Before you read this further, I must stress one thing above all else: Teamwork!. No matter how skilled you are (or think you are), there is nothing that you can do better solo, then with another team-mate (they are on your side after-all). I cannot tell you how many times that I have been in 6/8-1's only to get locked on by an enemy player. Then have my butt saved by a team-mate coming to my aid. Below, I will add a "pairings" list, where I will compare the list of possible combinations on the maps and the one's I have found that work the best (all data is taken from playing without a clan, only with random strangers).
At this point you are probably asking yourself why should you bother investing time to learn to fly when you already excel at ground Battle-Group combat?
The answer is simple, if you get even a basic level of skill, you can single handedly turn the tide of battle. In a jet, you are the fastest player on your team, capable of suppressing the enemy's advance and keeping them penned at base. If you master the art of flying a transport helicopter (any of them transport), you can assist your team in rapid troop-deployment, and base capture. If even one helicopter can escape the enemy with 2 or more people in it, you can easily re-take the map.
In order to decide what you want to fly, here is a list of the strengths and weaknesses of each aircraft (you can then skip down to the part of the guide if you want knowledge on how to fly that type only).
For the jets, W starts the engine, S kills it (when flying, as a beginner, it is a good idea to continually press w, or your engine will stop and you will lose altitude). Use A and D to turn sharper. Pull the mouse towards you to make you gain altitude, push it away to make you descend. Push it to the left while pulling back to form a barrel-roll to the left. Push to the right while pulling back towards you to barrel-roll to the right.
Jets:
Rafael.
This is the best aircraft for dog fighting. Armed with twin 50 caliber cannons, which have a total of 999 rounds, and 16 rockets (these replenish on the fly four times then you must land to reload), this jet is lethal to soft ground targets (Hummer, all types, and below), and aircraft. This jet is not made to go against people (it's cannons are horrible for this purpose). Line up your cross-hairs on a target, this only works on other aircraft, then hold shift and wait for a "good tone" box to form around the enemy jet (note this only works with jets). When this happens right click to fire the rockets.
In terms of dog-fighting, the Rafael can attain the same speed as all other jets. It has the second largest turn-radius of the jets (the F-15 turns sharper, and tighter, the A-10 turns slightly wider). It takes four rockets to destroy an enemy jet when on full health (every one out of two rockets will miss if fired rapidly).
In my flight time, I have noticed that very few people make use of the Twin 50 caliber cannons when dog-fighting. This is a novice mistake. Always shoot your cannons (press and hold the left mouse button to fire) when dog-fighting (or fighting anything for that matter). 25 rounds from these will destroy an enemy plane. There is no noticeable drop at any range with these guns, so do not worry about bullet-drop if you decide to open up at longer ranges.
This is a great starter aircraft for beginning flyers.
F-15.
This is a jack-of-all-trades aircraft. It is armed with 8 rockets (these replenish four times, left click to fire), and 16 bombs. This aircraft is a terrible mix of the A-10 and Rafael. It's bombs are of less power then the A-10's (which means that you must use one rocket on all soft targets before you drop a bomb on them). It lacks the ability to quickly take out other aircraft (this is due to the only ranged weapon it has are rockets). It does excel at taking out personal, however, and it's small bombs can be used to fit into places the A-10's cannot.
There is one thing the F-15 has going for it: It's agility. Anyone who has flown either the Rafael or the A-10 before will notice this the first time you barrel-role in one of these. It has the tightest turn radius of all the jets. This means that it is great at evading stingers (and other missiles fired at it).
I suggest holding off on flying one of these unless you have prior experience in another type of Jet.
A-10.
The A-10 is true to its modern counter-part. It excels as a close range ground supporting fighter. As with all jets, it has 999 rounds. It carries one gigantic cannon in the center, which is great for destroying any targets (from tanks to aircraft, to personal, this plane is a beast if handled correctly). The cannon alone makes it a great plane, yet it also comes with 10 gigantic bombs. These bombs are not heat-seeking, but they are capable of destroying any target if dropped close enough (it can one-hit kill a tank, or grounded A-10).
In a dog-fight, the A-10 suffers from a lack of any heat-seeking weapon. It also has the widest turn-radius of any of the aircraft (this can be used against pilots used to flying against different aircraft) That said, if you can master the art of firing in 5 round bursts, you should have no trouble in over-coming this handy-cap.
First off: This is mainly going to be flying for the MD500 but occasionally I will put some tips for the blackhawk and etc.
Ok here goes. To start off, the heli maps that are most used are cantumira, paragona and paragona east. If your reading this guide and then want to fly, I recommend going to battle group and playing paragona east because there are alot more helis to use for practice and people won't kick you for taking there heli, unless there just that selfish lol.
Once your next to a heli, or any vehicle for that matter, press F and you should be in the vehicle. To change views in your heli, because when you first get in the heli you should be in 3rd person, to switch to 1st person press V twice and you should be in 1st person along with the little circle crosshair. I also recommend setting your graphics to medium or high because while your in the air it helps to see things a little further and its already hard enough looking for little ants (people), don't make it harder with low graphics lol.
Little blackhawk tip: If your flying the blackhawk with other people as your gunners, I recommend staying in 3rd person view to see where your going and where the people are to help guide your gunners.
While your in the heli, it should begin to start up and in a few seconds press W to lift off, once your high enough, you can start using your mouse and your keyboard to begin flying. Don't jerk or move your mouse around alot unless your trying to dodge something or get out the way of an AA gun/vehicle.
Here are some of the mouse movements:
moving your mouse forward : nosediving or going down forward slightly
moving your mouse left and right: kinda obvious lol
moving your mouse back: to prevent a nosedive and to move back ofcourse
Pressing space on your keyboard also balances the heli and keeps it straight, helps in some situations but once your good enough you really don't need the use of it anyway.
Once you get the flying down and start crashing less, you need to start learning how to dodge stingers and other obstacles of your demise lol.
When a stinger or cal50 ( AA car) are about to shoot you, you will most likely get a little bleepy red notice in the middle of your screen saying. Stinger locked on! and the same with a cal50, AS soon as you dodge it, press T and there should be a green ping where the weapon was shot from, the same thing with the minigun and other weapons shooting at you. Most good players don't lock on with the stinger but if that's the case, if you hear or see a rocket fired at you just do the same and press T to see where it was fired from.
It takes about 2 stingers to destroy your heli, 3 panzers I believe and same with rpgs. So don't panic if you get hit once, because you have another quick chance to escape and repair your heli, so be quick on your feet, or wings I should say lol, and be prepared to dodge another rocket.
The barrette is a totally different topic, this gun can actually penetrate the heli's armor and give you damage instead of your heli, and it could even kill you if the sniper has good aim. When playing against a barrette sniper, you should be quick and shoot him down first because they have the most potential in killing you because a stinger you can dodge, but if a person has good aim, you probably can't dodge the shots that easily. It takes about 5-7 shots of the barrette without killing you, to destroy the heli, it takes about 1-3 shots if shooting at you directly to kill you without destroying the heli.
great ,thank you :)
ReplyDelete