Yeah UXLZ, i've had that more than once! Shoot an enemy, get hit indicators, they spin around and shoot me, and the server finally catches up and kills us both.
The thing that made me quit was this.
One glorious afternoon, the TR on Briggs were pushing the NC out. There were no Vanu, because TROL wasn't online, and that's practically the entire VS population.
I spotted a wounded NC sunderer with a few players but no engineers repairing it. I thought: THIS IS MY MOMENT FOR GLORY.
Slapped two C4 sticks onto my Flash, turbo'd over there. Ran over a guy who was waiting at the sundy, but... he took no damage. As i flew up into the air to avoid any return fire, the Flash came up to a neat rest besides the Sunderer. Hovering in the air, I mash the C4 detonate trigger...
i hear the "boom" of the C4... the flash doesn't die, the sunderer doesn't die, and i get shot out of the sky by a Jackhammer. Just the C4 disappear.
Round 2:
Similar situation, against VS this time. Wounded sundy, I'm zooming around on a flash, because it's fun and the squad leader hadn't given me orders. Heavy assault this time for survivability. The turbo on the flash is what i'm relying on to get me there.
Slap the two sticks on the Flash, start driving over to it. My intention is to jump off the flash early and let it roll to the Sunderer.
So I get within range, jump off the Flash.... and teleport into the sky. I have the wherewithal to activate my overshield and hopefully sponge some damage...
No good. Dead on impact. Waste of the flash and C4 nanites.
Round 3.
I tried a similar tactic again, though this time against a healthy sunderer. I was out of rockets, wanted to det my flash on them, because even if it didn't kill the sunderer it'd startle the players near it.
Jump off. Ejection seat bug doesn't occur. Okay, good. Fire on a few players to get their attention. The one I'm targeting's character model does the 'flinch after being hit' animation, but has no hit indicators. Oh, okay. So the NC are riled up and ready to kill me. I flick the overshield on, go to detonate the C4, and they just fizzle. I die.
Hooorah.
It was after that that I quit.