Profile of Cruzz

If they need dozen of lines to disable a commander, its that there code is quite ugly

That makes no sense. They'd have to code in disabling commanders, as well as UI elements for telling players that commanders are banned. It'll definitely be more complex than the amazing fix to Combined Arms which will be more or less:

                                    "$REF": "action\\change_target_action.lua",
                                    "actions": [ (CURRENT ABILITY BUFFS HERE)],
				    "change_target_type": "entities"

dont have to disable commander just replace the ability with some thing else till they fix it, ( like M1919) or some recon calling or something, till its fixed.. that would be even simpler and would stop this BS

It takes more scripting to change abilities than it takes to fix the problem with combined arms.

I don't see why people think this is some amazingly difficult issue, Relic just forgot to apply the same changes they've made to all the other USF timed buffs so far, to Combined Arms.

I don't believe there is any height scatter, just distance scatter. That's why you never see shells fly over a vehicle, only fall short or hit.

If you start a game on south Semois (just chosen for the mostly flat area), spawn a unit and command it to attack ground like 30 meters in front of one of the stone walls, rounds will occasionally hit the stone wall even though it's clearly outside of the scatter area. Either the physics system is bugging out, or there's some minor height variation added to rounds for cinematic effect or whatever. Either way it clearly happens, most of the lucky shot from across the map videos prove that as well.

Cruzz, is there a chance that there actually exists side armour in the game? (at least, statistically speaking)

Not sure what this entire conversation in the thread is supposed to be about. Yes your firing angle will determine whether on average you will be hitting rear or front armor.

As far as I understand things, physics based projectiles work like this:

If you do not succeed on the accuracy roll, you will fire with the midpoint of the enemy unit as your target, and will scatter based on weapon stats. Will collide with any kind of obstacles in the way. I assume scatter heightwise is added randomly as none of the weapon stats seem to have an effect on it.

If you do succeed on an accuracy roll, your unit will again align a shot with the midpoint of the enemy...but then the shot will be deviated from the centerpoint for a slight random amount. A 0 scatter weapon with 100% accuracy fired from a 90 degree angle will still constantly scatter around the midpoint of the enemy unit. The shot will attempt to home onto this target point while ignoring most "minor" collisions (won't go through houses but will go through fences, etc).

Because you're targeting the centerpoint of the enemy unit, firing angle will obviously have a huge effect, here's an amazing artist rendition assuming the random scattering is up to a 15 degree angle*


*which it isn't, as even firing at max range at 90 degrees you will never hit the very front or back of the targeted unit. It's probably capped to some percentage of the unit's size.

Cruzz; what formula did you use to output the stats for Volks STG vs Kar98? When I used your formula, I got something that looks like this:

accuracy*damage*(1+reload frequency) * (1+burst duration * rate of fire)
/
(ReadyAim + ReloadDuration - FireAim - Cooldown) + (1+reload frequency)* (Wind up+Wind down+FireAim+Cooldown+Burst duration)
Wolfram calculation

Not rounding times to nearest 0.125, nor am I rounding to to the last full number for burst duration * rate of fire. I guess I probably should start using an averaged amount of bullets for results that are more in line with ingame performance, it changes the stg44 numbers quite a lot because of how the burst numbers for it are set up.

Volks:
1: volksgrenadier_mp44_smg_mp                           7.81    5.43    1.97
1: assault_pioneer_mp44_smg_mp                         11.11    4.91    1.41 
Volks (old numbers)
1: volksgrenadier_mp44_smg_mp                           8.14    5.62     2.4
1: assault_pioneer_mp44_smg_mp                         11.85    5.69    1.92

I used the SGAextractor on the ArtAEF.sga files etc, and when I open the relevant .sua file for the vehicles I am interested in, I get an output that looks like this:

Do I interpret this as "Sexton has dimensions equal to 3.4 x 1.55" (since we don't care about height)?

Yes.

Meanwhile it turns I'm wrong again about the .50cal, because Relic have at some point in the past bunch of patches broken the vet2 weapon change, it does keep the penetration in the actual game. Doesn't get the vet2 setup time decrease though