?[bug]? Delay between firing and actually firing spinfuser

when i'm goin 100+ kph and a pass a guy i shoot far enough in advanced to hit him.. but after i click .25-.5 sec later i see the disc and it misses.
Same as midair, i zoom in to "snipe" a tank thats standing still and its dead on but when i fire it always misses its mark.
Dunno if thats supposed to happen due to my speed but it can get annoying.

discs inheret you velocity, so anything you aim at will be missed if you aim for the target itself. aim a little behind it to have a better chance of hitting.

onoes, it's physics!

yes, if you're moving at all you're going to have a hard time hitting distant objects with your projectile weapons. It can be done, but it takes a bit of extra calculation

it's one of the beautiful things about tribes

nice sig jotun.

discs inheret you velocity, so anything you aim at will be missed if you aim for the target itself. aim a little behind it to have a better chance of hitting.
well if we're coming @ each other i do aim ahead, but what about the stationary targets

You need to think. If you're flying towards something standing still, the disc is going to move "forward" more than normal. Aim a bit low.


EDIT: Maybe you're just lagging. Sometimes I click and the projectiles don't leave my gun for a bit either. My internet connection isn't so hot sometimes, and that's one way I can tell my ping is ass.

the only time you will hit your mark is if your standing stock still.

You need to think. If you're flying towards something standing still, the disc is going to move "forward" more than normal. Aim a bit low.


EDIT: Maybe you're just lagging. Sometimes I click and the projectiles don't leave my gun for a bit either. My internet connection isn't so hot sometimes, and that's one way I can tell my ping is ass.
if thats the case, then why dont thediscs arc after a while due to gravity but they will fly till they hit something

the only time you will hit your mark is if your standing stock still.
even if it is standing still it still does not hit.
like a buggy or somthing where someone is just in the gun turret

if thats the case, then why dont thediscs arc after a while due to gravity but they will fly till they hit something
Inherents player momentum but I don't think they are affected by gravity.

they are going so fast that they have a small amount of lift. therefore, they dont arc in an area as small as everything in the OOB grid. if the map was 4k then they might with realistic physics.

eh, just wondering if it was me, but i guess not.. seems awfully long of a delay between pulling the trigger and firing tho.

if thats the case, then why dont thediscs arc after a while due to gravity but they will fly till they hit something
it's sci-fi. They're anti-gravity magnetically propelled discs.


even if it is standing still it still does not hit.
like a buggy or somthing where someone is just in the gun turret
nonono

YOU have to be standing still for your projectiles to go exactly where you point them. If you're moving 15mph to the right when you fire, your projectile will be drifting right at 15mph too. Tribes is the only game I know that works like this... but it's the right way. T1 did it, T2 did it, and T:V does it (for most things).

but the main point of my post was that there was what seemed to be a lag between pulling the trigger and firing, i can look to the left/up/down/right after i fire and see my disc but it shouldnt be there

maybe you're just seeing the normal lag that's been in multiplayer games for as long as they've existed...

It certainly just sounds like lag, but just to make sure...

Can you try recording a demo or scoring some video for use please?