Weakest weapon ever!

[Quemical]

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Am i the only player that unlocked the SAAW as their first new weapon?

[messfeeder]

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Somebody start a poll: What was your first weapon unlock? I'm too lazy to do it myself.

[Moteeph73]

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Am i the only player that unlocked the SAAW as their first new weapon?

As engineer I beilive I went down that route for the curiousity of the saaw plus I wanted the motion mines before the vehicle scanner.

[Rogu3granny]

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Kain, I think he was the weakest weapon EVER

[Forces(UK)]

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Kain, I think he was the weakest weapon EVER

...I'd say more of a tool than a weapon. :nod:

[Rogu3granny]

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...I'd say more of a tool than a weapon. :nod:

:laugh: lol :laugh:

[wardogHk]

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Just one thing though: Interrupting someone else's dogfight with a SAAW is like interrupting someone else's knife fight with a gun. ...It's just not British.

yes, that is a good point. but usually, players dont care about that.

Am i the only player that unlocked the SAAW as their first new weapon?

ironically, the SAAW was the second weapon I actually unlocked. It seemed so cool and useful and I remember the first time I used it I did A perfect kill on a gunship. As it was passing by, 200 meters up in the sky, I fired 2 rounds that brought that flying **** to the ground (it was before patch 1.50). pretty eazy I said to my self, But i Think it was more a beginners luck that anything else.:dikkie:

[imported_NoobHunter]

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The SAWW can be good but it's still heavily flawed. I so much prefer the Pilum in all respects. Wish it's reload time wasn't so long though.

If you want a crap weapon its the Lambert Carbine. This has been nerfed to high heaven in that at range its horrible and even at close range, every other gun including basic medic guns (ok we know the medic kit is overpowered but still) can pown it for damage. It's a waste of 4 unlocks to get it you might as well keep the medic krylov or if you want to be completely noobish, go for the Voss!

[Amaranthuse]

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SAAW is a pain in the rear for gunship pilots.

I m a decent gunship pilot around and I say the SAAW is the best weapon against Pro Gunship pilots with no one on your team that can match or take down the gunship.

It's more of a mental strain on the gunship pilot as the beeping constantly and seeing the glowing ball hit you from the rear or dancing outside your gunship. It makes good pilots spend 1/2 of the time trying to dodge the SAAW and getting repairs rather than focusing on the ground.

Finding the SAAW is also hell, usually when the gunship pilot makes the other team break out the SAAw, it's most likely he ticked them off beyond the "RAMMING POINT" and usually it's about 1-2 SAAWs out at once.

In a dogfight with a SAAW can easily kill or reverse the upperhand of the fight. Many times, I m locked in an intense 1 minute dogfight and out of no where I get hit by a SAAw that does 50 damage and brings me down; Or severely weakens me.

My record was surviving 4 SAAW users on a conquest map. The round seems 2 hours with me buzzing at 500 m with infantry scanner attached trying to fish out the lone SAAW user among the huge crowd at Refugee.

In summary, it's an effective weapon against gunship pilots as a mental strain rather than a weapon to get kills.

[imported_NoobHunter]

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It does have the use of killing gunship pilots who use joysticks. Wouldn't really call them pros however, they just have the tool to control the ship in ways a mouse and keyboard can't. Usually by breaking the laws of physics which is a serious downer on EA's part!

[sempf]

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those people often use keyboards as it is harder to fly with the gunship with a joystick, and then you cant solo. breaking laws of phisics is win(upside down makes you have more engine power:P)

[Lolyn]

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It does have the use of killing gunship pilots who use joysticks. Wouldn't really call them pros however, they just have the tool to control the ship in ways a mouse and keyboard can't. Usually by breaking the laws of physics which is a serious downer on EA's part!

You can do that by using keyboard only, or mouse and keyboard. I know, because I can do it with both. Doesn't take much more than a bit of practice.

If anything, a joystick is more of a hinderance when flying since you don't get the response time when changing direction. And sempf, hate to correct you as well but you CAN solo with a joystick : Flanker1121 from TAU did it on a regular basis, and you can solo whilst axis-switching using keyboard... but it takes practice and fast hands.

And Amaranthen... nail hit on the head RE: SAAW, nothing worse than being mid-dogfight and then get the warning signal which means either impending EMP or SAAW... just the distraction of that can be enough to throw you off your fight. I've had 3 after me whilst fighting 2 talons before, and after that I just gave up and went to ground. The thing that really gets me is the range of the weapon... combine that with Walker AA EMP (which for some reason has about twice the range of the static AA) and short of some serious high-flying swoop attacks, you're going to hear that lock-on sound for the rest of the game.

[Amaranthuse]

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I can even get hit AFTER I land fully INSIDE the Titan Hangar.

But...I rather have been hit by SAAW than EMP.

Forgot to mention; EMP turns off all controls on the gunship. Meaning that if you get hit by EMP, your SHIELDS WILL TURN OFF or while you are in the EMP "frozen" effect and turn on the shield, IT WILL NOT WORK!

SAAWs can be shielded when timed right, there are few dogfights where I Shield JUST IN TIME for the other gunship's TV and the SAAW on the ground. BOOM - Big cloud = TV, pop, pop, two SAAWs hit consecutively after.

SAAW have a reload time of 5 seconds, in that time gap, please do grab some altitude and speed and hope the other gunship isn't on your tail.

The tracking of the SAAW can be as long as half the length from Silo 5 to Refugee camp on Suez Canal.

SAAWs however, have trouble doing more than 3 critical angle [90 degrees] turns [NOT AXIS-SHIFTING]. Flying with full speed sideways after 2-3 horizontal twists + 1 vertical loop should easily make the SAAW loose track.

A second trick is to grab altitude when SAAW locks on you and suddenly NOSE DIVE down to the ground and pull up 10-20 m above the ground and do a sharp turn. The SAAW will either hit the ground when you DIVE and the second missile will loose itself when you do the sharp turn.

I should make a video to demostrate how I avoid the SAAW.

[imported_Talbot]

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Also, don't underestimate the panic potential when a pilot hears the lock on tone. I've seen guys freak and crash thinking they were in the sites of a gunship.

It's also handy to soften up the targets for your teamates to then take out more easily.

Of course if you're all about points, none of this probably interests you.

That requires team work, don't be so silly.

[Forces(UK)]

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That requires team work, don't be so silly.

I think I saw some team work once.

It was about a couple of years ago.