FAQ

Weapons are too dangerous! One shot kills instantly

That’s how it should be: use cover.

Someone is shooting through walls!

This is intended. Some materials are not strong enough to stop bullet completely at all firing angles.

Note that shooting-through-walls hacks are not possible (unlike vanilla AoS) due to the simulator architecture.

Can I shoot through the fog?

Yes, although it’s not that easy.

Grenade is too dangerous!

1. Don’t run in circles around grenades.
2. Take cover immediately if you see or hear a grenade.

Bleeding is annoying

Try not to run around in front of everyone. After all, use your shovel: dig tunnels and trenches.

Mines are annoying

1. Be careful.
2. Don’t go straight into areas where there are likely to be a lot of mines (e.g. intel, narrow tunnels, doors, back entrances, places convenient for sniper fire etc).
3. Deactivate mines with a greande explosion.
4. Cooperate in your team and report the location of placed mines in the team chat.

I don’t see/hear drones

1. Unfortunately, there are protocol restrictions prohibiting any custom models.
2. In fact, this is not that far from reality, because modern weapons are much more louder than a typical drone.
3. Don’t stay outdoors for a long time (especially if you are a sniper).

Airstrikes are too loud

Yes they are.

Airstrikes are useless and too inaccurate

1. No they aren’t.
2. Check your minimap carefully: airstrike will follow direction of the player who called it.

It’s too hard/realistic! It’s not fun!

Go play babel.

It’s too unrealistic! AoS cannot be / isn’t meant to be an ARMA!

Go play ARMA + ACE3.

ACE3 is still too unrealistic

Go to a shooting range, airsoft club or army.

(Not to mention that real war is not fun at all.)

Protocol extensions

Bullet traces

Extension ID: 0x10.

Field name	Field type	Notes
index	UByte	Strictly increasing (in the current implementation) identifier of a projectile.
position	LE Float[3]	Current position.
value	LE Float	Current speed divided by the initial speed.
origin	UByte	Whether this is the first packet for this identifier.

Hit effects

Extension ID: 0x11.

Sent whenever projectile hits a target to provide better visual response.

Field name	Field type	Notes
position	LE Float[3]	Hit position
block	LE Int[3]	Hit block
target	UByte	See below

Target	Description
0	Block
1	Headshot
2	Player

References

• Under the hood: the physics of projectile ballistics.
• Towards a better, science-based, evaluation of kinetic non-lethal weapons, L. Koene, A. Papy.
• Terminal Ballistics, 3rd edition, Z. Rosenberg, E. Dekel.

License

Copyright © 2021–2024 Siegmentation Fault

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see https://www.gnu.org/licenses/.