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:: Airplane Avoidance ::
- If the missles you are avoiding come from a ground based AA site, just bank slightly either left or right, up to you, and continue on your mission. Pay no attention to the warning alarms as they are just there for decoration. If you don't like the sound of these, find an enemy aircraft and fly close to it, the AA missles will automatically retarget and take your foe out. (That is their original mission anyway). If you must, you can nose dive the AA site and shred it with your gun/bombs while your enemy craps his pants, the AA missles will just fly past you.
- If the missles you are avoiding come from a plane, pull up as hard as you can and do some crazy ass maneuver. My favorite is a Loop-de-loop, followed by a barrel roll which leads to a corkscrew, top that with a 90 deegre right turn with a 180 direction reversal, and then I finish it off with a nose dive to figure out where the hell I am going. Anything works. Repeat as needed, especially if an experienced pilot is following you. Just remember, there are no G-forces in BF2 so turn as you please.
- Flares take a long time to respawn, so use them only when you're on a critical mission and need to destroy a target with disregard to AA. For example, nose diving an AA site or bombing a flag while being chased. Then just proceed with some banking or stunt moves.
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:: Transport Chopper Avoidance ::
- If you are avoiding ground fire, fly high and you will not be easily detected. Get your gunners (if you have any, after the patch no one wants to ride blackhawks) to destory the AA before they can fire. If you are alone, just release flares and do some smoooooth banking. AA will get confused by your smoooooth moves. Flares will come back soon for you to be ready for another round. As long as you are moving, AA will have a hard time hitting you. As before, find an enemy aircraft and get nearby, the AA will automatically target them instead and you will be safe.
- If you are avoiding aircraft fire, you are fucked. Basically, you're a flying tub with wings waiting to be taken out. Flares are your only hope, praying can only help (but don't expect much). I'd say your safest choice is bail and parachute to the nearest flag. If you are lucky, the enemy will ram into you because his missles don't hit you in time. Quick painless death, and you help out the team.
- Whatever you do, DO NOT hover for too long, AA will get you then. If you are moving even a little bit, you have a chance of AA just pretending to go to you, but then turning around at the last minute and finding an enemy (friend of theirs) aircraft.
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:: Attack Chopper Avoidance ::
- If you are avoiding ground AA, proceed lighty with some smoooooth banking, or if you like to be more agressive, pull off some crazy ass stunts. Either way, AA is scared of attack choppers so they are just following you to please their masters. Get your gunner (please, never ride attack choppers without gunners, pick someone up for gods sake) to rape the site while you perform your stunt pilot moves. TV missles do wonders with AA sites. Use your flares to piss off the AA guy, he won't be able to target you easily, but that doesn't matter anyway, you are pretty much safe. If you MUST use your missles, nose dive towards the site while firing, but expect to get hit at least once to get that kill.
- If you are avoiding aircraft AA, use your god given agility and go into stunt pilot mode. Your biggest concern should be the machine gun fire. If you can avoid that, you can pretty much guarantee you'll be safe from AA missles. Get your gunner to fire off a tv missle as the plane passes you, you never know what might happen. If you are agile enough, planes will have a hard time hitting you.
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:: General Suggestions ::
- With choppers, flares come back fast enough so use them freely. Do realize that after you use flares, you are an easier target so don't get confident and hover thinking everything is fine.
- Your BIGGEST AA threat is not the missles... rather, it's those flying jets that seem to find the best times to ram you. Ramming is the single deadliest anti-aircraft measure you can find on BF2.
- Enemies are your friends: Seriously, find an enemy in the face of AA danger and you will find yourself in a win-win situation. The enemy aircraft will be gone, and since we can be sure that whatever ass^ (read: asshat) was in that aircraft will punish the tker, you can expect the AA site to be empty pretty soon. If you like to be mean, look for full blackhawk's, they are the best target for their friendly AA mates.
- M95 troops are cocky bastards. They will shoot with hopes that their armor piercing bullets will take you out. Just a word of caution, don't remain steady OR I WILL TAKE YOU OUT. As long as you are moving, you can rest assured snipers will not harm you directly. This brings me to my next point, M95's can do a bitch of damage to the actual vehicle, so once again, do not be an easy target.
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:: Conclusion ::
- Fly, fly and be merry, for as long as there is no new patch you will be pretty safe from AA fire. Just follow my friendly tips and you can be sure there will be more bitching about how "AA SUCKS OMG LOL HAXOR WTF!!!" in BF2s forums. I hope this helps all you sorry saps who actually get taken down a lot by AA fire (I truly pity you) and that this makes all of our BF2 experiences all the better. Hasta luego amigos.
