If he pulls the trigger on you, when he does have a gun solution according to his front end, then on your front end, regardless of where he is pointing, the rounds are going to come from his plane and hit yours.
It is the same issue with collisions. You first have to wrap your brain around the fact that EVERY computer playing the game, at any given time, has a slightly different representation of where everyone is in the game. Until you can get that, nothing anyone can say will make any sense.
The only contridiction exists for those who refuse to understand every computer has every person in a slightly different location in the Aces High world.
I think the worst representation of this, I have seen, was a film that showed a plane firing backwards from its location hitting the person rolling the film. There were some rants in that one. The person firing also sent his film in due to so many accusations of being a hacker/cheater. Turns out he was on a satellite connection where 2 to 3 seconds of latency are normal.
I totally understand it skuzzy. not trying to start a war. I understand why it's coded that way also, it has been explained to death. but it is one of those things even though i understand why it happens, how it happens, when it happens. I still dont have to like it.
and it's because of the times i have gotten into a really good battle and actually had gotten behind the guy's plane and when i am about to shoot, boom, i am in the tower. in looking at the film I see nobody else around and the guy is in front of me or in a place where he cant shoot me down. I understand how I died, I totally do in his end he had me in his sights. but on my end I didnt and that's why even though i understand it, I dont have to like it. and since I cant think of a better solution that what we have then that's life.
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