German grenadier magic

[vonhavel]

Since weird infantry movement began to make me nervous a while ago (the rapid transition between prone and standing positon) I decided to use the german gernadier to kill EI.

That's when I noticed weird stuff happening. It doesn't occur very often, but it happens at least once every day when I play for several hours.

Sometimes when you hit an EI directly with the grenade he... disappears. You don't get a damage, you don't a kill, there's no body left, he just vanishes. I believe it only happens when the EI is prone, but I might be wrong about this one.

[imded]

Maybe, just maybe you blew him to smitherines. Nothing left.

[smythes]

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[fxmmauser]

Not sure if its a bug but this happens when you have a corpse limit and a timer on those corpses.

For example if your limit the number of corpse to 15 and there are still 15 who are active the 16th player killed in your view will simply disappear leaving no corpse until one of those 15th corpse disappears.

Which is sometimes annoying and difficult to know if you killed an ei since he will simply disappeared I would prefer if the older corpse would be replace by the newer ones automatically.

[rifleguard]

I have noticed this also. A friend of mine spwned on a mission with me and he was grenadier. He shot a brit in the face STANDING (The british solder was standing) and after the smoke cleared he wasn't there, he was obliterated into microscopic bits of dust!

I dont know why but when I was killed by a grenadier instead of showing my corspe, it showed the ground:confused:

[GOPHUR]

Interesting idea on the corpse limiting. I'd have toi do a lot of testing to be certain.

I'd start by asking the OP to increase his limit dramatically and see if he still gets the issue. Then I can take this to RAMP for a look.

[firebugs]

I think that may be what it is. Here's a video I just made in offline practice with bots.

It appears that the first 20-25 infantry that get hit make corpses, then everything after that disappears.

edit: I almost forgot! Watch closely as the MG swings from right to the left. Everywhere that there was a man that just disappeared, the mg bullets still hit where the man used to be and make a blood poof in mid air.

Edited July 9, 2011 by firebugs

[GOPHUR]

That explains a lot of it but I don't know how he would not get a kill because his client decided not to draw a corpse.

[fxmmauser]

Not sure if its a bug but this happens when you have a corpse limit and a timer on those corpses.

For example if your limit the number of corpse to 15 and there are still 15 who are active the 16th player killed in your view will simply disappear leaving no corpse until one of those 15th corpse disappears.

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The bug still happens even with corpse limit to max and a higher time but seems to make it more inconstant to see. Not sure It can be bypass.

My settings

I also found that corpses disappear while zooming from both infantry and vehicle sights, what makes this bad is that I can see an enemy alive at the same distance that corpse wont be on my screen, so if an enemy pretends to be dead if he still drawing on my screen I know he is still alive.

Infantry rifle - not zoomed I see an EI running far away killed him zoom out he disappear from my screen zoom in with rifle the corpse appears.

Unfortunately I didn't take a second picture to compare with no zoom with rifle I'm using binos on that picture.

vehicle - Zoom closer the infantry corpse which is more far disappears, zoom out and it appears, should be at least the other way around.

I just want to finish that I never seen a corpse disappearing on small scale battles only see this happening on big battles when there are already a few number of corpses on my game.

Edited September 29, 2011 by fxmmauser