Was in the DA today, showing some people that the La7 really is better than the Tempest, when a fellow said he wanted to try it out. I told him the field, then upped an la7 to wait on the runway for the guy.
He, being a fellow of some inconsiderable skill, decided it would be great fun to up a Flakpansie instead of a plane. I'm not going to go into the chest-beating the young lad performed after hitting my La7 as it was rolling down the runway, since it has no bearing on his 'exploit' as he called it.
The interesting part comes in when I decided to up a Panzer at the field where he was sitting in a Flakpansie.
As soon as I spawned, he was shooting. This may seem normal, except he couldn't see me. His view of me would have been blocked by the hangar the vehicles spawn in in the DA. He was literally firing through the hangar wall. I thought that perhaps he could somehow see the front of my vehicle, but after a few deaths I got the engine started and rolling backwards (away from him, putting more hangar between us) and he could still evidentally see me and shoot me. The rounds came in through the hangar.
Not sure if he is cheating somehow to see through the hangar wall, but I can't see any possible 'hack' or whatever that would allow his rounds to come through the hangar wall but stop mine (because I tried shooting back through the wall where his rounds were coming through, and my rounds all got stopped).
I've got a fairly large film of the whole incident, if anyone would like to see it. I'll be mailing it to HTC, awaiting a response. Anyone who wants to see it, fire me an email at
urchin@3-jg2.com.
I've no way of posting it, and it is a pretty sizable film.