I've wondered how this works (since no one actually uses darts, I haven't had a chance to try it). Do you aim over the cover and in the general direction of the marked vehicle, or can you literally just aim anywhere and it will find the vehicle?
Use the dart pistol and CG...tanks tend to blow up quick. I like that one you apply the dart you can target it from behind cover.
Use the dart pistol and CG...tanks tend to blow up quick. I like that one you apply the dart you can target it from behind cover.
You aim at the target (it's visible on your HUD, you can aim at the box through walls etc, no line of site required) for a few seconds. When you have a lock you'll see a distance appear on your HUD. Then you can fire in any direction and the rocket will seek the target. It has a pretty good turn radius, in most cases I end up firing straight up into the air over walls, trees, etc. This won't work if you're too close.I've wondered how this works (since no one actually uses darts, I haven't had a chance to try it). Do you aim over the cover and in the general direction of the marked vehicle, or can you literally just aim anywhere and it will find the vehicle?
Didn't see anything about that in the release notes...and a fair portion of us ATI users are kicking it with the 10.3a preview drivers, which are newer than these and in theory would have the fix in them. And they certainly don't. That said, I would like to see someone put this to the test...New ATI drivers out today fix the long load times bug *supposedly*
You aim at the target (it's visible on your HUD, you can aim at the box through walls etc, no line of site required) for a few seconds. When you have a lock you'll see a distance appear on your HUD. Then you can fire in any direction and the rocket will seek the target. It has a pretty good turn radius, in most cases I end up firing straight up into the air over walls, trees, etc. This won't work if you're too close.
Oh, and once you have a lock you can look in any direction without losing the lock.
Oh, can someone explain EXACTLY how the hellfire on the choppers works? Dumb-firing doesn't seem to achieve anything and firing toward a tracer dart (be it from an engi or your copilot) is inconsistent at best. I've never noticed any visual queues that a lock is ever attained either. It would be nice to know, because that missile is a beast and one-shots tanks. =/
Negative. The way this is set up is mind-blowingly convoluted and just plain retarded. If you're using a sniper rifle or mounted heavy MG then the bullets have travel time and you need to aim ahead (and above) your target. If you're using a light MG, assault rifle or SMG then bullets have no travel time and are unaffected by gravity so you aim directly at your target. I don't know why they have two different rules, I think all bullets should have travel time.
Oh and yes I know you can "see" your rounds when you fire SMG/LMG/AR weapons, but this effect is faked. The actual hit detection is a straight raycast. If you don't believe me try shooting at a moving, distant UAV and you'll quickly find that firing directly at it, despite distance and movement speed, is the best way to hit it.
Not quite, while the bullets don't drop they still take time to travel. That's how you can kill a guy just after you've been shot by him. If they are running and you are watching them run across your horizon you still need to put the crosshairs just in front of their body otherwise it seems to hit just behind. Yes, not as drastic as a sniper rifle but still kinda there.
There was an interview somewhere were DICE explained that some of the sniper rifles and weapon emplacements have drop/travel to them, whereas all others are instant-hit (no drop, no travel).
You're correct that you need to lead your target, but it has nothing to do with intentionally programmed travel time, just latency. The more latency between you and the server, the more you need to lead the target.
There was an interview somewhere were DICE explained that some of the sniper rifles and weapon emplacements have drop/travel to them, whereas all others are instant-hit (no drop, no travel).
All bullets travel at the same arbitrary speed of "600" (though their tracers are made intentionally slower than the actual projectile).
Soldier health is 100.
Ceramic Body Armor is 125.
Six seconds after taking damage, the player will recover three health per second.
In "Hardcore" players have 50 health and do not recover on their own.
Body Armor is only 62.5.
I've wondered how this works (since no one actually uses darts, I haven't had a chance to try it). Do you aim over the cover and in the general direction of the marked vehicle, or can you literally just aim anywhere and it will find the vehicle?
not according to this guy
http://denkirson.xanga.com/722757523/bad-company-2/
there are no hit-scan weapons in BC2
not according to this guy
http://denkirson.xanga.com/722757523/bad-company-2/
there are no hit-scan weapons in BC2
Who is that guy and why should I believe that website? Sorry, but what he's saying just doesn't jive with what I've seen in the game. Go shoot up a UAV on a server with a decent ping if you want to see for yourself. The best results are achieved by aiming directly at it, regardless of distance.
Who is that guy and why should I believe that website? Sorry, but what he's saying just doesn't jive with what I've seen in the game. Go shoot up a UAV on a server with a decent ping if you want to see for yourself. The best results are achieved by aiming directly at it, regardless of distance.
On the "physics" of Bullet Drop, there are several types of bullets:
Bullet. The standard for all weapons from pistols to the weaker Recon Rifles. They are almost not affected by gravity at all.
Sniper_Bullet. A bullet affected by fake gravity. Used by the M24, SV-98, GOL, and Slug Shotguns
HMG_bullet. Used by stationary and vehicle mounted machineguns. That AND the M95 sniper rifle. It drops as much or slightly less than Sniper_bullet.
The feature of HMG_Bullet is that it can damage lightly armored vehicles such as Jeeps and Helicopters.
I'm not talking about bullet drop, I'm talking about bullet travel time. I'm 99% sure from my experience that assault rifles are hitscan weapons - no travel time, no drop. The tracer is faked.only certain sniper rifles have bullet drop. all other bullet firing weapons don't have bullet drop, so if the UAV is stationary, then aiming directly at the UAV should hit it
I'm not talking about bullet drop, I'm talking about bullet travel time. I'm 99% sure from my experience that assault rifles are hitscan weapons - no travel time, no drop. The tracer is faked.
Thanks Udgnim, you beat me to it!
Here's some more interesting info from that site:
So, hardcore mode with it's "more realistic damage model" is actually just less health!
Before anyone goes off the deep end, Yahtzee is famous for NOT playing multiplayer so don't get upset when he only reviews the SP. Not his funniest episode. I would have loved for him to have actually tried to play online during the first 2-3 weeks after release and destroy Dice/EA for that fiasco.
Before anyone goes off the deep end, Yahtzee is famous for NOT playing multiplayer so don't get upset when he only reviews the SP. Not his funniest episode. I would have loved for him to have actually tried to play online during the first 2-3 weeks after release and destroy Dice/EA for that fiasco.
New ATI drivers out today fix the long load times bug *supposedly*
I just checked the release notes for the 10.3 drivers and it doesn't mention anything about BC2. Anyone with a 5000 series card care to comment?