[Declined] "Gun Working" indicator light for Vulcan

[tanksalad 70]

How about a little light, just a little dot, that appears next to your health bar. If it's green, it means your Vulcan is working properly and the shots are doing damage. If it's red, it means your Vulcan is not working, your shots are doing no damage, you are getting no points, you are only hurting your team, and the other team is secretly laughing at you.

 

It would be very helpful.

 

Or maybe the bug could just get fixed?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Maf 32,300]

Declined

 

This glitch happens to all guns, so there is no point doing it just for Vulcan. Instead of making a feature to inform players about the glitch, developers should be (and probably are) working on a way to fix it completely, so that your gun is never "broken" :)

[tanksalad 70]

Oh... well the glitch has been present for quite a long time now. I've basically given up hope of it getting fixed. A little indicator light would be helpful to everyone I would think.

[Maf 32,300]

Oh... well the glitch has been present for quite a long time now. I've basically given up hope of it getting fixed. A little indicator light would be helpful to everyone I would think.

"a little indicator" will be more difficult to code than you think. In fact, I'm not even sure if it's possible, because when you're not dealing damage the server simply can't see that you are shooting, and if it can't see that you are trying to shoot it will not give you an indication that your gun does not work.

[tanksalad 70]

I see, thanks. I wonder why it is that server doesn't see I'm shooting? The server clearly knows my changing position, because other tanks are following me and shooting me, and it knows when I die. Why does my shooting not get through?

 

Maybe the server could include a single bit in it's response to the client, if it's 1, it means "yes, I see you are shooting", and if it's 0, it means "I don't see you shooting". Then the client, who knows he's shooting, if he reads this server message and sees 0, knows to turn on and indicator light to let the player know the server has no idea he is shooting.

 

This reminds me of another bug, a bit off topic but still related to server miscommunication. Why is that often the listing of players for a battle on the battles screen does not accurately reflect the actual players in the battle. I see this frequently. It makes it so that when teams are 5 against 3, people are actually joining the larger team, because the the battles screen says it's 2 against 3 or something like that. Just increases the amount of lopsided battles in tanki. If you know anything about that I'd be interested to know how it happens.

 

Anyway, thanks for the response.

[Hex 11,520]

This reminds me of another bug, a bit off topic but still related to server miscommunication. Why is that often the listing of players for a battle on the battles screen does not accurately reflect the actual players in the battle. I see this frequently. It makes it so that when teams are 5 against 3, people are actually joining the larger team, because the the battles screen says it's 2 against 3 or something like that. Just increases the amount of lopsided battles in tanki. If you know anything about that I'd be interested to know how it happens.

 

Anyway, thanks for the response.

[Maf 32,300]

I may have explained it a bit wrong, but the main point remains: it's better to fix a glitch, rather than add something that works with the glitch.

[tanksalad 70]

Of course it is. But this glitch has been going for at least four months so I presume it must be hard to fix. It seems the indicator light would be easy to implement in the meantime.

[creeperskelly 1,281]

What do you mean a Vulcan not working? I haven't run across such in any battle I've seen.

[Maf 32,300]

What do you mean a Vulcan not working? I haven't run across such in any battle I've seen.

I think it happens due to lag. On your screen you can see yourself shooting and the shots hitting their targets, but in reality nobody else can see you shoot and you don't deal damage. Reloading the page usually solves the issue.

[tanksalad 70]

Except I just remembered, the server has to be able to see you shooting. Because other tanks see I'm shooting. A number of times a tank I am shooting has "shook his head", waving his turret back and forth, to let me know my shots aren't working. And I've had Vulcans shooting at me and dealing no damage a couple times, once just a few days ago while playing Polygon. And I tell them in chat your gun is not dealing any damage. So it can't be that the server doesn't see the player shooting.

[Technophyle 367]

What do you mean a Vulcan not working? I haven't run across such in any battle I've seen.

 

I think it happens due to lag. On your screen you can see yourself shooting and the shots hitting their targets, but in reality nobody else can see you shoot and you don't deal damage. Reloading the page usually solves the issue.

Maybe you guys do not play with or against Vulcan. This is a glitch which only happens with Vulcan.

 

Sometimes when you enter a battle, you cannot kill anyone. You must self destruct or get killed no matter what gun you use.

Also sometimes you are shooting but everyone else cannot see you shoot and hence don't get any damage. This happens due to lag no matter what gun you use.

 

But if you are using Vulcan, then very often you can see that you cannot kill anyone and your tank is not heating up. And enemy tank can actually see that you are shooting but not doing any damage.

You just press and hold spacebar without even knowing that you are not doing any damage. But once you notice that your tank is not heating up, you have to release spacebar and shoot again. This time you can kill him if he do not kill you first.

[SpeedyRailgun 183]

Amm i have to jump from map when i come in game ALWAYS,  because i cant pick up boxes, i cant deal damage or anything like that! but it is sooo funny if this is happening with druggers and when everyone understand me im saying them to DO NOT KILL that guy :D because he lost all his drugs while trying to kill us. :) what can be better than this?

