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Juri_JS 01-10-2012 05:36 PM

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Originally Posted by JtD (Post 378097)
If the gunner doesn't fire, he's dead. I've been using this indication for a long time and it fairly accurate.

That doesn't work very well in the game, because the gunners fire in salvos and will often pause for some time and then start again, that's what makes identifying dead gunners so difficult.

MD_Titus 01-10-2012 05:52 PM

hitbox for gunners is pretty small, iirc from using arcade=1. as in rifle calibre bullets have to hit their heads. fragments from explosive shells can kill them as well.

there was/is a quirk with the ju88 for example, where getting a rear gunner kill also takes out the pilot.

ju87 and bf110 gunners appear to have a secondary role of armour for the pilot, they die that often.

MD_Titus 01-10-2012 05:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Juri_JS (Post 378126)
That doesn't work very well in the game, because the gunners fire in salvos and will often pause for some time and then start again, that's what makes identifying dead gunners so difficult.

and the canny human gunner will hold fire, so you slip closer for the killshot thihnking you're in the clear, then *slap* headshot.

JtD 01-10-2012 06:15 PM

I still think I can make out dead gunners with greater reliability and from further out then someone looking for dead bodies through a small piece of glass.

Pursuivant 01-10-2012 08:07 PM

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Originally Posted by JtD (Post 378152)
I still think I can make out dead gunners with greater reliability and from further out then someone looking for dead bodies through a small piece of glass.

Perhaps with a well-protected gunner station like the tail guns of a B-17 or B-25, but a dead crewman in a "greenhouse" gun station like the tail gunner of a G4M or nose gunner of the He-111 should be more obvious. Even then, the LoD structure of the game makes it impossible to pick out dead crew until you're within realistic ranges.


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