AA shooting through mountains.. Working as intended?

[Tripzter]

The tripits shots were going straight through the mountain hitting my planes.

[Fast_Battleship_Iowa]

0/10 would not division again.

[MexicanPanda]

Well since planes can spot through mountains, I think AA should be able to fire through mountains as well.

[Yasenpoi]

looks like coop?

 

well your planes can pretty much make torpedo runs through mountains so it works both ways. 

[Tripzter]

0/10 would not division again.

Oh how come?

[Captain_Dorja]

0/10 would not division again.

 

It's a bot battle. As long as they keep it in the bot battles where it belongs, it's basically ok.

[Tripzter]

looks like coop?

 

well your planes can pretty much make torpedo runs through mountains so it works both ways. 

 

Actually no, the planes have to go up in elevation to go over the mountains.  The entire time they can be shot at.  Yes coop.

[Captain_Dorja]

Oh how come?

 

It's not a good idea to division outside of your tier. Especially in carriers where the scaling up of ship capabilities from 1 tier to another really makes a huge difference, 

[_ENO_]

Kind of off topic but can ships fire torpedoes through / icebergs? Same sort of concept. 

[Captain_Dorja]

Kind of off topic but can ships fire torpedoes through / icebergs? Same sort of concept. 

 

they can't. What you can do is drop stupid close to them, but the way planes work in game lets you do it really, really close to obstacles of you're good. Basically if your battleship is more than about 1/2 a ship length away from an island/ice berg and you think you're too close for someone to manual drop torps on you, think again. You need to get to about 1 battleship width away to be too close >: )

 

And you need to be that close on both sides, or it doesn't do any good >: )    

[ArmouredCarriers]

Well since planes can spot through mountains, I think AA should be able to fire through mountains as well.

 

Sounds about right. A few too many beach drops lately for me...

 

Perhaps it can be made a game 'feature': Selecting torpedo loadouts with the modifications for shallow-water drops... maybe a bonus feature for Japan and Britain?

[Yasenpoi]

 

Actually no, the planes have to go up in elevation to go over the mountains.  The entire time they can be shot at.  Yes coop.

 

  I believe that is just visuals.  Their velocity appears to remain constant going through mountains as far as I can tell.  There are many very steep mountains/glaciers and planes can drop immediately after them from elevations that don't really make sense.

 

It's not a good idea to division outside of your tier. Especially in carriers where the scaling up of ship capabilities from 1 tier to another really makes a huge difference, 

 

Hes in coop so a lot of stock ships have really really bad AA.  (Not sure if they react at all to torpedo bombers either).

[muroph]

planes can see through mountains, so... i guess it's fair?

[MrDeaf]

If I get spotted through the mountain, and sometimes I can't even see the airplane spotting me, I don't see why I shouldn't be able to shoot through mountains to kill those airplanes.

[dmb47]

Got torpedoed in my Bogue earlier tonight when I had beached myself parallel to shore--the planes HAD to drop through side of cliff to get me....Meanwhile, my 8 torpedo spreads were missing B''s going 15 knots and not turning..RNG working as intended?

[Raptor_alcor]

Considering the AA is an aura effect with a pretty animation instead of actual bullets coming up at the aircraft, yes it's working as intended, a little dumb but it's working as the mechanic is set. 

[Dr_Venture]

If you can click drop me from .6 away where I cannot dodge you're strike...than I can shoot you through a mountain. 

 

Sorry. 

[Mlwestman]

Considering the AA is an aura effect with a pretty animation instead of actual bullets coming up at the aircraft, yes it's working as intended, a little dumb but it's working as the mechanic is set. 

 

This. WG didn't program individual AA guns, just bubbles for each gun range. Entering a bubble causes your planes to start to take damage.

[beachbronco]

As long as AA can shoot thru mountains then I can manually drop torps from the beach.