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[mnbv_fockewulfe]

Sparks are now a thing in wowp as of 2.0.

Tested and verified by yours truly and my lovely assistant MARS back in November.

Sparks can be described as seeing hits on a plane (producing a flashing effect on the fuselage) given proper lead yet no damage being inflicted. Other side effects include, seeing tracers fall behind you without hitting yet damage being done.

Likely causes: Client side prediction, autoaim, and collision boxes messing with the server. 

Your welcome.

 

p.s. if wowp ever hopes to be a competitive minded game like it was years ago, this needs to go asap.

  

Edited by mnbv_fockewulfe, 08 August 2018 - 12:31 AM.

[ArrowZ_]

Aww... How are we client side laggerz supposed to play then 

[mnbv_fockewulfe]

ArrowZ_, on 08 August 2018 - 01:03 AM, said:

Aww... How are we client side laggerz supposed to play then 

 

I feel your pain arrow.

Well, not really.

Only when I tried playing while my sisters were streaming netflix did I feel your pain.

[Martymart1976]

mnbv_fockewulfe, on 07 August 2018 - 07:31 PM, said:

Sparks are now a thing in wowp as of 2.0.

Tested and verified by yours truly and my lovely assistant MARS back in November.

Sparks can be described as seeing hits on a plane (producing a flashing effect on the fuselage) given proper lead yet no damage being inflicted. Other side effects include, seeing tracers fall behind you without hitting yet damage being done.

Likely causes: Client side prediction, autoaim, and collision boxes messing with the server. 

Your welcome.

 

p.s. if wowp ever hopes to be a competitive minded game like it was years ago, this needs to go asap.

  

Had this happen to me last night.  Sparks, hit markers, no damage.  This also happened to others against me and got me accused of cheating because the lag wasn't recording damage against me when they fired against me...crazy.

[SkyWolf__WM]

Just break off and shoot at something else.

[Prenzlau]

This unfortunate effect has been known about for a long time. It is true, a player's visual optics is that their bullets are plastering another plane, but little or no damage is being reduced from the target plane.
I have noticed in some battles where usually late in the battle when my side might be behind and flipping caps is necessary, that defense planes seem to soak up more damage. Either my guns are not doing the damage, or the defense planes are taking more damage or the damage isn't being recorded.
Other than that, your all just "seeing things"....

Prenzlau

[CorvusCorvax]

Prenzlau, on 08 August 2018 - 02:46 PM, said:

I have noticed in some battles where usually late in the battle when my side might be behind and flipping caps is necessary, that defense planes seem to soak up more damage. Either my guns are not doing the damage, or the defense planes are taking more damage or the damage isn't being recorded.
 

 

Once the cap is filled to either blue or red, I think the ADA actually do somehow get "tougher".  I have found that especially Boomerangs somehow gain a lot of resilience in spawning a color.  I was flying a Yak the other day, and coming into a neutral cap, the Boomerangs just melted in a couple of seconds under my cannon.  But coming into a red cap, I had to chase them and suffer through a couple of overheat cycles.  Now, I didn't just lose my ability to shoot down bot aircraft in the last 30 seconds flying between two zones.

[MARS_REVENANT]

Don't rely on visual, you have to rely on the THUD sounds to know when you are hitting your plane.  That is how the real WWII pilots did it.  They aimed using their ears.  Because of this many blind pilots were able to be recruited.  The main reason for this is because the sound created by hitting an enemy plane hundreds of meters away is deeper and more prominent that bullets hitting your own plane.  The current sounds of bullets hitting your own plane are super realistic, I recall many WWII pilot interviews that describe these sounds as Star Wars lasers mixed with flapping around a long piece of tinfoil.  

[Bubba_Zanetti]

MARS_REVENANT, on 08 August 2018 - 10:05 AM, said:

Don't rely on visual, you have to rely on the THUD sounds to know when you are hitting your plane.  That is how the real WWII pilots did it.  They aimed using their ears.  Because of this many blind pilots were able to be recruited.  The main reason for this is because the sound created by hitting an enemy plane hundreds of meters away is deeper and more prominent that bullets hitting your own plane.  The current sounds of bullets hitting your own plane are super realistic, I recall many WWII pilot interviews that describe these sounds as Star Wars lasers mixed with flapping around a long piece of tinfoil.  

 

Apparently that’s the one thing this company is willing to pull a Walmart with!

[vonKaiser]

MARS_REVENANT, on 08 August 2018 - 10:05 AM, said:

Don't rely on visual, you have to rely on the THUD sounds to know when you are hitting your plane.  That is how the real WWII pilots did it.  They aimed using their ears.  Because of this many blind pilots were able to be recruited.  The main reason for this is because the sound created by hitting an enemy plane hundreds of meters away is deeper and more prominent that bullets hitting your own plane.  The current sounds of bullets hitting your own plane are super realistic, I recall many WWII pilot interviews that describe these sounds as Star Wars lasers mixed with flapping around a long piece of tinfoil.  

 

Yep, gotta listen for the thud.  Noticed it last night in my ME-410.  Lot's of pretty sparkles but the enemy plane wasn't falling out of the sky.  Adjusted my aim further ahead then where I was aiming normally and proceeded to get the pretty sparkles WITH the thud sound effects and everything went back to normal as far as health bars depleting. 

 

Now if I could just figure out where the random shots from nowhere I keep hearing whiz past my plane well outside the combat zone are coming from :/

[SonicPariah]

Definitely working on smoothing out this issue with connectivity and FPS gaps being closed. One of our primary concerns currently.

[Captain_Underpants53]

SonicPariah, on 08 August 2018 - 03:42 PM, said:

Definitely working on smoothing out this issue with connectivity and FPS gaps being closed. One of our primary concerns currently.

 

I hope this is true but I notice you have a whole bunch of 'primary' concerns.

[NorthernPorter]

MARS_REVENANT, on 08 August 2018 - 10:05 AM, said:

Don't rely on visual, you have to rely on the THUD sounds to know when you are hitting your plane.  That is how the real WWII pilots did it.  They aimed using their ears.  Because of this many blind pilots were able to be recruited.  The main reason for this is because the sound created by hitting an enemy plane hundreds of meters away is deeper and more prominent that bullets hitting your own plane.  The current sounds of bullets hitting your own plane are super realistic, I recall many WWII pilot interviews that describe these sounds as Star Wars lasers mixed with flapping around a long piece of tinfoil.  

 

Totally agree with the listening for thud sounds in game to confirm my shots count. If don't hear it but am seeing the visual markers I usually just have to adjust my lead or break it/stop firing and pick it up again. It's annoying and hope to see the fix Sonic mentioned soon.

 

Where did you come across this blind pilots in WWII though. That just doesn't make sense to me. How is a blind pilot going to acquire targets, let alone even taxi and get off the ground to begin with?

I just have this hilarious SNL skit playing in my head when thinking on this.

[SonicPariah]

Captain_Underpants53, on 10 August 2018 - 05:22 AM, said:

 

I hope this is true but I notice you have a whole bunch of 'primary' concerns.

 

Bug Fixes are our primary concern at this time. As this falls into either the Bug category or a Latency category, the Fix steps we are taking should address one of those categories.

[vonKaiser]

NorthernPorter, on 10 August 2018 - 08:08 AM, said:

Where did you come across this blind pilots in WWII though. That just doesn't make sense to me. How is a blind pilot going to acquire targets, let alone even taxi and get off the ground to begin with?

I just have this hilarious SNL skit playing in my head when thinking on this.