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Title: 6 calls from a chute?
Post by: AKDejaVu on March 16, 2001, 12:33:00 PM: Anyone know if the 6 call feature works from a chute? I had an exellent bounce on two Ta-152s that were fixated on a high Lanc. I came in behind on and blew him apart. He bailed right away. I got within 500 yards of the other, just below (in his blind spot) when he jinked then dove away... only providing me with a snapshot that fortunately caused his engine to smoke and encouraged him to egress as opposed to stay high and fight a fighter that he had outclassed.

Me thinks he might have gotten a "check 6" from a chute. Even if he didn't.. the question still remains... should it be possible? I understand they can still use RW or the comms... but what about for this specific function?

AKDejaVu
Title: 6 calls from a chute?
Post by: Missile on March 16, 2001, 12:49:00 PM: AKDJV,

Yes, this funtion works from chutes - BUT only for the Knights. I have used this with my squaddies and fellow Knights. (I seem to spend a lot of time in chutes.)

Missile
Title: 6 calls from a chute?
Post by: sling322 on March 16, 2001, 12:51:00 PM: I dunno...I dont bail. (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)

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Fat Drunk Bastards
Title: 6 calls from a chute?
Post by: Ice on March 16, 2001, 12:55:00 PM: Well, guess I'll have ot start shootin chutes! (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
Title: 6 calls from a chute?
Post by: Ripsnort on March 16, 2001, 01:02:00 PM: ROTFLOL Ice! Evil Opportunist!
Title: 6 calls from a chute?
Post by: Dinger on March 16, 2001, 01:17:00 PM: Was gonna say, you don't like the feature? Shoot the chute!
Title: 6 calls from a chute?
Post by: Fatty on March 16, 2001, 01:43:00 PM: Ahh, at last, an excuse!
Title: 6 calls from a chute?
Post by: Voss on March 16, 2001, 01:54:00 PM: It's enough, for me, that I have seen chutes hover outside a field for a sortie or two. Stupid Spies! Shoot 'em! (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif)

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Voss
13th TAS
Title: 6 calls from a chute?
Post by: Westy on March 16, 2001, 01:59:00 PM: Stupid Spies! Shoot 'em!

Exactly!! And they're ALL spies in my book.

-Westy
Title: 6 calls from a chute?
Post by: PakRat on March 16, 2001, 04:33:00 PM: So I guess the operative question becomes - How about six calls *for* a chute? (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif)

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63rd FS, 56th FG
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"I see dead people"
Title: 6 calls from a chute?
Post by: Seeker on March 16, 2001, 04:36:00 PM: Six calls work for chutes too, and there's NOTHING more frustrating .)
Title: 6 calls from a chute?
Post by: Westy on March 16, 2001, 04:48:00 PM: Well. There has been a long standing call for a feature to seriously kill the keyboard for when you are in a chute. It's about the only way to mimic the total isolation, besides the time honoured hand/finger salutes, one has when dangling beneath the silk.

So until that day I take matters in my own hands. I shoot them with the smallest calibre gun I have.

And then if we ever do get that featur, well then the practice of chute shooting can revert back to being a pure sport. (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/wink.gif)

-Westy

[This message has been edited by Westy (edited 03-16-2001).]
Title: 6 calls from a chute?
Post by: -ammo- on March 16, 2001, 05:30:00 PM: uh duh.... Roger wilco

I imagine the TA-152's were on it (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
Title: 6 calls from a chute?
Post by: hazed- on March 16, 2001, 05:46:00 PM: I still say it game or no game killing players with no weapon hanging defenslessly in a damn parachute means you have something wrong with your mind...somewhere deep in that black pit of a mind the player has thought 'oooh look at that <brain kicks in> defenceless KILL IT DEFENCELESS NO RISK TO ME KILL IT!!!!'
LOL (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
see what i mean ? admit it you just like killing little fluffy rabbits (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
and this means you are a popsicle! (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)

hazed

'honour the opponent and then WIN with honour'
Title: 6 calls from a chute?
Post by: Voss on March 16, 2001, 06:00:00 PM: I spend long hours practicing on grunts. (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif) A poorly dropped group can all be shot with a single round! (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)

Defenceless? He can always alt-F4 and get the same perks! Kill him before he goes to DOS! (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif)

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Voss
13th TAS
Title: 6 calls from a chute?
Post by: Thunder on March 16, 2001, 08:43:00 PM: PaintMAW... Finally they have seen the light. (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif) I knew you understood this from the very first day. I salute your Pioneering Spirit that seems to have helped pave the way in the understanding and clarity of the fine art of Spy Shooting! hehe

There is also one kill I relish. That is when you have to climb to a fighter at 30k.. chase him all over the arena. Finally he thinks he has an advantage and dives to fight. He makes one error in gudgment and gets flamed after numerous attacks from above you. Now the sweetest part!!!.. he bails... but you point your Mustang toward the deck. You chase him down and kill him in the freefall!.. That MAKES MY DAY! (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)

Salute

Thunder
Title: 6 calls from a chute?
Post by: AKDejaVu on March 16, 2001, 08:59:00 PM: Quote
uh duh.... Roger wilco

Oh.. wow.. what a brilliant thought! I wish this had occured to me! Oh.. wait.. it did:

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Me thinks he might have gotten a "check 6" from a chute. Even if he didn't.. the question still remains... should it be possible? I understand they can still use RW or the comms.

Duh.

