Usually rocketing them with just Stingers or Iglas seems to mean a pretty quick death since flares'll eat the first rocket, the second rocket will hit, disable, and cause the engineer staring at the wall of the cabin to instantly start repairing, the third rocket will hit and disable again, and by then you have hope the pilot can't spot you through the smoke trail.
Usually what I do is fly away from the flags and try to gain as much altitude as possible to make strafe runs with my rocket pods. Then I get destroyed by an enemy jet and his wingman using some combination of Air Radar and Laser Painter shenanigans.
But that's the way it should be. I try to fly the helicopters fairly regularly because I enjoy them. Even with my friend as a gunner and dropping a 2nd set of flairs we got shot down more often than not. I know from playing with my friends that two engineers on the ground can handle a chopper with 2 people in it if they play it right. Add to that the whole host of other options you have to kill heli's and you really have a pretty week vehicle. There really is no point in the game where one person coming up against two playing as a team should win. The problem you seem to be faced with is that nobody else in your team is focused on bringing the air vehicles down. That's not a problem with the game, that's the players not using the team work required for BF. I more often than not play with friends, but I can understand the frustration, when I do play on my own it's hard to find people who will properly play as a team.
Suppressors dont affect accuracy in BF3
, which does result in a decreased round velocity as well as travel distance, resulting in a more arced flight path (in addition to subsonic rounds themselves being significantly heavier than supersonic rounds - the energy lost in speed is made up for with raw bullet weight/density, helping them to retain a decent ballistic coefficient as well as good kinetic energy on a target at range). Suppressors have no true effect on accuracy insofar as the radial deviance from aimed point is concerned (they are not a continuation of the rifled part of the barrel, and the round is no longer in contact with any surface while moving through the suppressor), although they do act as a counter balance to recoil, just because you're adding a significant amount of weight to the end of the barrel.The suppressors in BF3 actually behave relatively close to what a suppressor would do in the :::REAL LIFE::: in that you'd be using subsonic ammunition (most of the noise from a gun comes from the sonic boom as the round leaves the barrel - suppressor or not, if you're firing a round whose muzzle velocity will break the sound barrier it's going to make a fuckload of noise - suppressors are only intended to catch the gas release and channel it through a series of baffles to disperse the noise created by the round propellant over a much wider area
Also the L96 is basically just an SV98. There's no reason not to just use an M98B, assuming you've already unlocked it.
Not really, directed at the bold statement. The L85 has 0.4 vs 0.5 leftward recoil, 0.3 vs 0.5 rightward recoil, a 22 recentre speed vs 18, and has a 2.5 first shot multiplier vs 3. All those stats, in combination with its considerably lower full auto RPM means that it has vastly less recoil.
I haven't read the last few posts, so maybe my point has already been made. I can't wait to unlock it
If you've got two jets on you, the best you can hope for is to control your throttle to achieve max turning capability (you should be able to maintain >9Gs throughout the dogfight) and catch up to the last jet tailing you. You should be able to get a quick burst to at least disable him so you can focus on the second jet.
I agree. I guess my main issue is most of the Battlefield community are total morons. Or at least they don't care about winning.
What's the right speed for turning? What speed does the landing gear come out at?
It can be a little difficult making out the neon green letters on my 32" 720p TV sometimes but usually I can tell. I could figure out that the top left box was speed but didn't realize the number next to the "G" was g-force. :lol
