Enemy Air Support

Nuri Sahin · 01-02-2010 5:18pm #1

Shoot. It. Down.

Playing public matches on your own is horrid, especially Ground War/TDM in general. There are many issues I can't stand about MW2 but this is a basic thing to do or so I would have thought.

But no. People are utterly selfish, moronic and blind. Does my head in. If I die by enemy air support. I whip out my anti air support class and take that **** down. If I'm unable to and am out of stingers I'll frag/claymore myself and again, I'll definitely take that **** down.

I'm usually the only one if I'm playing on my own, to bother in dealing with Harrier's AC's, Chopper Gunner etc etc.

Fair enough if your spawn trapped in say Highrise or playing on Rust. No much you can do.

But for god sake, if a thing is reigning death from above use your brain and stop being selfish.

Shoot. It. Down.

Rant over

:P

docdolittle · 01-02-2010 5:24pm

I love playing in the same lobby as friends, we're always the first to shoot them down :P When we're on the same team, it's like a race to see who can shoot it down faster, the abuse when we both shoot at the same time and the other gets it is unreal :P Harriers don't even survive a few seconds

Edit: I wasted my evil evil post count on this....

SoulTrader · 01-02-2010 5:25pm

Predator missile is great for taking out air support, but I always have trouble bringing them down with shoulder-launched weapons? Which is best? I haven't unlocked the Javelin yet, but the other ones are all crap.

It really bugs me when you're trying to shoot down air support and someone comes up and kills you. I'm like, "you effin' idiot, now you're gonna get killed by the chopper".

If I do that to people, I at least have the decency to pick up their Javelin or whatever it is, and try and shoot it down myself.

Ever managed to shoot anything down with a grenade launcher / machine-gun? They make an impact but I think it requires too many bullets.

Nuri Sahin · 01-02-2010 5:50pm

Javelin is useless a lot of the time, Stinger is the way to go. Though the draw back with the Stinger is not being able to fire it at the enemies themselves.

zero86r · 01-02-2010 6:12pm

I hate when you have your stinger out, you just have lock on and some bollox shoots the plane down before you! I really do enjoy shooting down enemy planes i can never understand people who don't try taking them out

zero86r · 01-02-2010 6:16pm

On the subject of shooting them down with bullets, i have done it before a few times but only with a support weapon and along with team mates combined fire. Have scored hits with grenades but haven't managed to get a killer hit with one

Tallon · 01-02-2010 6:27pm

Shot one down on wasteland with a turret gun..... it was class, it was hovering over the bunker

SoulTrader · 01-02-2010 6:31pm

Tallon wrote: »

Shot one down on wasteland with a turret gun..... it was class, it was hovering over the bunker

That's pretty neat, I hadn't thought of doing that before.

JerryHispano · 01-02-2010 8:19pm

Cold blooded, air support is none of my business (need the secondary for shotgun) . i unlocked the stinger today so ill see how that goes, i might use it for the easy points or something.

craze7 · 01-02-2010 8:36pm

Was just saying that to me self yesterday, i went prestige and due to the care package glitch there is constant air support around these days but the thing is i dont get cold blood untill level 25 and dont get my stinger untill level 40 or so!!!!

Basically you have no chance to shoot down or run away from kill streaks rewards in the early levels which is bull ****, cold blooded should be a starting perk as should the stinger!

Seifer · 01-02-2010 9:01pm

I couldn't agree more. I mostly play team deathmatch and it's like there's a link between general ability and the tiny bit of cop on it takes to swap to an anti-air class if you die while somethings up there. The 2-16er's will never swap cause they're busy dying so it has to be one of the top three usually.
Coming in a close second are the people whos' anti-air class doesn't have cold-blooded so they stand out in the open to shoot down the air support and get their faces melted.

JerryHispano wrote: »

Cold blooded, air support is none of my business (need the secondary for shotgun) . i unlocked the stinger today so ill see how that goes, i might use it for the easy points or something.

It is your business because your team-mates won't all have cold blooded and if you're playing free for all then someone is racking up easy kills.

JerryHispano · 01-02-2010 9:42pm

{The 2-16er's will never swap cause they're busy dying so it has to be one of the top three usually.
Coming in a close second are the people whos' anti-air class doesn't have cold-blooded so they stand out in the open to shoot down the air support and get their faces melted.}

That makes me feel guilty.

I havn't got enough classes for an anti-air, and I really need the shotgun.
That new glitch is worse than the one it replaced! Not that im bothered, but the air is thick with air support all the time!

