
Either my suckage is improving, packets were getting routed elsewhere, or, more likely, someone cheated.
We HAD to get the "cheat" whine in here somewhere :D
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No problems here.
People killing me just as good as they always do.
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Noticed something last night. I killed two planes, took ones wing off and anothers tail and never saw a single hit sprite. No one else was shooting at them and I got the kill on both so I'm pretty sure it was my fire that did the damage.
Also, I don't use tracers so it's pretty hard for me to miss seeing those sprites. Interesting.
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Saturday night it was taking 30 seconds or longer for damage to register. In one pass I strafed a couple of AAA hit sprites galore on aaa no boom. AAA has no trouble firing normally at me (even though should be dead) take so hits but no damage registers. On second pass of same sortie go in to strafe m16's. I light a couple up - nuthin. I extend out and regrab alt muttering to myself "what the hell is going on here?@!" about 15 seconds later I get Boom Boom Boom Boom 2 aaa kills and 2 gv kill register simultaneously THEN I blow up too!
Yeah somethign wierd goin on alright - I had ping plotter running that whoel session. Trace was smooth as glass. It's a mystery, but someething is up sure enough.
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Can't hit squat at the moment... then again, I'm seeing almost constant microwarping at close range.
It has only been like that for me in the last little while.
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Last night I poured half the ammo from my P-51D into an A-20 from no more than d300, the guy never even had to come off auto-level. I saw at least a couple seconds of sprites going off on his plane. Either those things are made of titanium, or some of those bullets weren't registering.
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Thought it was just me, but discussed it with squaddies and they report similar "pass through" shots and missing deflection shots more often than before....hmmm...interesting.
Sadly, when you fly a Yak those "miss, miss, damn, miss" shots add up way too quickly.
RASCAL
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You know ... Last night I upped a Dora and headed out to defend one of our last AF's (Yeah I'm a Rook ;) ) and I stumbled upon a single pony. I followed that pony at 400 yards for more than 30 sec. spent 200 odd rounds of my 20mm ammo. He was only doing mild evasive maneuvers, trying not to bleed of energy. He fired off his rockets and started to pull away when at last I saw two ... TWO strikes, and then he started a hard climb and broke apart. I thought he just overstressed his airframe seeing we did 400 mph or so. But now I'm thinking maybe many of those 200 odd rounds I lobbed after him actually hit, and just didn't register for 30 sec. or so, and that the two strikes I saw was an accumulated hit of 30 sec. worth of hits. My "beacon" lamp never lit up though. Strange...
Even more strange was the fact that when I got over to the besieged AF where all hell had broken loose I engaged the enemy knowing that I we were outnumbered 5 to 1 or more. I did several H2H's against Hellcats and Corsairs ... nothing, we all lived. I remember looking aft and seeing two Hellcats, a Zeke and a Corsair on my tail. All within 600 yards spraying me. Nothing registered. At one point I was facing 8 bandits and it took them 2 minutes to kill me! Something is not right ...
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Damn, I wish the guys shooting at me were having this kind of problem...
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i haven't played in awhile, but my hit percentage dropped by 3-4% with the release of the latest version.
SKurj
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While reading these responses, a thought came to mind... I would have to ask those more knowledgable then myself but it's just a thought. The new main arena/server now allows 700 players to compete. That's a hell of alot of data which needs to be transferred.
1.) Is this a real issue or is it just perceived?
2.) Is HT using some kind of new algorythm to compress the data in order to free up some of the bandwidth on the server to get those numbers?
3.) If so, would that cause the increased micro-warps and lost packets which would effect the hit model?
4.) If not, what would cause this problem?
I've also been paying attention to my host que time and connection rate. The host que is typically 20ms spiking from 0-100ms sporadically. When I log into the arena, there's typically a 80ms -100ms ping for the MA. I'm on cable and my ping times used to run 50-70ms steady.
Skuzzy, your people are weeping, do you hear our cries of oppression? :D
<> j/k, hehe
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This issue appeared for me prior to the new arena which I have never played...
SKurj
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My aiming has gotten pretty poor too, but lately I have been flying mostly the Me109G10 with only 60rounds in the cannon, so maybe I wasn't putting enough bullets in the air.
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i ave been hitting ze enemy targets at d 700 60 percent of ze time using my hispano cannons mopunted on my fabulous hurc2lese. if you zpent as moooch time flying and shuting as youze do on zis board vining yourze arze outz you would have bettttterrrr aim
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Originally posted by Blue Mako
Can't hit squat at the moment... then again, I'm seeing almost constant microwarping at close range.
It has only been like that for me in the last little while.
I'm having the same experience..."micro-warps".
In addition, I'm seeing "freezes" of my view when I
select the clipboard/status function. It's as though
everything stops for a fraction of a second and during
this time the cursor is also frozen.
Not sure if this last problem is an issue with my system
or AH as I recently reloaded my video card drivers, DX8
and AH in an attempt to stop CTD's.
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Bunch of excuse makers...that's what ya are!
:)
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Originally posted by Gypsy Baron
Not sure if this last problem is an issue with my system
or AH as I recently reloaded my video card drivers, DX8
and AH in an attempt to stop CTD's.
you still running all sorts of other junk on your system same time?
:rolleyes:
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get broadband and quit yer whining!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:p
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For what it is worth I have noticed that I am missing hits and kills recently, last 3-4 weeks; especially when flying the p51. I usually had been able to get significant hits, damage, kills, etc on oblique angles. For example 20 degrees from head on after immelmans, hammerheads, hard break turns, etc. I have been pulling lead as the con has completed his turn at the apex and leaving a stream of rounds in his path. Invariably, the con flys through the center of my gunsight unscathed. Makes it very difficult to energy fight in a 51 when the high angle shots are not registered. By the way, these take place d200 in.
have a good day
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Originally posted by BDBAL
For what it is worth I have noticed that I am missing hits and kills recently, last 3-4 weeks; especially when flying the p51.
double check your convergence settings... p51's have a tendancy to have the settings switched for some reason and it might account for some of what you're seeing.
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Originally posted by Shane
you still running all sorts of other junk on your system same time?
:rolleyes:
Nah, I stopped listening to the radio via Real Player a long
time back. I don't have anything else running in the background
that hasn't been running before...like for the past year.
I'm gonna dick around with BIOS settings and see if anything
there "cures" the problems but I do know that when I'm
flying in the canyonsof that freaking pizza map my framerate
seems to suffer...