Hitboxes in 1.5. Better or the same?

[XmetallicaXguitarstX]

Re: Hitboxes in 1.5. Better or the same?

No, Im not.

About 2 years back there were a series of arguments regarding jets, choppers and air balance. Colony, PlaneWhore, me and a couple of other guys (I think Blades too) were all arguing this one guy in one topic or another. So at one point he just flipped out and said we were all PlaneWhores alternate accounts. It was pretty hilarious.

PW disappeared around the time when StrafeRight servers went down, which happened at a time when a lot of good servers went dead, along with a pretty significant chunk of BF2 players. Colony played a bit after that. Did either of them use xfire?

I remember those threads, and yes I had them both on there and talked to them all the time.. then they just stopped signing on.

Makes me miss oldschool BF2.

Do you even play anymore? I never knew your in-game name because you didn't want people following you around or something. lol

And actually planewhore stopped playing the day they added infantry-only.

[Chris_Redfield]

Re: Hitboxes in 1.5. Better or the same?

Do you even play anymore? I never knew your in-game name because you didn't want people following you around or something. lol

I do now with 1.5. I play the Demo from time to time, because thats what a couple of my friends play, so I keep them company and show them the ropes. Next time I see you on, Ill make sure to ask for the server name. Even though Ive been forced to ditch the habbit of playing in the US server after I got used to low pings and now that the competition is significantly higher. :laugh:

As for not giving away "my real name", remember cases like SERIALBUTCHER when people actively went to "hunt him"? **** like that happened all the time back then.

And actually planewhore stopped playing the day they added infantry-only.

I stand by my SR server theory

[MrChris_CJ]

Re: Hitboxes in 1.5. Better or the same?

I remember Planewhore posting his original videos and the almighty rage threads, even the ones in the 2142 section, he sure could argue a point

IO was(is) a terrible terrible thing mind

[signa]

Re: Hitboxes in 1.5. Better or the same?

Wait I'm confused.. Are you saying you are colony? or you are saying planewhore is colony?

The ****.

Colony =/= planewhore.

Side note I haven't talked to either of them for like 2 years..

Last names I knew planewhore had was QQCUMBER and bungalow_biII .. or something like that. Then he disappeared.

Colony had colony2142 and a couple more like criimore etc

If you look at that video I posted, it says the guy in the video is QQCUMBER.
its hard to keep track of who is who, except i know redfields nick.

[TheGothicAngel]

Re: Hitboxes in 1.5. Better or the same?

I think in an infantry standpoint, the hit boxes are better at long ranges, but I've heard from players near me that they can take a shotgun and shoot someone point blank at their head nearby and not kill them...

So it's a crazy mix of things..

GA

[VoraciousBear]

Re: Hitboxes in 1.5. Better or the same?

Yeah it seems to me now that every gun I use is more accurate.

[-=NC=-Larva]

Re: Hitboxes in 1.5. Better or the same?

They are definitely better because:

• Headshots are easier.
  
• My AT missles don't fly straight through tanks and buggies anymore.
  
• I can consistently kill a guy with my knife on the 1st try again, for the 1st time in years. With 1.3 - 1.41 it would sometimes take 2 - 3 stabs before it would register: *clink* *clink* Squish!!!

This was the single most important thing for them to fix in BF2 and I'm glad they finally did it, even though they should have fixed the hit boxes immediately with a 1.31 patch years ago after they messed them up. I mean, A first-person-shooter where you shoot someone/something and your ordinance flies through the target is a very bad thing. The 1.3 patch really hurt BF2 for me and my clan as far as being our major game of choice. It never should have gone unfixed for this long. That being said, we've got 2 BF2 servers now and are enjoying the 1.5 patch.

[Chris_Redfield]

Re: Hitboxes in 1.5. Better or the same?

After some play-time.

Sub 60 ping - hitboxes are almost always reliable. There is the occasional magic puff of smoke. Still cant even remotely be compared to COD4 for example.
Post 60 ping - hit detection is regularily unreliable. Worse Ive seen in a long time.

So past a certain point, the hit detection for infantry game is actually worse (for me). Its not a surprise to have nice hit detection with low ping, but people should have been testing it for pings which are off the "preferable" numbers. ~100 and beyond.