05 Jun 12, 02:44PM
This happened to me earlier, so I thought I'd post it here with a little explanation as to why (as far as I'm aware) it happens, although I'm sure Brahma has shown this before somewhere...
When the CLA guy (Obama's_treason, for some reason) releases the grenade, as far as he's concerned it goes down the bridge/tunnel. The server (and my client) has him in a slightly different position at the point of release, and as far as we're concerned, the nade bounced back off the door frame and into the stairwell behind him. When the nade explodes, his client reports the location as being right by me, so the server says, "Oh, jamz is there. Boom!". And I'm left wondering where it all went wrong.
Not all mis-hits are as obvious as this, but it's quite easy to see how nades can appear to explode right by an opponent only to do zero damage, or to explode at a safe distance only to blow you to kingdom come.
When the CLA guy (Obama's_treason, for some reason) releases the grenade, as far as he's concerned it goes down the bridge/tunnel. The server (and my client) has him in a slightly different position at the point of release, and as far as we're concerned, the nade bounced back off the door frame and into the stairwell behind him. When the nade explodes, his client reports the location as being right by me, so the server says, "Oh, jamz is there. Boom!". And I'm left wondering where it all went wrong.
Not all mis-hits are as obvious as this, but it's quite easy to see how nades can appear to explode right by an opponent only to do zero damage, or to explode at a safe distance only to blow you to kingdom come.