Not sure if there's been a thread about this yet, but yea basically what the title says. Sometimes while aiming at a stationary target (a sniper for example), I'll line up my shot, get my reticle red....and then I miss. Neither direct nor splash damage is done. It's like the shot just went through them. I'd really like/appreciate a Dev response on this, at least to know what's causing the problem.

My response to this is I don't care, that your scoping for your forge gun doesn't work, I wish they would take all the sightings off forge guns and burn them. Why might you ask, because the forge gun has such epic AOE power that it is being used as a sniper rifle that is able to 1 shot a heavy, about to 3 shot a tank, 2 shot a drop ship. The trail of the FG bullet is also very hard to follow, you should get every disadvantage possible when trying to do long range shots on anything smaller then an LAV. The forge gun also has no fall off on damage, it is a close quarters shotgun from hell able to just kill anyone in one hit often times with just splash damage. It is able to hit people medium and long range, including ranges of up to and past 200+ meters.

In short, I don't care that the forge gun your using has some messed up sights, it's an OP weapon for many other reasons, everyone knows it is and it is becoming much more obvious that it and the Mass Driver are the next flavors of the month. I'm sure soon enough you'll be more effective at sniping people with the forge gun, then snipers are at doing their job.

the reason why you are seeing long range misses is that forge guns do not have perfect straight aiming. there is a deviation on the shots, giving you a margin for error and a fair chance at missing anything smaller than an HAV (who'da thunk it?) It is a small deviation but it is enough to miss a sniper. more than enough if your reticle is centered on his noggin and the rest is behind cover.

How do I know zis? Because I have been forge gunner since before people started bitching about AV soloing marauders in closed beta! forge guns have a built-in margin for error.

All weapons have some spread when not aiming down sights. And so does the forge gun.

You can reduce the inaccuracy by being stationary and additionally squatting. Just don't expect to be able to snipe those pixels individually.

Not sure if there's been a thread about this yet, but yea basically what the title says. Sometimes while aiming at a stationary target (a sniper for example), I'll line up my shot, get my reticle red....and then I miss. Neither direct nor splash damage is done. It's like the shot just went through them. I'd really like/appreciate a Dev response on this, at least to know what's causing the problem.

The forge doesn't shoot in a straight line, and shoots just like the Assault Rifle with a spread. Sometimes it goes off in the wrong direction, but 80% of the time it shoots where you want it to.

Trust me, I've let tanks get away because of this, but it's a fair mechanic.

Was the target far away?

At long distances the terrain is not fully loaded so that your PS3 doesn't catch on fire. This means that sometimes an enemy appears to be out in the open but is in fact hiding behind a hill or box.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Level_of_detail

The reticule turning red is done by the PS3 using what has been loaded into memory (the low level of detail, 'wrong' terrain).

This effects combined with shoddy hit detection (if the target was moving) could explain what the OP experienced.

Although it may be too late to quell the distracting swipes and punches here, I think MAY be linked to a similar issue with the SAME common denominator: The aiming/zooming recticle mechanism.

I am frequently a gun installation operator. Since Patch 1.2 I have noticed that shots fired from the railgun and missile installations (devices that require the game to animate a "delayed" firing) will occasionally splash to the left or right of the spot you placed your recticle on. THIS STARTS TO OCCUR ONLY WHEN YOU'VE USED THE ZOOM ANIMATION of the gun, and tried rotating to a new target. It is almost as though the next rounds you fire are trying to splash towards the spot where your gun was PREVOUSLY pointed.

Your forge gun is also a device that has fancy aiming animation, and it MAY be this animation mechanism that is not properly making the translation between the place where you are aiming and the place where the game actually splashes the round.

Until this (small?) glitch gets verified, I have learned that without zooming, the sighting problem doesn't seem to develop. I now AVOID using the zoom feature on the installations. You forge gun operators might not have this kind of option with your aiming animation.
I should be happy hearing about your problem because I also often fly dropships... but that wouldn't be fair, and I really hope your forge gun issue is troubleshooted and resolved for you.