BF2S Forums Need some help with choppers...

It's really difficult to hit a strafing chopper (a pilots observations). Flanking might work best, but is surely a bitch to master..

thats why you slide in a chopper battle...its harder to hit than barrel rolls

No, the whole server was full of teamkillers. That time I joined you there was atrocious. Another time I saw there was like three people there, so I figured "cool, people will be fucking around with jets and choppers until the round starts." So I join, get in the chopper, get TVed, no biggie. Respawn, and go for the chopper, and an FHM member on my team gets in first, switches to gunner and kills me. Eventually I switched, more people joined, and it was the same thing. And all that before the round started! It wasn't even people just horsing around pre-round. It was just people being dicks.

hitting with guided missle i persume
only tips i can give you is, try to approach any chopper from the side
also aim for the tail as much as you can
you will almost never hit with a missle if you are face to face with a chopper
also another thing i find useful is shooting the missle and pulling it down and as it gets closer to the target suddenly pull it up and hit the chopper from the bottom (more surface area)... the top works the same.. shoot up and pull it down very fast at the last second..

good luck

steer it to the right then hit them in the side, allways works

I'd consider myself to be a good gunner...not great, but good at least.  I agree that a strafing chopper is about the hardest target you'll come across.  My best advice is to start your missle as far infront of the strafe as possible and keep it that way.  If they're strafing to your right, then put your crosshairs to the extreme right to start off.  Don't ever at any point aim at the chopper itself.  Always aim ahead of where it's going because otherwise it's moving too fast and will get ahead of the missle and once that happens you're going to miss no matter what you do.  Basically your best bet is to get the missle in front of the choppers path and let them run into it.  It's still going to be a damn hard shot.  Hopefully your pilot is strafing at the same time so it's just as hard for them to hit you.  If this is the case and you can't land a hit, try to lite them up with cannon fire and if/when they go to repair take the shot from behind them.  Good luck.

I typically just play the range game, ranging out his missles, then barely getting  my gunner within range and letting him shoot, then backing out of range again. And if my gunner ever misses his missles alot and the other chopper decides to come at us, then to the rocket pods it is, or hope my gunner cant do something in a CQ fight. I do the same thing when I solo or gun.

I think the hitboxes lag a bit, because if I ever do a hit a sliding heli normally it looks like I wasnt even close, meaning I hit behind it....im sure the hitbox lags a bit.

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elmo1337 wrote:

steer it to the right then hit them in the side, allways works

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A lot of the posters seem to be missing, what I see as the crucial point in the question: the hitbox, where is it when the enemy helo is sliding ?

Well, There are a few things that you generally need to consider. I rarely gun anymore, because of my new internetconnection giving me too LOW pings (!) So you may consider my advice invalid if you wish. But read it and decide for yourself.

1) If the guy is "sliding", try hitting hit from a further distance, this will give you more time guide your missle
2) Communicate with your pilot (unless YOU'RE the pilot too), try to have him approach the enemy from another angle.
3) Generally, dont go head to head with a helo if you can avoid it. Why give him the opportunity to kill you ? You might as well sneak up on him unsuspectingly and kill him without mercy. Most pilots wont "slide" unles to circle prey or to avoid missles.
4) Play on servers where you ping is relatively close to the other players ping. if your ping is relatively low or high as compared to theirs, you will miss more often (graphics and hitbox dont move syncronously)
5) Aim for the large surfaces of the helo. This is NOT the front. Generally approach from high and a shot at the rotor blades is an almost certain kill (even if it goes trough the top hit box, you will often hit the rear hitbox (tail)). Side is also good. Many people say aim for the tail. This mostly works if the guy you're approaching has a higer ping than you. If he doens't you should try to go for the rotor.
6) If you HAVE to take a frontal shot, get distance to guide the missle high, and hit the helo with the missle going down through the rotor blades. If you cant get distance, then it's up to luck or ping where you have to aim. As many people have said, it's damned frequent the missile will go through the helo. I even have a SS of a gunners EYE, it was ofcourse a miss.