TankCommander - how to target 2?

[Deathstroke 10]

I have been playing Flashpoint multiplayer for a very long time now and over the years I have seen many tricks ( some called fair game knowledge other can been seen as exploits ). But there is one trick I havent been able to put my finger on completely.

As seen in the picture below its impossible to target the target listed on number 2. Even in arma it shows up grey. I always found this very annoying when a soldier fired his first law against my tank and while i was frantically trying to find him or target him he managed to shoot rest of his salvo before I could even switch to gunner seat myself.

Exspecially while a tank with ai commander punishes anybody firing a at missle or even sneezes while a tank is in range straight away.

It would have been no problem for me if only ai would able to do this. In cti for example i could bring an extra cheap ai tank to cover me from these ambushes.

However when encountering certain players on the battlefield in a tank, ambushing them from forrest or bush always resulted in being shot by ai gunner straight away. ( Even from positions where a right click on me wouldnt activate the gunner to target me )

Now the only 2 tricks I know off that could come close in order to recreate this situation is:

- In the picture below there is only 1 target shown. Getting a larger list of targets ( sending more ai as scouts into the field ) increases the chance of your target showing up on a different number. Exspecially since tanks get preference over infantry. So if they manage to spot enemy t80, the guy firing you will neatly show up on number 3-9.

- Like any ai when an ai gunner spots an enemy unit it will occasionally follow it's direction closely so firing the weapon manually will result in killing the target.

But they dont come close to what I have seen. So if anyone knows bit more about this please tell me ;)

( Picture showing principle of target 2 always being grey for tank commander )

[rellikki 7]

Weird, that's never happened to me. I can always assign targets with no problems. I didn't even know they could get "greyed out".

You can assign targets too by hovering your cursor over and right clicking on it. It's way more practical than assigning them from the targets list, because you can never be sure which one you actually assign, if there are multiple.

[Pulverizer 1]

The "trick" is to keep your engine off and massively spam right click everywhere to the direction you hear/suspect a vehicle.

Makes you wonder why they didn't program a cooldown on this ability...

Edited March 23, 2011 by Pulverizer

[Deathstroke 10]

Maybe they are frantically clicking the right button to target me so fast, problem for me is that when inf slightly in bush i can right click all i want but suddenly my die hard crew member shooting a tank over 1500 range suddenly turns into this guy called "ted" asking me for the manual.

And when I jump out as last measure of survival, ted suddenly grows some balls and starts blasting away as I get picked off by a sniper. To make matters worse not only does he avenge me by killing the sniper ( and making me look like a noob ) but also picks off 10 other soldiers I have not seen. ( And brags about each guy he kills "I've got him" )

Ugh maybe I should stick to infantry :)