Author Topic: Friendly Fire  (Read 259 times)

Offline gofaster

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« Reply #15 on: August 07, 2002, 01:34:52 PM »
The other night I was tail-end to a group of LVTs making a capture of a city.  The carrier group had levelled the entire airbase via the computer-controlled battleship guns and there wasn't a single enemy around. The city happened to sit at the top of a bluff, so we were really crawling up that sand dune to get into the town.  It was taking forever, and we were within 1.2 of each other.  We really were a herd of turtles.

Just to liven things up, I jumped into the upper .50 cal gun and popped off a couple of rounds every now and then into the dirt on either side of the guys in front, just to keep the boys on their toes and frosty.  Since I don't use tracers, they didn't know where the fire was coming from.  It was kind of fun, like doing an infantry drill during war games.

Another time, my squadron was running a jabo op.  We were staggered between 10k and 20k.  As the flight droned on, one of the higher fighters made a high-speed guns pass on a lower fighter in front, firing his tracers over the top of the target fighter so that the pilot could see it bright as day.  The exclamations coming over the radio were hilarious.

Sometimes friendly fire can be the best part of a sortie! :)

Offline SunKing

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« Reply #16 on: August 07, 2002, 01:54:27 PM »
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Keep killshooter the way it is. The alternative is being vulched on your own field by all sorts of fellow countrymen morons
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Maybe code something were you are imune to FF until a certain alt. *shrug*:rolleyes:

Offline Curval

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« Reply #17 on: August 07, 2002, 02:00:56 PM »
For your next post may I suggest HOs (head-ons) as your topic.;)  

Actually you got off kinda light...Toad must have been in a good mood.;)
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Offline Innominate

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« Reply #18 on: August 07, 2002, 02:41:20 PM »
Killshooter is the only effective way to simulate friendly fire without having idiots trying to teamkill.  It's one of the simplest solutions, And I challenge you to find something that works better in practice.

That said, It would be nice if shooting a teammate did as much damage to you as  you landed on him.  The whole "hit a friendly with a .303, lose your tail" thing is a bit extreme IMO.

Offline SKurj

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« Reply #19 on: August 07, 2002, 05:29:26 PM »
killshooter is fine for guns...

but not for bombs...    drop a salvo from 20k and some guy flies through the blast and u are back in hangar quick...

not sure if this is still in place with the formations, cuz i can't be bothered to buff anymore +)


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