Did I HO ?

[Allen Rune]

First off. HOs are looked down upon because they take no skill. You dont have to work for angles. You dont have to be good. A pilot who always looks for a HO is a dead pilot. Whenever I see guns blaring on the first pass, 99 times out of 100 i know its a dweeb who will be an easy kill. Its easy to avoid unless greatly outnumbered, and slow.
Like I said in my previous post, its OK to HO 262s in my book. Its ok because the 262 is an impossible plane to shoot down otherwise unless they are caught slow, and its just hilarious when it happens.  

As for the real life HO. First off, If i were a real pilot, the last thing i would do is purposely give my enemy an easy guns solution. That's tantamount to suicide. Sure, it happened, but no way would any sane person purposely use that as a tactic to kill unless the enemy didn't have a firing solution, or they were taken by surprise.

Im so sick of the "they did it in real life" excuse. This is a game of skill, NOT real life. You only show how unskilled you are if you are taking a HO every chance you get. I admit I take a HO shot every once in a while if im forced to, but using it as an actual tactic is very lame and will not make you a better player.

Ultimately it is your $15/month. Do what you want. You will rarely see me complain about getting HO'd because I AVOID it. That doesn't mean i don't think its gamey and dweeby.

+1

[chewiex]

I threw my mother in law in front of a 262 once. The driver tried to call me out, claiming that I was HO'ing again........ How did he know my mother in law? Wierd!?

  AMEN Brother!

 

[lyric1]

Agree with Steve and if you see a 262 take any shot you got!   

Never thought I would see the day.

[Bear76]

From my experience with you, the HO is strong in you young jedi 

[Fianna]

Yes you HO'd.

But like other people have said, HO'ing 262's is perfectly acceptable.

[bj229r]

I was flying La7 trying to get to where the fight was, I see a fellow squadmate about 3.5k in front of me, I head towards him, I then hear on vox a 262 just tried a run on him as he said that I see the 262, now I am already flying to aid my squadmate and within a few seconds the 262 is heading straight at me about 1000 out so I fired, he had turned into my flight path and continued that track, of course he went down and the next thing on 200 was nice HO dweeb.  My responce was THANK YOU. So did I take the wrong action or not if you had a 262 closing on you head on that he had made possible by his maneuver would you think he going to HO you or not I did and took the first shot.

If you're flyin an Lgay, you're a ho-er by default

[crazyivan]

If you're flyin an Lgay, you're a ho-er by default

+1

[grizz441]

HOing a 262 is typically the only/best shot you are going to get on the jet.  I don't see too many 262's practicing ACM, and why would they, they cost a fortune and make a 152 turn rate look like a Hurri2C. 

[Roundeye]

HO the crap out of those things.  Unless you are several K above them in a fast plane, you are not going to be able to saddle them up and get a "respectable" kill.  He is going to obviously have the speed advantage so your only choices are a wild snap/deflection shot or a HO.

On something like that, shoot em in the face and be done with it.

[mtnman]

The HO is my number one tactic for 262's. 

The way I see it if I'm fighting a 262 the last thing I can expect is a good, clean fight.  I'm just going to be endlessly dodging with very few if any shot opportunities, and he's not going to have much chance of hitting me.

I combat that by making HOing any 262 that comes near me my main priority.  I seldom actually hit them, but at least they generally get the message pretty quickly and go look for someone else, hehe.

I did feel a slight twinge of guilt last time I HO'ed a 262 though.  I shot at him (pretty sure I missed) and pulled up right before I hit him.  No problem on my end...  But as he went by I saw pieces fall off, and both of his engines were blowin' black smoke.  Then I see the message reporting that Scotch had collided with me.  No damage on my end, since I didn't collide on my end, hehe!

So he got the double whammy HO and Ram, lol!   I felt like I made up for it by not chasing him as he RTB'ed though, hehe!

[grizz441]

You should have hunted him down and killed him, everybody knows Scotch is a timid dweeb

[StokesAk]

Whats Wrong with Hoing 262's its the easiest way to kill them.

[MachFly]

Here is one of my latest 262 kills.

(i'm the guy in the 190 BTW)

I would HO a 262 anyday! Especially if they are the ones setting up the situation. Like that one ^


The way I see it, there are only 2 ways to shot down a 262 if the guy knows what he is doing and keeps it high and fast.  HO or snapshot (which is kinda hard to do when he is moving 500mph)

So WTG on your 262 kill DCCBOSS

[oakranger]

Who really cares about HO. PPL who whine and cry when they get HO are little girls that just need to suck it up. 

Good Kill, BTY

[LCCajun]

Why not HO a 262 not like it is really a fair fight.