HiTech: PLEASE change the total BS 5" puffy rubbish

[mechanic]

i'm totaly fed up with some maroon shooting AA shells at a enemy plane that is at most 400yrds from a friendly.

Its bloody ridiculous!

It wasnt like i was close to the CV. probably on memory i was 5-7k from it.


watch this film:

http://www.freeroleentertainment.com/files/film16.ahf

it doesnt show the puffy ack burst but that is what hit me, i have no doubt.




so, a good fight for about 40 seconds.

the zero is no more than 50-100 yrds from me when i am hit full on by manned 5" ack.

WTFG 'Slap60' great fight, you deserve that kill. well done!

Hitech if you dont see the BS in being able to kill an enemy and do no damage to a friendly in this kind of situation then I give up.



please, PLEASE change something to avoid this situation happening.

myself and yonoi arranged to fight one on one and i got pelted by puffy ack.

its a joke.


at least make it kill both planes or niether of them.






batfink

[Howitzer]

Yup... got my engine last night in a furball.  Was fantabulous.

[Lye-El]

Originally posted by mechanic
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myself and yonoi arranged to fight one on one and i got pelted by puffy ack.

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Just an idea, why not "arrange" the fight where the ack isn't?

[Dead Man Flying]

Someone blasted me with a five inch gun the other night while I had 17 kills in a Tempest.  It happens.  I don't get too worked up about it.  Next time I won't furball so closely to the enemy carrier.

-- Todd/Leviathn

[wetrat]

Ship gunners are in a tie for third in the top killers of me. Add in all my deaths to unmanned flak, and it's at #1. Gotta love it

[Dead Man Flying]

Originally posted by wetrat
Ship gunners are in a tie for third in the top killers of me. Add in all my deaths to unmanned flak, and it's at #1. Gotta love it

Sounds historically accurate then.

-- Todd/Leviathn

[dedalos]

This time I have a film of the guy hitting me beyond icon range.  He is actually laughing in 200 about it.

Hey Mechanic, 1$ says someone will call BS on you.

Levi, its not about being worked up.  Its about the action being BS.  I for one cannot really see a CV when 6K out.  It would sound more 'historically accurate' if damage was inflicted to friendly also.  

[wetrat]

Originally posted by Dead Man Flying
Sounds historically accurate then.

-- Todd/Leviathn

Coulda sworn this game is about fighting planes, not turrets

[Dead Man Flying]

Well of course it's silly and dumb.  But it's part of the game, and that's that.  You can choose to get worked up about it and blow a gasket, or you can accept that it's there and deal with it accordingly.  I consider dying to five inch guns the equivalent of crashing to the desktop.  If it's gonna happen, it's gonna happen, and there's not much you can do to avoid it when it does.

Maybe one day HTC will implement friendly fire into the five inch gun equation, and if they do, we'll all adjust to that too.

-- Todd/Leviathn

[Dead Man Flying]

Originally posted by wetrat
Coulda sworn this game is about fighting planes, not turrets

So stop flying over bases and near carriers already.  

-- Todd/Leviathn

[Pongo]

We ran accross a guy named Rig last night manning the ack on a carrier. I had allready killed the CA and we had hit a few of the guns on the carrier.
But this guy was uncanny. I was barely above the tree tops sneaking an Il2 arround him probably 10000 yards away and he flamed my engine. It took a whole squad opp to get that carrier.
The lack of shore guns at bases in this map can make the carrier that is manned so well very deadly.

[SunKing]

5" ack whoring is fun stuff. Please don't change it.

[Lye-El]

Originally posted by dedalos
This time I have a film of the guy hitting me beyond icon range.

Personally, just because a guy goes out of icon range when I'm in a 5 inch it doesn't mean I quit shooting especially if there is nothing else to worry about at the moment.

I aim high and try to track his path. Can't think of an instance I actually hit anything doing that but I still try. Heck I had a flight of lancs on the deck last night heading at my Osti and I couldn't hit them either.

[Pongo]

Originally posted by Dead Man Flying
Well of course it's silly and dumb.  But it's part of the game, and that's that.  You can choose to get worked up about it and blow a gasket, or you can accept that it's there and deal with it accordingly.  I consider dying to five inch guns the equivalent of crashing to the desktop.  If it's gonna happen, it's gonna happen, and there's not much you can do to avoid it when it does.

Maybe one day HTC will implement friendly fire into the five inch gun equation, and if they do, we'll all adjust to that too.

-- Todd/Leviathn

If he does it will likley be because people commented on their experiance with it.

[dedalos]

Originally posted by Lye-El
Personally, just because a guy goes out of icon range when I'm in a 5 inch it doesn't mean I quit shooting especially if there is nothing else to worry about at the moment.

I aim high and try to track his path. Can't think of an instance I actually hit anything doing that but I still try. Heck I had a flight of lancs on the deck last night heading at my Osti and I couldn't hit them either.

lol, but due to lag and the way the FE updates when cons are far away, the con you aim for is not there.  The path you are traking is not real.  The con is somewhere else.  Any hits are pure luck.

Levi   man.  Thats all I was looking for.  Some one else to come out and say it is dumb.  Whether it gets fixed or not its a dif story.