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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: AKP on June 08, 2009, 03:51:10 PM
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Ok... Ive only been playing about 3 months... but I dont recall flak ever reaching up to 20,000 feet. But it sure did today. Am I wrong, or did the Unmanned AA guns get serious upgrade?
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your wrong
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Well I guess that answers that question then
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puffy ack is a killer
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There should be more of it IMO
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I believe the unmanned puffy ack will reach up to any altitude, be it within the 'radius' of the enemy base.
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There should be more of it IMO
I will agree with this when it is revamped a bit. Right now bombers never seem to get hit while fighters get one shot more frequently than they should.
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In WWII the B-17s flying at 35K would get hit by AAA.....so, yes, it's possible
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And yes... I have noticed that bombers rarely get hit by the puffy flak... and even when I have, it hasnt been bad. Guess I have been lucky. Thanks for the info guys.
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And yes... I have noticed that bombers rarely get hit by the puffy flak... and even when I have, it hasnt been bad. Guess I have been lucky. Thanks for the info guys.
You probably get hit but no damage
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Puffy ack tags your ID i guess you could say. Once it starts shooting at you it never forgets as long as your able to keep flying for that sortie.
I thought the range was 15k but could be wrong. I do know that auto puffy will not shoot at you unless your above 3k. Once you pop above that alt though, it will immediately start shooting at you again no matter who is closer or higher. In other words, it will shoot right past the guy who was not tagged yet to try and kill you first. The only way to beat it is to get out of it's range or re-up in a new plane.
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Puffy ack tags your ID i guess you could say. Once it starts shooting at you it never forgets as long as your able to keep flying for that sortie.
I thought the range was 15k but could be wrong. I do know that auto puffy will not shoot at you unless your above 3k. Once you pop above that alt though, it will immediately start shooting at you again no matter who is closer or higher. In other words, it will shoot right past the guy who was not tagged yet to try and kill you first. The only way to beat it is to get out of it's range or re-up in a new plane.
I think it goes as high as you do, but can only go 15k horizontally. It just shoots you as long as your the first one in range. If you're being shot at, hop out of range, wait til it shoots someone else, then come back in. Although once that person goes out of range it will come back to ya.
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If you're being shot at, hop out of range, wait til it shoots someone else, then come back in. Although once that person goes out of range it will come back to ya.
Wrong. As soon as it tags you it does not matter who is closer to the cv. It will keep firing till your out of range, below 3k or dead.
Once out of range and it finally stops shooting at you, if at anytime you decide to come back into it's range it will start shooting at you again.... even if there are people closer to it...... unless of course they have also been tagged, then it will shoot at both of you.
CV puffy ack never forgets.
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I thought it shoots at the closest threat
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It goes after pony's with a vengeance.Well i watch it not get anywhere near a squaddie at co alt in a hog, it rips me apart. :noid
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Ack only shoots at me!!! The rest of you are having acid flashbacks from Nam
I thought it shoots at the closest threat
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I thought it shoots at the closest threat
Negative, Get close enough to a factory and get it honed in on you. Then fly beyond others that are closer. It will continue to target you until someone else gets within a certain range of it.
For example lets say player 1 gets within a 5K radius, puffy ack starts targeting player 1.
Player 1 then extends to 12K radius. Player 2 is within lets say 7K Puffy will still target player 1 at 12K radius.
If Player 2 flys within 5K radius and player 1 is still 12K radius away, Puffy will then start targeting player 2.
Get under 3K of Altitude and puffy will no longer shoot at you (AI Puffy that is)(manned from a CV can still get ya)
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Is auto puffy ack apportioned? For example, if there are more attacking planes than ack do some planes get a free ride or does it fire at everyone even though there aren't that many guns? In other words, if a lot of planes are attacking the CV does each plane take less puffy ack shots? If so, how does it decide who to shoot at?
Not that I think it matters: I've never seen auto puffy ack kill anything, especially not bombers