Shooting a M113/Vulcan gunner

[raistlin_kell]

Greetings.
Played Kegetys "Golina Strike" MP Mission , which is excellent by the way. The 4th objective is to take out a Nato base. In the base is a Vulcan with a gunner perched at the base of a hill. He's facing the opposite direction. I can line him up with a SVD Dragunov to the point where the back of his head is a melon in my scope, yet i cannot kill him.

My question - Is it possible to kill a gunner in a M113 or a Vulcan APC? Has anyone got any ideas if its possible?

[CrashnBurn]

Never been able to do it...never heard of anyone else doing it either. Offer him a RPG instead of a dragunov round next time.

[macguba]

I just put four magazines of M21 into a M113 gunner's head and he didn't blink, so I suspect it's impossible.   The bullets appear to disappear.  Below, you get puffs of smoke from hitting the vehicle:  above, puffs on the ground behind him.  But on target they just vanish.  

[Xanthus]

It's possible only when vehicles behaviour is set to careless, or the driver is turned out.

[Loup-Garou]

It seems impossible to kill a M113 gunner (I tried many times, like macguba). However, you can easily shot with a rifle other types of crews (BMP, T72...) when they're in safe or careless mode (they're turned out).  

[Dubieman]

I have done it but only once and I think something in the game engine hiccuped. It was in the Red Hammer Campaign where you gotta steal the Mi17 but take out the Vulcans first. The first time I played that mission I put an AK round in the gunners head. I'm surprised that it didn't work after. :hmm:

M113s I think cannot have their gunners popped in the head unless your straight above them in real life but the Vulcan gunner should be easy to knock off. Maybe Ofp tried to even out both sides advantages and disadvantges by making M113 gunners invulnavrable.

I'd rather put a rocket up his ### and watch him blow up cause I like explosions. ;D

[Wolfrug]

Well, does anyone here remember them old, old, old versions of OFP, when the M113's didn't have that guy on top of them, but rather just a low turret that swayed from side to side?

No?  

Well, uhm. Maybe the fact you can't shoot the gunner is an old relic from that time. They did just overwrite the old model, neh? Maybe they didn't dare change it, in case the M113 was crucial for some mission and the new hit-model would've risked killing off the gunner in some random hail of bullets.

Or something.

Wolfrug out.

[Tomb]

WTF ;D who dragged YOU out, yoda?!! :wow: this is a bad omen! :noo:  ;D

lmao, noone remembers that - neither do you, you're just still playing that demo version :booty: :moon:  ;D

good 2 CYA m8