Ty is correct in part.  We implimented a huge swathe of different tweaks to help mask this problem.  First, as he mentioned, we made it so all shots are actually coming straight out the nose of your ship (meaning they fly straight from your crosshairs).  However to make them look right fake tracer rounds still come out of the barrels and converge about 1000 metres away.

Next we actually did increase the hit boxes on the TIE fighter and made em a little bigger on a few other craft so they are easier to strike with.

The shots for spacecraft are also extremely fast compared to anything else in the game.  5Km/s rather than 500m/s.  This gives a lot better chance to hit at the ranges we're dealing with.

And finally, for every shot you "see" and "hear" being fired there are 2-3 more invisible shots that are going into your firing stream as well.  Quite literally your weapons are acting like very rapid firing machine guns.  What this does is drastically increases your chance for hitting with one of those shots in much the same way a shotgun's chances are increased by firing multiple pellets at a target.  Since you don't see, and more importantly, don't hear the actual shots though, it's almost completely unnoticeable.  This, more than anything, was what made it possible to actually dogfight in this engine.  Unfortunately we also think it may be what causes the server lag in 64p games.  But such is life....

Wow I had no idea the BF2142 engine was so lame. This info will likely help improve my game a bit

PS Woody your post count is lie!

PPS Battlemaster: If you keep spamming the forums, TY2D2 will likely ban you. In fact I wouldn't be surprised if he's warned you already.

Next we actually did increase the hit boxes on the TIE fighter and made em a little bigger on a few other craft so they are easier to strike with.

The shots for spacecraft are also extremely fast compared to anything else in the game.  5Km/s rather than 500m/s.  This gives a lot better chance to hit at the ranges we're dealing with.

And finally, for every shot you "see" and "hear" being fired there are 2-3 more invisible shots that are going into your firing stream as well.  Quite literally your weapons are acting like very rapid firing machine guns.  What this does is drastically increases your chance for hitting with one of those shots in much the same way a shotgun's chances are increased by firing multiple pellets at a target.  Since you don't see, and more importantly, don't hear the actual shots though, it's almost completely unnoticeable.  This, more than anything, was what made it possible to actually dogfight in this engine.  Unfortunately we also think it may be what causes the server lag in 64p games.  But such is life....

And either way, the best way to make a kill is to get behind your target, from where your hits register.

And it's more fun to kill your opponet after sneaking behind him

Already have my HUD red, it helps to register hits when flying towards hoth!

I was wondering if there are 'hit box' ares that could be increased for the y-wing. It has an exceptionally low profile and its really hard to hit compared to an X-wing or tie. Combined this with a turret and zero convergence nose mounted blasters and the y-wing is operating as more of a fighter killing gunship than a bomber.

Not that i have a problem with the y-wing being accurate- far from it- remembering fondly as i do the old X-wing game . I just think its disproportionately hard to kill, compared to lore and its role.

Maybe you have bad aim? I personaly find it a very easy target to kill.

Kinda odd but not very noticeable at long range.

And Y-Wing? Hard to hit?  Hardly.  Wait...  Yeah, guess that works.

If anything needs fixing it's the S-Foil controls.  Well, it needs creating actually.

I was wondering if there are 'hit box' ares that could be increased for the y-wing. It has an exceptionally low profile and its really hard to hit compared to an X-wing or tie. Combined this with a turret and zero convergence nose mounted blasters and the y-wing is operating as more of a fighter killing gunship than a bomber.

Not that i have a problem with the y-wing being accurate- far from it- remembering fondly as i do the old X-wing game . I just think its disproportionately hard to kill, compared to lore and its role.

Unfortunately for us though we have pushed the engine lightyears beyond what it was designed for.  Never did they imagine you would be fighting more than a few hundred metres, let alone engaging people at up to 3km away in the game.  Even at "close" range you're still 2-400 metres away from the other ship and moving extremely fast in 3 dimensions.  And to top it off the blaster bolts are a LOT more visible than, say, bullets.  Plus blasters aren't known to "bounce" the way bullets are, further creating the mental stress.

The only thing I can recommend is to turn your crosshair colours red (it's a lot cooler that way) and use that as an indicator that you're hitting, rather than the puffs of smoke.

Which I assume is why they 'bounce off' during a dogfight often because you are nearly never directly behind em.

Whilst dogfighting, a few of my fighter's blaster hits have no effect, usually when I shoot any part other than the TIE's cockpit.  Well, most have no effect.  For a fighter pilot such as myself, this gets more than annoying, often leading to my death.  Embarrassing.  I emphasize the fixing of this.