AKDejaVu

[This message has been edited by AKDejaVu (edited 03-16-2001).]
Title: 6 calls from a chute?
Post by: paintmaw on March 16, 2001, 09:04:00 PM: Chuters are spys ,, they MUST die,,Boom Baby
Title: 6 calls from a chute?
Post by: Fatty on March 17, 2001, 12:57:00 AM: Death to the enslavers of the silkworm!
Title: 6 calls from a chute?
Post by: Saintaw on March 17, 2001, 02:27:00 AM: You can do 6 calls from the Tower as well

Saw
Title: 6 calls from a chute?
Post by: funked on March 17, 2001, 04:13:00 AM: 6 call from a chute...
About as cheesy as a 6 call from a tank, or a 6 call from another plane that is so far away that in real life he would have no clue what your name was but in AH he can just read the magic icon.
Title: 6 calls from a chute?
Post by: -ammo- on March 17, 2001, 11:56:00 AM: Quote
Originally posted by AKDejaVu:
Duh.

AKDejaVu

[This message has been edited by AKDejaVu (edited 03-16-2001).]

Deja, Do you walk lopsided with thta great big chip on your shoulder? (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/wink.gif)
Title: 6 calls from a chute?
Post by: AKSeaWulfe on March 17, 2001, 12:01:00 PM: One thing you gotta love about software run on a computer to simulate something.... it ain't real, just supposed to be fun.
:-)
-SW
Title: 6 calls from a chute?
Post by: sling322 on March 17, 2001, 12:10:00 PM: Quote
Originally posted by hazed-:
I still say it game or no game killing players with no weapon hanging defenslessly in a damn parachute means you have something wrong with your mind...somewhere deep in that black pit of a mind the player has thought 'oooh look at that <brain kicks in> defenceless KILL IT DEFENCELESS NO RISK TO ME KILL IT!!!!'
LOL (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
see what i mean ? admit it you just like killing little fluffy rabbits (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
and this means you are a popsicle! (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)

hazed

'honour the opponent and then WIN with honour'

Whaddayamean defenseless?!?! How many guys you ever see auger trying to shoot a chute? Doesnt sound too defenseless to me. (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/wink.gif)

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Sling322
Fat Drunk Bastards
Title: 6 calls from a chute?
Post by: Maverick911 on March 17, 2001, 04:42:00 PM: I see nothing wrong with shooting chutes, they shouldnt of bailed in the first place ;-). I don't shoot chutes for the sole reason of being flamed to hell.
Title: 6 calls from a chute?
Post by: PakRat on March 17, 2001, 05:08:00 PM: It sounds like Hazed is projecting (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif)

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PakRat
63rd FS, 56th FG
"Zemke's Wolfpack"

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"Juggies, dance us back in history!"
Title: 6 calls from a chute?
Post by: AKDejaVu on March 17, 2001, 05:55:00 PM: Quote
Deja, Do you walk lopsided with thta great big chip on your shoulder? (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/wink.gif)

Do you carry around a bag of chips and place it on someone's shoulder just before acting like an ass.. just so you can blame the other guy?

AKDejaVu
Title: 6 calls from a chute?
Post by: Sandman_SBM on March 17, 2001, 06:08:00 PM: Quote
Originally posted by funked:
6 call from a chute...
About as cheesy as a 6 call from a tank, or a 6 call from another plane that is so far away that in real life he would have no clue what your name was but in AH he can just read the magic icon.

So... before he could have simply made the call via the text buffer. I don't see the issue. It's all the same.
Title: 6 calls from a chute?
Post by: -ammo- on March 17, 2001, 06:38:00 PM: Quote
Originally posted by AKDejaVu:
Do you carry around a bag of chips and place it on someone's shoulder just before acting like an ass.. just so you can blame the other guy?

AKDejaVu

Blame who for what? man your an intolerant person. You would argue with a white wall to tell it it was black. You make your own arguements to satisfy yourself. Some folks just have to have a crisis to be happy. Go fly and have fun M8.

Cya up,

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Title: 6 calls from a chute?
Post by: Dinger on March 17, 2001, 08:21:00 PM: That's his point sandman. It's not the chute six call that's unrealistic, it's the whole system, where we can track and id several aircraft from miles away, whether in a tank, chute or aircraft. If you read accounts of WWII air combat, six calls weren't that effective: part radio discipline, part when the bullets started flying it was hard to tell which friendly was which, and part the radios weren't that good.
So it's a concession to gameplay -- you can hate it or like it, but singling out comms from parachutes as particularly unrealistic is untenable.

Hazed, pilots in chutes aren't defenseless. They can use comms, and they can (and usually will) replane after they land/die. Shooting the chute denies them comms, speeds their replane, and irritates them. Ok, if you want to make a good impression on someone, you don't do it. But if you want to make that guy get so mad he'll spawn from a vulched field and give you some more kills, I say it's the best way.
Title: 6 calls from a chute?
Post by: Lizard3 on March 17, 2001, 09:10:00 PM: I'm taking down names.
Title: 6 calls from a chute?
Post by: SOB on March 17, 2001, 09:25:00 PM: Lighten up, Francis! (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/biggrin.gif)
Title: 6 calls from a chute?
Post by: Fatty on March 17, 2001, 09:30:00 PM: Lizard, if it'll help you relax just a notch or two, you're welcome to beat my ass.
Title: 6 calls from a chute?
Post by: lazs on March 18, 2001, 09:51:00 AM: hey fatty... wait in line like the rest of us!

ammo... the chip is attached to the stick up his bellybutton and surgeons claim that neither can be removed as deja and the stick/chip share vital organs.

If it's easy to disable the chute calls do it but it won't help the RW thing. Best to just make the people in chutes realistic soft targets. One or two bullets should do it every time.
lazs