Russian ATGM carriers weird behavior?

Playing the Sturm S and Krisentema I noticed sometimes my missles will just faceplant into the dirt, or like ill shoot and ill never even see the missle in my FOV from gunner view and I have zero clue where these go.

Im not sure what is causing this, is it the laser getting disrupted by APS? Is it a twig in the way of the laser causing issues? Is it because I launch them not 12 oclock? Is it because of pitch of vehicle (shooting over a hill)? I just cant figure it out and I’d say it happens about 15-20% of the time so its really not fun.

I know smoke completely disrupts them, is smoke on screen but not in LOS of my target causing issues?

Gaijin changed ATGM physics, so now they fly more “realistically.” This had the side effect of making nearly all ATGMs drop downwards out of the barrel, rather than going straight out. I don’t use ATGM carriers, so I don’t know what exactly to recommend, but be be careful about where your gun is in relation to the ground near it.

Depend on your position, on both vehicles the Gunner sight is placed far away from the “Cannon”, the launcher as it is in other vehicles like MBTs that your view is fixed to the tip of the cannon, you should take it in consideration.

I think it also has something to do with ping, since my cousin who is a Twitch streamer just moved into my house my PL has been fluctuating between 3-15% and ping has been 270-350, then I noticed that there were more faceplant moments, and it’s harder to control (I mean it makes sense since they pretty much behave like when you fly a plane, then you crash your PL is high). Another thing that is leading the ATGM with binoculars seems even more impossible

They’re aligned with gunner sights, so if you use down barrel, they’ll… drop down first.
It’s one of the reasons once I have laser range finders unlocked on all my tanks that I’m switching to gunner sight view for all tanks.

Ill try to reproduce it test drive later, i played all the german atgm carriers and never had this issue.

It just happened again, im sitting behind a hill facing the target 12 oclock, i drive up over to get line of sight and depression and fire and the missle… just is fucking gone it just idk i need to check replays too i guess.

Like its not even flying erratically. I dont even see the missle at all in my gunner view its like its going into another dimension.