Okay, I meant to post something on this a while ago but it happened to me again last night and other situations in the same game made it all the more you have got to be freakin' kidding me!!!
Case 1 from last night:
I'm in an Abrams and I get killed by a single SRAW, instantly*. The tank I'm pretty sure was at full health but it may have been one bar down, no more.
What made this all the more annoying is in the same map on the same server I got killed crossing the road by an enemy driving the Abrams out from the TV station, so I spawn at Construction Site as anti-tank and get an unscoped shot to the side skirts, get killed. I respawn and get a snap shot on him from above, to the engine bay. He kills me with a shot from the main gun (very suspicious shot too since I was on the roof of the south building and the rocket and shell almost passed each other in the air but it could have just been sucky luck, happens to everyone)
I see him driving down the hill during the countdown so I respawn there, get another shot off from the roof (again, no scope, hits front glacis or turret) get killed almost instantly by the main gun. Respawn inside the building, get another shot off - noticing that the tank is not smoking! - get killed. Then the flag is taken and I can't spawn there again to see if he's on fire.
What the hell??? This is four shots to armour, including one to the tracks, without him having the chance to get out and repair, even if he were an engineer. Can the hit detection be that bad - I see and hear the strike but I actually missed? Do rockets vanish if you're dead before they strike the target?
Case 2 from a month or so ago:
Can you kill an APC outright with a single round from the Abrams? Yes I'm certain the APC was at full health and the shot was the first from the Abrams. The belly?
*I've searched here and on other BF2 forums about this but people disagree and I don't know if the patches may have changed things. I've been killed in armour literally more times than I can count with single SRAWs and tank shells so, currently, can you knock out armour with single shots?
Yes I've seen lord_tyler_486's signature pic and I've tried this singleplayer repeatedly without being able to replicate it. I've tested TOW, Eryx, SRAW and tank against tank on the turret ring from all angles and I've counted the number of hits to all the known zones - tracks, turret front and sides, turret bustle, engine deck, engine exhaust, front glacis top and bottom, turret ring, top of tracks, commander's cupola, side skirts... is it just a case of needing to practice more?
Case 1 from last night:
I'm in an Abrams and I get killed by a single SRAW, instantly*. The tank I'm pretty sure was at full health but it may have been one bar down, no more.
What made this all the more annoying is in the same map on the same server I got killed crossing the road by an enemy driving the Abrams out from the TV station, so I spawn at Construction Site as anti-tank and get an unscoped shot to the side skirts, get killed. I respawn and get a snap shot on him from above, to the engine bay. He kills me with a shot from the main gun (very suspicious shot too since I was on the roof of the south building and the rocket and shell almost passed each other in the air but it could have just been sucky luck, happens to everyone)
I see him driving down the hill during the countdown so I respawn there, get another shot off from the roof (again, no scope, hits front glacis or turret) get killed almost instantly by the main gun. Respawn inside the building, get another shot off - noticing that the tank is not smoking! - get killed. Then the flag is taken and I can't spawn there again to see if he's on fire.
What the hell??? This is four shots to armour, including one to the tracks, without him having the chance to get out and repair, even if he were an engineer. Can the hit detection be that bad - I see and hear the strike but I actually missed? Do rockets vanish if you're dead before they strike the target?
Case 2 from a month or so ago:
Can you kill an APC outright with a single round from the Abrams? Yes I'm certain the APC was at full health and the shot was the first from the Abrams. The belly?
*I've searched here and on other BF2 forums about this but people disagree and I don't know if the patches may have changed things. I've been killed in armour literally more times than I can count with single SRAWs and tank shells so, currently, can you knock out armour with single shots?
Yes I've seen lord_tyler_486's signature pic and I've tried this singleplayer repeatedly without being able to replicate it. I've tested TOW, Eryx, SRAW and tank against tank on the turret ring from all angles and I've counted the number of hits to all the known zones - tracks, turret front and sides, turret bustle, engine deck, engine exhaust, front glacis top and bottom, turret ring, top of tracks, commander's cupola, side skirts... is it just a case of needing to practice more?