Best places to hit choppers?

[HellzxFluffyBunny]

People have studied the best hit areas of tanks extensively. Where are the most damages to a chopper?

[BeerStein]

Re: Best places to hit choppers?

Word has it if you hit the Bh in the back of the wheels it is one shot one kill.

Other than that - I know shooting into the back cabin - right under where the rotor is - very effective.

Are you talking for air-air - or for when trying to take them out with AT.

IRL there is armor on the bottom of the BH - so hitting in the sides should do more damage.

For the attack choppers - go for the canopy if you can - otherwise near the rotor seems to be good.

I have not done studies like some with shots per kill per inch of a tank.

I am interested to see the results if someone does this as well. CMON NERDS! Get to it!

[Dethleffs]

Re: Best places to hit choppers?

I thought i read in the IRC interview about the upcoming patch the blackhawk doesnt have and will not get any hitlocations in the near future. cba to post a link to this article btw.

PLaying as support I allways aim for the passengercompartiment and your sure to shoot out the 2/3 engineers, when thats done, theyll be a lot more vulnerable to fire.

[CtrlAltDe1337]

Re: Best places to hit choppers?

Shoot the wheel and its dead in 1 tank shot.

[Riggz]

Re: Best places to hit choppers?

I don't think there's a special place to hit choppers for maximum results other than the wheel of the blackhawk. Only tanks have different hit points that do different damage. Here's my opinion though.

- attack choppers; try to hit the pilot seats since you might be able to kill the pilots with out actually destroying the chopper

- blackhawks; the wheel which is really hard since it's usually on the move. The cabin to kill passengers and possibly the pilot.

- cows; thru the opening at the back.

Otherwise just hit the damn thing.

[HellzxFluffyBunny]

Re: Best places to hit choppers?

I was thinking AT or jeep mounted .50 cal.

[Attila]

Re: Best places to hit choppers?

...the wheel of the blackhawk.

Also know as the "Achilles Wheel", one hit here with an AT rocket or a tank shell will destroy the black hawk. This is true only until the patch comes out, in other words, forever.

[DLWebmaestro96]

Re: Best places to hit choppers?

Also know as the "Achilles Wheel", one hit here with an AT rocket or a tank shell will destroy the black hawk. This is true only until the patch comes out, in other words, forever.

You're saying you have heard official word that they are getting rid of the "Achilles Wheel?" I have read the latest dev chat, and don't remember seeing it in there anywhere. Can you please cite your source?

[Attila]

Re: Best places to hit choppers?

You're saying you have heard official word that they are getting rid of the "Achilles Wheel?" I have read the latest dev chat, and don't remember seeing it in there anywhere. Can you please cite your source?

In the dev chat, one of them specifically mentions fixing a problem with the hit box on the black hawk. Please don't make me go read through it all again...

OK what the hell, I'll go find it again. Brb.

[Attila]

Re: Best places to hit choppers?

As far as I know, there's not much "official word" on anything. I'm not sure where exactly I read that the Achilles Wheel was being fixed, but I know the idea was reinforced when I read this dev chat. Patrick O'Shaughnessy (who I assume is with Dice) mentions that "We've made some changes in the collision system to prevent these kind of problems [reffering to sliding supply boxes, boats, etc.]. A lot of the problem objects that have caused vehicles to instantly explode have been worked on."

By problem objects, I believe he's referring to the exploding stop sign in Mashtur and some other things that instantly destroy your vehicle when you run into them. It seems likely that if they're spending time tweaking objects that unrealistically cause damage to vehicles, they'd take the ten seconds to fix a screwed up hitbox that causes a black hawk to explode when the tire's shot.

Now that I've gone and researched all that crap, I have a question: why the hell is it so important to you that you asked me to go cite my sources? What if I said I contacted a dead Dice developer on my ouija board? What if I said I was sleeping with Lawrence Probst's wife?

[NoB33r4u]

Re: Best places to hit choppers?

Shoot in the back of the chopper. Won't kill it but you get a s**tload of kills anyway

AT rocket, tank shell, stationary gun/vehicle mounted gun, or grenade launcher usually do the trick. :)

[CommanderD]

Re: Best places to hit choppers?

Fire inside the cabin then you kill all the enginers who are repairing it, once this happens your firepower is more affective.

[imported_Psycho]

Re: Best places to hit choppers?

Hit them head on in the wind screen and it will kill the pilot that is pretty effective as know one realises until they hit the ground, i would personnaly say try to hit one of the guns as then if you don't destroy it you will kill the gunner which is never a bad thing.

[DimeBagWhore]

Re: Best places to hit choppers?

Here's what I usually aim for when I play AT.

1. If the helo is head-on then aim for the glass where the pilot is. You can take them out in one shot, and the helo will often crash.
2. BHs side on, I aim for the gunner facing me first (aim well above the mini-gun).
3. BHs side on and once the gunner is gone, I aim for any engineers in the back.

You can try aiming for the front or rear surfaces of the wheels, but the only time I ever had a clear shot in combat the missile just went straight through it without registering a hit. Otherwise it doesn't matter where you hit.

[jdrou]

Re: Best places to hit choppers?

It seems likely that if they're spending time tweaking objects that unrealistically cause damage to vehicles, they'd take the ten seconds to fix a screwed up hitbox that causes a black hawk to explode when the tire's shot.

That's not a hitbox problem AFAIK, that's because the wheel is a different material than the rest of the helo and that material has a much higher damage modifier for some ammo types (for tank shells it's double, for AT missiles it's more than triple). Just as the front/side/rear/tracks of the tank are four different materials.