Talk:Vehicle armor and damage resistance/@comment-198.29.54.21-20190604215506/@comment-4058379-20200331172328

Staff like grenades and explosive work in completely different way from projectiles that fired directly from player/vehicle/turret. All normal weapons work on creating arc and calculating if anything hit with projectile that travels on it.

While grendes, c4 and etc spawns entity that creates damage radius from it's center. Hence why tank mines work across continent way beyond render range, since server doesn't despawn them as long as you don't logout.

But since now all of the explosives that can damage vehicles just have 100% armor penetration it doesn't matter.

And again, that just how armor works in planetside all that matters is where you stand relative to vehicle, here forum thread with video example showing it off, as you can see the direction didn't matter at all, just the position.