The many bugs of a prone player

(The Wanderer) #1

Something needs to be done about this prone thingy. Clearly the player box of the prone player doesn’t work right. You can be right next to them and shooting them and not hit em. People are exploiting this like mad. The mods supposedly did some work on the prone player box but they seem to have made things worse. I find prone players especially difficult to hit from the top. Best bet is to shoot in the belly as that seems to hit them most of the time.

(schmeisser) #2

Well, that explains it. I was on radar the other day, literally ran over an Axis mobile MG42. I shot down into the guy point blank, had no visible effect. He opened up and killed me, even though it seemed like I was a bit out of his line of fire. Is the kill box wacky from above only? I have been killed by snipers in front of me while prone with MG, so you are vulnerable that way.

(Cyber-Knight) #3

ET does have some fubar hit boxes, it’s always been like that.

especially in Prone, and trying to shoot ppl who are in the Rail Gun Tug.

Same with knifing bodies you wanna gib. you hafta knife them in the certain spot if you wanna gib them. Knife them in the shoulders, face, feet, hands, you’ll completely miss.

it’s always safest to aim for the torso area when a guy is in prone/waiting for medic.

(O2.iceman) #4

Use ETPro, it fixes the hitboxes.

(The Wanderer) #5

last time I checked all EtPro did was make the prone box be properly prone instead of the crouch box which was used before…or was that the shrub mod…well anyway I’ve played in many servers and I can’t remember one time when i didn’t have a problem.

(duke'ku) #6

I’ve never had any problems with the hitboxes on ETPro servers.

(Kerunch) #7

That bug don’t work for me the gits still kill me whilst i’m prone.Nothing works in my favour.God this world is sooooo unfair. :banana:

(Majin) #8

All I know is that with shrubet I can’t snipe above the bridge construction boxes to hit the prone engies; and in etpro I can be standing right next to a fallen camrade and fire at the enemy without gibbing him.

(The Wanderer) #9

I’ve also noticed that if you’re trying to gib someone with the knife, you should always be standing while doing it. If you crouch and try to stab a prone, or dead player you have almost no chance of hitting them.

(askin'george) #10

hmmmm, the knife thing… If u can see bulletholes (cfg)…then u should try to stab the wall while using knife…

u will see that the knife wont actually hit the spot ure crosshair indicator actually shows…

//george

(Vink) #11

I don’t bother with prone, I use crouch instead as I prefer the mobility. I don’t use the mg42 much so I never really go prone. If you wanna hit a prone player while you are standing around them just aim for the backpack :eek3:

(-)iw(-Death) #12

Nades… :banana:

(Machine for to kill) #13

I’ve seen people exploit the prone thingy plenty. I’ve been in firefights and the guy would get close to me and then go prone. Besides the obvious strategy of me needing to reaim my mouse, he also makes himself much less vulnerable this way because getting a headshot is near impossible.

i should try going prone too see what happens

(The-Original-Pvt-Parts) #14

TIP: 50% of all MG42 players who you find prone are thick as 2 short planks, forget shooting, just deposit a grenade next to them.

Half of them dont get up just lie there till they get killed and the other half get up (late) and then try to run with their MG42 still selected BANG! :slight_smile: