Add hit markers when shooting a plane as an infantryman

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I have destroyed lots of planes just by shooting at them with some standard guns, but I dont get why out of all things, this feature doesnt apply there. It can be only found out that you dealed some damage to a plane only after it gets destroyed and gives you a kill. Im asking for it, because it will be very helpful for adjusting aim

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Yup. Good idea. I’d like to see this too.

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It does but only when you hit the pilot I presume or maybe when you actually damage a part of the plane instead of just tanking bullets but not taking ‘damage’.

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Im not sure if I understand you well, but I dont think that planes are immune to infantry weapons? I remember taking damage from ordinary guns while flying many times, and if bullets do nothing to a certain vehicle, like a tank for example, you simply dont get any score for it once it gets destroyed in any way as it is with planes.

Handgrenades do nothing to tank parts too, but hit marker do appear :thinking:

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Wasnt that a thing before? I believe i used to see them when I was sniping planes with ATR which just blew up half the plane on hit or even just when spaying planes with MGs.

But lately I did not see any hitmarker when I hit enemy planes lately so maybe it was removed or it got broken by a patch.

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So as far as I understand, the planes are susceptible to small arms fire, however, I think the hit marker only appears either a) when the parts take serious damage or b) when you hit the pilot. Regardless of if you dealt actual damage or just hit the plane, hitting it seems to mark you as the last person to damage it.
It’s similar I think with tanks, shooting but not damaging will give no hit marker but still ig ‘damages’ the tank.
I can be wrong however, but this is what I understand as the interaction between vehicle damage models and hit markers. It gets weirder as I have never been shot down by smalls arms fire or seen the damage model change on a plane when shooting at it with small arms excluding MGs.

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Shooting planes down all game with AT rifles :grin:

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The proper way to use them.

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