Satchels and moving tanks

[messtin]

When is the BS going to be fixed were an ATR can run up to a Tiger in 6th gear and blow the top off him with a satchel????

[GOPHUR]

There are just too many ways to answer that question. Which particular one are you fishing for?

[messtin]

When is the patch coming in that if the armour is going more than 6mph I think it was, you cannot place a satchel.

[GOPHUR]

Ahh right.

To the BETA server Batman!

Test 1

• p1 spawn tiger
  
• p2 spawn sapper (not ttesting satchel charge just placement)
  
• p1 accellerate to 10kph
  
• p2 try and place satchel on p1
  
• fail to place satchel - CORRECT
  

So I tested this with a Tiger and a sapper. Both on supertroop so I couldn't kill them all the time. IK did get run over once though. Once the Tiger got to 9.3 kph I could not place a satchel on him no matter what I did.

Below that I had success, mostly on the rear. The sides I could get but he'd have to be going very slow.

Can't say I find anything worthy of more investigation. If you've got something different please let me know.

[messtin]

Cheers mate, that's all!

Stand at ease!

[bronco69]

and now try it plz with S76 / Churchill 7 / Matty GOPHUR

thx

[GOPHUR]

Beta servers open Bronco. I'll drive the tank.

[Tigger6]

Test 1: Sherman 76.

Sherman 76 can be sapped at any speed, if the infantry sapping it is not moving. The satchel sticks even when the sherman flies past on fourth gear (don't know the exact speed but maybe twice that of a sprinting rifleman).

Test 2: Tiger

Can sap at any speed.

Test 3: Churchill 7

Can sap at any speed.

Too lazy to check Matilda as it seems that anything can be sapped.

Sapping it when the tank is running slower than the trooper can sprint is pretty hard though and one needs a lot of luck.

[raven4]

The patch from a few years ago was to stop the sapper from moving while placing a charge. So as is now the sapper has to be stopped to place the charge, and has been that way at least like 2 years. If you can get ahead of a tank, and stop and get a proper charge spot on a moving tank while stationary....that's pretty cool and you deserve that. That works correctly and has since implemented.

Maybe you should deploy ship tactics and zig zag. Its far easier to accidentally touch that moving tank and die, than it is to place a charge on a moving tank.

[nobipure]

Tested a bit on the training server also and I could sapS35, Char, Stu on the move, but only in 2nd gear or lower. As reported, I had to sprint past the tank, stop, and place while I was kneeling still and the tank moved past me.

Did it last night in live camp versus a Char and his top popped sky high...

Seems to be working as intended.

[GOPHUR]

Roger that. Thanks for the testing guys. I'd forgotten that bit about standing still working. Is that in the wiki?

[Kidd27]

Ive tested this too, There seems to be a good chance that if the charge is placed on a moving tank, the satchel clips into the vehicle. whether this is visual or it actually gets stuck to somthing inside the tank, Im not sure, but the results are usually bad for the tank

[GOPHUR]

Hmm. I bet I can test that with a custom satchel. Let me see if I have some time after the build today.