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#3584609 - 06/02/12 01:48 AM Re: engagement ranges and other tank questions... [Re: charon2112]
Phazon Member Registered: 04/06/11 Posts: 199 Loc: Sydney, NSW, Australia	I've read that in the ArmA 2 engine, at least with the guns, to align the sights correctly to a particular bullet round you have to play around with the zoom level for the sight. Perhaps it could be something similar, if so it could be easily fixed if the developers just tweak the config to adjust the zoom level for the gunsight so it aligns properly. _________________________ "Rock crushes scissors ... but paper covers rock, and scissors cuts paper! Kif, we have a conundrum." - Zapp Brannigan
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#3584890 - 06/02/12 01:31 PM Re: engagement ranges and other tank questions... [Re: charon2112]
Hellfish6 Member Registered: 08/12/05 Posts: 256	Originally Posted By: charon2112 So I did some non-scientific testing with targets at about 750 and 1400 meters. These were my results: SU-85 - WAY OFF. Target was auto ranged at 1400 meters, I had to dial in 2400 meters before the rounds hit. something very wrong. King Tiger - pretty good, a little short at 750 and 1400. PzIV - beautiful! Nice and accurate at both ranges. Stug III - very accurate. IS2 - also beautiful at both ranges. very accurate. T34/76 - again beautiful. nice and accurate at 750 and 1400. T34/85 - very good. Not quite as accurate as the 76. Panther - WAY OFF. just like the SU-85 I had to dial in twice the indicated range. A separate issue is that the markings on the optics don't seem to be modeled correctly, you can use them to calculate range manually. Interesting. Have you posted that on the dev bug forum?
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#3585044 - 06/02/12 06:40 PM Re: engagement ranges and other tank questions... [Re: charon2112]
charon2112 Junior Member Registered: 05/25/12 Posts: 89 Loc: Massachusetts USA	I did. As far as I know, there hasn't been any comment on any of the optics issues. _________________________ We had nothing comparable. Major-General F. W. Mellenthin, Chief of Staff of XLVIII Panzer Corps., referring to the T-34 tank.
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#3585150 - 06/02/12 11:43 PM Re: engagement ranges and other tank questions... [Re: charon2112]
cheesehawk Member Registered: 02/23/11 Posts: 605 Loc: CA, USA	Have you made tests yet with the other ammo types? Wonder if they built the gunsight per historical models, but "dialed-in" only 1 ammo type.
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#3585393 - 06/03/12 01:18 PM Re: engagement ranges and other tank questions... [Re: charon2112]
fatty Senior Member Registered: 07/04/07 Posts: 3035 Loc: Brussels, Belgium	To compound this, it appears that range adjustments for the PaK 40 are completely ineffectual on a multiplayer server. Testing the airfield defence mission on the SimHQ server, my PaK fired at the same point regardless of what range the sights were adjusted for. _________________________ "...for who are so free as the sons of the waves?"
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#3585432 - 06/03/12 03:21 PM Re: engagement ranges and other tank questions... [Re: charon2112]
charon2112 Junior Member Registered: 05/25/12 Posts: 89 Loc: Massachusetts USA	I just did the test again, with a Panther, using all ammo types and both magnifications on the gunsite, and it was way off using all methods. It's worse than I thought actually, when I had a target at 750 meters, I had to dial in 2000 meters to get the shells to hit center mass. _________________________ We had nothing comparable. Major-General F. W. Mellenthin, Chief of Staff of XLVIII Panzer Corps., referring to the T-34 tank.
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#3585442 - 06/03/12 03:35 PM Re: engagement ranges and other tank questions... [Re: charon2112]
cheesehawk Member Registered: 02/23/11 Posts: 605 Loc: CA, USA	Thanks, I haven't figured out how to make missions yet, didn't know how to test. Just reinforces my selection of the Pzkpfw IV as my favorite tank!
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#3585463 - 06/03/12 04:09 PM Re: engagement ranges and other tank questions... [Re: cheesehawk]
charon2112 Junior Member Registered: 05/25/12 Posts: 89 Loc: Massachusetts USA	Originally Posted By: cheesehawk Thanks, I haven't figured out how to make missions yet, didn't know how to test. Just reinforces my selection of the Pzkpfw IV as my favorite tank! Me neither, I basically just plopped down a bunch of empty tanks and started lobbing shells. The PzIV is really nice. _________________________ We had nothing comparable. Major-General F. W. Mellenthin, Chief of Staff of XLVIII Panzer Corps., referring to the T-34 tank.
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#3585613 - 06/03/12 07:46 PM Re: engagement ranges and other tank questions... [Re: charon2112]
Gunnyhighway Move, Strike, Protect Member Registered: 08/11/07 Posts: 653 Loc: San Diego, CA	How do you know the distance to the target? _________________________ Fluctuat Nec Mergitur!
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#3585684 - 06/03/12 10:16 PM Re: engagement ranges and other tank questions... [Re: Gunnyhighway]
charon2112 Junior Member Registered: 05/25/12 Posts: 89 Loc: Massachusetts USA	Originally Posted By: Gunnyhighway How do you know the distance to the target? If you aim at them and hold right-click, it designates them as a target and tells you the range. _________________________ We had nothing comparable. Major-General F. W. Mellenthin, Chief of Staff of XLVIII Panzer Corps., referring to the T-34 tank.
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