If We Weren't Supposed to Shoot Chutes...

[Frost]

The only reason I ever shoot planes is so the chutes will fall out.

[DA98]

Edit: The best thing to ever happen to AH was the "spy" rationalisation.

Sooooooooo true!!!

[Dago]

and only pisses other players off needlessly.

No need to offer more fun things about it, we are already sold on the fun of it.

I have asked HT to make the little guys under the chutes scream when you shoot them, but he declined offering that the real players were probably already screaming enough. Damn that HT is a funny guy, really cracked me up.

Of course, its more fun to shoot the chute from another guys kill, then they have no idea who to piss and moan at on ch 1.  

I have said it before, and I will say it again, you are not just welcome, but encouraged to shoot me in a chute, I dont give a dang.

dago

[715]

The most satisfying thing I have ever done in AH was to disintegrate an enemy plane that was target fixated on a chute.

Killing another players plane happens in the virtual world- you show your superiority as a pilot.  Killing another players chute is a real world thing.  You gain nothing in score, perks, strategic advantage, or tactical advantage.  The only reason to do it is specifically to piss off the other player.  So when you are shot in your chute (and in AH that happens 99.9% of the time) it means that the other player actually despises  you as a person, and wishes to inflict upon you as much discomfort as is possible via a remote connection.  There is no other explanation.

[Dead Man Flying]

Originally posted by 715
The only reason to do it is specifically to piss off the other player.  So when you are shot in your chute (and in AH that happens 99.9% of the time) it means that the other player actually despises you as a person, and wishes to inflict upon you as much discomfort as is possible via a remote connection.  There is no other explanation.

Ding ding ding!  I think he finally gets it!

Of course, the truth of the matter is that only those who allow themselves to be angered by having their chutes shot are the ones who experience "discomfort."  Shooting chutes has the unique property of being as ruthless, assinine, wicked, depraved, skill-free, hateful, wasteful, dumb, and unsportsmanlike as the shootee believes it to be.  To me, it's just another chump in a chute.

-- Todd/Leviathn

[funkedup]

The only reason to do it is specifically to piss off the other player.

Wrong.

I do it to be historical.  In order to avenge the atrocities committed by the Luftwaffe over Poland in 1939, Polish fighter units developed disciplined methods of dispatching Nazi parachutists.

[Samm]

If you don't get a laugh from being shot while hanging in a chute harness you probably need to take a step back for some perspective . If you get pissed because someone shot you while you're in a chute that means you're taking it personal. In that case you're taking things way too seriously .

BTW what is all this about shooting chutes ? I allways aim for the pilot .

[stegor]

I dont like to shot at bailed pilots, so, please HTC, give us ....... flamethrowers to fire their chute:D

[devious]

I shoot chutes if I'm either really pissed off at the guy, or I'm flying a 190a5 or 109 e/f/g with those hundreds of otherwise useless 7.92 rounds

[rv6]

Boy oh boy,, do some folks get hot regarding this.
This is virtual acm.  I, personally could not fire up a defensely person in a parachute for real.  Tactically speaking, in the hateful skies of AH virtual war, I used to hope for someone to pop my chute, and if possible, bail over nme bases so that the field ack would get me quickly.

Thus, an unwitting nme wastes ammo, and I get back to base ASAP.  Now, I've found it more adaptively efficient to ride a busted bird into the deck rather than bailing.  The KAPOW! graphic is thrilling ~

And for any of you who've had the chance to hang onto the wing-strut, in a 120 MPH slipstream, before a "chute ride".. You'd find riding the bird in a good option~  MOOOOahahahaaa!

I never wasted a round on an AH chute, in years of play.  Now sporting a grin, with vicarious vandalistic thoughts.. Hmmm?

HEY!  A question?  Do nme chutes "collide" with your plane? (like nme planes do).. IE:  Will it tangle up the prop, etc?

RV6 ~

[krazyhorse]

generally i wont shoot chutes, yeh say that 3 times fast:)  however when  i know that someone has been vulching a base has oh say 6 or 7 kills   say he gets  shot real bad and cant land those  kills  , he bails, a bailed mission is worth more than a crashed mission correct?  anyhow i will go after his chute my 303's in my spit 5  well shucks it only takes 1 burst:D  now maybe thats not a good thing of me to do  oh well it fun

[lazs2]

"it means that the other player actually despises you as a person, and wishes to inflict upon you as much discomfort as is possible via a remote connection. There is no other explanation"

yes... there is another explanation.  It means that the person despises your cowardly, score potato VIRTUAL butt.  
lazs

[Wlfgng]

rofl lazs

No need to offer more fun things about it, we are already sold on the fun of it.

definately a winner

RV6.. yep.. don't collide with a chute unless you want to reup immediately

[Fatty]

boom!

[rv6]

BOOOOOOOOOOOOAHAhhaahahahaaaa a!!
THIS IS THE BEST REPLY ON THE BOARDS!

Fatty ma' man (or ma' woman)..  THIS FRICKN' SAYS IT ALL!!!

A "Sponge Bob" gunsight aperture,, blastin chutes!

This thread is hereby officially ENDED!

MOOOOOOOahahahaaaaaa!!!!

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