Hey everyone! Here are Mythbusters!...
Actually MythbustER... I have no clue where is the second one...
But anyway lets start! So, the first myth is:
-Plane cockpit protects a pilot against melee weapon
-Dammit! I slept through the alarm clock! Are we on air?! What did i miss?
-Ah, nothing interesting. Get into a plane.
-Why? Are we going to fly?
-Not exactly, I`ll explain insitu...
Although the plane cockpit is glassed, but it is not helpful enough for pilot.
Uhm...anyway take that!
So if you as a pilot died from a spade, planes are really not for you!
The myth comes to pieces... as well as the pilot head.
-The next question is: Is it possible to kill underwater?
-*murmuring* Hope for it. Then I will kill Aquaman...
-What?
-Aww, nothing!
Let's try to hit the player underwater and... we missed.
Actually, we do hit - not to a player, but his vehicle.
Let's aim a little bit higher and now we succeed!
It turns out that we have to shoot higher to hit someone underwater.
And with grenades we do not have such troubles - explosion doesn't care is your target higher or lower.
Myth is confirmed - Aquaman beware!
-The third myth: Light machinegun and Mounted machinegun have a different damage - is it true?
-Whoops, I thought we are already checking it...
YOU. SAW. NOTHING!
First let's check MG34 - it is so thankless task to catch a bullet...
Let's take a breather and catch the second one.
Now let's do the same with M1919.
As we can see, LMG deal a little less damage than mounted machinegun.
But, due to modifications, LMG damage can be increased to the same damage level as mounted machinegun damage.
So the myth is partially confirmed.
-Hey! Anti Tank mine doesn't trigger on a plane
-What kind of loser pilot you should be to die from a landmine?!
-Like you?
The root cause of this myth is the fact that you can shoot or even walk thru plane chassis.
So landmine does not trigger too. But...
Whoops, it does.
Another one death after which we can safely say that planes are really not for you!
-"Infantry First" combat badge allows light tanks to destroy cars with one-hit.
-Is it so, then I demand that "Free Fall" CB must work for infantry!
-Wut? Infantry doesn't eveg have a parachute! What for!?
-I just demand!
We are going to make a clean experiment:
same tanks, same shells, same distance and they gonna shoot to the same place of tested cars.
The only difference is that the right tank has a gold "Infantry First" combat badge and the left tank has not.
The combat badge affects only firearms and useless for vehicles.
In both cases, as wee see, damage is almost the same.
-What is the next question?
-"Ghillie" and "Camouflaged" combat badges used by support gunner affects tanker too.
-I think camouflage and support gunner are incompatibles
WHATTA HELL ARE YOU DOING?
Let's take a tanker with "Camouflaged" combat badge and an infantrymen with gold "Ghillie" combat badge.
Now let's mark the tank.
As we can see, the mark stays for a long time, and the mark on the infantrymen with "Ghillie" stays only for 1 second.
Now let's check what will happen if the infantrymen enter the tank
now it's one second too!
"Ghillie" affects to whole vehicle, because both tanker and infantrymen in fact are located in the same spot.
As for "Camouflaged", this combat badge works for each separately.
Myth confirmed partially.
-What we have next?
-Support gunner can change his seat if pilot get killed.
-Aww! Now I see, It is not a supoort gunner, but emergency pilot =D
Support gunner, who appears from deploy queue of course cannot change his seat - he cannot even leave the plane.
So let's pick up someone from the ground.
Three... Two.. One... DIE!
Even after pilot death, the plane is still belongs to its owner, and you should unlock/steal it before use.
And of course you cannot do this in mid-air.
But if you unlock the plane on the ground, in case of pilot will get killed you will be able to change your seat.
Although this scenario is extremely unlikely, the myth is plausible.
-It is possible to kill two players standing one after another with AP-shell
-Not sure about two players, but to kill one is possible for sure!
-Twice this trick will not work!
For the experiment let's take the biggest caliber.
Wait, no-no-no, do not shoot to my face! I am filming, don't you see?!
Yeah, that's right, I AM going to shoot, not you.
As in case of regular bullets, AP-shell disappears and doesn't go further if it met any obstacle.
Thus it is impossible to kill two players through and through.
But AP-shell also has a little splash damage,
and theoretically this damage can be enough to kill wounded player, standing after another.
-Is it possible to destroy a tank by ramming it with plane with landmines on the plane nose?
-Like a real kamikaze! Im coming!
-Bastarding kamikaze...
Like in case of suicide-cars with landmines on it, tanks can be destroyed only if it drives over the landmine, but not if it just collides mines.
Thus you cannot destroy a tank in this way - landmine must be under the tank.
No problem, here we go!
Not exactly a ramming, but quite close to it. Myth is partially confirmed!
-It is possible to destroy vehicles with Anti-personnel mines
-Sounds like a game for rich
Let's take a car and AP-mine and... combine them!
As we see, AP-mine deal some damage to the car - it is enough approx 3 AP-mines to destroy a car.
Let's check something bigger?
Actually is it possible to destroy even some medium tanks.
But each tank destroyed in this way will cost you a small fortune.
So it is possible to destroy vehicles with AP-mine!
-Is it possible to kill yourself with Panzerfaust if shoot upward vertically?
-I start notice that most of questions about how to kill yourself in more interesting way...
Damn, what... How.. How it works... what the...
OOOOPS!
You cannot shoot upward vertically - only on the some angle.
So the panzerfaust will fall not on you, but a far away in front of you.
But let's try to outrun it and reach the place where panzerfaust will fall earlier that it?
Running speed is not enough - we ran just a half of the distance.
Let's try with a car?
And... Perfect suicide!
-Amphibious vehicles can be used to put other vehicle across the river
-Aha, and add a new class to the game - ferryman. Okay, let's sail away to check
First let's try amphibious car and something lightweight on it - a bicycle.
Good, it stays afloat.
Now let's try something little heavier - a bike.
And it still stays afloat.
But it is hard a little to stay on it.
Well, let's try heavier bike.
And now we started drowning.
Amphibious cars can hold a 2-wheels bike maximum.
Now we going to check T-38 light tank.
Let's start with vehicle, which was too heavy for amphibious car. It stays afloat!
With a car on it it seems holds too, but any wrong movement and we start drowning.
Now let's check a recon car - and we start sinking at once.
And even 2 tanks start sinking too. Moreover it is almost impossible to keep the balance on them.
It is possible to put other vehicle across the river by an amphibious vehicle but not heavier than car.
And it's quite difficult to do this.
-And the last myth: it is possible to hit inside paraplane with HE-shell and kill all paratroopers inside. What do you think?
-Haha! Look-look what i can do!
-No, you better look what I CAN do!
Easy-peasy - the doorway is quite wide and it is easy to hit it.
Shoot and...
something went wrong.
Surprisingly, the opened door cannot be shot through.
But in case of german Junkers Ju-52 it is possible to shoot through 2 windows,
and if a paratrooper will be between them, you will be able to kill him.
Thus if you succeeds to hit to a specific place on the specific angle, you can kill paratroopers inside the plane.
But to do it in real combat is almost impossible. Anyway myth is plausible.
