BF2S Forums 50 cal and choppers

If your on the receiving end of a hit while your the pilot does it damage your health or the Helli damage?

I was assuming it was your heath but I shot a Helli down yesterday and it started smoking and both pilot and gunner died. (was using theM95)

Last edited by spuddy1981 (2008-01-31 12:46:37)

Most random through glass kill I've ever seen was before a ladder match I was circle raping my own uncap on OCS with the AH and a clan mate shot me out from 30m away with the freakin M11-87 :\

In my experience, yes. So can regular sniper rifles, AT rockets, tank rounds, co-ax machinegun rounds, APC fire, AA guns, and practically anything.
Although that's because I usually aim for the cockpit no matter what, figuring it'll get me a quick advance on the full chopper kill.

A handy thing to note is that ANYTHING damages a chopper. Even your wussy little 9mm pistol. If you see one passing, pop off a clip or two at it on semi auto or short bursts. Not only could you get a lucky kill or two on one that's smoking, but you're helping your own chopper whore or AT users to crack it. You don't even need a .50, although it helps a LOT. Or if you're suicidal like I am, you can keep firing and distract the bugger for someone to get the drop on them with an AT rocket, AA, or the other chopper, or anything. If the pilot's seeing red and strafing you with rockets, he's not watching his ass, and is ready for some rocket-propelled surprise buttsex.
Hell, if everyone shot at hostile choppers, the skies would not be safe.

cowami wrote:

No. Only the M95 can kill pilots.

However, the .50 cals mounted on tanks and jeeps can destroy choppers with sustained fire.

Skorpy-chan wrote:

A handy thing to note is that ANYTHING damages a chopper. Even your wussy little 9mm pistol. If you see one passing, pop off a clip or two at it on semi auto or short bursts. Not only could you get a lucky kill or two on one that's smoking, but you're helping your own chopper whore or AT users to crack it. You don't even need a .50, although it helps a LOT. Or if you're suicidal like I am, you can keep firing and distract the bugger for someone to get the drop on them with an AT rocket, AA, or the other chopper, or anything. If the pilot's seeing red and strafing you with rockets, he's not watching his ass, and is ready for some rocket-propelled surprise buttsex.
Hell, if everyone shot at hostile choppers, the skies would not be safe.

Handy...  not really.  The only way to aid the AT busters is if you could take 50% of their health out, and the normal chopper whores is to take 100% of the health.  If you can't do that, other than diverting their attention for 1 second, your effort is futile.  It takes me all of 1 second to see we're taking fire but not taking (serious) damage to ignore that hit marker.

I'd advise Infantry/vehicles with support guns (RIBS!!!!) to not shoot at passing choppers simply because it doesn't do enough damage.  Pistols will do 2-3 bars damage with all it's clips.  The support weapons will do about 2-4 bars per 100 rounds.  It's ok against a smoking chopper, great on a burning one, but DO NOT fire on a healthy chopper unless you have a death wish.  I cannot tell you how many times my full boat was sneaking around to get a flag when some idiot was showing exactly where to shoot a TV missile.  You cannot miss when you have a bright white line emulating from the thing you have to hit.

But that M95 is really destructive to a chopper.  Each shot takes about 1 bar away.  I got 9 guys together and shot down a full health blackhawk with just 1 clip. (my next dream that will never happen is to get video of 40 or so snipers 1 shooting a blackhawk)

Last edited by Drexel (2008-01-31 07:58:34)

']['error wrote:

cowami wrote:

No. Only the M95 can kill pilots.

However, the .50 cals mounted on tanks and jeeps can destroy choppers with sustained fire.

Thats not true, and this was already solved 6 months ago. People don't read.

Which is true.. it's only when the hitbox glitches out of chopper it can be hit with other things.

Bugfield 2!!

Last edited by RuhRoh (2008-01-31 12:07:05)

']['error wrote:

cowami wrote:

No. Only the M95 can kill pilots.

However, the .50 cals mounted on tanks and jeeps can destroy choppers with sustained fire.

Wrong, you can shoot out pilots/gunners with the MGs on tanks. You can also shoot them out with nose cannons on the choppers.