For Ppl With Solo Problems

[gunitsoldier127]

ppl are saying, when i switch to gunner position in helo, the chopper starts turning, but hovering takes 2 long to do and the target slips away.

well i gota solution for u, if u already use this method, bravo.

first, when ur in pilot seat, stablize as much as u can. normaly, u would put the target right under ur crosshair, but the chopper always spins right. now , i want u to put the target, still below ur crosshair, but on the right side of ur hud, so when u switch to gunner seat, the chopper will spin, but when finaly u got ur tv on, the target will be in the exact center of ur screen. this method is better than making the chopper hover, witch takes precision and time.

enjoy.

[Stampy]

ppl are saying, when i switch to gunner position in helo, the chopper starts turning, but hovering takes 2 long to do and the target slips away.

well i gota solution for u, if u already use this method, bravo.

first, when ur in pilot seat, stablize as much as u can. normaly, u would put the target right under ur crosshair, but the chopper always spins right. now , i want u to put the target, still below ur crosshair, but on the right side of ur hud, so when u switch to gunner seat, the chopper will spin, but when finaly u got ur tv on, the target will be in the exact center of ur screen. this method is better than making the chopper hover, witch takes precision and time.

enjoy.

I've been doin that whenever i'm using the chopper ( unless there is someone who knows how to use TV missles around). Nice little technique, but most know it. Better to just find a good gunner/pilot and add his xfire.

[lethal_ranger]

Yeah I've been using that for a while since noticed how it spins, I think someone already posted it too.

[Venomous]

yea ppl know this and plus its easy to figure out if you have a brain

[kulamonster3]

Hello....there are enough teammates in this game that no one has to fly solo!!

I am always looking to be a gunner, and see you guys fly off in the chopper solo!! WTF?? There are already too many chopper whores let alone chopper whores that fly solo!!! So be considerate of your teammates and take a gunner! Then you do not have to worry about any of the above bull!!

[cantfinddeletebutton]

lol good job kulamonster took the words out of my mouth lol

[pYura]

Solo piloting is the biggest fun in the game, I just ralised it a week ago. :D

ps.: bank left a little so it wont spin (that fast)

[x_knight_x]

Hello....there are enough teammates in this game that no one has to fly solo!!

I am always looking to be a gunner, and see you guys fly off in the chopper solo!! WTF?? There are already too many chopper whores let alone chopper whores that fly solo!!! So be considerate of your teammates and take a gunner! Then you do not have to worry about any of the above bull!!

Its becuz the guy probably knew that u suck and that u cant fly or gun

[btrapp]

Everyone should make sure to shoot at any helis where the pilots purposely take off without letting gunners get in.

[Blades]

Well I was gonna say that the, "oh noes!11!!! slefish!1!!" crowd would come in, but it appears they have already infiltrated this thread. Its a thread about soloing, dont like soloing? Then dont read the thread.

[m0ttz]

Thanks a lot for that tip, i've been tryin to fly solo but never figured it out! I'm going to go try it now :)

[x_knight_x]

Flying solo is much easier since u can position ur own shot since u no wat kind of shots u r better at

[vidh]

^True!

[Iceberg]

There is one more method works mostly for long distance target, some of you may know it already, I found it about 2 month ago, it’s all about the speed.

You have to be on reasonable height (100+). Go straight to your target which is under the centre of your screen on speed ~200+ mph switch to gunner position, if you do all keyboard stuff fast you will see no displacement of target. Works well for me.

[Unnamed Assailant]

Or you can bind a thumb button on your mouse so you don't even have to move anything. I have one of my thumb buttons assigned to position 2 in aircraft and position 1 in land vehicles. Tap, right click, left click until target eliminated, tap thumb button, it's back to flying.

[imported_Underpant]

Eventually you won't even have to compensate, hell, I just point myself right at whatever I want to kill and get it off quick. It's easy to roll/evade and get one out all within a few seconds. Soon enough you'll learn how to easily take out a F35. You just need to get lucky if you want to shoot down a J10, he has to be an idiot going 500mph or flying straight at you. The hitbox is still a pain compared to the F35.

[big_bus159]

Hello....there are enough teammates in this game that no one has to fly solo!!

I am always looking to be a gunner, and see you guys fly off in the chopper solo!! WTF?? There are already too many chopper whores let alone chopper whores that fly solo!!! So be considerate of your teammates and take a gunner! Then you do not have to worry about any of the above bull!! The problem with taking a gunner is, sometimes they're gonna suck, and not know how to use the TVs correctly, sometimes you're better off taking sometime by Hellfire. That's happened to me waaaay to much. If you're soloing, you have no one to blame except yourself.

