Yeah, you can do all that. Or you can have team mates spot for you.Mekstizzle wrote:
Not entirely true, once you unlock the air radar, it shows up enemy and friendly vehicles on the minimap for you (with quite good range too). When you're flying low enough it shows ground targets too. It gives you the general location of targets and from there on it's easy to spot it yourself so it shows up on your HUD. Unless you have a team you can trust to always spot things for you, using air radar is a must.FEOS wrote:
Spotters make a difference for the jets. You can't see shit otherwise. Active spotters cue the jets for air to ground runs, making them more useful from a tem perspective. If there aren't any spotters, all they can do is flu around looking for targets, hoping something will appear.
Also slow down, come in from far away and give yourself plenty of time to spot things and start attacking them. Using the gun from far is useless, it has quite a short range in the game, you can get two salvo's of rockets in usually and a burst from the gun before things get a little too slow and close for comfort (yes, I've been knocked out of the sky by tanks before, and enemy AA vehicles will shit on your face) - two salvo's and a burst, as long as it's accurate enough, is usually good to take out tanks even from the front.
What you do is fly over the map low enough, look at where enemy vehicles are, memorise them and then fly out far and high, once you turn around for your bombing/strafe/rocket run you should have a general idea from your low run before as to where everything is, vehicles don't move that fast. Spam Q in the general direction of what you want to take out, most of the time it comes up nicely, from there on spam the rockets and guns
This is all assuming you have air superiority, otherwise priority is always enemy jets. Helicopters aren't necessarily second
It doesn't even have to be rock-paper-scissor. Pilots just don't want to get shot down. Like the kid with the ball who won't share. Or the kid with the controller who won't take turns.mtb0minime wrote:
Exactly, it's their rock-paper-scissors gameplay. Of course AA should be able to take down jets, especially when they're flying low and close to you. Pilots are lucky the AA missiles are so shitty (or that everyone has flares).
When I'm in AA and see a tank coming after me, I run.
It's rock-paper-scissors gameplay.
easily.Naturn wrote:
Out of curiosity. In real life can a stinger take out a jet?
Go engineer with extra explosives. Drop mines art popular vehicle choke points. Get into an aircraft and stay alive. Do not attempt to engage anything. Wait for mine kills. Points for aircrafts. Get your flares.paranoid101 wrote:
I've gave up with jets, seems to be everytime I try all the engineers seem to have stingers and the other planes are maxed out death machines.
Probably do more damage if I jumped out the plane and shot at the enemy plane with my pistol lol
Hold shift on takeoff, silly.Camm wrote:
my experience with jets is:
get in the a10, power to end of runway, bank, hit hill, die.
I might have to try a bit harder.
I did, I just didn't realise how close the hill was to the runway.AussieReaper wrote:
Hold shift on takeoff, silly.Camm wrote:
my experience with jets is:
get in the a10, power to end of runway, bank, hit hill, die.
I might have to try a bit harder.
Yeah... I found out you can right click and look around as I lined up a tank in my sights, held right click to drop some bawms on it, only to look around the cockpit when I tried to pull up, and hitting the ground like a fucking dart.Microwave wrote:
ALSO, hold right click you can look around!!! Only realised that last week. Really helpful when I'm spazzing out with my mouse trying to loose the enemy jet