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Re: The Chinook helicopter
Posted: 2009-07-09 21:02
by Mad-Mike
Conman51=US= wrote:i just dont get pilots in general
Pilots are a vital part on all occasions, i thank the pilots that are so good on flying them and gettin me and the rest of my squad members from one place to another quick and safe!
Re: The Chinook helicopter
Posted: 2009-07-09 23:01
by Excavus
I personally believe that the Chinook should get a spawn point connected to it, to make up for the limited troop carrying capacity.
Re: The Chinook helicopter
Posted: 2009-07-09 23:04
by Priby
Excavus wrote:I personally believe that the Chinook should get a spawn point connected to it, to make up for the limited troop carrying capacity.
I like the idea, but i think it would kill you if you spawn during the flight. Unless there is a way to spawn on a vehicle seat.
Re: The Chinook helicopter
Posted: 2009-07-09 23:08
by Rudd
a spawn point wouldn't work very well imo, 2 crates for a FB that peopl can spawn on is good enough.
And tbh with only 32 people on the team it may not be portraying the reaslism we'd like NOT to have more than 8 slots in a vehicle...but its not gonna take long to transport everyone still. So the gamedynamics willl still be fun.
Re: The Chinook helicopter
Posted: 2009-07-09 23:08
by Anhkhoa
Priby wrote:I like the idea, but i think it would kill you if you spawn during the flight. Unless there is a way to spawn on a vehicle seat.
No, I think he means in like AIX where you spawn on a spawn which makes you instantaneously grab a seat if there is one. If there isn't a seat then you can't spawn.
Re: The Chinook helicopter
Posted: 2009-07-09 23:18
by Priby
Anhkhoa wrote:No, I think he means in like AIX where you spawn on a spawn which makes you instantaneously grab a seat if there is one. If there isn't a seat then you can't spawn.
Oh yeah right, you could spawn in blackhawks and other stuff in bf2.
It really shows how long i didnt play it

Re: The Chinook helicopter
Posted: 2009-07-09 23:25
by Zar2Roc
Anhkhoa wrote:No, I think he means in like AIX where you spawn on a spawn which makes you instantaneously grab a seat if there is one. If there isn't a seat then you can't spawn.
i.e. a la PR 0.6 (spawning in trucks), bad idea, it was removed for obvious reasons.
Re: The Chinook helicopter
Posted: 2009-07-09 23:49
by Solid Knight
Nah, it should be able to drop a TOW as well as crates.
Re: The Chinook helicopter
Posted: 2009-07-09 23:52
by FuzzySquirrel
Conman51=US= wrote:seriously... i dont get why every one is so excited to get into a death trap, then complaing its too weak or something else is over powered
i just dont get pilots in general
And that's why we can't get married
I think the Ch1n00k should haz mk19z and c4rt1llry.
No two crates is fine, and People say 'omg it's gonna be a bullet magnet' that may be true but its going on a 4 KM Map! it's not gonna be hard to keep it out of sight.
Re: The Chinook helicopter
Posted: 2009-07-10 01:19
by Arnoldio
Spawn idea would be neat, but, then there would be no passengers, people will just wait until he lands, then spawn and go out, so you dont risk those extra 7 tickets.
Re: The Chinook helicopter
Posted: 2009-07-10 13:11
by molotov everything
Yah and that chinooks would be forced to just hover/fly outside base all the time except when they need repairs, since nobody will bother to spawn at main anymore for a ride.
Re: The Chinook helicopter
Posted: 2009-07-10 15:20
by RHYS4190
Carrying people????. we have lot of different helicopters to do that, What PR really needs is a Helicopter geared primarily to ammo transportation right now we could really use some thing like that, Transport trucks right now do the brunt of the work but there not exactly ideal, they usually just make one ammo run and then are abandoned. And no one will ever volunteer to drive for the round and do the supply duty's so it never really get done. But people like flying choppers even transport choppers because it fun, so if the Chinook was designed to transport crates then it will alway's be piloted and utilised unlike the supply trucks.
This will do wounders in helping to keep the team supplied. Which needs to be available constantly form experience.
give the Chinooks 2 ammo creates is hardly enough even to warrant taking off the ground those things are huge they are big enough to incorporate 4-6 ammo crates easily
Re: The Chinook helicopter
Posted: 2009-07-10 15:28
by DrugKoala
What's more important, IMHO Chinook should get some kind of gun on one side, or at back ramp. That thing needs something that will scare all those techs and stuff...
Re: The Chinook helicopter
Posted: 2009-07-12 11:17
by vik.casar
would it be possible to drive landy inside and transport it?
Re: The Chinook helicopter
Posted: 2009-07-12 11:23
by Rangu
vik.casar wrote:would it be possible to drive landy inside and transport it?
Nope, because of the collition meshes that's not possible.
Re: The Chinook helicopter
Posted: 2009-07-12 11:46
by j45h89
Rangu wrote:Nope, because of the collition meshes that's not possible.
Is it not possible to carry a landy as an underslung load then like you could do in bf:V?
Re: The Chinook helicopter
Posted: 2009-07-12 12:01
by Smegburt_funkledink
Rangu wrote:Nope, because of the collition meshes that's not possible.
It soooooo is possible my friend.

Re: The Chinook helicopter
Posted: 2009-07-12 12:10
by WilsonPL
ive seen movie on bf editor forums where some guy created flying platform, and transporting vehicles was possible. He was using implosion(?) effect or something.
Re: The Chinook helicopter
Posted: 2009-07-12 12:19
by Rangu
Sgt.Smeg wrote:
It soooooo is possible my friend.
srsly? I thought i read that was hardcoded/not possible in the sanging thread somewhere, long time ago though... hence all the talk about having it spawn landies like the other helis do with supply crates now.
- Glad I'm wrong

Re: The Chinook helicopter
Posted: 2009-07-12 12:29
by Qaiex
Helicopters can spawn crates, they can spawn tanks if you tell them to.
So yeah they can spawn hummers and landrovers, but you can't put a vehicle inside another vehicle.
So you can't drive it into the heli and fly away.
It would be nice with a helicopter that gets to see some more action.
Currently the biggest part of being a chopper pilot is sitting around main waiting for someone to call for extraction/supplies.
Something that apparently SL's avoid because idk, they think we're busy or something..
Give the Chinook crates and ammo boxes and repair stations!! (I just came up with that as I was writing it but it's an awesome idea in my opinion, hence the overenthusiastic exclamation marks) and that way more people would call for the heli because there is a larger chance of people needing something from it.
And Snazz, thats Three, potentially incompetent pilots.
Versus incompetent truck drivers, flipping the truck, hitting mines and IED's and whatnots, getting blown to shredds by AT4's, HAT rockets, LMG fire and 50 cal fire.
We pilots train our asses off to make sure that everything goes flawlessly on actual servers, it's the server admins' responsibility to deal with non-pilots trying to fly.