[Heckler&Koch]

when going solo what i usually do is point the chopper left of the target and by the time it spins right it i will already hv switched to TV missile and the target will be within the crossharis. Much more quicker IMO..then waiting for it to spin right again and align with enemy

[SvnTwoo]

Hello....there are enough teammates in this game that no one has to fly solo!!

I am always looking to be a gunner, and see you guys fly off in the chopper solo!! WTF?? There are already too many chopper whores let alone chopper whores that fly solo!!! So be considerate of your teammates and take a gunner! Then you do not have to worry about any of the above bull!!


Funny how when I get a gunner I seem to die more often then I do solo...
It's simply cause there are A LOT of "crappy" gunners...
1/2 don't know how to shoot the TV, and the ones that do seem to miss 90% of the time...

I'd rather not get a gunner I don't know...skill level matters.. NOT RANK...

[theLemon]

I personally like having a pilot, but it's difficult to find one that will actually fly in the correct directions and evade enemies. Yesterday I had one decent pilot that got me lined up for 24 TVGM kills. However, he left the game and I was stuck with a really crappy pilot that would not even attempt to barrel roll out jets or spin around to an attacking helo.
It is good to solo a helo sometimes..Get's your skills with the TVGM up and your meanuvering skills up.

[Iwantcable]

Also use my controls I posted in this forum. Should help a lot for people without macros.

[theLemon]

I'm having a small problem with the soloing .

I changed the binding so that it will automatically switch to TV, but I want a thumb button to switch to pilot's seat, but it's configuring..It's still stuck on F1 even though i changed it to C.

[LifeCrysis]

I personally like having a pilot, but it's difficult to find one that will actually fly in the correct directions and evade enemies. Yesterday I had one decent pilot that got me lined up for 24 TVGM kills. However, he left the game and I was stuck with a really crappy pilot that would not even attempt to barrel roll out jets or spin around to an attacking helo.
It is good to solo a helo sometimes..Get's your skills with the TVGM up and your meanuvering skills up.


I hate it when a pilot will not turn to look at the other attack chopper!!!
You spot him like 10-15 times and the pilot doesn't care. He's either:
A. Trying to cap a flag
B. Firing hellfires at 1 troop
or my favorite C. Completely oblivious to anyhting and just flying around.

And after any of the above senerios, you get punked by the other chopper.

[Ohais]

I usually get horrible pilots and one last night i spotted the enemy chopper who was off to our 9 o' clock 3 or 4 times on wake island and the pilot decided to go along his merry way and go to the helipad to get repairs and we got tv missled. Then he yells at me for not shooting the chopper down. it was hilarious. i asked him if he knew that you have to aim a little in front of the chopper for me to be able to hit it with TV. then he was quiet.


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[Unnamed Assailant]

I wish that was all most of my pilots did. Failed to lead the target, HA! It's worse when they line their own crosshairs up on the target, leaving yours looking at dirt. That's the number one way I've been shot down by tanks. My pilot flies low, with his HUD aimed at the tank. I'm looking at dirt, saying or typing, "nose up." PWNT

[Harpoon84]

I solo whenever I have the opportunity, because I am SICK AND TIRED of n00bs who think the cannon is the only weapon on the attack chopper.

And when I spam chat "USE THE TV MISSILE" I get no response at all.

I have a fairly good strike rate with the TV missile and find I'm normally much more effective soloing then being in a deathtrap with a n00b, who either can't fly or can't gun.

[[H2H]Haggis]

I have recently started soloing as is really a requirement for clan matches now but only prob is i havent been a gunner for soooo long i cant hit the side of a barn, well i prob could hit the side of a barn but i find it really difficult hitting the other choppers. Ground targets arent really a prob but those other bloody choppers i just cant hit grrrrrr

[vidh]

The only way you're going to get better is to practice. Also, aim for the back of the heli, that way you're more likely to get the hit to register

[Absurdus]

Just out of curiousity, how many times do you see the tv-missle go straight throught the other chopper, I could 'ave headshot some pilots with the missle but it just doesn't register.....

[vidh]

I used to get that quite often before, but as I said, aiming for the back truly helps. That and making small corrections all the time makes you hit more often. Nowadays I rarely miss unless the heli is moving really fast in one direction, or of course, if it lags too much...

[TheDragon]

solo flying = kick / ban in our server

[vidh]

Ok. There are plenty of good servers out there though :)

[[H2H]Haggis]

well i will solo if there is noone available to gun for me and im usually quite happy to pick up a gunner but as i said solo in chpper is becoming a requirement for clan matches so i do practice a lot with clanmates when our server is offline

thanx for the tip about aiming for the tail btw strangley it seems to work better than aiming for the cockpit

[SaS|firestorm]

thanks 4 that not that i go sosl...

[Harpoon84]

solo flying = kick / ban in our server

How do you police such a thing anyway?