:: Airplane Avoidance ::
- If the missles you are avoiding come from a ground based AA site, just bank slightly either left or right, up to you, and continue on your mission. Pay no attention to the warning alarms as they are just there for decoration. If you don't like the sound of these, find an enemy aircraft and fly close to it, the AA missles will automatically retarget and take your foe out. (That is their original mission anyway). If you must, you can nose dive the AA site and shred it with your gun/bombs while your enemy craps his pants, the AA missles will just fly past you.
- If the missles you are avoiding come from a plane, pull up as hard as you can and do some crazy ass maneuver. My favorite is a Loop-de-loop, followed by a barrel roll which leads to a corkscrew, top that with a 90 deegre right turn with a 180 direction reversal, and then I finish it off with a nose dive to figure out where the hell I am going. Anything works. Repeat as needed, especially if an experienced pilot is following you. Just remember, there are no G-forces in BF2 so turn as you please.
- Flares take a long time to respawn, so use them only when you're on a critical mission and need to destroy a target with disregard to AA. For example, nose diving an AA site or bombing a flag while being chased. Then just proceed with some banking or stunt moves.
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:: Transport Chopper Avoidance ::
- If you are avoiding ground fire, fly high and you will not be easily detected. Get your gunners (if you have any, after the patch no one wants to ride blackhawks) to destory the AA before they can fire. If you are alone, just release flares and do some smoooooth banking. AA will get confused by your smoooooth moves. Flares will come back soon for you to be ready for another round. As long as you are moving, AA will have a hard time hitting you. As before, find an enemy aircraft and get nearby, the AA will automatically target them instead and you will be safe.
- If you are avoiding aircraft fire, you are fucked. Basically, you're a flying tub with wings waiting to be taken out. Flares are your only hope, praying can only help (but don't expect much). I'd say your safest choice is bail and parachute to the nearest flag. If you are lucky, the enemy will ram into you because his missles don't hit you in time. Quick painless death, and you help out the team.
- Whatever you do, DO NOT hover for too long, AA will get you then. If you are moving even a little bit, you have a chance of AA just pretending to go to you, but then turning around at the last minute and finding an enemy (friend of theirs) aircraft.
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:: Attack Chopper Avoidance ::
- If you are avoiding ground AA, proceed lighty with some smoooooth banking, or if you like to be more agressive, pull off some crazy ass stunts. Either way, AA is scared of attack choppers so they are just following you to please their masters. Get your gunner (please, never ride attack choppers without gunners, pick someone up for gods sake) to rape the site while you perform your stunt pilot moves. TV missles do wonders with AA sites. Use your flares to piss off the AA guy, he won't be able to target you easily, but that doesn't matter anyway, you are pretty much safe. If you MUST use your missles, nose dive towards the site while firing, but expect to get hit at least once to get that kill.
- If you are avoiding aircraft AA, use your god given agility and go into stunt pilot mode. Your biggest concern should be the machine gun fire. If you can avoid that, you can pretty much guarantee you'll be safe from AA missles. Get your gunner to fire off a tv missle as the plane passes you, you never know what might happen. If you are agile enough, planes will have a hard time hitting you.
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:: General Suggestions ::
- With choppers, flares come back fast enough so use them freely. Do realize that after you use flares, you are an easier target so don't get confident and hover thinking everything is fine.
- Your BIGGEST AA threat is not the missles... rather, it's those flying jets that seem to find the best times to ram you. Ramming is the single deadliest anti-aircraft measure you can find on BF2.
- Enemies are your friends: Seriously, find an enemy in the face of AA danger and you will find yourself in a win-win situation. The enemy aircraft will be gone, and since we can be sure that whatever ass^ (read: asshat) was in that aircraft will punish the tker, you can expect the AA site to be empty pretty soon. If you like to be mean, look for full blackhawk's, they are the best target for their friendly AA mates.
- M95 troops are cocky bastards. They will shoot with hopes that their armor piercing bullets will take you out. Just a word of caution, don't remain steady OR I WILL TAKE YOU OUT. As long as you are moving, you can rest assured snipers will not harm you directly. This brings me to my next point, M95's can do a bitch of damage to the actual vehicle, so once again, do not be an easy target.
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:: Conclusion ::
- Fly, fly and be merry, for as long as there is no new patch you will be pretty safe from AA fire. Just follow my friendly tips and you can be sure there will be more bitching about how "AA SUCKS OMG LOL HAXOR WTF!!!" in BF2s forums. I hope this helps all you sorry saps who actually get taken down a lot by AA fire (I truly pity you) and that this makes all of our BF2 experiences all the better. Hasta luego amigos.
Last edited by GotMex? (2005-11-07 21:09:28)