Faster Transport Heli Spawn Time

pasfreak · Post by **pasfreak** » 2007-09-23 05:34

please, I hate waiting for 20 minutes every time for the Black Hawk and Little Bird to spawn.

Its fine with the gunships (Cobra, Apache, Attack LB)

But transport choppers are needed. It is such great teamwork when you have a random pilot and a random squad in a chopper and they go and cap a flag, move on, etc.

But then if the pilot lags and crashes (happens a lot for some people), or they get shot down, there's no teamworkd for 20 minutes!

That whole time, you have entire squads walking vast distances across maps, driving solo humvees, and LOTS of times, solo tanks and APCs.

Please, cut down the spawn time to 5 or 10 minutes, I'm absolutely positive that everyone in the PR community would appreciate this.

Its just so great to get a nice fast ride from point A to point B, and there's nothing else like hanging off the edge of a chopper and hopping out ready to shoot, ready to kill

IRL, helicopters are used frequently, and in some cases almost exclusively.

Bring it on, reality!

thx guys

zangoo · Post by **zangoo** » 2007-09-23 06:31

i agree i love the black hawk but every so often i get lag and i have to wait like 10 min or some noob will crash it on take off right after it spawns and the team has to wait.

Post by **77SiCaRiO77** » 2007-09-23 06:47

all transport vehicles should have a low respawn time (4-5 min) .

Post by **dbzao** » 2007-09-23 10:31

Transport helicopters are defaulted to a 5 min respawn, except in Kashan that uses a 20 min wave spawn for all vehicles.

zangoo · Post by **zangoo** » 2007-09-23 16:05

why would the biggest map that needs the heli badly just to cap flags have longer spawn times then smaller maps that people can run around.

DarkTalon · Post by **DarkTalon** » 2007-09-23 20:22

If you use it as intended you should not die, as for lag, get on a server on YOUR continent (if you live in the UK don't join US servers and vice-versa) try to avoid flying too low, you should always be able to predict where your chopper will be ahead of time (for the sake of lag) and for gods sake, don't fly over the enemy forces. A blackhawk has "FREE POINTS" written all over it.

for the record i prefer the MI-17 over the blackhawk.

Post by **77SiCaRiO77** » 2007-09-23 20:29

DarkTalon wrote:If you use it as intended you should not die,

can i laught?

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yeah , you will bever die if you use it as "intended" , what if a tank shoot you down when you are flying "as intended" , is that your fault? do you deserb 20 min waiting for a chopper or transport ?

DarkTalon · Post by **DarkTalon** » 2007-09-24 01:24

77SiCaRiO77 wrote:can i laught?

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yeah , you will bever die if you use it as "intended" , what if a tank shoot you down when you are flying "as intended" , is that your fault? do you deserb 20 min waiting for a chopper or transport ?

yes you do, if you are flying close enough to the front that a T-90 can hit you then you are entirely too ambitious of a pilot. a good pilot is conservitive. in the gulf war do you think blackhawks just flew directly over T-72 regiments just to pick up a six man squad?

zangoo · Post by **zangoo** » 2007-09-24 02:16

i have shot a black hawk at 750m so i dont think he was flying bad. i play on us servers and i have a ping of 64 i will have 99 fps then i will lag for about 3 sec, the chopper will be 200 feet in the air then boom. also you say dont fly low but if some one said tanks keep on killing the heli to fly low and fast so what should we do? like i have said many times if project reality had a 2000m view distance i think choppers would last longer cus ethey could fly at 500 feet and would see where the tanks are.

Post by **77SiCaRiO77** » 2007-09-24 04:04

DarkTalon wrote:yes you do, if you are flying close enough to the front that a T-90 can hit you then you are entirely too ambitious of a pilot. a good pilot is conservitive. in the gulf war do you think blackhawks just flew directly over T-72 regiments just to pick up a six man squad?

did you ever play PR? tanks can shoot down chopers from 800 m .

Post by **Katarn** » 2007-09-24 04:17

Either fly at 100+ meters or below 20.

pasfreak · Post by **pasfreak** » 2007-09-24 04:37

yeah this lag we are talking about has nothing to do with ping.

I almost always play on servers in the US. I even played on a server in my home city of seattle, I had a ping of 9 and I still froze up for 10+ seconds and crashed helis.

I can also go to a UK server with a 130 ping and it plays somewhat slower, but OK, at least untill I get those long glitchy lag freezes.

all my settings are on medium, somewhat lower than I play vanilla bf2 on, and I am 100% positive my computer can handle graphics of the kind I play with.

Its just PR lag, or its the server.

and when I get lag, and complain about it in the chat box, I get lots of other players saying they are getting it too.

also seems like its mostly on kashan desert.

so thats my take.

when helis crash for one reason or another, we should not have to wait 20 minutes for air transport.
kashan can be VERY slow because there is no fast transport. otherwise it is a great map.

Post by **MAINERROR** » 2007-09-24 08:16

Agree! I also think that the respawntimes for the transport choppers should be set to 5 minutes

@ DarkTalon

Lags are not caused only by your ping ... its also your computer-performance. On Kashan i get many lags and sometimes i'll crash cause of this lags and its not cause im a bad pilot its cause the black hawck gains very high speed while the nose heading to the ground.

zangoo · Post by **zangoo** » 2007-09-24 12:49

i think it is more about server performace cus i have nice computer that plays bf2 at 99fps but i will get lag and get like 1 frame a min. i also seem to have more lag on kashan then on anyother map. but i really think the heli should spawn faster or there should be 3 transport heli.