Jeeps as strong as tanks?

[josephstalin]

I dunno if this has ever happened to anyone else, but i was playing on Fushe Pass last night sitting on the TOW at the east mine entrance when a jeep drove by. I clearly shot it with the TOW. I saw the missile hit the rear-right side of the Jeep. It slightly budged the jeep, and made the same noise an eryx hitting a tank/apc makes. The Jeep was fine, not even smoking. Has anyone seen this before?

[Dokukaze]

Re: Jeeps as strong as tanks?

Bug.

A stationary missile launcher should always destroy a jeep in 1 hit.

[J3p]

Re: Jeeps as strong as tanks?

I've shot jeeps and buggies with AT launchers and done no damage many times.

Hell, countless times I've shot a jeep or buggy while in a tank and it's done no damage whatsoever. In fact, once I shot the buggy my friend was in, and the whole back part went airborne for a few milliseconds, and no damage. My friend in the buggy confirmed this.

[Berrern]

Re: Jeeps as strong as tanks?

It sounds like lag, especially since you hit the rear of the jeep.

Unless the hit indicator (the four lines in your crosshair) lights up, you DID miss your target - even if the dust puff (effects) are coming from him/her.
What you see on your screen (i.e. the effects from the missile hitting the jeep) is what your computer thinks happened, however the server might be of a different opinion.
Visual confirmation means nothing, hit indicator (which is sent from the server) means all.

In 1.2 there's a bug that makes your missiles go through targets, however this is not the case here. A TOW missile does destroy a jeep instantly if you hit.

[=DNC=BongSquad]

Re: Jeeps as strong as tanks?

Berren is right. Even hearing the 'Thunk!' sound of the missle hitting doesn't really mean anything! People call many things 'lag' these days, but this is specifically network latentcy.

[Kattspya]

Re: Jeeps as strong as tanks?

Yup it's latency/crappy netcode

[18Zulukiller]

Re: Jeeps as strong as tanks?

Did the TOW actully fire ive noticed a few times in the new patch that you see all the animation for fireing the missle and it hitting but the thing never actually fired. And you know its that problem becasue you dont have to reload.

[J3p]

Re: Jeeps as strong as tanks?

It sounds like lag, especially since you hit the rear of the jeep.

Unless the hit indicator (the four lines in your crosshair) lights up, you DID miss your target - even if the dust puff (effects) are coming from him/her.
What you see on your screen (i.e. the effects from the missile hitting the jeep) is what your computer thinks happened, however the server might be of a different opinion.
Visual confirmation means nothing, hit indicator (which is sent from the server) means all.

In 1.2 there's a bug that makes your missiles go through targets, however this is not the case here. A TOW missile does destroy a jeep instantly if you hit.

Hooray for netcode then. :).

[panzerd18]

Re: Jeeps as strong as tanks?

Its lag.

[Raiblast]

Re: Jeeps as strong as tanks?

you think that's bad? on low ping servers, i sit in a tank, and a jeep will drive STRAIGHT AT ME, and somehow 3 tank shells don't even injure it...the ping may be low, but everything is this game has too much lag time for anything to work properly.