Pilot Wounds

[bagrat]

ide like to see them implement a button you can tap rapidly to fight off blacking out if anything for just a few seconds. It probably seems really gamey but i the button tap would represent pilot will power.

now ive never been shot but I have but ive lost blood to the point of light headedness an managed to fight off the wooziness an continue what i was doin. or maybe i was just woozy from seein all the blood

[fbWldcat]

Being a zeke pilot 70% of the time, it is a drag trying to fight in between those incessant blackouts. I mean, who knew zeke pilots took blood thinners!? I didn't!

[bagrat]

Being a zeke pilot 70% of the time, it is a drag trying to fight in between those incessant blackouts. I mean, who knew zeke pilots took blood thinners!? I didn't!

its all the sake they gave em before take off.

[flatiron1]

I wish they would increase the level of pilot wounds and add the ability of the cockpit catching on fire and your pilot being BBQ'd to death.


ack-ack

how about some screaming also. lol I did modify my WW1 pilot wound sound to Oh chit.

[ozrocker]

I wish they would increase the level of pilot wounds and add the ability of the cockpit catching on fire and your pilot being BBQ'd to death.


ack-ack

yum bbq

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[Tec]

lets face it unless you got a .50 cal to the arm that's your only chance of survival, a .50 cal anywhere else and your dead any where in the mid-section your gone. 

I wouldn't mind it being alittle harder to get a pw and when you did get a pw you died immediately like some we see now. 

That argument would be valid if we were just flying around like birds and not cocooned inside an aircraft.  Any bullet that does hit your pilot has to hit something else first.  Also there are already straight up "pilot kills" in the game, so the PW aspect could just as well be modeling damage done from shrapnel or bullet fragments. 

I do agree however that the PW model could use some tweaking, and there have been some interesting ideas put forth in this thread. 

[SlapShot]

Obviously in real life WW2 there was but the style of gameplay in the MA is not WW2, if it was we wouldn't be able to hit auto pilot between blackouts. Just seems like a real big annoyance to fly 10 minutes to a fight and get an early pw from people frantically spraying on a slow merge, then spend the next 5 minutes trying to fight blacking out at critical moments.

Do we really need them as frequently or at all considering the style of gameplay? Never thought about it much until I realised last night how pointless they are except to cheese you off in random ways while your trying to get a few hours of fun squeezed in 

You always have the option to punch out back to the tower if you don't want to endure the blackouts. You are not forced to stay in the cockpit under those conditions.

[Pand]

Just like with an oil or radiator hit, if I take a PW, I look for the first opportunity to escape the fight and get back to base to survive.

I think pilot wounds are awesome and add a great dynamic to the game.  I've won (and lost) many a fight by making a short, high deflection snapshot against the enemy's canopy in a turn fight with my .50's... and was then able to secure the kill because the enemy couldn't keep yanking the stick around like a maniac 

[Ack-Ack]

You always have the option to punch out back to the tower if you don't want to endure the blackouts. You are not forced to stay in the cockpit under those conditions.

He's lucky he's not in S.A.P.P.  Guppy made us all unbind out bail out key so we'd be forced to stay with the plane, says it's "unmanly" for a man to hang under silk.


ack-ack

[bagrat]

another thing, I would almost prefer to be instantly killed if I recieve 1 of those pw which results in blacking out every 30 seconds. As opposed to the false hope of making it home if i race there fast enough. I would simply bail out, But i recieve the 5 or 3 min pw usually when im in a perk ride or if i have 5 or more kills. However if i have no kills and are in a free ride I get pw's that last 15 mins. Why do u tease me AH why!?

[Ack-Ack]

If you have a PW and bail out, do you still black out in the parachute?


ack-ack

[TnDep]

If you have a PW and bail out, do you still black out in the parachute?


ack-ack

don't believe so

[fbWldcat]

I believe everyone should replace the sound of engine failure in the game to "I'm giving it all she's got, Cap'n!!!"

So you have just escaped a major furball, a couple kills, rtb, oil hit, all of a sudden, prop falters... "I'm giving it all she's got, Cap'n!!!"

[BrownBaron]

[...]now ive never been shot but I have[...]

 

[guncrasher]

lets face it unless you got a .50 cal to the arm that's your only chance of survival, a .50 cal anywhere else and your dead any where in the mid-section your gone. 

I wouldn't mind it being alittle harder to get a pw and when you did get a pw you died immediately like some we see now. 

do you know what a .50 caliber shot in the arm would do to the arm?  it would be gone, and you'll bleed to death in a few min.  my bet is a .50 shot anywhere just chances of surviving are pretty much based on how fast you can stop the bleeding and how fast you can get to a doctor.  specially a .50 from an airplane round.


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