My explanation for why you don't kill things... sometimes

[ratatosk]

During the past couple of weeks of allied campfests and axis defeats, I repeatedly found myself setting up in an AB in one of the light panzers to await the final zerg. Between the air quakes, billion ETs, and everything else, there were a lot of people typically involved in the final 30 minutes or so of a town's demise.

As a result, it was common to see panzers and bofors in the AB blink in and out of view (and the map for that matter). A couple of times, I had the coax gun trained on a hole in the wall, saw ei start to crawl in, and opened up at less than 75m, yet watched him happily dash on into the yard. Another time, a pan rolled in and I cut loose with 37mm from less than 50m, yet he seemed oblivious until somebody else whacked him.

Eventually it dawned on me that after each of these episodes, I would see a bofors or panzer pop into my line of fire that I had never seen before. I think what was going on is that my guys were spawning stuff in and rolling it out, but I didn't even know they existed at the time I was firing because the visible player limits were exceeded (mine are set to High, 128?). More importantly, I was hitting them, not the allied guy I was shooting at. As a practical matter, I could not tell for sure that I was denied hit credit since I shot at lots of stuff until the inevitable happened, but I suspect that was the case.

Admittedly, this does not explain 90% of the "I shot him and he just kept going" episodes that are so common in this game, but it covers some under some conditions I think. So this is not a bug report as such, just an explanation that you might consider before concluding that DOC has nerfed whatever your favorite weapon is.

Well, hell, he probably did nerf it if it's axis, but it doesn't matter if you were shooting your own invisible fellow soldat, does it?

[GOPHUR]

Pretty good logic but not it.

If you don't see a friendly then you do not know about him and thus he cannot possibly block your shot.

Still, there's something here,I just don't have a finger on it yet.