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[Irish Freedom]

What do people think of the new Huey in 0.75? I kind of dislike how it replaces the blackhawks on Jabal al-Burj, and also there are no door guns! Isn't that kind of unrealistic?

[waaah_wah]

This means that no moron will piss me off by randomly firing blackhawk guns:D

[Jblankster]

^^hahaha

[Irish Freedom]

This means that no moron will piss me off by randomly firing blackhawk guns:D

that's true, but now you can't give support to the guys on the ground; the door gun was sometimes really useful for covering insertions/extractions.

[waaah_wah]

^^No it wasnt. The doorguns in PR never offered anything other than headache

[Webs961]

^^No it wasnt. The doorguns in PR never offered anything other than headache

You know, at least from some of the footage from real life, you'd think that the door guns would be a bit more effective.

[Irish Freedom]

i admit in vbf2 the door guns were utterly useless, but like all the other weapons in PR, the miniguns in this are quite powerful; i've killed alot of guys with them.

[waaah_wah]

You know, at least from some of the footage from real life, you'd think that the door guns would be a bit more effective.

Yep, but unfortunately the shaking and ping make it pretty much impossible to hit anything with them. And even if you somehow manage to land a burst on someone, i almost guarantee you that it wont register.

I have tried to turn a blackhawk into a gun platform namy times and it always resulted in my or my door gunners death. He would either get shot out coz hes a big and juicy target in the sky, or someone would simply shoot us down with an light or heavy AT:/

[(EoDDev)TrahnLee]

How's it flying? Specifically, how is it handling while sitting on the ground? I put in several hours of time and some initial code and re-export of the helicopter for the PR team to fix an issue with it "creeping" while on the ground.

This chopper used to like to "walk" forward until it was stopped by some objects the skids could not get over. It would do this with a pilot sitting at the flight controls/rotar spinning. (Yes, I am still the one everyone comes to for help fixing choppers. :D Eve is still the king with the number and variation in chopper types available in any mod. We've got most all the Huey flavors used within the 'Nam.)

In any case, I am just curious to know how it turned out in the end. I have not had a chance to sample the latest version of PR, due to my work upon Eve of Destruction and some other projects I am currently involved with. :salute:

[Rhino]

creeping has been fixed in the newest version afaik, think jaymz was the one to fix it :)

[[R-PUB]MrD]

Miniguns are a wonderful weapon. I can destroy vehicles easy with them, harass the hell out of infantry, although admittedly killing them isn't that easy.

[waaah_wah]

^^Lol i wanna see you take out a vodnik when theres someone manning the .50 cal;)

[Irish Freedom]

i have...you have to sometimes lead the bullets though, and that can be tricky, because it depends on the distance from the target as well as the velocity of the helicopter.

[waaah_wah]

The .50 can will chew you up and spit you out WAY nefore you take out that vodnik

[(EoDDev)TrahnLee]

creeping has been fixed in the newest version afaik, think jaymz was the one to fix it :)

You think? :p You don't suppose it was the addition of the dampers and fixing the materials on the collision mesh that fixed it? :confused: In any case, I am glad that it stays in one place. Nothing worse than landing and finding yourself creeping across the ground into objects. :laugh:

If it wasn't fixed and needed some additonal tweaking. I'd be interested to know what the fix was. All my choppers in EoD work fine and are setup the same way I set this one up for PR. (I added the dampers and fixed the collision mesh material issues that were not setup right.) :nod:

When I got it from you guys, it crept forward and would not stay in one spot. When I was done with it, it seemed to be working fine. If it wasn't, please let me know what was added or changed, so that I can apply the same fixes to the version that I have for USI. They use the same UH-1N as far as I know. :salute:

[CDN-SMOKEJUMPER]

i admit in vbf2 the door guns were utterly useless, but like all the other weapons in PR, the miniguns in this are quite powerful; i've killed alot of guys with them.

Looks like you missed the joy of the early versions. Two engies an ammo dude and a medic and you had the ultimate platform of death!



I would love to see door guns more effective again though not a raping machine but at least able to take out some infantry......

[Alex6714]

The huey is lovely! *hugs huey* You will never leave me!

The sound, the way it flies, the looks....

[Webs961]

Looks like you missed the joy of the early versions. Two engies an ammo dude and a medic and you had the ultimate platform of death!



I would love to see door guns more effective again though not a raping machine but at least able to take out some infantry......

Mashtuur city anyone? It was the flying death machine, and seats in that chopper went for a premium. I could easily get into the hundreds in score by flying that thing around and getting assist points from the kills and repairs. Add to that when the engies weren't repairing, they were dropping landmines (or occasionally a spec ops would drop C4 out the back) while we were flying along. It was pretty funny, actually.

I'd definitely like to see the miniguns improved a bit, but certainly not to that level. At least make them effective as a .50 cal.

[AJED (G.Drew)]

The huey is lovely! *hugs huey* You will never leave me!

The sound, the way it flies, the looks....

x2 :P

always fun to fly they things with 'Fortunate Son' in the background :evil:

i find the huey more forgiving to fly than the Blk Hwk, for example landing, the huey can take a moderate landing pretty well, the blackhawk is like it was made of glass, just that little to hard for those itty-bitty-tiny-weeny landing wheels and its BANG!

gun wise, just having a support guy is good enough for me, or perhaps an AT guy
hey, the loadout is customisable! ;):D

[waaah_wah]

Hm, i just discovered that a Huey can take an AA missile from the AA kit and survive... In 0.7 Blackhawks werent able to do that

[Sike]

can anyone make a video of it in action?

[Rhino]

can anyone make a video of it in action?

you can see it a little bit at the end of this video :p

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHOmNyGdeh0

and you can see a nub with a SAW sitting in the back in this vid :p

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwT9PERk6tQ

youtube search is your friend :D

[Sike]

seen em both already

[Irish Freedom]

those are some cool vids; yea thats what I do when I sit in the back of the huey, although I've only ever killed one guy doing that.

[TrudgiN]

only thing i dont like is the colour , better if it was jet black or camo to the enviroment

[bosco]

It's not about a pretty color but about a realistic one ;).

[Alex6714]

Pink.:D

[TrudgiN]

Neon Orange

[Sike]

Acu :p