How the hell can it be so hard to shoot someone driving a LAV?

This game is hugely unbalanced currently.

It needs to be fixed, that's assuming the Devs realize this.

Just look at Null Cannons, you can pump someone full of bullets while they hack and the null cannon will eat every shot.

Hitboxes in this game is horrid. Even if you have a direct line of sight, the vehicle hitbox can easily cover most of the driver.

Just look at Null Cannons, you can pump someone full of bullets while they hack and the null cannon will eat every shot.

Hmm, true at times.

As someone in software, but sadly not games, the first thing that comes to mind is having a higher priority on the hitbox for people instead of objects. But, that might have to be based on the weapon type and it would still need to detect blockage.

The null cannons have a simple circle around the console, that just covers everything, but can leave gaps where the central pillar is recessed. It's easier for ps3's to use a simple vector circle than to use a bespoke shape that is identical to the null cannon. Bandwidth.

Heh heh heh. I don't think CCP know either.

The null cannons have a simple circle around the console, that just covers everything, but can leave gaps where the central pillar is recessed. It's easier for ps3's to use a simple vector circle than to use a bespoke shape that is identical to the null cannon. Bandwidth.

Psttt, over here.

I-¦l tell you a secret, but you got to promise not to tell anyone, ok?

Here it is:

There-¦s this magic free fitting called "AV Starter Fit", and it comes with a super bazooka of guided missiles that go straight to this LAV that-¦s bothering you. Don-¦t worry about shooting the driver, with this, you kill the driver, the ride, and the gunner all at once!

You don-¦t even have to use your assault/logistic protosuit with AV granades for this.

Now go try it out!

I'll tell you a secret... you're an idiot...

This isn't a complaint like "omg i was shootin this truck and its so hurd to kill!"

If you have a squad worth of people shooting the fleshy bits inside a nearly stationary LAV at as close a range as possible without standing on top of the hood the problem is the horrid hitboxes, not the lack of any AV equipment.

Psssst, over here.

I-¦ll tell you another secret.

If you-¦re at point blank and not killing the people, then improve your aiming.

See, no need for name calling, that it-¦s just rude.

Gets mad after someone shoots down his labored passive-aggressive baiting.

Narrative is important, there is no bait in a ludic way of telling things.

And if people missed the reference, then they-¦re too young, if they-¦re to young, then they-¦re most likely part of a group that is used to a certain way of gaming that older people have. With one reference we can estimate a little bit of anthropological context of the reader.

And i don-¦t know what you were taught, but name calling is just rude.

Walk to the side and shoot the driver on the driver side rather than from the front. I have managed to kill drivers from the front with an AR but it helps to have a bit of elevation. It is much easier from the side or with a lot of elevation.

You could have saved yourself a paragraph of sperg by just typing "hurf blurf grr mad".

I've always chocked my inability to kill someone behind the wheel of a LAV to how difficult it would be to hit a small fleshy target moving at top speed.

But an experience just now has shown me that thanks to some entirely f'd up occlusion it's damn near impossible to hit the driver.

I was sitting in the middle of a skirmish map when this guy pulls up to the objective in a LAV and tries to drive it up the hill the objective is on. He can't figure out that he either doesn't have enough speed or there's something blocking him so he just slowly pushed up the hill before slowly reversing and trying again and again and again.

He was the easiest target you could find in a LAV that wasn't parked and he had SIX people that were at the objective emptying magazine after magazine right into him. His personal shield dropped by maybe 1/6 during the entire time. I stood straight in front of the LAV shooting directly at his head until he was so close he killed me going 1mph and his shield didn't even budge.

I know object occlusion is a problem in this game but come on. You have to give people not using AV gear even the slightest fighting chance instead of leaving the open drivers seat of a LAV covered in invisible bulletproof glass.

Assuming each time you hit a driver it does headshot damage to them, that is a lot right there. LAV turrets for some reason hit me hard when i'm driving my lav, same with tanks. The only reason I die from driving my lav if a tank shoots my lav, it somehow reaches me, or if a blaster/railgun turrets hits me, only if i'm facing it.

This.

This thread is the kittening reason I hate the DUST forums and 75% of the forum goers on it.

THE MAN COMPLAINS ABOUT VEHICLE HITBOXES FOR PASSENGERS, AND YOU REPLY TO JUST GET OUT AV AND DESTROY THE ENTIRE VEHICLE.

HOW. DOES. THAT. PERTAIN TO ANYTHING HE IS SAYING?!?!

You freaking DUST fanboi sploogers are the absolute worst. A kittening CCP-labeled bowling ball could hit you in the face because you didn't move but you would blame lack of protective headgear as to why it hit you instead of the fact that you didnt move. This game is consistently screwed because of ******** like you that make excuses and pat CCP on the back and try to ignore the heaping pile of dung that is DUST 514.

I cannot stand this game in the first place because of how intolerably bad it is (I would rather fry my brain to mush on freaking **** of Doody than this crap), but the players and forumites who defend and distract from the problems at hand make it truly masochistic to play or try and give relevant helpful feedback.

Alright. Deep breath.

/rant

I understand your frustration, but it would be a lot more productive, and subsequently, a lot more satisfying to simply call out bad posters by name. Nothing inspires reform like shame.

You can do better than this mate.