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#41 ShinVector

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Posted 06 April 2014 - 09:59 PM

View PostMycrus, on 06 April 2014 - 08:45 PM, said:

Not that, we can test the hitboxes accurately each mechs hitboxes...

We can run fun drops where enemy opfor will stand still and act as target dummies...


Well ok... But most of the mechs are in testing ground though except the more recent ones.

Edited by ShinVector, 06 April 2014 - 10:00 PM.


#42 Koniving

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Posted 06 April 2014 - 11:26 PM

View PostMazzyplz, on 06 April 2014 - 09:01 PM, said:

1. even though the cockpit glass is inviting on the jagermech, chances are you won't hit it. they buffed that cockpit hitbox so much. so don't try and headshot the jag even if he's shutdown, it's bogus i tell you. just alpha one of their sidetorsos. you will decrease his arsenal in half or kill him.

It's difficult up close or while it's moving.
Head hitbox location.
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Minimum range to destroy cockpit in single shot (using AC/40 Jager) is 71 meters. Any closer and your shots will not converge at the cockpit and will do damage to cockpit and CT. Hitting the Jagermech cockpit while moving with twin AC/20s at the same time is impossible (they never converge that precisely while moving). However, it's not only possible but very easy to hit the cockpit while breezing by it with AC/20s fired one at a time.

A moving enemy Jagermech is another story.
Stick with shooting the sides. But, point is to say it can be done provided that the Jager and you are perfectly still. Alternatively, twin Gauss + a laser. Since the bullets are smaller it's doable at 59 meters with 100% accuracy (stationary). Shots are so fast you can nail it from 500 meters away within reason while the target is moving (yourself stationary).

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Posted 07 April 2014 - 04:02 AM

Stop giving away our secret weak spot! (says a Jager pilot)

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Posted 08 April 2014 - 03:31 PM

I thought I'd seen it all, but I got a headshot kill today with LRM's.
On a Raven on Crimson. 25 missle salvo, indirect fire.
Sorry dude. (sorta)

#45 Alaskan Nobody

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Posted 08 April 2014 - 04:20 PM

View PostAcePaul, on 08 April 2014 - 03:31 PM, said:

I thought I'd seen it all, but I got a headshot kill today with LRM's.
On a Raven on Crimson. 25 missle salvo, indirect fire.
Sorry dude. (sorta)

That is rather rare :blink:
Did he start with no head armor or did someone strip it for ya? ;)

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Posted 08 April 2014 - 05:24 PM

"No Eye Deer"
Was pretty early in the match but there were 3 of us working him.
I wasn't looking at the armor diagram.

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Posted 08 April 2014 - 05:51 PM

Ive never been headshotted in all my years in MWO (unless my game crashed and my discoed mech remained there)
I had a few close calls that would make me turn around in all sorts of directions but they still missed thankfully
i always go kamikaze on the guys who attempt to headshot me but they hit my other parts thankfully.





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