Chute Towering

[TwinBoom]

Anything that would cause frustration in the game is not a good idea IMO.  This would certainly cause it for those who want to get in their new airplane quickly.

yeah i guess we must not upset the video arcade players just let them re-up to maintain their score
and get the revenge kill  real show of sportmanship huh
i guess I'm from the old school way of playing were sportsmanship and respect were what mattered

[Radener]

Im all for it TB, would just suck the few times your at 15- 20k and lose a wing and bail out and pull the rip cord. could be a few hours before terriferma was reached 

TT

[OSU]

If I have to bail out, I just wait till I'm right above the ground. That way no one has enough time to line up a shot on me, and I still survive.

Hehe, I like that.  Make them float down from 20k.

I had to do that in frame 1 of DGS.

[dkff49]

I can already see the string of "kill stealer" complaints streaming now. The best way to defeat such an addition to game would be to ride the wreckage to the ground or water, giving more of an opportunity for the score potatoes to steal your kill.

Most times I bail is for 2 reasons.

1) to get a new plane and get in the air faster (whether it be against same opponent or new one)

2) to allow the killer the best opportunity to get his earned kill and prevent some stealer tard to take it away

[Soulyss]

I do miss the mercy pleas from someone who accidentally opened their chute at 10k+ just begging on chl1/200 for someone to come put them out of their misery and get them back to the tower. 

[Newman5]

I do miss the mercy pleas from someone who accidentally opened their chute at 10k+ just begging on chl1/200 for someone to come put them out of their misery and get them back to the tower. 

[Babalonian]

I've been out of AHII for a few years, and didn't know about chute towering until I saw this post yesterday.  Thanks to it, I denied two... 'gentlemen' their chute kills last night.  

I like to bail out of my doomed craft and open the chute just high enough to observe the continueing fight going on above for about 30-60 seconds.  But I always hated that sometimes a trigger happy pilot felt it necessary to waste ammo and altitude on me.  Towering after he's dived down and is lineing up his shot on me is great.

I do miss the mercy pleas from someone who accidentally opened their chute at 10k+ just begging on chl1/200 for someone to come put them out of their misery and get them back to the tower. 

Those were hilarious (and kind of fun when you got to hunt them down, kill them,  and got generously thanked for it), at first I thought the pistols they've given pilots now were so that the bailed pilot could shoot at planes trying to kill them (self defence) and/or shoot their own chute to fall faster (and get back to the tower faster).  I was disapointed when I learned you can't shoot your own chute.  Still, it's nice to have a pistol now (though I haven't killed anything with it).

[E25280]

yeah i guess we must not upset the video arcade players just let them re-up to maintain their score
and get the revenge kill  real show of sportmanship huh
i guess I'm from the old school way of playing were sportsmanship and respect were what mattered

Really?  It is more "sportsmanlike" to have to float all the way to the ground?  Seriously?


 


It has nothing to do with maintaining scores, revenge killing or anything of the like.  This is a game for recreational purposes, and there is absolutely nothing "fun" about being forced to sit around for 20-30 seconds while your chute floats to the ground if you are not inclined to wait.

Might as well put a spawn timer on the game then, right?  I am sure that would go over well, too?   

Oh, yeah, and those "arcade players" help pay HTC's bills, so I say, the more of them, the better.

[TwinBoom]

get better dont get killed u wont have to float

this game used to be about the flying and fight i guess its changed into highscore madness
respectful fighting is gone

[Bronk]

get better dont get killed u wont have to float

this game used to be about the flying and fight i guess its changed into highscore madness
respectful fighting is gone

TB I have to respectfully disagree. I bail and tower for 2 reasons.
1. It ensures the guy who clipped me gets the kill. Tardlets can't chase me to the ground hoping for a kill steal this way.
2. I get back up faster. I don't have much time for the game as of late. Work issues and home issues.  My play time is short I don't need to be hampered on reupping.   

[Kitt18]

How about a time delay. Sorta like "intentional grounding". If you bail from an undamaged, or slightly damaged plane, you get a 3 or 5 minute "penalty".
Have to wait to re-up.

[Kitt18]

How about a time delay. Sorta like "intentional grounding". If you bail from an undamaged, or slightly damaged plane, you get a 3 or 5 minute "penalty".
Have to wait to re-up.

Nevermind, thats just silly.

[devild0gs]

2 things.

1) Nothing is more fun when a guy shoots your wing and zoom's off to land it on the ground and than 5-9 minutes later the guy wonder wtf happened I thought I had another kill....

2) if your lucky like me when you chute that you kill the idiot trying 2 get you... happened 3 times once the idiot augered after i shot him... other 2 times I PW'd the due mass and they augered cuz they couldnt pull up from dive

[uptown]

What I hate is when I kill a few guys with my buff guns and they re-up and kill me after I've been shot up and out of ammo.

[BlauK]

Easy solution:

If one wants to tower quickly from a chute, let him die with his .ef
Quicker way to tower, but less points from the sortie. Also worse K/D.

Allow "bailed out succesfully" or "captured" result only when feet touch ground (or water)