985060

Vehicles get stuck on slanted areas

March 14th, 2004 12:27 AM

After playing around with various land vehicles, I've noticed how easily the vehicles get stuck on slanted areas. (Ex: A mound made by artillery fire on maps with smokes coming out, near the ends of bridges, the fortified position for tanks in the Berlin-Outskirts 1945)

Somehow, when you try to turn the vehicle on those slanted areas, your vehicle refuses to go anywhere but starts spinning. I had my king tiger, tiger, sherman, cromwell, APCs, and sturmgechutz to get stuck on any slanted areas in most maps.

This poses a serious problem for your team when your vehicle is forced to block the entrance onto a bridge or a vital equipment such as king tiger is facing side ways towards the enemy. I believe there is something screwy with collision detection with 0.61, and wish the devs would look into this problem.

985066

Re: Vehicles get stuck on slanted areas

March 14th, 2004 12:29 AM

Yea, tanks should be able to climb incline relatively easily. Some things, like jeeps, should'nt be able to however. But, going sideways on a slanted area will decrease grip/maneuverability.

985071

Re: Vehicles get stuck on slanted areas

March 14th, 2004 12:31 AM

It's always been a problem with BF. Although, some tanks have this problem I've noticed it also depends on the tanks speed and size. For me, Stugs, churchills and tigers never EVER have a problem with most holes, and only the most extreme cliffs create a problem. Matildas can be stopped by a slight slant thought. It really has to do with how the "treads"(basically meaning succession of wheels) are set up and how fast the tank is

985073

Re: Vehicles get stuck on slanted areas

March 14th, 2004 12:32 AM

What has more horsepower, an infantryman or a jeep? If anything the jeeps should be able to take inclines faster then infantry, right now they stall out and slide down on steep ones and that's not realistic.

985092

Re: Vehicles get stuck on slanted areas

March 14th, 2004 12:44 AM

Yea, but humans don't have a ton of weight working against them. Basic laws of physics, a heavy object is gonna have a tougher time getting up an incline.

985122

Re: Vehicles get stuck on slanted areas

March 14th, 2004 01:33 AM

any one know why the Tiger "jumps" when you drive around in it ? and the M10 tank destroyer seems to get stuck all the time ...

985153

Re: Vehicles get stuck on slanted areas

March 14th, 2004 02:28 AM

I had those problems aswell. Resulted in me having to blow up my own vehicle in order to make way for my team...

985156

Re: Vehicles get stuck on slanted areas

March 14th, 2004 02:32 AM

I have posted this in bug reports already

985182

Re: Vehicles get stuck on slanted areas

March 14th, 2004 03:01 AM

Only bomb craters pose problems for tanks that i am aware of......and Tigers get stuck in them too.

Maybe it is not a bug......maybe you should just drive around them.

I do agree RL tanks would just climb out of them without much problems, other then exposing their bottom wich may not be wise.

985187

Re: Vehicles get stuck on slanted areas

March 14th, 2004 03:16 AM

Is there any other factor that the devs can change apart from speed?
It does seem that the tanks in FH are (generally) much less able to cope with slopes than in vanilla and in vanilla they aren't as adept as in DC for example.
Surely the whole point about a tracked vehicle is that it should be able to navigate most slopes, however slowly, whereas at the moment most tanks I have driven in FH struggle with anything larger than an anthill - except the Matilda which can't even manage that .