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The rocket doesnt dissapear, you fall on the ground and as you do so your aim moves upwards as does the rocket.
I have killed a couple of people just after dieing while my AT rocket was in the air, but only if it was aimed well below them to start with.

No it does go through. I've been standing 2m away and fired and then been killed by the tank but it just goes straigh through. But its random sometimes it does hit sometimes it doesn't. You can actually see it go staright through as your dieing.

Deffen wrote:

This is infuriating! Do claymores disappear when a sniper dies? No!  Do AT mines disappear when an engineer dies? No! Does C4 disappear when a spec ops dies, sometimes.....    WTF!!!!

So why, when I fire an anti-tank rocket, does the rocket disappear if I get killed while the rocket is in flight??????  Ridiculous!!!

I've played patiently waiting for any patch to fix this every time a patch is released because this is such an obvious flaw in the game....    TO NO AVAIL......     GRRRRRRRRRRR!!!

This has been ignored, overlooked, or bypassed for whatever reason to long.  PLEASE FIX IT!!  Or at least give me your answer EA as to why this hasn't been addressed so that I can complain about your justification.


Regards,
AT Dude

actually i believe they DO disappear... ive seen mines and c4 vanish once i kill the little rat bastard who placed them, same with claymore, its just not instaneous it takes a few secs or min at most to refresh. next time u catch and engineer/sniper/sepc ops dude in the act. kill him (duh!) and watch what he/she put down and it will "eventually" disappear. that is all

c0ldfyr3 wrote:

The rocket doesnt dissapear, you fall on the ground and as you do so your aim moves upwards as does the rocket.

i like those rockets flying though the summer skies over my tank. *hehe*

AT mines, claymores, and c4 all disappear.  If you kill the person that set the mines/c4, the equipment will dissappear after a certain amount of time...I think it's about 30 seconds.  So they don't dissappear immediately, but they don't hang around for the entire round.

The rockets don't disappear either.  It depends on what direction you fall.  Once fired the rocket is guided whether you hold the fire button or not.  It has nothing to do with the person shooting the rocket...it's the rocket launcher itself.  So if you die the rocket launcher is still functioning and will send the rocket where ever your dead, falling body is pointing it.  If you're shooting at a tank that kills you, you fall back and the rocket goes high.  If someone kills you from behind while you're shooting, you fall forward and the rocket goes down.

If you're standing point blank and try to shoot someone in the chest you will miss if you are aiming right at them.  Much like APC rockets...since the rockets are firing from one side and the barrel of the weapon is not actually lined up with the sight (like on a rifle) there is some distance required for the targeting rehticle and the trajectory of the rocket to line up with each other.

Another factor that can play into all of this is lag.  I'm *sure* you never ever lag...but even one frap off can make the difference.  I would say if you've played the kit so much and you're so dissatisfied with it...find a different kit to play.

C4, Claymore, AT mines do not disappear unless you place new ones. E.g you only have 2 claymores and have placed both of them. You die then place 2 more, the first 2 will disappear.

Personnel= people/ crew.
Personal= belonging to a person.

Yay.

name1ess wrote:

same as snipers. often you have a headshot lined up in a sniper battle, you fire but are killed more or less at the same time. this time you do hear the shot but they dont die. however, 2 snipers can kill each other at the same time, its just a little glichy imo. maby a little lag dosnt help either, but im sure that the AT rockets and grenades do disapear sometimes.

I think that's about the ping. if u have a ping like 180 the shot will be registered 0.18 seconds after your mouseclick. that means if the both snipers shoot in <0.18 s, both will die.

the lined headshot could be about the sniper sound being played before the shot happens. So u hear the voice but there will not be headshots.

Just Suggestions...

I feel your pain man, when that T-90 has got smoke coming out needing one shot with the sraw .

name1ess wrote:

iv played anti tank 4 150 hrs now, i am quite sure that the rockets do disapear some times. like when at close rande and couldnt miss, but it dosnt hit cause you died the second after you shot.

its the same as grenades. countless times i have thrown a grenade at a persons feet, died strait after and it dosnt blow up. you hear no explosion and get no kills.

same as snipers. often you have a headshot lined up in a sniper battle, you fire but are killed more or less at the same time. this time you do hear the shot but they dont die. however, 2 snipers can kill each other at the same time, its just a little glichy imo. maby a little lag dosnt help either, but im sure that the AT rockets and grenades do disapear sometimes.

I have noticed the AT rocket disappearing thing, but I know for a fact I've blown many people with nades after dying....or at least I hear them go off (the person moved, my aim was off). I swear nades go off everytime, at least for me. But with rockets, just today on jalabad at the fountain I put an AT rocket at a corner where a proning pkm'er was shooting me. Even without guidance it should have hit but I died first and I swear the rocket disappeared.