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Judge Rhadamanthus
Kapow Heavy Industries
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Posted - 2013.07.02 19:34:00 -
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I noticed recently that when hit by a forge gun or a rail turret that the drop ship hit indicator, that little red semicircle, often indicates the hit from the wrong direction. To save you a read a put it into a video with gameplay, examples, freeze frames.
New pilots you need to be aware of this.
Forged Forge |
Skihids
Tritan's Onslaught
RISE of LEGION
1692
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Posted - 2013.07.05 15:10:00 -
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I believe it is a true hit indicator, not an enemy location indicator. It lights up to indicate the part of the ship that took the hit.
Infantry are basically spherical targets which can only be stuck on the side facing the enemy and we've been trained on that. Unlike infantry, large oblong vehicles can get hit on the nose from any direction. That's especially likely with a dropship that hangs up in the sky.
This reinforces the need for true threat detection for dropships. |
Judge Rhadamanthus
Seraphim Auxiliaries
CRONOS.
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Posted - 2013.07.05 16:04:00 -
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Skihids wrote:I believe it is a true hit indicator, not an enemy location indicator. It lights up to indicate the part of the ship that took the hit.
Except that in the first example you can see I was clearly hit from the rear. So the indicator should have pointed that way. It did but only for a single frame (invisible in game). Then it started to report on the hit as I moved through it. It did not show the direction of the hit, so fails as a hit indicator.
For slow moving limited plane ground forces, it works well enough, but for aircraft it is misleading.
So I agree for DS its not a useful tool, but we really need one. We have no way to tell in most cases where a hit came from and we need one. In my examples I could have turned away from the indicator, which would actually have made me move closer to the enemy. Not useful at all. |
Mobias Wyvern
Crux Special Tasks Group
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2013.07.06 00:59:00 -
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Be your own Judge. What game looks like more fun to you? Dust.........Or this.........
Planetside 2
Coming to PS4 this year
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Pvt Numnutz
BetaMax Beta
CRONOS.
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Posted - 2013.07.08 18:49:00 -
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This confirms what I have suspected for a while now. Thank you for bringing this to light, this is probably the #1 reason its so hard to find where a forge gunner is hitting you from. |
Scheneighnay McBob
Blueberry Gunners
2031
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Posted - 2013.07.08 22:30:00 -
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Also beware that dropships now like to explode before they hit the ground. Don't try to save your dropship anymore; just bail and wave your ISK goodbye. |
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