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Offline Suave

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« Reply #30 on: January 15, 2007, 06:20:10 PM »
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Ok so you don't care about kills and want to have fun soooooooooooo whats fun and challenging about shooting a chute? just a question

If you have to ask..
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« Reply #31 on: January 15, 2007, 06:23:21 PM »
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Heck, ive actually bailed from a damaged, but still flyable plane in the past after a good fight, to avoid someone else stealing the kill of my adversary.


Possibly the best reason I've ever heard for bailing. However if you do do this please don't .ef untill you've landed on the ground. Stealing fun is worse than stealing kills.
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« Reply #32 on: January 15, 2007, 06:48:08 PM »
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theres nothing wrong with bailing out or with shooting a chute it was widely used during WW2 to keep the pilot from floating to the ground only to be rescued and fight another day


Right, but the differance between AH and real life is that in real life, dead guys cant fly planes. Here, if you get shot down, and stick in the plane all the way down and go BOOM into a hill, POOF! Your back in the tower as a recruit or a veteran or an Ace, or whatever you started out as, able to jump in another plane and get shot down all over again! At the end of the day, even you would complain if HT changed it so you got one life snd then had to create a new Screen name. Id do one sortie and leave the game. I say keep the .ef in chutes.
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« Reply #33 on: January 15, 2007, 07:50:17 PM »
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Errr.... I still dont really get it.


Ditto.

Hypothetically speaking, should a change be made requiring one to ride their bail to the ground, folks would just not open the chute till near the ground. I doubt many folks could hit a body dropping at 200 fps nor give up alt just to kill a bailer at 800 ft.

Bah!
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« Reply #34 on: January 15, 2007, 09:00:23 PM »
Best WTF post/whine of the new year Suave for the good laugh ;)
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« Reply #35 on: January 15, 2007, 09:10:38 PM »
The only think you could possibly get from shooting a chute is a steal of a kill,nuf said.

I just dont open till 200-300 feet.

Let em work on real issues like CT.
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« Reply #36 on: January 15, 2007, 09:27:54 PM »
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Speaking as a "noob" here.... Im not sure whats wrong about bailing and exiting flight? Its the quickest way back to tower and you still get the kill credit.


There was some big hoohah awhile ago about people bailing because it wouldn't affect their score somehow or they'd lose less perkies for baling, that's all I know about it.  When I was flying with Sawman in AH1 he advised me never to shoot chutes as it was a waste of ammo and time, that was one of the only times I saw a chute in AH1.  I did recently kill a chute in Friday squad ops under orders from my squad CO:p
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« Reply #37 on: January 15, 2007, 10:24:05 PM »
It's not enough for me to win; someone else has to die in the process.

They call it a kill for a reason. :t


I also support making the silkchimps ride it to the ground.
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« Reply #38 on: January 15, 2007, 10:26:05 PM »
I still ride the chute until im sure no one cares about my being there. I like to empty my .45 in an effort to get a PK on some poor SOB...
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« Reply #39 on: January 15, 2007, 10:37:45 PM »
Actually, there ARE chutes in the air, but there's a bug that places them on the ground directly below where they're floating. You'll see a pilot with his chute open on the ground for a minute or two because in reality he's still floating. When that chute vanishes, he's hit the ground.

I never knew you could exit while moving in a chute. Ever since the first three times I tried it and got a "You must be stopped..." message, I gave up.
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« Reply #40 on: January 15, 2007, 11:16:13 PM »
Without actually going into Dales head and reading his brain I bet I can still tell you why you can now leave when not alll the way down?



remember not too long ago someone asking on CH 1 for a "mercy shoot" as they accidentally opened their chute at say 10,000 feet? I remember all you chute shooters would let them hang there just to be cruel. (explain that anyway, you shot the chute to be cruel, then leave another just hanging there to be cruel also??)

point being, some vets still made that mistake... imagine a newbie not knowing any better and bailing out of his dead airplane at 20k?

so here's our typical 2-weeker, floating down for about 30 minutes, unable to do a thing. he doesn't know better, and might never learn as he might not want to pay to sit in a chute. his short experience in the online game may be spoiled by this.

as for the accidental vet, he could always ALT-F4 out, then re-log.... but I'll bet that played heck with the stat and login servers, as a quick guy could probably ALT-F4, restart the game, and pop back into the arena before the server knew the first connection was truly lost.

also didn't ALT-F4'ing do funny things to the video in game... leaving artifacts,. or something?
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« Reply #41 on: January 16, 2007, 12:11:10 AM »
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How long have you been playing? It wasn't that long ago that you couldn't end sortie untill you were on the ground.


LOL dood its been about 2 years since they implemented that. Where have you been? Who really gives a rats ass. There are about 1000 things more important that need to be addressed. This is a weak troll. You get an F!
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« Reply #42 on: January 16, 2007, 12:18:43 AM »
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Over two years.


Sorry Schatzi, he's right... Back in AH-I you had to be on the ground to exit.  End Sortie from Chutes started in AHII I believe.
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« Reply #43 on: January 16, 2007, 12:37:22 AM »
OK:

1.  You used to have to ride shoots down all the way.

2.  Now you dont.

3.  You can't kill-steal by taking a chute, the guy who caused the bail or the most damage prior to that already got the kill.

4.  The most a pilot who .ef's a chute can gain is a capture or successful bail over a death.

5.  Floating down from 20K after being shot in a bomber could take 30 minutes (or more).

6.  It's easy to accidently open your shoot bailing from 20K plus as your often used to the quick entry at lower alts to get your chute open in time.

I'd say its the best balance, otherwise, if you think it's fun go bail at 20K, open and ride it down.  Woo Hoo!!!!

Shooting the chute doesn't even give you the kill-steal you're so desperately looking for.

If the best fight you have in you is killing a chute go defend a field against goons.  You don't even have to face off against the goon, just kill the troops.

Leave it alone.
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« Reply #44 on: January 16, 2007, 01:33:18 AM »
I don't shoot chutes to killsteal, I shoot them for the same reasons everyone else does-

the whines.

FIX TEH CHUTE!1!
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