Hitting moving targets from the side - Impossible?

[james_1991-fight]

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Ye have you ever fired a rocket at close range like when a jeep is very close to running you over? The rocket goes straight through it and you mostly end up as road kill

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Similar thing: a jeep is approaching you, you fire a TOW/rocket and it flies right through the jeep, which then runs you over.

that is so ****ing annoying

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That is your entire problem right there.

I have shot down many airplanes using the .50 cal machine guns - especially the bombers on Operation Cleansweep.
But the airplanes can only be hit when they approach me or when they are flying away from me (from the side it's only possible when they are flying very slowly). So this can't be a matter of too slow bullets - since otherwise the bullets wouldn't be able to hit the airplane from behind.
It must be a serious bug in the hit detection code, and I'd love to see it fixed.

You can even keep firing at one spot in the sky. When the airplane crosses this line, it will never be hit, as long as it is fast enough. Very strange!

Similar thing: a jeep is approaching you, you fire a TOW/rocket and it flies right through the jeep, which then runs you over.

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yeah i dont ever try to shoot down pplanes with a .50, but helos yeah. I just ask for a vehicle drop in a retreated area and shoot down troops and helos.
but yeah i just dont quite think that bf2 is glitchless.

yeah i dont ever try to shoot down pplanes with a .50, but helos yeah. I just ask for a vehicle drop in a retreated area and shoot down troops and helos.
but yeah i just dont quite think that bf2 is glitchless. i have been able to shott a gunner in a tank but yeah i get pissed off when i am unable ot shoot out gunners in .50's

[DesertFalcon]

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umm i think you can

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your not alone, at long range makeing the side shots while there running IS easier than at medium and sometimes even close ranges. The oddity is compounded by the fact that you see the dust kicking up on the model from your bullets but they take no damage and you get no hit conformation on your cross hairs (the small lines that jut out diagonally for a split second when you hit).

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thats weird, i was just going to put a post on how to aim at people running to the side because that is my most inaccurate shot. Kinda weird at how i can hit people running to the side from far away, but at medium range...it's a REAL toughy. anyone have any ideas on how to aim at people running to the side?

[XmetallicaXguitarstX]

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http://media.putfile.com/hit-detection-ftw

It's impossible... just cause of that.

You see the ****ing bullets hitting on your end of the deal, but the server sees it differently...

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who the hell trys to shoot down jets with a 50 cal?

use it on helos, you will be able to hit them.

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ok it sbecous speed of bullet is to low + ping

one day when i wos traing out snipe guy from about 250> m with ping about 80> this heappen i have pressd mouse button -gun have fired and guy have been hit about 1,5 sek. after, lol that realy wos creazy -mayby bf2 engin have some problems with faster objects so they did slow bullets look at day of defeat game -nomather how you shot -ange distanc you (always hit) -
if you have missd so its foult of yours and not of the game not like in bf 2 -ye ye we cen shot some times 30 bullets in to guy and he dont die -you can say - you dont have skill but there is difrenc betwen skill and ****y programers

sorry for my bad english im not from USA or UK

[Revoluti0n]

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Hi,

I noticed that it is impossible to hit a moving target from the side - when the target reaches a certain speed, you can aim anywhere you want (much lead, a little lead, no lead etc.), but you won't hit.

Just try to hit an airplane with a mounted .50 cal machine gun. You will only hit it when it moves towards you or away from you. But when you shoot at it from the side, every bullet will miss. Only if the airplane is slow enough, you can actually hit it.

I think this is a general bug in the BF2 engine.
This was not the case with BF1942. Back then, you had to aim with extremely much lead (you only "really" hit when the projectile missed the target by far on your screen), but at least it was possible to hit a target from any angle.

Am I the only one who noticed this?

That is your entire problem right there.

Hi,

I noticed that it is impossible to hit a moving target from the side - when the target reaches a certain speed, you can aim anywhere you want (much lead, a little lead, no lead etc.), but you won't hit.

Just try to hit an airplane with a mounted .50 cal machine gun. You will only hit it when it moves towards you or away from you. But when you shoot at it from the side, every bullet will miss. Only if the airplane is slow enough, you can actually hit it.

I think this is a general bug in the BF2 engine.
This was not the case with BF1942. Back then, you had to aim with extremely much lead (you only "really" hit when the projectile missed the target by far on your screen), but at least it was possible to hit a target from any angle.

Am I the only one who noticed this?