Author Topic: another I hate puffy ack thread (Read 1625 times)

waystin2 · « **Reply #15 on:** December 27, 2007, 11:26:13 AM »

Fester,

I thought I had the puffy all to myself! Oh well, I guess that I can share. On a serious note, the current puffy ack setup has to be heat, radar, laser, and gps guided the way it can swat my plane right outta the sky.

Oink

dBeav · « **Reply #16 on:** December 27, 2007, 12:45:56 PM »

I like puffy ack.

MotorOil1 · « **Reply #17 on:** December 27, 2007, 01:24:26 PM »

Ya it kills once in a while. I say leave it alone. If it's killing you, it's killing the enemy as well. It does its job aside from the shooting through mountains bug.

croduh · « **Reply #18 on:** December 27, 2007, 01:47:37 PM »

Puffy ack does not shoot over 40k, IIRC?

Man i have a solution for everything!

bongaroo · « **Reply #19 on:** December 27, 2007, 03:22:28 PM »

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Originally posted by Xasthur
I agree with the idea of prioritising buffs as puffy ack targets.

A 109 weaving through 5k of alt at 15k should not be a feasible target to puffy ack.... yet it seems that I recieve critical engine damage whilst the level-bombing lancs below me are not targeted at all.

Puffy ack is a necessary addition to the game but it needs to be a little less deadly to small aircraft at long ranges.

I have never been killed or damaged by puffy ack when I am in visual range of the CV it is coming from...... only when OUTSIDE visual range. That does not seem logical at all.

i don't think puffy ack has ever killed me in a bomber, but man o man do i have a puffy ack magnet stuck to my plane if I'm in a fighter, jeez its ridiculous sometimes

Stang · « **Reply #20 on:** December 27, 2007, 03:38:29 PM »

One time I was flying a temp on the deck to stop a horde at a field off a cv. I killed one guy, pulled up doing almost 500 mph, and when I got to 3,001 ft, boom.

I love it too.

Wingnutt · « **Reply #21 on:** December 27, 2007, 04:52:36 PM »

ive lost a 234 drone to the puff one time..

cant think of any other instance where ive had a bomber hit by it..

but I can think of several where I had my yak vaporized while cherry... *cough* flying over furball a looking for a target.

715 · « **Reply #22 on:** December 28, 2007, 12:12:29 AM »

I must be flying a different game. I've been flying what I thought was AH since it started and I've never seen AI puffy ack hit anything whatsoever (except my own puffy ack killed me once when I was trying to defend the CV from an attacker). I have been on CVs hundreds of times where slow level bombers were fired at by the AI puffy ack, but I cannot recall a single time they ever hit them. Manned puffy ack yes, unmanned never. Unless a CV is manned, it has a 0% probability of surviving incoming bombers and the bombers, if above normal ack range, have nearly a 100% chance of exiting untouched.

So yes, go ahead and remove puffy ack- it does nothing whatsoever (except confuse the manned gunners regarding their aim).

I do agree that firing through mountains is not right, but that would be a complicated fix as the host apparently doesn't actually trace the puffy ack flight path so it can't know it's firing through mountains.

moot · « **Reply #23 on:** December 28, 2007, 12:25:19 AM »

You must be on the far end of the bell curve...

B@tfinkV · « **Reply #24 on:** December 28, 2007, 12:30:09 AM »

some of the best pilots in the war died from random puffy ack, quite a few of them right before the end of WW1 and again in WW2.

kilz · « **Reply #25 on:** December 28, 2007, 01:33:45 AM »

Puffy ack owns Fester

OOZ662 · « **Reply #26 on:** December 28, 2007, 01:42:34 AM »

Haven't died to AI puffy in as long as I can remember.