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I just played as an israeli on iron eagle, picked up a machinegunner kit. 4 Members of my 6 man squad got wiped out by a rocket, we were on low ground and a teammate spotted a few guys on a hill not that far away. I lay down, took aim, waited a few seconds and aimed directly at the head of the enemy MEC-guy, who had a mg. I opened fire with 3-4 round bursts but i didnt hit him. Shot again and again, but no hits. Some bullets impacted right in front of him and next to him, and the rest SHOULD have hit him right in the chest/head (he was crouching), but nope. I aimed above his head then, because i thought its because of the bullet drop, waited a few seconds, shot again, and again, and again. And i didnt hit him. He spotted me then, fired 6-7 shots and hit me and my mate instantly.

Result: Ragequit.

Why is it that i couldn't fu*** hit him? It happens too often when engaging a target who is on a hill, at a longer range.

Because he was behind hill. You just don't saw this hill. Wait for him to pop up and them kill him. Or you was firing in undeployed mode.

Does that happen even if you're playing on highest settings? How can i know that he popped up? I thought he did...

Btw, i had my mg deployed...

I'm guessing it was the ground not drawing correctly for you. IE has some issues with that, with many ridges being sharp. It does happen oven on max settings, but to a lesser extent afaik.

It happens on all settings. I call it terrain deformation. It is a really sorry BF2 engine process that actually uses LODs of the terrain, so that at long range, the ground is actually much higher (and detailed) than it looks. You can see it happen on Muttrah, when moving up or down a large ramp. The edges of the ground under the street are relaxed, so much so that they clip up through the retaining wall. As you move along the road, they sink back under the road. By pop up, Moszeusz6Pl means look for the target to go from crouched to standing, as this is the common practice for engaging from behind a hill or peak.

Maybe the player had an aimbot, depends how fast after moving and then not moving, how many seconds past until he opened fire on you and instantly hit every single shot. ?

Victim of unfortunate graphical glitches, I think

blame dice's shitty developer ability

Okay, thanks for the info guys.

Happened also on Kashan, i was lying on a bunker with an mg3, and saw 3-4 guys on a hill far away. I thought "yay, free kills! " and began to shoot at them, and i wondered why they didn't care, didn't crouch/go prone and didn't get hit...

You better then in this case contact a sniper to take them out at longe range, cause then it will be OR instant kill or fail cause of that bug...