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Topic: Firehawk gunner - Line of sight

Is this normal the firehawk's gunner can't aim on horizontal ? It can shoot nothing except supports with proton grenades. It's a tank who stay far from battle if you see 2 targets you're lucky. If the tank stands on a cliff you can see nothing. I can't believe this is the future.

Please give the "F2 position" gun a decent degree of inclination to be useful.

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Re: Firehawk gunner - Line of sight

I suppose you mean vertical.

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Re: Firehawk gunner - Line of sight

The firehawke had a pretty good vertical last I checked, it was the T1-B who suffered in that area.

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4 Reply by Burner (edited by Burner 2008-06-14 21:42:49)

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Re: Firehawk gunner - Line of sight

I talk about the second weapon. If the firehawk isn't on a plane surface I can't shoot on horizontal (except if the front side is upper than the rear) because I can't lift the gun upper than 0 degree. The gun needs a movement angle of 20 or 30 degrees (up to 0) to compensate the tank inclination due to the ground. Like the main cannon.

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Re: Firehawk gunner - Line of sight

TY2D2 wrote:

The firehawke had a pretty good vertical last I checked, it was the T1-B who suffered in that area.

Good vertical for the driver (main gun) but not for the secondary gunner position.  With all the hills & mountains on Rhen Var for example, you usually won't have many chances at a good shot unless someone is up close trying to stick a det pack on the tank.  If during a tank battle a rocketeer fellow starts firing rockets at us from up in the mountains, all I can do is watch the explosions hit our tank and hope my driver gets a chance to break away from the enemy tank and take out the trooper.

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Re: Firehawk gunner - Line of sight

So what is your suggestion, completely go out of lore and let the tank go through the tank to aim down?

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Re: Firehawk gunner - Line of sight

Omen wrote:

So what is your suggestion, completely go out of lore and let the tank go through the tank to aim down?

A stability system to don't be affected by the ground or let the secondary weapon move up if the main gun does it too.

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