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I've noticed a lot of shots to the front of my Pershing sound like they penetrate but I take no damage. I saw on another thread that the shell was penetrating my mantle but stopping at the turret. I was just in a match though that really made me wonder.

I got shot in the front, heard the penetration and took no damage, so I assume it was like every other shot like that. I turned the camera to look behind me and I saw this:
http://www.voodoo-pc...03_16444384.jpg
The shot penetrated, hit just below my turret but I took no damage and no critical damage. This shot was from an IS, not exactly the most powerful gun, you can see another of its shots bounced to the right.

Is there part of the Pershing hitbox that just absorbs shots even though it looks and sounds like they penetrate or is there some other explanation?

I'm not sure it's just the pershing, I've had a few cases of putting 5+ AP rounds into a target , get the hit confirmation , but see 0 damage.

(Most often on T1's, but a couple other tanks as well if my fuzzy memory serves me right)

I understand you can have your AP shots go through a target and do no HP damage but do damage directly to modules, but the guy who shot me didn't do anything. It might as well have been a miss.

I got the exact same thing on my Pershing, but I notice it a lot on other tanks too.

 VooDooPC, on Aug 03 2011 - 22:45, said:

Yeah, but that's usually followed by a "Critical hit" voice message, and in the example provided there was no indication of such.

Just magical shots that hit , but don't hurt  

I think I've had that happen to me a couple times before too but, usually thy just end up taking out my gun instead of not getting hurt at all.

I had some of these situations happen to me some times in the Pershing or E8, but the thing is that when I shoot my enemies i get a "We got them" or "We hit them hard and did no damage at all. I call them ghost shells or just that the enemy has ghost armor...   

One time actually I shot a panthers back 5 times and I herd 5 times "Thats gotta hurt" and i did only 5% damage, I was driving my Pershing with the 90mm M3... I raged so hard when a Tiger II stole my kill (as expected)...  

Overall ghost shells are annoying and ghost armor is even more annoying, but just hope that they will turn to your favor and dont get damaged by a shot from an IS.

Since 6.4 badly designed tanks (in real life) got ninja buffs by making their mantlet invulnerable.

This is one of them.

 Communism, on Aug 04 2011 - 10:48, said:

The shot didn't even hit my mantle.

 VooDooPC, on Aug 04 2011 - 13:51, said:

The hull observation ports on the U.S. tanks are also not HP dmg hitboxes

Phantom penetrators, happens on every tank and it's incredibly frustrating, especially when a couple of 0 damage, non critical, non "it passed right through" penetrating hits mean you die instead of killing the target.

 NTRabbit, on Aug 04 2011 - 22:45, said:

Stop the "god of the gaps" explanations.

I'm pretty sure the sun just plunges into the sea at night as well.