by TimTim » Mon Jan 21, 2013 2:54 am
It does indeed look like an image drop. And if it his player model appeared to you as being down there, that's where his hitbox would have been on your client, so it makes sense that it looked to you like the shockbeam was stopping on him. But since your shock beam is fake (it comes out instantly on the client, before the server can receive/process it) and all that matters is whether or not your shock beam on the server hit the enemy, it didn't kill him because he wasn't at that location on the server.