Anyway, it's your server, do what you like. :rolleyes:

[LAGG3R]

Well, I can understand why people want to fle solo. There was one time I got onto the gunner position in the AH-1Z and the noobish pilot flew so high that everyone can see us up there... not long later we got anti-aired. :(

[lostinspace]

Using F1 and/or F2 for switching, will never lead to satisfactory results...
Learn to create a better keysetup...

My experiance is that, the more violent the mavourve, the less the chopper tends to spin...
A good keysetup will do the rest...
Hovering only ensures imidiate twist response from the chopper...

Anyone still aiming left of a target, will need to get back to the drawing board if they take solo choppering seriously...
Couse a guy taking off alone in a chopper, is just a guy taking off alone in a chopper...
Solo piloys are capable of so much more...

[vikonic]

I fly solo and i use default buttons. I just practiced out and im quick at switch/right/left/death/switch.

It's better sometimes, because you can really position yourself the way you want, but i also have a buddy with me who is a great gunner so that also helps.

As long as both are communicating and know their "targets" and their importance i think solo isn't much necessary.

Oh and by the way, TV going through the cockpit, unregistered, about 20 times last night on this Dragon Valley server. Aiming at the back helped a lot.

[ConscriptVirus]

hmm sounds logical...never thought of it tho

[Sloi sauce]

Using F1 and/or F2 for switching, will never lead to satisfactory results...
Learn to create a better keysetup...

I BEG TO DIFFER. ;)

My experiance is that, the more violent the mavourve, the less the chopper tends to spin...
A good keysetup will do the rest...
Hovering only ensures imidiate twist response from the chopper...

Anyone still aiming left of a target, will need to get back to the drawing board if they take solo choppering seriously...
Couse a guy taking off alone in a chopper, is just a guy taking off alone in a chopper...
Solo piloys are capable of so much more...

The only key changes I can see needing a new mapping are mouselook and Enter/Exit. Everything else is fine if you have nimble fingers... something the ladies also love :)

[.Churr.]

I tried another key setup and I sucked so much with it that I had to change back to default =/

I dont see any problems with the default config. The only problem I have soloing is the lag I get from switch to shooting the missile... Sometimes it takes so long that it makes it impossible to hit closer range targets.

[Eviscereightor]

This thread is silly.

If you don't have the quick fingers of a solo veteran, just spin the chopper to the left before you switch. If you do it right you can get the Tv screen to pause over your target. If you do the position + spin technique you're retarded.

[Sloi sauce]

You don't always have the luxury of time when a TV shot is needed, hence the real solution being a better ability to predict and control the behavior of your helicopter: you can take shots in every conceivable position almost all the time, it's just a matter of knowing your limits in specific situations. Practice being a good pilot and everything else will fall into place.

[Eviscereightor]

The problem isn't with me, i switch so fast with my fingers that even other solo-pilots have called me a macro user. I was letting them know a technique which has helped me and many others, Redux from codeseven, who made that 'duck and cover' video uses/used the same technique as me.

[.Churr.]

The problem isn't with me, i switch so fast with my fingers that even other solo-pilots have called me a macro user. I was letting them know a technique which has helped me and many others, Redux from codeseven, who made that 'duck and cover' video uses/used the same technique as me.
Which is...?

[vikonic]

I dont see the reason for any specific "techinques".

I have no trouble taking a quick tv shot with F1/F2 setup.

I have troubles with TV bugs, I hate them :(

[Eviscereightor]

Which is...?

He just swings the chopper, yaw to the left in the instants before he takes his shot, as i mentioned a few posts up.

[RahXeph0n]

Read this from somewhere in this forum, and I get mixed results from it:

Change the "Position 2" hotkey to mouse right click (button 1)

What happens when I practice in co-op would be a single right click immediately switches me to gunner seat AND tv mode. However, when I tried it in a LAN game, most of the time a right click did not switch to the TV mode, just the gunners seat. Not sure if it's a bug, but a double right click did the trick. Don't know how this works on online servers, because I don't think I be good enough to take a chopper and try it out yet. haha. Gotta go find an empty oman server or something..

[.Churr.]

You don't always have the luxury of time when a TV shot is needed, hence the real solution being a better ability to predict and control the behavior of your helicopter: you can take shots in every conceivable position almost all the time, it's just a matter of knowing your limits in specific situations. Practice being a good pilot and everything else will fall into place.
Correct. If you watch thecolorpink's solo videos (they are somewhere in the Media section) you'll see he quickly switches to TV and fires in the middle of a barrel roll or whatever maneuver.

[vikonic]

I suggest people do a lot of single player BEFORE they go into servers. I get way too many people that want to learn in the middle of the dogfight or whatever not.

Startup 16-player dragon valley or w/e you like that has choppers, and practice, practice, practice. More you practice, better you get and even the default combination (F1, F2) wont be a problem :)