 

Actualy, this bug is not anything special if u cant deal damage :D just press delete or just blow up somehow :D if u see enemy have planted mine, destroy it with yourself to help team and get back to play :D

[creeperskelly 1,281]

I play against Vulcans all the time and every single one I have seen deals damage. They usually don't deal damage to me personally that much due to my paint. I don't recall ever seeing one that was just shooting and not hitting other tanks.

[Technophyle 367]

I play against Vulcans all the time and every single one I have seen deals damage. They usually don't deal damage to me personally that much due to my paint. I don't recall ever seeing one that was just shooting and not hitting other tanks.

Maybe you did not noticed.

 

 

Go to a private battle, and start shooting till your reload bar is empty. At that time you will start taking damage due to heating up of your tank.

Stop and shoot again. Do this several time.

Soon you will notice that there are many times that you are not taking any self damage. And this is the time when you cannot deal any damage.

 

I tried it before posting this. And I think you will noticed that glitch after every 15 - 20 reload. 2 times in 5 mins.

[creeperskelly 1,281]

Maybe it's a kind of lag - similar to when you can't pick up supplies or the flag randomly drops off for no reason - there are times when I cannot deal damage with other turrets as well. I don't think it's necessarily a Vulcan issue - I don't have it so I can't directly try it out.

[dilsharox 2,395]

Its just a glitch so just go with it

[Technophyle 367]

That is not any kind of lag. It is a Vulcan issue only. At first I thought maybe this is happening to me only. But one day a Vulcan was shooting at me and my health was at half. I managed to get to cover. But then noticed that my health is still at half.

 

After that day whenever a Vulcan shoots at me I check my health first. If my hp is not decreasing then go straight to the Vulcan and kill him before he realizes that he is not doing any damage.

 

Yes it is a glitch and maybe it will fixed. I do not support this idea of adding an indicator. I thought maybe most tankers know about this glitch. I was just confirming that he is right about that Vulcan issue, since you guys did not knew about it.

[Maf 32,300]

 

Maybe you guys do not play with or against Vulcan. This is a glitch which only happens with Vulcan.

Trust me, I often play with friends using voice communication and they ask me if I can see them shooting when they shoot and I can't see their shots. They were not using Vulcan.

 

 

That is not any kind of lag. It is a Vulcan issue only. At first I thought maybe this is happening to me only. But one day a Vulcan was shooting at me and my health was at half. I managed to get to cover. But then noticed that my health is still at half.

Now that is a different thing and yes - I believe this glitch only applies to Vulcan.

 

Happened to me a couple days ago on Kungur. The vulcan was shooting me and didn't deal damage, but then he stopped, started shooting me again and this time he was dealing damage.

[The_Smoky_Project 25]

This bug was actually extremely common while it was on the test server before its release. Its not as common as it was there, but I will rarely witness it still.

[Technophyle 367]

Trust me, I often play with friends using voice communication and they ask me if I can see them shooting when they shoot and I can't see their shots. They were not using Vulcan.

Yes, I know about that glitch and it happens with all turrets. Maybe because of lag. But I was talking about that Vulcan glitch only.

 

Though it is not as common as before but still it is not rare. And it is even more frustrating when it happens when you really need to kill an enemy. Happens to me very often when someone is going to capture and hence I could not stop him. Few times I could not kill when Gold is dropping. It is the most unreliable turret. I hesitate to use it all time.

[Maf 32,300]

OK, get what you mean. I only came across the glitch you are talking about very recently, so hopefully developers know about it now and it will be fixed in the near future. But as I said - they won't add something that works with the glitch. They will try to remove the actual glitch instead.

[BSG-62 512]

Ummmmm.... why don't you just fix the glitch...

[generalpotato_PRO 1,076]

I think it happens due to lag. On your screen you can see yourself shooting and the shots hitting their targets, but in reality nobody else can see you shoot and you don't deal damage. Reloading the page usually solves the issue.

oh my god this happens to me all the freaking time in XP matches when on my screen i have shot my opponent and hit him but he has taken no damage :huh: this needs to be fixed!!! its ruining matches!!!

 

i already know someone is going to say "get better/faster internet" or "move closer to your internet box"

1. not everyone is rich enough to afford fast "xfinity triple play comcast 4g lte network" blah blah blah internet, okay? my wifi is decent, but keep in mind there are other people using it around the house as well

2. my room is right next to my router. the router is literally on the other side of the wall where my computer is.

 

so tanki devs: either get faster servers to run your game (i assume that should be easy enough considering all the money you make off of buyers)

or take out some lag-causing useless features (recently i noticed with the addition of personal discounts and other updates the game has gotten a lot slower at loading things and battle experience is horrible. I don't know if they are the causes, but its just my observation.)

[Maf 32,300]

i already know someone is going to say "get better/faster internet" or "move closer to your internet box"

I doubt that will help. This seems like an occasional server error.