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One annoying thing I noticed quite often is a hitbox issue on gunners inside jeeps(50cal). It seems that when shooting a target in the head or back seems to do nothing.
I've noticed it on PLA jeep and all Technicals(including the chechen one).
Think it has to do something with the way the person is "bent" while manning the 50 cal.

it would be hardcoded, I believe.

So which part of the body you shoot then to get a kill? :/

All of them

i cant quite follow you, usually the person in the 50 cal is easy to hit. might be that you are actually hitting the machine gun cover instead of him.

This happened to me yesterday actually. I was on Insurgents with an SVD, I laid down near a building and a humvee drove towards me, stopped and started shooting at something behind me, I waited about 5-6 seconds for the settle time, shot at his head, it hit but it hit an invisible shield infront of him, I waited about 6 seconds again, shot and it did the exact same thing.

Next time it happened to me was when I was on US as sniper, I shot at the gunners head on a static Technical and it an invisible shield. It also happened to me twice when I had an m4 with ACOG, but I was shooting wildly at it so it may have just been missing.

Is the shield's collision mesh bigger than the shield? I know some vehicles have collision meshes that are substantially larger than the vehicle itself like the Cobra.

wow .50 cals can hit anywhere and it will kill the person I usually aim for the torso

I have been having the same problem. The truck has no driver and I will wait until the gunner stops swivilling about. I think by now we all know about breathing and not jerking the mouse around to maintain accuracy, so it's not a matter of me "Runnin and Gunnin". I've actually shot through the gunners head and saw the dirt behind him poof up (it was a red cloud of dust and not the typical white) and on a seperate occaion he was in front of a Palm tree (or some sort of tree) and the dust was brown instead of white, meaning i hit the tree behind his head! It seems like there is avery small hit register on the target. I've shot the target in the head, the right and left shoulder, the right and left hip, and the massive target that is the back. I suppose the only target I havent tried are the legs, but this still poses a problem as one would die, I would assume, after being shot in the face.

nicaragua700 wrote:wow .50 cals can hit anywhere and it will kill the person I usually aim for the torso

Nah, he meant trying to shoot the gunner out.
I was up on the Mosque tower with a SVD myself and a squad disembarked from a Humvee, all but the gunner. I took the gunner out with a Headshot. Now, This was at a higher angle than you might've done and We'll have to test this out.

So guys time to meet up on a Qwai server to try the Humvee and Chinese jeep out?

I got to thhe point of believing that killing someone manning a 50cal is whether too easy or too hard. On Landys, it's normally too easy. On techies, sometimes it's impossible, while some other times you get a couple of shots and he's bye bye.

On HMMVVs I don't have to mention it's easier to blow the whole damn HMMVV than hitting the person manning the 50 cal right? Except you shoot through the window...

I think this to be the most annoying bug of the game, you can empty a mag with precision headshot and the gunner won't die, and when you're finished he'll spray the juice out of you. sometimes the guy dies, but most of the time nothing happens, unless you shoot at a certain angle I'm yet to discover exactly

There's a similar bug with AA. Sniping AA on Muttrah can sometimes be really frustrating because of it.

Old news, the gunner on the .50 cal/aa simply becomes invincible and you can't shoot him off, only other option is to kill the vehicle, BF2 bug because I've seen it as far back as PR v0.5

'[R-CON wrote:Outlawz;1231654']Old news, the gunner on the .50 cal/aa simply becomes invincible and you can't shoot him off, only other option is to kill the vehicle, BF2 bug because I've seen it as far back as PR v0.5

w00t?

I see a mass of people simply manning every .50 on the map incoming...

Actually I can confirm the fact that it's hard to kill someone in an AA, but I never had problems killing guys on the .50s no matter which vehicle.

[R-CON]Outlawz wrote:Old news, the gunner on the .50 cal/aa simply becomes invincible and you can't shoot him off, only other option is to kill the vehicle, BF2 bug because I've seen it as far back as PR v0.5

Im not so sure he becomes invincible because I have shot many soldiers off .50/aa emplacement and jeeps.