Shoot the chutes

[JagdTankker]

I personally do not shoot the chutes in this game but some do.

I found this video just now and it sheds new light on the subject.

>S< to Richard " Bud " Peterson

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8LVlYJ5eJU&feature=related

[Masherbrum]

Depending on the fight, person, I have NO QUALMS on shooting the chute.   I'll even sometimes fire, but miss them allowing them to hang in a chute for 5-10 minutes if they bail high enough.   

I use to shoot them all of the time in AH1.   If you get shot in a chute, you're in a plane faster.   The only time I "bail" is when I take up the rare Ju-88 formation.   I don't bail in fighters, it only helps pad your score a little more than a death.   

[Osterich]

I'll even sometimes fire, but miss them allowing them to hang in a chute for 5-10 minutes if they bail high enough.

Since you can end flight in a chute in AH2, I bail all the time from fighters.  If I loose a wing or a tail over 5K, I can re-up faster by bailing than by riding the plane into the ground.

[BnZ]

Shooting chutes is a waste of ammo and SA in AHII.

Bailing out to try and save your pilot when the plane is lost, to me that seems a realistic touch in good taste if one wants to bother. At least, it beats the BS of holding down the trigger trying to get a 1 in a million kill while spinning in or while a wing tank burns feet from the cockpit.

[Sketch]

Shooting chutes is a waste of ammo and SA in AHII.

How is it a waste of SA?  I know exactly where they enemy is... in the chute.... that I am shooting at! 

[badhorse]

The only time I ever shoot someone hanging in a chute is if they bail out near a maproom of a base we are trying to take.  Don't want them getting inside and shooting our troops.

[StugIII]

i don't shoot at chutes because more then likely if i get one kill and hes in the chute hes gonna get me 10 times over

[Pooh21]

I miss AH1 where chuteshooting was a source of lulz.

[Larry]

I always shoot chutes because I know what they can do to GVs, planes, and troops.

[Masherbrum]

Shooting chutes is a waste of ammo and SA in AHII.

Bailing out to try and save your pilot when the plane is lost, to me that seems a realistic touch in good taste if one wants to bother. At least, it beats the BS of holding down the trigger trying to get a 1 in a million kill while spinning in or while a wing tank burns feet from the cockpit.

Only reason MOST folks bail is to protect that "Holy and most Sacred of Scores".   Not to mention the tools who have 10 sorties of Vultches or Whordemongering and then resort to Attack in order to keep that "Supposedly good Fighter Rank".   

It's all relative, chutes, bailing, scoring, etc.   

But it really isn't a waste of ammo, if you know what to hit.   My guess is, you don't.   One well placed round is all it takes.   

The only time I ever shoot someone hanging in a chute is if they bail out near a maproom of a base we are trying to take.  Don't want them getting inside and shooting our troops.

Good point.    But let's not forget about chutes who are KNOWN and OBVIOUSLY giving 6's.    That in itself is another valid reason why "The Sissy Silk" is called just that.   

[Ack-Ack]

Shooting chutes is a waste of ammo and SA in AHII.

Shooting chutes is a great way to practice your gunnery skills.  The little dangling meatball is a small target, takes a nice steady hand on the stick to ensure the 20mm rounds impact on the meatball.  Besides, if chutes weren't meant to be blown up, they wouldn't have the coolest explosion in AH.


But the best reason of all to shoot chutes is that is pisses off the guy that bailed out and the whines and temper tantrums on Channel 200 make blowing up the little meatballs as they dangle below the silk priceless.  If you don't like it, don't bail out of your plane when you see a P-38 buzzing around or you just may get a 20mm in your gut.

ack-ack

[E25280]

I bail all the time due to what Osterich said.  Enter enter enter slash dot E F gets you in the tower and into another plane quicker than riding it down.

However, you will note I do not even hit "o" to open the chute . . . unless I have some sort of nefarious purpose, such as maproom camping.

Naturally, I assume anyone else has similarly nefarious purposes if they actually open the chute, and therefore are fair game.

This is a game, after all, and no one really dies . . . unlike the people referenced in the vid.

[RoGenT]

The only time I ever shoot someone hanging in a chute is if they bail out near a maproom of a base we are trying to take.  Don't want them getting inside and shooting our troops.

This is the only time I'll ever kill chutes; or its troops from goon 

[lambo31]

Shooting chutes always makes me giggle.

Lambo

[blkmgc]

Shooting chutes is like Enzyte for e-peen.

I guess if you need it...