-- Intro: Skip down if you don't have too much time --
I'm sure some of you fellow chopper whores have experienced this at some point or another. The round starts and the mad dash for the vehicles begins. You race as fast as you can to your vehicle of choice, the attack chopper, and can feel the adrenaline pumping, your heart racing, your fingers twitching as you see you're in the lead. You then notice some idiot starts shooting you as he realizes that he will not be able to beat you to the chopper, so you start jumping frantically, hoping that you'll make it to the aircraft before that last bar of health is taken away. Miraculously, you hop into the chopper with .5 of a bar left but someone beat you to the pilot seat so you end up as gunner. No biggie, you can gun just as well as you can pilot, and you might actually even think "Sweet, I'm gonna get to TV some bastards". Just then, your pilot makes his introduction by spamming you with some "Bail out!" and "Get out!" commands. Not a good start. You politelly decline his offer, and begin shooting at random things, tking some teammates on the carrier, team damaging the BH, as the sweet sound of the chopper engine roars through. The adrenaline is still pumping at 100% and you are all giddy about the rape that is about to ensue. Then as you take off, you sense that something is wrong. Your pilot travels in the completelly opposite direction of the PLA transport chopper that could possibly give you 12 points, and you start to taste your fate; In a few seconds, you will be roasted by the fiery out of bounds demons. You are trapped, with no way of getting out, cheaply taken out by a selfish chopper pilot who thinks he's cool cause he can hover in this one special spot.
-- Start reading here if you don't have 5 mins to spare and read my enthralling work of art as I describe the intricacies of the beginning of a round, seen from a chopper pilot's perspective --
-- Start reading here if you don't have 5 seconds to read the sentence above either --
Well I personally despise this, so much in fact that I would never subject any other BF2ian to such fate, no matter how much I wanted to fly alone. I think I hate it most for the feeling of absolutelly no control on how to get back at the retard in the pilots seat, no way of getting back to the carrier, and knowing that once you spawn again you will most likely not be able to get back in to a chopper or retaliate.
So, I finally devised the solution that satisfied me enough so that this course of events no longer takes away from my bf2 experience. I simply place a C4 charge on the side of the canopy, and hop dutifully into my gunner seat. Should my pilot decide that he is gonna try and outtabounds me, I simply warm him in a friendly way that I will blow the chopper to bits if he doesn't go back. Should I start losing health, I simply jump out of the chopper and trigger the C4, ending the douchebags nasty trick, and making him re-evaluate his next move. (Unfortunatelly this means -4 pts for tk, -2 pts for suicide, but it's a price I'm willing to pay to keep this action in check).
I'm pretty sure nothing ruins the players day more than realizing that his little trick will not work with you, and that he simply has no option but to either fly with you, or not fly at all.
Update: Since this thread got very long, and most people don't read it all to get a feel for the argument, I'd like to sum up the general thoughts expressed here. Basically everyone agrees that killing a gunner by hovering him out of bounds is unnacceptable and that my solution is a decent one for the magnitude of the crime. At the same time, these same people that like to kill out of bounds, defend their actions by saying that the skill level of the general BF2 population is nil, and so they prefer to take the chopper by themselves because they are much better gunner/pilot than everyone and they don't want to find out if someone else is skilled. Their claim is that them going solo helps the team more than them having a gunner. I say that's a load of crap and they are just selfish bastards.
On the flip side, us non-solo pilots argue that there is no way that a soloist could possibly be better than even a decently skilled duo of gunner/pilot. They say that we are all just unskilled and full of BS and that we can't speak english because we don't understand them. Who is right here?? No one will ever know, but we can all agree that out of bounds killing is gay (as well as solo piloting when there are would-be gunners around, well at least I can agree to that one).
I'm sure some of you fellow chopper whores have experienced this at some point or another. The round starts and the mad dash for the vehicles begins. You race as fast as you can to your vehicle of choice, the attack chopper, and can feel the adrenaline pumping, your heart racing, your fingers twitching as you see you're in the lead. You then notice some idiot starts shooting you as he realizes that he will not be able to beat you to the chopper, so you start jumping frantically, hoping that you'll make it to the aircraft before that last bar of health is taken away. Miraculously, you hop into the chopper with .5 of a bar left but someone beat you to the pilot seat so you end up as gunner. No biggie, you can gun just as well as you can pilot, and you might actually even think "Sweet, I'm gonna get to TV some bastards". Just then, your pilot makes his introduction by spamming you with some "Bail out!" and "Get out!" commands. Not a good start. You politelly decline his offer, and begin shooting at random things, tking some teammates on the carrier, team damaging the BH, as the sweet sound of the chopper engine roars through. The adrenaline is still pumping at 100% and you are all giddy about the rape that is about to ensue. Then as you take off, you sense that something is wrong. Your pilot travels in the completelly opposite direction of the PLA transport chopper that could possibly give you 12 points, and you start to taste your fate; In a few seconds, you will be roasted by the fiery out of bounds demons. You are trapped, with no way of getting out, cheaply taken out by a selfish chopper pilot who thinks he's cool cause he can hover in this one special spot.
-- Start reading here if you don't have 5 mins to spare and read my enthralling work of art as I describe the intricacies of the beginning of a round, seen from a chopper pilot's perspective --
-- Start reading here if you don't have 5 seconds to read the sentence above either --
Well I personally despise this, so much in fact that I would never subject any other BF2ian to such fate, no matter how much I wanted to fly alone. I think I hate it most for the feeling of absolutelly no control on how to get back at the retard in the pilots seat, no way of getting back to the carrier, and knowing that once you spawn again you will most likely not be able to get back in to a chopper or retaliate.
So, I finally devised the solution that satisfied me enough so that this course of events no longer takes away from my bf2 experience. I simply place a C4 charge on the side of the canopy, and hop dutifully into my gunner seat. Should my pilot decide that he is gonna try and outtabounds me, I simply warm him in a friendly way that I will blow the chopper to bits if he doesn't go back. Should I start losing health, I simply jump out of the chopper and trigger the C4, ending the douchebags nasty trick, and making him re-evaluate his next move. (Unfortunatelly this means -4 pts for tk, -2 pts for suicide, but it's a price I'm willing to pay to keep this action in check).
I'm pretty sure nothing ruins the players day more than realizing that his little trick will not work with you, and that he simply has no option but to either fly with you, or not fly at all.
Update: Since this thread got very long, and most people don't read it all to get a feel for the argument, I'd like to sum up the general thoughts expressed here. Basically everyone agrees that killing a gunner by hovering him out of bounds is unnacceptable and that my solution is a decent one for the magnitude of the crime. At the same time, these same people that like to kill out of bounds, defend their actions by saying that the skill level of the general BF2 population is nil, and so they prefer to take the chopper by themselves because they are much better gunner/pilot than everyone and they don't want to find out if someone else is skilled. Their claim is that them going solo helps the team more than them having a gunner. I say that's a load of crap and they are just selfish bastards.
On the flip side, us non-solo pilots argue that there is no way that a soloist could possibly be better than even a decently skilled duo of gunner/pilot. They say that we are all just unskilled and full of BS and that we can't speak english because we don't understand them. Who is right here?? No one will ever know, but we can all agree that out of bounds killing is gay (as well as solo piloting when there are would-be gunners around, well at least I can agree to that one).
Last edited by GotMex? (2006-07-25 19:12:34)