Washington Irving · 01-02-2010 10:42pm

Tallon wrote: »

Shot one down on wasteland with a turret gun..... it was class, it was hovering over the bunker

I read your post earlier and when I was playing about 30 mins there was a Pave Low on Skidrow and I shot it down with the turret gun (minigun), it was awesomeness on a stick. What I hate is when you have a chopper locked on, your just about to fire and it shoots you :mad:

Tommy_NDX · 01-02-2010 11:11pm

Whatever about not shooting them down, what I cant understand is why people keep running around in the open getting killed again and again.

Damn he got me, maybe i should run a bit faster. Damn he got me, i know ill crouch and sneak....damn he got me....have i tried moonwalking yet???

The Shtig · 01-02-2010 11:20pm

If someone has a launcher or can switch to a class for it then they should do their best to take it down. TDM shouldn't be about saving your own ass but also your teams.

I usually always have the ats as my secondary with the M16 since i don't need a shotgun or handgun (unless i'm sniping). Love taking down harriers especially

The ats is also handy for taking campers out

(eg the cave on afghan)

Paparazzo · 01-02-2010 11:20pm

Adnan Alves wrote: »

Javelin is useless a lot of the time, Stinger is the way to go. Though the draw back with the Stinger is not being able to fire it at the enemies themselves.

I find the javelin is better. Got a pave low and harrier in one shot earlier!

Seifer · 02-02-2010 12:46am

Paparazzo wrote: »

I find the javelin is better. Got a pave low and harrier in one shot earlier!

The stinger is better as you get two shots with it. Both of which you need for pavelows and chopper guns.
You can do the 2 for 1's with it too.

Hoki · 02-02-2010 1:07am

Seifer wrote: »

The stinger is better as you get two shots with it. Both of which you need for pavelows and chopper guns.
You can do the 2 for 1's with it too.

Scavenger & Javelin - u get as many shots as u want provided there are plenty of dead bodies around u . 1 Javelin shot will take out most enemy air support as well so i prefer them to stingers

Seifer · 02-02-2010 1:28am

Hoki wrote: »

Scavenger & Javelin - u get as many shots as u want provided there are plenty of dead bodies around u . 1 Javelin shot will take out most enemy air support as well so i prefer them to stingers

Stingers will one shot anything that doesn't have flares just like the javelin.
If it does have flares, then with sleight of hand you get the second shot up there as fast as possible.
Running the risk of having to go find a second missle kind of defeats the purpose of an anti-air class ie. kill the enemy air support as quick as possible.

Robby91 · 02-02-2010 9:00am

Which is best? I haven't unlocked the Javelin yet, but the other ones are all crap.

Well, if you're in a situation where you haven't unlocked the proper anti-air weaponry, the AT4-HS(?) is better than nothing. And, when there's no air support flying around, it is immensely fun to shoot people with

Ever managed to shoot anything down with a grenade launcher / machine-gun? They make an impact but I think it requires too many bullets.

I've taken out Harriers a few times with a machine gun - took ~150 shots (I think) with Stopping Power active and, although it's been ages since I've tried it, I don't remember missing a significant number of those shots. Either way, it's not the most practical solution, Stinger + Stopping Power will sort everything out (assuming it hits those pesky Chopper Gunners/AC130's)

Running the risk of having to go find a second missle

I think you can get a spare Javelin missile when using Scavenger - I'm unsure if you're given it through the Scavenger Pro bonus, but I'm fairly sure I've walked over the Scavenger pickup before and got a second Javelin missile while one was already loaded in the launcher. Then again, I guess it's not that simple to get a second missile if air support is flying overhead at the time

Tallon · 02-02-2010 9:04am

The day I see someone taking out a pavelow with a knife only is the day they win the interent and it can be closed

GavRedKing · 02-02-2010 9:10am

Tallon wrote: »

The day I see someone taking out a pavelow with a knife only is the day they win the interent and it can be closed

This being MW2 I wouldnt be surprised.

/ Runs off to throw knife at Pavelow.

AIR-AUSSIE · 03-02-2010 5:37pm

JerryHispano wrote: »

Cold blooded, air support is none of my business (need the secondary for shotgun) . i unlocked the stinger today so ill see how that goes, i might use it for the easy points or something.

it is to unlock Cold-Blooded pro.....

A reason for using the cold-blooded perk would be that you can shoot down air support without the air support shooting you....

Enemy Air Support

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