Bug or bad game?

Someone penetrated me where it is impossible to. I will Put pictures in here and feel free to try it yourself. Tank that i used is the object 122. Player that killed me used the is4 with the shell that has the least pen.

As you can see here the shell does not penetrate. Does not matter what angle or distance it just doesnt. This is what happened to me:

Now this is very interesting isn’t it? What do you guys think that is going on?

Again, the angle does not matter i tried to shoot the shell from the same angle as the guy that shot me and it still has no way of penetrating.

In the replay, did the shell actually pen?

Or did the shell fail to pen but its blast / fragments destroy the ammo in your ATGM tube?

You can see a hole inside of my turret. Yes the shell penetrated. And it exploded inside of my tank.

Yes I can see that.

But I also believe it’s possible where, say, a shell fails to penetrate, but its blast causes catastrophic detonation of exterior ammunition, which causes the place where the shell hit to appear as a pen hole after death.

That’s why I ask if it actually went through or just blew up your ATGM. If it actually went through then idk. Maybe just found some lucky pixel in the armour model

I wouldnt trust the visual model. I have had plenty of rounds that non-penned my tank but show as a hole on my tank’s model.

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i can garantee you that thr shell went through. In the model that i saw when i died it confirmed it otherwise i wouldn’t have posted this.

The only reliable thing about hits in War Thunder is their unreliability. Whenever I win or lose an engagement there’s always a “jank factor” that has caused me to both win and lose engagements. One time I nonpenned a Type 90 directly in the side with 3BM60.

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true i actually non penned a bmp with a 120mm apfsds shell in its side. Kinda funny that they claim to have realistic game.

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Very Soon™ we’ll be able to perfectly analyse those hits :D

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Ohhh its a pretty random event game, all the boasts about realism do not really cut it. More than likely it is a fudge factor in the programming to try and keep the win rates at 50% or so in the bell curve.
So the answer is more than likely a bad game as bugs are just a symptom of a bad game and sloppy programming and poor quality control.

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Gotta love those moments. Today I non-penned a T-90M’s LFP with M829A2

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