Team Vehicle Damage On Friendly Choppers

[Chris369]

Yesterday i was sitting in a stinger to get my stinger badge and an enemy chopper flow over me so i shot it. One missile hit it and it said 'Team Vehicle Damage' on the left hand side of the screen and deducted points. The second missiles took down the chopper and it sais i killed tem, NOT teamkilled. It really was an enemy - whats going on

[BigBadBob]

well, the first missle probably didn't hit that helo. It most likely got diverted by flares and hit a friendly helo/jet.

If it DID hit it, then it's a bug. Where the game registers them as on your team for a second (sometimes for whole rounds) and then when the second one hit it was corrected.

Or, the chopper really was friendly but the game thought they were enemy.

There's many explanations, but most are bugs that cause that.

I almost never use a stinger anymore. Too many missing an enemy helo right in front of you and hitting a teammate on the other side of the map.

[Chris369]

I just edited the title, i had 'Friendly Chopper' instead of enemy :p

Its no the first time its happened either. At first i thought the missile must have missed but im like 90% sure they both hit the same chopper.

Anyone else had this problem?

edit: My edit didnt seem to change the whole thread title, just my post title. Any chance a mod could change it?

[Saldrin]

Happened to me last night as as I was playing my AT kit, as well as sitting in the AA.

I had an AH that was just raping my point, so I prone and let go of a missle and everytime it hits I'm getting the team damage deducted from my score.

I also took out a Blackhawk yesterday that was fairly loaded, got some decent kills but again I got team damage. I recieved the TD before the hull hit the ground so it didn't fall on anything or anybody...

This is the only game I have ever spent money on that punishes me for playing the right way.

[TGL|Badlizzard]

Can't figure out if you can call this a bug or just crappy coding. Rock paper scissors means you have to shoot down some of your own aircraft once in a while.