50cals and whirley birds

[Geej]

So I'm just off from practicing a few things on Sp, AA launchers and fixed weapons mostly as I found my accuracy with both to be...lacking.

Anyways I was playing MEC vs USMC (the map with the carrier) and boosted the bots skill via botchanger. The round itself was quite fun, US pushed me back, took the docks and gas station before we flung them back.

It was at the docks it happened, fresh wave incoming, little birds strafing ahead and me fresh out of rockets. I dove on the back of a technical parked nearby in desperation, swung the 50cal round *Braaaap* and..boom the little bird folded like wet carboard.
Rinsed and repeated on the other incomings and I ended up chalking a nice tally right there until MEC win.

Now heres my question, is this a Sp thing or are whirley birds really so squishy vs 50cal fire, I've yet to see one taken down that way in Mp partly due to lack of time played and partly as most pilots are too damned good for me to get eyeball on.

[Jonny]

In MP few people know about leading the target, they fire of the entire mag right behind the heli.

The pilots also bug out the moment they SEE a moving .50, so you are unlikely to get a good shot on the good pilots.

[Geej]

So they are just as squishy to 50 cal fire in Mp then
As for leading the target..hell I'm new here but I learned to do that way back playing knights of the sky.

[Jonny]

Just as squishy, yes.

But the pilots are not as retarded.

[Waaah_Wah]

Hit detection.

The hit detection in Bf2 is utter crap, sometimes you have to aim BEHIND a moving target in order to hit it (Bf2 TV guided missiles).

But if you get a good burst on the LB, it should go down

[Geej]

I'd never accuse them of that trust me.
1st step was just finding out if they -were- that squishy...now I just have to work on hitting them..and living...

[charliegrs]

woh what is this botchanger thing? does it make the AI in single player PR smarter? cuz that would rock, the AI is pretty stupid.

[killer010devin]

this got me thinking, Its not a huge deal but as a minor like visual thing. or as a PR "eye candy" so to speak. is it possible for after a certain amount of hits around the tail area of the chopper that it spins around and whirls to the ground such as in black hawk down movie. I know if u get hit in the tail a certain amount of times u lose ability to USE it. but wudnt it be cool to be a soldier sitting in the chopper and u get hit one more time on the tail nd u see the chopper swishing down to the street in al basrah or something? idk might be cool.

[Death_dx]

Originally Posted by killer010devin

this got me thinking, Its not a huge deal but as a minor like visual thing. or as a PR "eye candy" so to speak. is it possible for after a certain amount of hits around the tail area of the chopper that it spins around and whirls to the ground such as in black hawk down movie. I know if u get hit in the tail a certain amount of times u lose ability to USE it. but wudnt it be cool to be a soldier sitting in the chopper and u get hit one more time on the tail nd u see the chopper swishing down to the street in al basrah or something? idk might be cool.

That would be a no.

While we're on the topic of .50s and helos though, how realistic is it for a .50 cal to take down a merlin/blackhawk, especially when shooting any area of the helicopter suffices to kill it.

[charliegrs]

Originally Posted by Death_dx

That would be a no.

While we're on the topic of .50s and helos though, how realistic is it for a .50 cal to take down a merlin/blackhawk, especially when shooting any area of the helicopter suffices to kill it.

it doesnt seem too far fetched to me, i mean 50 cal is pretty big bullet, and blackhawks arent exactly flying fortresses, most helicopters in general are pretty thin skinned {maybe not the apache} think of it this way, our P-51 mustangs from WW2 used 50 cal m2 machine guns to shoot down german/japanese fighters, i cant imagine a blackhawk has much better armor protection than a german messerschmidt.