Hmm in rl they get them.. and a survival knife. How come they took pistol out?
Matt
No pistol for pilots?
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CanuckCommander
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Re: No pistol for pilots?
In real life, you don't see a helicopter full of pilots dropping out in parachutes WAY behind enemy lines to knife a fire base (assault enemy fortification) or be 1337 "LAPD" with their pistols.Deebo wrote:Hmm in rl they get them.. and a survival knife. How come they took pistol out?
Matt
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Caboosehatesbabies
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Re: No pistol for pilots?
/facepalm. Use search please. In short, pilots were being used unrealisticly. They were used as offensive weapons instead of trying to return to base. Now, if you get shotdown and survive, you HAVE to try and get back to base.
Everyone wants to easily kill their opponent but nobody wants to be the one easily killed. That line of thinking escalates weaponry to the point where practically every soldier has a shoulder-mounted nuke launcher that when fired, automatically displays the text "pwnt".- [R-CON]Wolfe
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CanuckCommander
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Re: No pistol for pilots?
I was gonna give him a /facepalm too, but i guess you did it for me.Caboosehatesbabies wrote:/facepalm. Use search please. In short, pilots were being used unrealisticly. They were used as offensive weapons instead of trying to return to base. Now, if you get shotdown and survive, you HAVE to try and get back to base.
Wait.....
/FACEPALM again! booya!
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Rudd
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Re: No pistol for pilots?
I went pilot last weekend on West Fallujah, the enemy were scared crapless by my crazy antic.
"OMG, he's a pilot, he has no gun! This guy has got to be scary crazy to come here! OMG he's throwing red smoke! Lets get away from this nutter!"
It was taken out because of the paratrooper antics, but tbh, I want their pistols back, well admined servers are the way forward. (we were just testing out stuff on the above story)
"OMG, he's a pilot, he has no gun! This guy has got to be scary crazy to come here! OMG he's throwing red smoke! Lets get away from this nutter!"
It was taken out because of the paratrooper antics, but tbh, I want their pistols back, well admined servers are the way forward. (we were just testing out stuff on the above story)
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Dunehunter
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Re: No pistol for pilots?
Locking for aforementioned reason.
[R-MOD]Jigsaw] I am drunk. I decided to come home early because I can''t realy seea nyithng. I hthknk i madea bad choicce. 
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Deebo
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Re: No pistol for pilots?
CanuckCommander wrote:In real life, you don't see a helicopter full of pilots dropping out in parachutes WAY behind enemy lines to knife a fire base (assault enemy fortification) or be 1337 "LAPD" with their pistols.
Well the whole point of this game is to make it as realistic as possible, so why the cutting corners.. Point of a pistol is so they have at least something, to get a better weapon with.. Unarmed pilot, red smoke, badguys will be on your a$$ in a hot second. If pilots are on the offensive with a pistol vs a rifle than something is wrong there to begin with.. They should have limited the pistols range/power than just get rid of it all together. Or maybe even make it where if you parachute out and your helo/plane isnt damaged then "the pistol snags as you eject and you lose it" or something to that effect? Toodles!
Matt