Helicopters: Real World vs EA World

[ikilled007]

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/08/25/bor...ent/index.html

Rock-throwing illegal immigrants near Yuma, Arizona, forced a U.S. Border Patrol helicopter pilot to make an emergency landing this week, the customs agency said. No one was hurt in the incident, which happened Tuesday while the pilot was helping agents on the ground apprehend 17 people attempting to illegally enter the U.S., spokesman Michael Gramley said. They were on the north side of the All-American Canal, a large irrigation canal that runs from California along the U.S.-Mexico border.


While the helicopter was hovering, a group of 10 people on the south side of the canal began throwing baseball-size rocks at it, Gramley said.


One rock hit a rotor, Gramley said. The pilot felt a bad vibration and made an emergency landing about a mile away.

Real World: It takes a rock to bring down a chopper.

EA World: It takes two stingers to bring down a chopper. It takes two Abrams 120mm Sabot/Heat rounds to bring down a chopper. It takes dozens of 25mm Heat/AP rounds to bring down a chopper.


I just thought this was a funny story. Enjoy!

[CS-Evolution]

Re: Helicopters: Real World vs EA World

BF2 is an arcade game. The real world is not.

[Eddy01741]

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Yeah, EA made the helis way too powerful, a stinger should take down a BH, but in here even like 6 stingers couldn't take one down with 2 engys inside, and since when can engineers repair their own BH inside, a bullet hole to the rotor, i doubt the pilot would stop the rotor in midair, and let the engy climb up their to fix it, and since when can you raise a flag in a vehicle?

[ikilled007]

Re: Helicopters: Real World vs EA World

BF2 is an arcade game. The real world is not.

I'm gonna start following you around with my Blackberry so I can take notes! Your genius should not go unreported!

[CS-Evolution]

Re: Helicopters: Real World vs EA World

I'm gonna start following you around with my Blackberry so I can take notes! Your genius should not go unreported!

*Insert witty response here*

[Thunder13]

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Since when do soldiers have name tags above their heads? Since when does a 40mm grenade only has a damage radius of 50cm? Since when does infantry use parachutes? Since when can a tank be operated by only one man? Since when...

It's a game, get over it.

[rombaft]

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look the game isn't realistic, even a child knows this, and this is for the balance in game.

In the real world
- you go down from one shot, even pistol shot
- with 5 C4 pack you kill everything in a range of 50m
- and you couldnt even fly a chopper

and many more

[glaeken]

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Yeah but the balance is screwed in favours of choppers. Choppers in game should be about the same strength as the Humvee class vehicle. This would stop them being used as flying tanks. Transport choppers should just be faster equivilents of the Humvee ground transport not something that is tougher then the main battle tanks and can fly.

Attack choppers should have to play in a far more sneaky manor then the out in the open crap they can do at the moment.

It would of course be unpopular with the chopper fan boys but I would like to see the game balance re-done to put the emphasis far more on ground combat. The ground combat in this game is so good when it is not be ruined by over powered choppers.

[Foolio]

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Its a gameplay issue...true it can't be totally "real world" because it would not be fun to play. However, I think 2 stingers to take a down a chopper is Ok...if it was so damn hard to hit the buggers and there wasn't an engineer sitting in it fixing the bloody thing

[Judian]

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Since when do soldiers have name tags above their heads? Since when does a 40mm grenade only has a damage radius of 50cm? Since when does infantry use parachutes? Since when can a tank be operated by only one man? Since when...

It's a game, get over it.

I agree its a game. and if EA/Dice did make it like real life more people would start bitching about "its too weak, make it more powerful, BH in real life is not that weak"

[ikilled007]

Re: Helicopters: Real World vs EA World

Since when do soldiers have name tags above their heads? Since when does a 40mm grenade only has a damage radius of 50cm? Since when does infantry use parachutes? Since when can a tank be operated by only one man? Since when...

It's a game, get over it.

Oh, I see what you're saying. It's a game so there shouldn't be realism! Well then why can't we shoot lightning bolts out our butts to destroy enemy tanks? I mean, since it's just a game?

[Platinum Bastard]

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New addition in the 1.03 patch: Baseball sized rocks

[glasseye]

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its a game yes. well done for noticing that. but its not a fantasy game, thats why there are no lasers, golden guns or quad damages lying around.

BH in real life is not that weak"

yes. it is.

[ikilled007]

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I agree its a game. and if EA/Dice did make it like real life more people would start bitching about "its too weak, make it more powerful, BH in real life is not that weak"

Except that they'd be wrong: the Black Hawk is nicknamed the Crash Hawk in real life, because not only does the weather knock them out of the sky, but small arms rifle and pistol fire can bring them down easily. The Black Hawk is a piece of garbage in the real world, not the flying tank you see in this game. If you want to see a flying tank, check out the Hind.

[MrChris_CJ]

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and uhh from that story i have not found out what type of heli was damaged...military helis are diferent to civilian ones...