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Mastering both of these takes a lot of practice, and you'll discover methods as you go on. I can't think of much, but here are my hints:

A good pilot is key to good tv shots on other helis. If you're hitting the broad side and the heli is moving forward or backward pretty fast, you need to tell the pilot to lead you so that by the time your tv missile gets to the other heli, it'll be right on target.

As for the LGMs, those are by far the simplest to get good at. Just wait for a lock and fire, and if you don't think you'll get lock in time, fire and just hold the cursor over the target. *Remember: it's better to fire earlier than later if you can't get a lock, it'll be easier to guide and your missile won't go haywire. Also, if your pilot is flying kind of low to the ground, you could even just point straight down and nail some infantry. Like I said before, it just takes practice. I haven't gunned much, but I am able to hit other planes and helis if the pilot lines me up well.

Basically, gunning is made easier with a great pilot.

mtb0minime wrote:

Mastering both of these takes a lot of practice, and you'll discover methods as you go on. I can't think of much, but here are my hints:

A good pilot is key to good tv shots on other helis. If you're hitting the broad side and the heli is moving forward or backward pretty fast, you need to tell the pilot to lead you so that by the time your tv missile gets to the other heli, it'll be right on target.

As for the LGMs, those are by far the simplest to get good at. Just wait for a lock and fire, and if you don't think you'll get lock in time, fire and just hold the cursor over the target. *Remember: it's better to fire earlier than later if you can't get a lock, it'll be easier to guide and your missile won't go haywire. Also, if your pilot is flying kind of low to the ground, you could even just point straight down and nail some infantry. Like I said before, it just takes practice. I haven't gunned much, but I am able to hit other planes and helis if the pilot lines me up well.

Basically, gunning is made easier with a great pilot.

thanks.
Someone once told me that the missiles lock on themselves.
Is that true?

thtthht wrote:

mtb0minime wrote:

Mastering both of these takes a lot of practice, and you'll discover methods as you go on. I can't think of much, but here are my hints:

A good pilot is key to good tv shots on other helis. If you're hitting the broad side and the heli is moving forward or backward pretty fast, you need to tell the pilot to lead you so that by the time your tv missile gets to the other heli, it'll be right on target.

As for the LGMs, those are by far the simplest to get good at. Just wait for a lock and fire, and if you don't think you'll get lock in time, fire and just hold the cursor over the target. *Remember: it's better to fire earlier than later if you can't get a lock, it'll be easier to guide and your missile won't go haywire. Also, if your pilot is flying kind of low to the ground, you could even just point straight down and nail some infantry. Like I said before, it just takes practice. I haven't gunned much, but I am able to hit other planes and helis if the pilot lines me up well.

Basically, gunning is made easier with a great pilot.

thanks.
Someone once told me that the missiles lock on themselves.
Is that true?

LGMs lock, TVs don't. With LGMs you just need to hold the cursor over the target and wait for the lock tone, but even then the missile will go a mile wide for unknown reasons. Once you get the hang of locking on targets and being able to keep your cursor on the target, I recommend not bothering locking at all. You'll be able to fire much sooner and the person in the ground vehicle won't expect it since they'll get the pulsing lock tone, but no confirm. Also, firing sooner will let you be able to take out more targets in the same path without having to make another pass.

I suggest you watch videos of people using TV missle aimbots on youtube.

It's exactly what I did to learn how to TV jets, it seems the aimbots come out on your right hand side (near the wing) and lean into the shell.

I've probably TVed around 100 jets (Whilst they're flying at full speed), not an amazing amount but enough to know which ones I find easier. If you're coming from behind the jet, it's pretty easy to hit ANY jet, but I believe the F35/Su/F-15 are the best to hit, mainly because they're slow.

Coming towards you, I actually have my best shots on the MiG/J10. I'd go as far as saying 50% of my TVs on jets are on the j10s, but that's probably because they don't have to be worried about other jets getting them (Most of the time)

However, I've never ONCE been able to hit an F-18 out of about 30 TVs against one, it just seems like the jet is too thin to hit for me, I don't know if others feel the same, but it just seems very hard to do.

If I was you, I'd practice on single player, I think Op Clean has choppers and jets, so go on there and solo TV against the Su/F-15.

Quick tips on the laser guided:

If you want to actually hit anything while locked, you need to keep the camera view pointing forwards so that the nose of your jet is visible or almost visible.  Aiming too far off-centre (left/right or too far down) will result in locked targets not being destroyed because the missiles won't track the target regardless of the lock.  Just start by locking enemies that are straight ahead of you.  Once you get used to that, start pushing the view out a little further until you learn the threshold that will stop the bombs actually locking properly.  You should be able to figure out what you can/can't hit pretty quickly by doing this.

Once you know how to hit locked targets easily, learn to guide them manually.  All you have to do is constantly try and keep the bomb xhair on target as the jet moves around.  Unlike TVs, the laser guided missile will always travel towards the centre of your screen; the crosshair will always be centred, too.  If your pilot is considerate and not an asshole, you can often take out 2-3 vehicles using manually guided shots versus the one kill you would get with a locked shot.  The only jet that sucks for this is the F-15 because, when you fire the laser guided bomb, the crosshair you use to aim the bomb will disappear, making it a little more tricky as all you have to guide the missile is by estimating where the centre of the screen is.  Anyways, once you get the hang of this, you can really get some nice kills.  The moment a flag turns neutral due to enemies taking it, fire off as many bombs as possible and splash the flag.  Splash choppers on the ground and vehicle clusters, too. 

I can splash flags & vehicles even if I'm flying with a worthless pilot who constantly bombs one target and re-arms, giving me absolutely no targets to aim at unless I look for them; with practice you can learn to fire a missile off and guide it (roughly) onto a target area even while the jet is doing a horizontal turn and you're looking almost perpendicular to the direction of travel.

My personal favourite thing to do with laser guided bombs is to splash two targets in very quick succession.  E.g. the pilot comes down sharply after seeing a target, so you don't have enough time to kill both using locked missiles.  Instead, I'll fire the first off and manually guide it, hopefully hitting the closest target.  Then, I'll aim as far down as possible and spam my left mouse button so a second one fires and hits the ground as soon as possible.  I love doing this because the second guy will probably be breathing a sigh of relief as there's surely no way that someone can reload & fire & hit in such a short interval

FloppY_ wrote:

thtthht wrote:

I've mastered every part of bf2 except the plane and the chopper.
Can anybody tell me an effective way to take out a chopper with a TV missile and how to use the laser guided missiles on planes?
Stat here.
http://bf2s.com/player/104213007/

THx.

6 hours game time and you say you have mastered everything...

it takes at least a couple hundred hours to learn this game.

ig wrote:

FloppY_ wrote:

thtthht wrote:

I've mastered every part of bf2 except the plane and the chopper.
Can anybody tell me an effective way to take out a chopper with a TV missile and how to use the laser guided missiles on planes?
Stat here.
http://bf2s.com/player/104213007/

THx.

6 hours game time and you say you have mastered everything...

it takes at least a couple hundred hours to learn this game.

Well, I used to play bf2, but I quit for nearly 8 months, and lost everything.

Autoclick macros are pointless IMHO. They won't help you with the TV missles unless you have problems with your hands.