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@Man_iLoveFishingWith the way networking and latency are, it is inevitable that if something were to be accurately shown it would look like this, to an extent. You can observe the same thing with whatever has lots of tracers, like wildcats, jets or nightbirds that look like they're missing. This is "working as intended", the game shows you where the lizzle is, the alternative would be to lie and show the lizzle taking a trajectory that never happened but is closer to you on your screen. Not impossible to implement (in theory) but such a solution also wouldn't be perfect and might tend to fly through solid walls. Pick your poison?
That being said, I feel the delay in 2042 is higher than it should be, air vehicles have particularly broken hitreg on them (very noticeable with any slower ROF weapon), and the TGMs also have pretty broken networking. It's normal to hit an air vehicle, get static, then somehow the lizzle recovers and you flew through it, or to miss but have the game count it as a hit. I've had cases where I've shot the TGM down, got an XP event for it, then something like 300ms later it still hits me. In some extreme cases I've dealt full damage to ground vehicles when hitting terrain near them, though this one could be bad splash damage values. For some reason lizzles already ignore directional damage and deal the same damage to a lot of different vehicles, e.g. 27 to MAVs, and to RAMs, so it wouldn't surprise me if their splash is fried too.
However... Even if the networking issues were fixed, people would still hit you.
@Lady_OneYep... And based on these visuals i make my moves. These clips are particularly show how off TGM can go. And ofc i have instances where i'm shooting aircrafts and flies trough. Or when i'm shooting TGM projectile with guns and seeing it taking impacts but keeps going.