i was playing normally, until i got killed by some T-80BVM, that’s not the problem, the problem is he was shooting from behind Smoke with pin point accuracy, the guy killed 3 tanks and non were able to see him, i went into the replay and there he is sitting behind the smoke, that has to be some sort of a wallhack, anyways i go to the replays section in the website to search for him and report him just like it’s said in the " how to report properly " forum, i search up his user name select " replays including my parcetipation " and boom Alaska there it is, but the thing is the guy’s username " Dontwasteyourtim " wich is weird seeing how i am wasting my time trying to report him, he just dosen’t exist, he is in the replay wich i’ll link you can see him shooting through the smoke. at roughly the start of the match, just spectate me and when the HSTVL gets shot go into free mode and go watch where he is.
see what i was thinking when i wrote all that ?
" that guy must be cheating "
but i figured out that when you use the Tanks unburnt fuel as smoke you know when you press H and using the smoke that’s coming from engine, well you see if you use thermals you can see through the Smoke like it’s nothing, and these chinese players seem to abuse that buggy game mechanic, and i think it should get fixed and the engine smoke to block the view as regular smoke does.
also im pretty sure abusing bugs is going to get you banned no ?
yep im pretty dumb, i was frustrated by the M1A1 AIM grind and I was mad when I died and didn’t even search if ESS was a feature in the game or a glitch of some sort, but yeah it’s a pretty cool tactic actually, I’m going to try it out and I’m pretty sure if I had Thermals I would’ve seen the guy, but yeah they played it well.
he aimed at the LFP of my M1A1 AIM, but it’s actually not a big deal, it turned out to be a game mechanic, and ESS isn’t supposed to block thermal image, I was just a bit mad cus I was fed up with M1A1 AIM’s stock grind, I wish I could delete or close the Post cus I was too mad to do a little research before posting this.
this happened to me yesterday too but I know it was not ESS because I was using thermals at the time and could not see through it, also it was a dead on shot.
It’s so annoying when you get killed through smoke because a single MG bullet hitting your track let’s your opponent see by some supernatural means your exact position.
I think the hit camera should only display hits that have penetrated the armour and damaged crew or an internal module.
It’s really annoying to go against someone using that tactic, especially if you’re stock grinding and don’t have thermals. I really didn’t expect anyone to use this tactic, so I forgot about it. I just assumed that since everyone is using thermals, it would be useless to use, but I guess I was wrong.
that might be someone actually hacking, the guy in my situation was using ESS which he was able to spot me through cus he was using thermals, and in your case, the guy who killed you probably was using smoke grenades instead that’s why you didn’t see him or might be a lucky guess, it’s really hard to spot hackers from " tactical " players I might say, I mean look at me I was so annoyed I made a whole post about it.
What’s up with Mr. Dontwasteyourtime’s POV doing this weird head bob thing every time he changes camera view? Does he have some kind of macro running? What would be the point/benefit?
I didn’t see it on any other player’s view so I don’t think its a replay artifact.
Turning engine first and the backing around a corner with ESS is the funniest thing ever.
Enemies just see a cloud of smoke and most are too uninformed to turn on Thermals
