Originally posted by Samm
They turned off friendly kills in AW in 97 or so .
With bullets, yes.... it was still possible to kill friendlies with bombs, though..... as I found out!
Once was bombing an enemy field and I accidentally dropped on a friendly that was sat on the ground, killing the pilot and gunner - instant PNG! Another time, I accidentally dropped a bomb while typing on the text channels at the end of a Flyby (final flyby of volunteer staff when EA decided we were no longer required
), killing unknown number of others who were in close proximity. Fortunately, that was my last time using that account, so the fact I would have been PNG for some time didn't matter.
So far in AH I have mostly managed not to Killshooter myself, by being careful if there are friendlies in my line of fire - I will stop firing rather than risk hitting them. The only exception was a few weeks ago... I was spawning an Ostwind at a remote location and noticed an 'enemy' right at the spawn point - fired at it, but each time it got me first. After it happened about 3 times, it suddenly dawned on me that I was in fact hitting a friendly each time..... I had been messing about with the Icon settings, and had accidentally left them as
Icons Off! Therefore, when I had seen the GVs without icons I had presumed they were enemies and opened fire.
