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I threw a cannonball from elevation which causes it to explode, but somehow it killed literally everyone from full health.
The kill feed also shows some weird things too.
Fort Brachsenbrücke
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That was funny as fudge!
Its a thing that far throws on the cannonball results in explosions…but the damage does indeed appear a bit higher and further reaching than normal 
Dal dawi barag 
Fatshark caused this with an update some time ago, probably Karak Azgaraz maps. Someone nukes a player or the team about half the time I play old Fort Brachsenbruke. Really telling when it happens so often, yet it’s their first time realizing that it does team damage. Sometimes when I toss it down, while it’s falling somebody will rush to get it and get nuked by me because they’re unaware of this phenomenon.
Yeah, it’s an Okri’s challenge, but it didn’t always cause team damage. The thing I’ve mentioned before is that a smooth round cast iron cannonball does not explode. Explosive shells explode, and they could be easily remedied if this shot had some kind of fuse like the grenades and make it blow up and disappear, then respawned like the barrels. It’s not beyond reason that the Empire would have explosive round shells for their cannons, but instead Fatshark made a solid ball that explodes on contact. Even grenades with a fuse on a wick as seen in this game would not explode on contact in reality, they did when the fuse ignited the bomb.
That’s a small gripe though, I wouldn’t care if it blew up on contact, as long as it actually looked like an explosive cannonball shell and it didn’t magically still exist after being blown up. Explosive hand grenades would be filled some kind of shrapnel, and something explosive.
As near as I can tell, these were made in the1850s. I checked a number of sources, and this is what an explosive cannonball would look like, and it’s well outside the middle ages. These shells use a Bormann fuse which is the horseshoe of black powder used to ignite the blasting charge cylinder in the middle. This is from the Civil War and were made by Allegheny Arsenal. Earlier ones existed in the 1800s that the british army used and had an issue where the wooden and paper fuses made them duds if they got moisture on them.
If it were worth the effort, I would suggest Fatshark had somebody remodel the cannonball to be an explosive shell like pictured above, simply by having a Bormann fuse on the surface with the metal cap to cover the powder; very simple spot on the surface so it looks like an explosive shell. Then, have it just respawn after detonation. They could even include small stockpiles at locations where the shots are supposed to spawn so that after it is gone from being detonated, a new one will be ready.
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