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It is irrelevant.
No one ever went for T34 with old tech either.


The unit was underperforming vs infantry regardless of timing, because it had and still has a shitty main gun.
Its main gun performs exactly the same way now as it did for last 6 years.
It was never fine regardless of timing.
Why do you think call-in meta existed?
34-76 started seeing any real use only after that MG buff.

If you are interested in more, make appropriate thread.

Is the T34 being shitty also the reason why it got its price increased?

And if you argue that the T34 being bad was the reason for the existance of the call in meta, the only thing it proves is that you do not understand why the call in meta existed in the first place.

I have done some testing and it does appear that "focus fire" is a weapon property, and not a squad property, as I had thought it to be. Are you sure it's the case that "missed" shots can strike nearby models, though, and not that accurate hits are spread across models instead? The former would imply that "focus fire: True" (That Obsersoldaten K98s and their MG34 seems to possess) is a negative quality rather than a positive one, and that weapon accuracy isnt actually strictly useful to calculate DPS. I'm assuming in this case that focus fire being "true" is the quality of damage NOT being spread, because that's the most logical way to talk about it.

I was usually of the mind that the tracers that units fire are indeed just visual, and not meaningful in a gameplay sense, but the fact that a squad can damage intervening obstacles when firing implies that there is some "projectile" calculation being done for small-arms.

EDIT:
Just check Elchino's post below, there you have it. Apparently works differently than I said.
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It does not mean that what you did did not work. It did not work shot that "score" a hit, Shot that "missed" and might had collide with vehicle in the rear where probably stopped by the vehicle in-front.

I know, I just was under the impression that intercepting those shots works reliably. And at the times it did not work, I attributed it to engine quirks (a shot phasing through a vehicle is not surprising in a game where vehicles phase through each other from time to time). Turns out it is rather the other way around: Shots phase unless you have a rarer scatter shot that might collide with other objects.

I thought that the Faust bug had been fixed already, by reducing the speed of the Faust projectile?

It was an attempt, but players reported to have seen the bug afterwards as well. Don't know if it is rarer or anything, but apparently it is still there.

stop this Apple crap discussion.

I don't know if ballistic shots that have passed accuracy check and have score a "hit" can collide with unit that stand between gun and target or if collision hit checks are only for shot that have "missed".

I guess I can test with one of the high accuracy TDs at some point.

I tried this on the test range map with cheatcommands and a 100% accuracy shot will go through other vehicles and terrain*.

I basically put a JPIV to shoot a JT, while there were a bunch of other JTs in the middle.
In regards to terrain, you know how if you delete a base building the ground below sunk? Well i just parked a JP4 so it was basically below ground.

Not that I didn't trust your test, but how did you set it up? I am pretty sure that in the editor there is a value that allows a projectile to travel a certain distance without collision. At least in the case of the terrain it could be an explanation, and depending on the setup of the "vehicle block" test it could be as well.

My take on this was that I sometimes try to save a damaged vehicle by parking a healthy one in front of it and it works surprisingly well. Therefore I thought that all ballistic projectiles have collision checks.
Second, in the case of ATGs (most notoriously the Raketenwerfer) but also some other vehicles I see regular collisions with world objects as well as terrain (for example, in rails and metal a bunker or OKW HQ that is placed at the sloped hillside is near indestructable by ATGs because they will just fire into the hill). So that in turn would mean that either ATG projectiles are handled differently from tank ones or that fences etc are differently handled than all other objects (which seems to be the case as posted by Vipper).

Obviously I might have just been lucky plus there probably is subconscious confirmation bias, but overall I had the impression that ballistic objects can be somewhat reliably "intercepted" (more so than those ~20% chance of intercepting a scatter shot).