BF2S Forums Helo soloing

Helo soloing in itself is not a bad thing. What is bad is when you do it with plenty of gunners on the ground.

I will solo whenever the chopper is available and there is not a readily available gunner, which varies a lot from map to map. I even turn back after take off if someone yells for a pick up. Soloing is not replacement for a proper gunner.

Now, if your gunner sucks, just play as if he was not there. The dumb rockets are good enough for a decent pilot to wreak havoc, and any lucky shots the gunner gets will still be good for you.

Now with the fix added where choppers with no pilot will go down, the soloing cannot be abused as easily, so the more reason why I think it is not something people should consider an issue.

your just mad because someone doesnt want you as their gunner

s()mtingWong wrote:

Why do you hate solo helo'ers?, Is it because they kill you alot?, is it because you dont have the skills to be a solo helo'er, or maybe you see that there score or stats is real high while ingame or on a website. People that complain and dice screwups is the reason why we have patches.

Amen! Get in those Helo's and practise..

I will be the first to pick up a gunner if somebody asks, but I sure am getting tired of having an idiot gunner who just has to keep firing the machine gun just to hear himself make noise.  The idiots don't understand that all they're doing is telling everybody on the map (aa included) where we are.  Then when I line them up for a perfect tank/linebacker/apc tv missile shot, the moron starts shooting the machine gun at the armor. Typically, we are then rather quickly shot down.  I am a much better pilot solo, then when I have a retard as a gunner.

Last edited by 1hawaii50 (2006-07-26 05:55:22)

ahhh another 'zomg h4x nerf it' thead, just shut up and go learn how to shoot choppers down for the love of fucking christ. If its so easy and such an 'exploit' (inferring that they get an unfair advantage) go try it yourself, shoot them down and stfu. i sware i could swing for the pussies that 'play' this game sometimes, sry but whining isnt a game tactic, try improving your own game instead of trying to drag ppl down to your level. End.

a good solo-gunner is always better than 2 people in a heli. A solo-gunner do not have to wait for the gunner to fire the tvg missile. At the time(1 sek) it takes the pilot to spot the opposing heli, the soloheli-player have already fired the tvg. If you are good at solo-flying, you do not miss whit the tvg. A solo-player can also use the mg to take down cars and inf. The only time 2 persons is better in a chopper is, after my opinion, is raping  when the other team only have one flag left. Plz do not make the gamer any easier. Let the skies belong to the good soloflyers.
Amen.  (sorry for my imperfect English)

hhhmmmmm....you would hate me then on gluf MEC side seems no one wants the chopper on the MEC side, so what do I do... I go alone, why you ask  ?? Well we (the MEC side) dont get the chopper robbed, and yes I ask if anyone wants a ride...but no all waiting for the jets...so off I go and I jump to the gunner seat and OMFG I use the gun...so not only do I use the TV on my own I use the GUN...now is that bad...no well for you ya; cause you died, but really I would much rather me in the chopper on my own rather than you having robbed it. Anyway it only works well with MEC chopper lots o lots o lots of splash damage.

Meggido wrote:

I think you are absolutely wrong. It might be that  you are playing in the wrong servers or with the wrong people. Perhaps you are not playing with the latest patches (now the chopper won't fly without a pilot).

In any case, a good pilot with a good gunner will ALWAYS be better than a top-notch soloer. Find some friends or look for a gunner that uses VOIP or Teamspeak (worse come to worse you can always use MSN or a similar comm tool for two people).

I take it you might have not played SF a lot. There, piloting is very hard due to the amount of buildings, trees, height variations etc... It ain't sharqui. Not having a gunner makes it extremely difficult to get proper kills and soloing is hard because you are very likely to crash against something.

Don't get me wrong, I do soloing (see my post above) but only when I cannot find ANY gunner at all.

By the same token, though a different thing, I will always strive to get a gunner for the bombers. A good gunner/bomber pair in airplanes are a killer combo.

I believe I am right:P I mostly play on Norwegian servers, and clan servers. I think you is the one who play with the wrong people. I play with clan players for the mostly. Almost all clans, mine included, play clan fights with 1 solo-pilot. This is because this gives them one more player one the grown. A good solo-pilot uses tvg, and mg.

Crashing into things when you are using the mg, is not a problem. I have practiced solo flying on local servers(about 50 hours) and know exactly where all the pipes, tall buildings, and dangerous trees are(almost as goo as there own pocket). So I can avoid them and still be able to solo-mg. If you do not believe me, watch the "Duck and Cower"- movie by Codeseven.Redux. He will show you how solo piloting really works. The frags from this film is only taken for clan matches with the top world clans.

I haven't played sf so much that I can make a statement about the choppers there. But i have noticed that they are different form the choppers in bf2.

Solo flying is still possible in patch 1.3(haven't tried 1.4 so I don't know i there are any change) the only thing is that the chopper begins to drop after 5 sek in the gunner seat. This is now problem since you normally don't need 5 sek in the gunner seat.

My main point is that a god solo pilot is better because he don't get the delay when he spot a target. A normal pilot needs to spot the target and tell the gunner that he must shoot. Believe me, a have practiced alot on solo piloting.

I always want to fly solo, if I can, but if a guy jumps in. I will try to make his job as gunner easy as possible.


I do not think we will agree, :)but i wright this post so you can see what I mean. All my arguments is taken from clan matches, public-playing on the other hand is different. Because you have jets, 2 persons in the chopper is the best way in public 64 player maps.

Be sure to visit my clan on: www.viscera.no (It is in Norwegian)

vC]Leln
(again sorry for my imperfect English)

Thats for sure..... dam i love just diving up at helis high up with mg's blaring o so fun...

If you can solo chopper then good job. What most people need to do is just find a way to take them down.

IMPROVISE.ADAPT.OVERCOME.

A few .50cal bullets should do the trick

T0rr3nt wrote:

ghostgr wrote:

Since it was discovered. In many servers if you are caught you can be banned........but in my clans it is a few warnings then a kick.

youre an idiot, go eat a bowl of dicks you noob.


soloing is a skill. not a exploit.

and super egoistic behaviour like TK for helos or planes

Solo'ing takes quite a bit of skill, give them some credit.

i will never tk anyone out of the chopper. if i get it i get it, if i get stuck witha noob gunner i just do a bajillion circles at 200mph until i crash.

jk


but seriously if i get a gunner i team play with them.