Did AT get super rockets?

[WarGimp]

Re: Did AT get super rockets?

Actually, the trick to killin tanks fast is to "bounce" your hits. They really do have reactive armour, it's just very hard to see it in-game. If you can land a shot on the flat top just before the turret, you can bounce it into the turret and score a double hit. With a tow, this is enough to kill it in one shot.

It takes a hella lotta luck tho. The treads are still the weakest point for a front/side shot, but you really wanna be hittin it from the rear. Nail tanks in the keister 'n they go down perty fast.

[coldsteal]

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yeah im still confused about the sweet spots, sometimes I 1 shot stuff, other times I get 1 shot off and then I die..

when shooting a tank, especialy if they have the turrent
turned a little shoot right in the crack between the turret
and body, it will blow to kingdom come works every time

[Older-OMO]

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The repair time has definitely increased with engineers in armor next to each other.

[coldsteal]

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Actually, the trick to killin tanks fast is to "bounce" your hits. They really do have reactive armour, it's just very hard to see it in-game. If you can land a shot on the flat top just before the turret, you can bounce it into the turret and score a double hit. With a tow, this is enough to kill it in one shot.

It takes a hella lotta luck tho. The treads are still the weakest point for a front/side shot, but you really wanna be hittin it from the rear. Nail tanks in the keister 'n they go down perty fast.

Cool, just like playing pool!

The repair time has definitely increased with engineers in armor next to each other.

Yea the repair time on alot of things has reaaaaaly increased
but i guess thats more realistic, but who has time for realistic
with a timed game.

[Thirdeyez]

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I have so little itme as AT and even when I jump in a TOW im all sketchy and jumpy lol.
I usually just hop and and go "AHHHHHH fire fire fire!!!""
Seems liek if try to aim anythign at a tank I eat shells.

must learn to control the inner AT chi

[WarGimp]

Re: Did AT get super rockets?

I have so little itme as AT and even when I jump in a TOW im all sketchy and jumpy lol.
I usually just hop and and go "AHHHHHH fire fire fire!!!""
Seems liek if try to aim anythign at a tank I eat shells.

must learn to control the inner AT chi

Hehe, well if it's any consolation, a buddy of mine (who's actually perty good at BF2) came up to me the other day and said "Oh man... ya know what? Those AT's fire TOWs! You guide them!"
I staired at him blankly for a couple seconds.
"Um, yeah... I didn't know that. No wonder I wasn't hitting anything!"

Turned out he was firing his shots off then running wildly away, assuming they were dumbfire weapons. I must remember to rag on him for it when we go for coffee this weekend.

[Thirdeyez]

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My newest technique..which I think i read here is I dont aim for the tank..I usually aim around it then curve the AT rocket..does that mean the buzzer wont go off?

[Zomzima]

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I hadn't thought that the AT rocket had got stronger, but I did think the APCs seemed a little weaker post-patch... Which one is true I don't know, but yeah, I had a similar thought.

The humvees are just as good to me, all I want 'em for is to drop them on enemy snipers

-Matt

[coldsteal]

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Hehe, well if it's any consolation, a buddy of mine (who's actually perty good at BF2) came up to me the other day and said "Oh man... ya know what? Those AT's fire TOWs! You guide them!"
I staired at him blankly for a couple seconds.
"Um, yeah... I didn't know that. No wonder I wasn't hitting anything!"

Turned out he was firing his shots off then running wildly away, assuming they were dumbfire weapons. I must remember to rag on him for it when we go for coffee this weekend.

Oh man, i bet he was ending up with alot of Team Kills!

Thats kind of funny really,

[imported_Zach]

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My newest technique..which I think i read here is I dont aim for the tank..I usually aim around it then curve the AT rocket..does that mean the buzzer wont go off?

Exactly. It's mainly only effective against hovering choppers though: keeps them from doing mad dives and stuff causing your AT rocket to miss.

It does help with tanks to an extent if you are hiding in that it will give you a second or two more to hide after the shot, well, sometimes. :p

[imported_Boots]

Re: Did AT get super rockets?

If you know the "Sweet Spot" you can kill a tank
shoot right between the turret and body, works
every time

Only works on the USMC tank

My newest technique..which I think i read here is I dont aim for the tank..I usually aim around it then curve the AT rocket..does that mean the buzzer wont go off?

Only when you're pointing the sight at the tank the buzzer goes off, regardless of if you have ammo or not

[Hookey]

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I don't think they've changed the effectiveness of the Eryx/SMAW. They have modified the meshes on some of the armour a little bit (noticed that the Abrams doesn't take as much damage when it goes cross-country any more?), which has probably had a knock-on effect on hit detection.

[Gav]

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Hehe, well if it's any consolation, a buddy of mine (who's actually perty good at BF2) came up to me the other day and said "Oh man... ya know what? Those AT's fire TOWs! You guide them!"
I staired at him blankly for a couple seconds.
"Um, yeah... I didn't know that. No wonder I wasn't hitting anything!"

Turned out he was firing his shots off then running wildly away, assuming they were dumbfire weapons. I must remember to rag on him for it when we go for coffee this weekend.

Console him with the knowledge that he was right for one of the AT rockets - the RPG in Special Forces is an unguided, fire-and-forget weapon.

[WDA_Endless954]

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No, wheels don't mean **** on an APC, and there is no one hit spot on an APC.. I don't know what that dude thinks he's talking about

Exactly, there never was a one shot kill on an APC (except for TOW), but there is now. What I think I'm talking about is something that happened to me a couple times in one round. One shot killed in an APC by an AT rocket. It happened, my question is why?

[Combined]

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Hehe, well if it's any consolation, a buddy of mine (who's actually perty good at BF2) came up to me the other day and said "Oh man... ya know what? Those AT's fire TOWs! You guide them!"
I staired at him blankly for a couple seconds.
"Um, yeah... I didn't know that. No wonder I wasn't hitting anything!"

I'm convinced most people still don't know about the guiding system. I've got two friends who play BF2 and they had no clue about it till we played on a lan together.