Author Topic: One More Time: How Does My Chute Kill? (Read 121 times)

Halo · « **on:** July 04, 2002, 05:16:20 PM »

I researched this thread about why a pilot gets credit for a kill with a parachute (NOT shooting other chutes, a separate more volatile topic), but I'm still not clear why it happens.

The most interesting post was by HiTech in 1999 who said it was a bug that would be fixed in the next release.

I had two kills in my chute last round and still am not sure why. I think it is because while I was in my parachute, my opponent's plane crashed? If so, why wouldn't my machine that zapped him be acknowledged instead of the parachute I escaped in?

Or could I be credited for a kill simply by being in my parachute when an enemy I had not engaged crashes near me? If so, why would I be credited at all?

Or it is something else?

Getting a kill credited to a parachute doesn't seem to please either the killer or the killed. Can this be clarified?

Hortlund · « **Reply #1 on:** July 04, 2002, 05:41:49 PM »

It is called proximity kill.

When you were floating in your chute, the pilot of the enemy plane got scared or distracted by a girl or something and dived into the ground.

You were inside icon range and you were his closest enemy pilot.

GunnerCAF · « **Reply #2 on:** July 04, 2002, 06:28:50 PM »

A few nights ago, just before I was going to log off, I took a load of supplies to HQ, landed than bailed to run around HQ. A Tiffy was kind enough to crash right next to me and I recieved a kill message. I checked the score board and saw it have me a shute kill.

Yes, these are proximity kills when after you bail.

Gunner

eskimo2 · « **Reply #3 on:** July 04, 2002, 10:26:07 PM »

The instant you bail, your sortie is over. IE, if you dump troops at a base, die, then it gets captured, you won't get credit.

eskimo

Halo · « **Reply #4 on:** July 04, 2002, 11:50:41 PM »

Hmph, if those are proximity kills, I don't want them, and I don't think the dead enemy pilots want their demises credited to a floater either.

Why isn't this practice just stopped? Doesn't seem to add anything to the game.

Fatty · « **Reply #5 on:** July 05, 2002, 07:22:57 AM »

Just kill all the chutes you see and it won't be a problem.

Hortlund · « **Reply #6 on:** July 05, 2002, 11:05:23 AM »

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Originally posted by eskimo2
The instant you bail, your sortie is over. IE, if you dump troops at a base, die, then it gets captured, you won't get credit.

eskimo

Really? I thought "alot" of people gamed the game by dumping troops at a base, auger, replane now in another type of sortie (attack) --> get base capture points in attack sortie.