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Title: Alternative to killshooter
Post by: sandwich on December 13, 2009, 04:59:16 PM
Why cant we just make it so that there is no friendly fire but the damage isnt reflected back toward the shooter?

I cant count the times I've had to work for a kill only to have some dweeb in a spixteen go into my line of fire towering me or tearing off a vital part of my plane.
Title: Re: Alternative to killshooter
Post by: The Fugitive on December 13, 2009, 05:01:10 PM
Learn better SA. You have to keep an eye on friendlies as well as enemies
Title: Re: Alternative to killshooter
Post by: Karnak on December 13, 2009, 06:06:35 PM
Why cant we just make it so that there is no friendly fire but the damage isnt reflected back toward the shooter?

I cant count the times I've had to work for a kill only to have some dweeb in a spixteen go into my line of fire towering me or tearing off a vital part of my plane.


Doing that would drastically alter the balance between the defending target and the attacking enemies in favor of the enemies and that in turn would alter the air combat to be even less realistic than it is now.

Part of the guns air combat equation is not shooting your friends.
Title: Re: Alternative to killshooter
Post by: Infidelz on December 13, 2009, 07:41:10 PM
Sandwich, I sympathize. You aren't trying to hit the friendly, they dive into your shot while you are concentrating your aim on the enemy. In the air war there was a consquence for that. myself I would prefer a large hit on perk points rather than the current system.
Title: Re: Alternative to killshooter
Post by: Kweassa on December 13, 2009, 08:13:50 PM

 Why do we need an alternative for something that's currently working perfectly?
Title: Re: Alternative to killshooter
Post by: hitech on December 13, 2009, 09:01:50 PM
Hmm don't believe I have seen this topic for more then 3 years.

HiTech
Title: Re: Alternative to killshooter
Post by: thndregg on December 13, 2009, 09:12:50 PM
Guess it's just me, HiTech. Not accustomed to seeing you on here at this time. :confused: :)
Title: Re: Alternative to killshooter
Post by: guncrasher on December 13, 2009, 10:49:12 PM
in aw at the begining you could shoot down your friends by accident or on purpose but if you killed more than 2 in a day then u would get no more ammo for the day.  If it gets turned off here I can just imagine some dork here will join a mission and then kill the goons when they're about to drop just to get even for some idiotic reason.  no thanks  you dont want the friendly to get in your line of fire for one kill him faster, or second practice some sa it includes knowing where your friends are.

semp
Title: Re: Alternative to killshooter
Post by: mensa180 on December 14, 2009, 12:46:16 AM
If killshooter were to be turned off I can definitely say I would kill my squad every day, just to see them die.
Title: Re: Alternative to killshooter
Post by: Ghosth on December 14, 2009, 06:52:05 AM
Sandwich why? Because it would adversely effect gameplay.

It is the way it is, learn to work with it not against it.
If your getting killshot a lot your either flying in a horde, or not watching where your shooting.
Title: Re: Alternative to killshooter
Post by: Westy on December 14, 2009, 08:00:53 AM
"no friendly fire but the damage isnt reflected back toward the shooter?"

lol.  Yeah.  An arena filled with conga lines consisting of players who are ALL
shooting thru each other at the one enemy con way out in front of them.
Title: Re: Alternative to killshooter
Post by: DrDea on December 14, 2009, 09:51:57 AM
 I cant even say when the last time I shot a friendly was.At least not accidently. Yes Shamus I covered you :lol   Just learn better SA or if all else fails,stop flying with the horde. :neener:
Title: Re: Alternative to killshooter
Post by: Vinkman on December 14, 2009, 10:11:49 AM

Doing that would drastically alter the balance between the defending target and the attacking enemies in favor of the enemies and that in turn would alter the air combat to be even less realistic than it is now.

Part of the guns air combat equation is not shooting your friends.

 :aok
Title: Re: Alternative to killshooter
Post by: Knite on December 14, 2009, 10:41:56 AM
Best alternative to killshooter?

Don't follow the same red plane 5 other green guys are.
 :joystick:
Title: Re: Alternative to killshooter
Post by: AAJagerX on December 14, 2009, 03:02:11 PM
Yep Mensa, the temptation would just be too great to handle. 

"Imagines laughing maniacally while squaddies fall from the sky."
 :t
Title: Re: Alternative to killshooter
Post by: 715 on December 14, 2009, 03:22:44 PM
The OP wasn't asking for killing of friendlies to be enabled- he just wanted the bullets he fires that accidentally hit a friendly to go nowhere, specifically not into his own plane and taking off his own wing. 

However, having friendly tracers fly through you would cause SA problems as you wouldn't know friendly from enemy from the tracers alone, so it would still be disrupting.  Back when the field manned ack did not show tracers, I used to fire at friendlies for practice.  After they added tracers to the manned ack I stopped that practice as it would annoy the targets.
Title: Re: Alternative to killshooter
Post by: Pongo on December 14, 2009, 10:02:20 PM
Karnak already answered this.
Allot fewer guys would return from out numbered encounters, for a reason that is unrealistic.