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Title: Whys the puffy ack so lethal lately?
Post by: LePaul on August 05, 2005, 02:14:06 PM
Just wondering if my aircraft are the only ones with the super secret "puffy ack magentic device".  :)
Title: Whys the puffy ack so lethal lately?
Post by: FX1 on August 05, 2005, 02:18:49 PM
I died 3 times last nigh from it.
Title: Whys the puffy ack so lethal lately?
Post by: Raptor on August 05, 2005, 02:29:57 PM
It seems it is shooting too low as well, I was flying at 3.4k and flak was going off all around me.
Title: Whys the puffy ack so lethal lately?
Post by: MRPLUTO on August 05, 2005, 02:34:24 PM
I thought puffy ack fired as low as 3,000 feet.

MRPLUTO
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Post by: Mak333 on August 05, 2005, 02:35:58 PM
From the 4 times I encountered it.., I died twice.  Both were within 10 seconds from the beginning of the firing.
Title: Whys the puffy ack so lethal lately?
Post by: Meatwad on August 05, 2005, 02:39:24 PM
try being in a gv on a hill and the puffy ack shooting and killing you
Title: Whys the puffy ack so lethal lately?
Post by: Morpheus on August 05, 2005, 03:04:33 PM
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Originally posted by Meatwad
try being in a gv on a hill and the puffy ack shooting and killing you


lol now there's realism for ya!:aok
Title: Whys the puffy ack so lethal lately?
Post by: tactic on August 05, 2005, 03:43:08 PM
I've wacked planes outa the sky in manned base ack gun,  only to see them think it was puffy ack kill'n them.  :)
Title: Whys the puffy ack so lethal lately?
Post by: sullie363 on August 05, 2005, 04:17:12 PM
I just can't relate to those who get killed by computer controlled puffy ack since it has never done more than scuffed the paint on the plane.  Are you guys sure you're not getting hit by manned ack.  On the potency scale, if 5" manned ack in hard liquor then AI puffy ack is warm water.
Title: Whys the puffy ack so lethal lately?
Post by: lasersailor184 on August 05, 2005, 04:28:26 PM
I haven't been even touched by Puffy ack in the past 6 months.

Maybe you guys just need a lucky charm?
Title: Whys the puffy ack so lethal lately?
Post by: Tabasco on August 05, 2005, 06:47:21 PM
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Originally posted by Morpheus
lol now there's realism for ya!:aok



Almost as "realistic" as having puffy ack (manned or otherwise) going off all around you while you're in a close-in dogfight.  This is the only aspect of the game I can't stand.  I've been taken out of good fights this way many times, usually in the area of (but not close to) an enemy CV.  If someone other than the person(s) you were fighting got the kill, it was from a gunner (films will verify it).  If the exploding spray of hot shrapnel can kill me, it should kill any other plane nearby, or at least killshoot the gunner.
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Post by: Raptor on August 05, 2005, 09:48:02 PM
when manned ack hits me i lose a wing or half my plane and fall to the ground. When auto puffy ack hits me I'll either hear the hit and take no damage, or just blow up.
Title: Whys the puffy ack so lethal lately?
Post by: 715 on August 06, 2005, 12:28:57 AM
In all the many many years I've played AH I've been killed by the puffy ack exactly once: and it was my OWN ack that did it.  (It was firing at an enemy plane I was pursuing.)