Should the turret be recoiling when firing the tanks mg's?? I don't recall them packing that much punch. When I look through the optics and fire my coxial mg, the turret starts to shake. Now is this normal?
Those tank MG's
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The only reason I can think of is the noise in the turret of firing the co-ax is enough to effect your the fluid in your ear and hence your balance. So it's not the turret that shakes, but rather your brain / eyes is compensating for a motion / movement that isn't really there.
I don't know if this was the reasoning behind TW coding this or if this would really have happened, I'm just guessing.
EDIT: I'm not saying the optics move, but rather your eyes.
I've been too close to a thunder-flash when it went off, and to me it appeared that the ground shook. But it didn't, and as I was lying down, it could have only been my eyes that were "shaking".
If you make yourself dizzy, your vision will keep pulling off to the side and then snapping back to the front, because your brain is compensating for the motion it can "feel", but itsn't really happening.
Anyway, we need a Dev from TW to answer this one.
I don't know if this was the reasoning behind TW coding this or if this would really have happened, I'm just guessing.
EDIT: I'm not saying the optics move, but rather your eyes.
I've been too close to a thunder-flash when it went off, and to me it appeared that the ground shook. But it didn't, and as I was lying down, it could have only been my eyes that were "shaking".
If you make yourself dizzy, your vision will keep pulling off to the side and then snapping back to the front, because your brain is compensating for the motion it can "feel", but itsn't really happening.
Anyway, we need a Dev from TW to answer this one.
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I'm assuming you have to be touching the MG to fire it, so the actual person would probably move a bit, but I don't see why the sights should...
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yeah, me thinkies alotof the kickback would have been obsorbed by the mgs connection to the tank.. not the gunner..
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fired by solenoid in main-gun mounts, the gunner doesn't touch the MG, because its on the other side of the main gun ( so the loader can load it... )
in contrast the bow-mgs ( which the radio-operator manually directs, doesn't recoil at all )
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Also, the bow MG's have the shoulder rest removed so all you're doing is holding it by the grip and shooting it. Minimal vibration to your hand is all you would feel. So none of the tank MGs should show visible recoil. 
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lol, its funny how the turret shakes when firin a mg, but when you leter rip with the 88mm main gun .. just a small bit of lift.. .. ZATS A POWRFULLMG!!!
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What's funny is no one has mentioned this before an obvious and blatant bug but we're more concearned about armour and penatration of rounds.
an obvious and blatant bug but we're more concearned about armour and penatration of rounds.
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What's funny is no one has mentioned this before
It's been mentioned before, and AFAIR the devs said it would be fixed at some point.
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There seems to a rare bug involving the co-axial mgs on german tanks anyway. I've had no recoil whatsoever or tracers for that matter. It was pretty easy to mg infantry at long range. Then again it could have been a server setting but im pretty confident it wasnt.
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