BF2S Forums Steadychopper - A way to keep your heliflight more steady

im not bashing you or trolling but i have to say your helo time / ratio isnt the most amazing and from the opposite side of the spectrum i find this stratagy interesting but not a replacement.

i have a sidewinder joystick and found it useless compared to a mouse / keybaord sertup whilst i still use a joystick / keyboard setup for planes ... just my opinion tho, but labeling an opposing opinion as trolling isnt the route id choose

Yeah,I should have known that someone comes up with my shitty chopper stats....

But I have the perfect excuse,like everybody does:Most of my time/deaths in a heli were in the blackhawk,I never really got the endurance of teamkilling my way into the attack choppers,when it happens to be at the helipad when I'm around I'll take it,if 4 guys are already teamkilling for it I just don't bother.

Besides that I seem to have the "Curse of the Heliribbon",whenever I go to a lot of stress to finally get into a chopper and attempt to get my damn heliribbon either the pilot is an absolute idiot who only lets me aim at earthworms and moles with my TV-missile because of his leet lowflying-skills,or when I'm piloting the gunner is even more blind than the moles I was aiming at while gunning for his leet "Snake Shit"-buddy,chances are good that he's the same person.

But anyways,I just tested this setting with the Cobra and the Havoc and I have to say it is just great,you give full throttle and ascend like hell and the moment you let go of the up key the chopper stays at that height but doesn't limit your ability to decelerate quickly below 35% if you have to.

If you are into flying choppers and use a joystick I would give this option a try,maybe it's what you have been looking for.

I used to do that when I played Desert Combat.However too many controls can be a bad thing.Using the mouse and key board gives you beter control over the pitch.Ones you get it down you'll never use a flight stick with helos again.

No,just Don't prefer it that all.

Invert the mouse,everything else default.

7thEs_ChibiKrillin wrote:

I would never recommend a keyboard and mouse setup for heli's. It may be easier to hover and control but heli's aren't ment for that anymore. Evasive movements are best left to the joystick as well as precision. Line up your gunner and gtfo.

The OP mentioned leaving your thrust lever at a hovering speed. I used to do that as well in DC as Yobabysdaddy mentioned. It is a good idea if you can't control your speed well, however, I mess with my thrust lever more then my stick at times.

Checkout =F13=-ArmyDr-'s tuturials.  He uses mouse and keyboard.  He is very good with just a mouse and keyboard.

Ajax_the_Great1 wrote:

De-accelerating is how you hover. Most nobs think accelerating is the only way to maitain control. I should write a helo guide sometime. None of the ones out there talk about how to fly. They all talk about what to do when you are flying.

thats is so true!

The other day my pilot got sniped. I switched position and grabbed for my joystick as fast as I could but once I had it, it was too late. That's a good reason to be able to fly using mouse and keyboard .

I wished he sniped me instead. Awful feeling that, first "I can survive this!" followed by "no I can't" and then just wait for the chopper to crash into the wall. I bet the sniper had fun though, good for him.

voltage wrote:

The other day my pilot got sniped. I switched position and grabbed for my joystick as fast as I could but once I had it, it was too late. That's a good reason to be able to fly using mouse and keyboard .

I wished he sniped me instead. Awful feeling that, first "I can survive this!" followed by "no I can't" and then just wait for the chopper to crash into the wall. I bet the sniper had fun though, good for him.

Yeah,and if you have my heli-settings you are able to use both,joystick and mouse,so the "pilot gets sniped"- situation(which doesn't happen very often) is pretty well covered.

Dudes,this is not a joystick or mouse discussion,there are other threads about it.

I've been flying choppers before they even were in the game(BF1942-Kübelcopter-mod,anyone?) and I'm used to both kinds of control,joystick and mouse,I prefer the joystick for realism but I don't say that it is a must-have for the choppers,although for jets I wouldn't wanna miss it.

Anyways,the joystick/mouse-discussion is another thread,so please don't tell people here how leet you can fly because you use joystick/mouse/trackball/gamepad/USB-dildo/whatever for your controls,just stick to the "perfect hover setting"-idea and talk about that.

Btw,this setting is also possible if you use mouse and keyboard but have a joystick plugged in.And whatever you use,the only thing the thrustlever does is keeping the thrust at 35%,like cruisecontrol in a car.
In the chopper-tutorials it is mentioned that you have to keep your engines at around 30-35% for hovering,so that gave me the idea to set it to that value automatically by just leaving the thrustlever in one position.
Now it actually is like cruisecontrol for your altitude,the moment you let go of the up-key the engine sets itself back to 35% and you exactly stay at your current altitude,if you wanna go below that you gotta decelerate.
Sure,this won't make your flying much better in an instant,if you crash helis without "cruisecontrol" you will still crash them with it,it's just a little aid,some will like it,some won't.

I really like the setting and gonna keep it that way,if anyone here wants to test this too I'd like to hear what he thinks about it.

Cbass wrote:

LOSER|Tearsofromance wrote:

Im a pretty good pilot, and i use my bloody mouse/keyboard!

Same here, i have a harder time finding a good gunner then piloting. I can hold a chopper steady as shit w/ mouse keyboard but i always seem to have a gunner who thinks spraying bullets in every direction till the gun overheats is the right thing to do. Then they never hit c for the nose cam view and miss 10 guys standing under us.

Avoid high ping gunners. Ping really affects gunner's performance, esp in Cobra/Z-10.

Last edited by Dr.Battlefield (2006-04-13 09:21:37)

@ dr.battlefield yea ive kinda noticed that. i fly in nose cam view to see everything and somtimes my gunner will be shooting someone just to the side so i rotate that way a little and then they get the kill. LoL Sometimes it's hard to get guys to hop out though.

Dr.Battlefield wrote:

LoL Sometimes it's hard to get guys to hop out though.

Yea, that's why I fly in unranked servers. I've got only 512 RAm, so when I load all vehicles are taken lol.
Maybe we'll try to fly together sometime ?

wow 512mb ram, ouch. i have 1 gig and i still get beat to the choppers. but ya ill fly with u.