Even playing Field

[[JiF]Happy-Killmore]

O.K. guys, how about an early Xmas present for old Happy? I've been playing with you guys for the last 4 years (use to be Easy-Money) and very rarely play anywhere else. I would just like to know why I have to shoot one of the jif guys 10 times, to them shooting me twice and killing me? I know there is some kind of file that helps you out, because when I turn on the "pure" filter your site disappears. I really like your site because you don't put up with any tks or bad attitudes but it does get frustrating when the enemy shoots the ground to kill me. PLEASE help me out guys. Thank you very much (in advance). See ya on the Battle Field...

[[JiF]KellysHero]

Could you please clarify what you are saying?

[[JiF]corn]

I think pure just means there aren't any modded maps and all maps are original EA maps.
We do have maps that are modded, such as Berlin CTF has no tanks.
There could be several factors why it takes more shots to kill.
If your ping is a little higher or just not shooting at their head.
I did notice today you had very eratic ping.You even got kicked for high ping.
I had a problem getting my shots to registar on some regulars and JiFFers.
The problem was fixed when i upgraded my DSL and starting shooting at their head more often in bursts.
I would check your DSL(internet) provider to see if you have 1.5mbps or higher.
Let me know what you find out.

I hope i explained it okay.
I think i understood what you were asking.

[Shalghar]

That´s one of that "wonders of battlefield".

MiniRambo and me had it one day playing from the same place and on the same router. I got 29 of 30 Bren LMG shots into him at telemark without him noticing though his avatar faced mine and he heard and saw me at shot 30.

Yesterday i planted a magazine of StG44 into one guy running straight in front of me on montecassino CQ and he died at the last shot. Distance about one barrel length.

Player ping plus server ping plus other players ping plus server ping again and THEN it´s accounted for i think. Leads to effects like antitank showing clear bullseye on my screen(including hitmark) while in server "reality" going far off in mini rambos "world".

I still haven´t figured out why considerably often some players see (and sometimes shoot) you through walls and in ridiculous distances behind a hill or how some players sometimes survive several direct hits of defguns, tank guns(including coax mg) or even survive nades exploding directly between their legs. Seen one player "explosion hopping" several times(about 5) on battleaxe map, 3 times nade jump and 2 times bombs from planes and survive that ordeal.

That cannot be cheats, as the poor server is "punkbuster protected" (sarcastic LOL), but as i do not know what bf1942 software really does in that black box of yours i will not guess around what happened from servers point of view.

[[JiF]FrenchAfroman]

Happy-killmore one thing u should consider is that we play everyday. i looked up ur stats on Gametracker and saw that: From January 27 - Oct 4 (as easy money) 203 gaming hours and from oct 4 -till now 100 gaming hours.

ive been playing on the server again since exactly 1 month and added up 170 gaming hours and allot of the Jiffer's are just like me or even worth like mini rambo cannedcorn and all the others.
We just have crazy gaming hours. i player on a regular of 4 hours a day on weekends up to 8 so with all that time ive been able to learn how to aim at running persons or like mini zook a tank that he can't even see just aiming by the sound of the engine

and even with all that practise i know a fiew players that i hate playing gainst cause i know theyll kill me 3 out of 4 times or even more, like Evilhoosier, The Hutchie sneaking around in the woods and Boo Radley

so with that said i hope i could show u that we are not hackers

[[JiF]Happy-Killmore]

thank you very much for the reply and that helps but why do guys shoot the ground and kill faster?

[[JiF]FrenchAfroman]

that might have something with ur ping rate cause ive personaly never seen that and know from my gaming that i dont shoot the ground unless the guy is crawling

[Shalghar]

Trust in signal delay. Not everything YOU see is seen this way by server or other players.
With a general ping of, lets say 200, its 200 msec from you to server, 200 msec from server to player two, 200 msec back to server and then again 200 msec back to you.
That´s almost a second of delay and in a fast game anything might happen in that time, you can even be already dead with literally not knowing it.

Also seen very often, that i am shot by a (server message) p38 while in view it it a mysterious explosion and on my trusty killers screen you can see a vast smoketrail from the zook that really knocked me away. At least bf 1942 is not so cruel as for example joint ops tends to be, wehre enemies with faster connection and/or faster computers do see more than you. I even had the case in LAN there, that about five enemies got round me without me seeing any of them though they regrouped directly before my virtual eyes.

When a zooka shot (also seen) seems to come out the wrong way than your display was simply not updated but the shot of the player that turned around without you "seeing" it was already underway.
This is discworld. Light is not sooo fast and can be slower than sound or a good witchbroom.

Without any of that theres still the increasing amount of data transmitted per internet when considering the increasing amount of advertisement for internet based TV broadcast which cuts down on players reaction times.

Well as long as i haven´t got the time to personally harvest my coffee and swim back from south america and THEN my looping has finished .... But then again i am a hardened C64 datassette veteran. LOL

[[JiF]Kyle]

Yes, that's what you have to accept as a general problem of online gaming. As much as I love some of the BF weapons, I hate my ping... and I know it sucks getting shot by a guy you've hardly seen coming round a corner. But I guess everyone knows those problems. Just try to have fun, however. ;-)