Bomber Co-pilot Tactics (basic)

[Harmor]

Here are some tips on being an effective bomber co-pilot:

1. Pre-aim: Place your reticle ahead of your jet's trajectory. If you're banking left, for example, put your reticle to your maximum left. You can start getting a target eventhough the reticle is pointing though your cockpit.
2. Shooting without a lock: Sometimes you don't have time to get a lock, so what you do is shoot below your target. Just like how you have to lead your target with slow shots with a tank, you release your missiles with your reticle prematurely. The momentum of the jet will carry the missle past your reticle. As the missle is about to get close to your target, place the reticle on the target. You shouldn't have to do that much because if you aimed in front of your target, by the time the missle lands your reticle will be at your target now. This is the same technique as hitting a moving vehicle with an AT rocket except reverse.
3. When to reload: The reload time is LONG. If you only have 1 or 2 rockets left best to fire them off right before you pass over the runway to reload. Make sure whatever you hit is away from friendlies (missles have a large splash effect).
4. Shoot at infantry: If you have UAV up you can see infantry. Aim for walls or buidlings where the splash damage kill them. Places where infantry are common you should shoot at anyway, just like how pilots strafe areas with their machine gunns. This will be common since most pilots either don't or can't stay level long enough for your to get a lock on any target.
5. VoIP: If you're not communicating with your pilot then you're missing out. Alot of times the driver or a vehicle will get 'tunnel vision', where they ignore everything outside of their direct-line of sight. This means that they aren't paying attention to the mini-map or main map for targets or flags that just turned grey. Let your pilot know where there are targets.
6. Try to be squadleader if you don't have VoIP: If you are Squad leader you can open your map and tell your pilot to MOVE HERE, or ATTACK HERE using the Squad leader commands. If you have a good commander he may give you targets as they become available (commander's can't Right+Click spot while the Scanner is running).
7. Spot for your pilot: You can spot for your pilot so he can come around for another pass and get your target. Even if you get a lock on you can look directly down below your jet for targets - vehicles still start the lock process eventhough your missiles couldn't hit them.
8. F10 and F11 while in a Dogfight: If you have a bogey on your tail, get out of bomb view and press F11 and F10 to look behind and infront of your jet. These views will gie you the greatest view to communicate with your pilot where a bogey is. Becareful though, if you switch too fast sometimes the bomb view gets bugged and you'll have to die to fix the problem.

[datakillx99]

Re: Bomber Co-pilot Tactics (basic)

(commander's can't Right+Click spot while the Scanner is running).

OMG So i have spammed the radio for nothing all these days?! :laugh: Omg thank you so much for finally telling me that I wondered what the hell my teammates were doing :laugh:

[Jacob-M1A-]

Re: Bomber Co-pilot Tactics (basic)

Thanks for the tips, I remember the first time I jumped in as a copilot, I thought this thing is useless. Now, There's no other way to play. If you get a good pilot that dives your targets and lines you up on shots, You can dominate the map.

[Mayflower]

Re: Bomber Co-pilot Tactics (basic)

" Commander cant right-click spot while the Scanner is running "

OMG is that true.... right... actually it explains a lot of thing :laugh:

So I've effectivly spammed all those "Enemy Infantry spotted" for nothing ?