dbeaty2 10 Posted April 19, 2011 In the mission where you fly the Ka-60 close air support, I cannot get the gunner to shoot anything other than flares. Is there a trick here or is the only weapon the rocket launcher which makes completing the objective of clearing the town of dozens of enemy soldiers very difficult without running out of ammo. Plus I can't land and disembark to take care of things with my rifle. Anyone complete this section? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
That guy 10 Posted April 19, 2011 i have to think that "aviation" is the worst mission BIS has ever designed. it is a pain in the ass, especially for bad pilots like me until you realize that you are practically invulnerable (thank god!) the first time i played i flew like a responsible pilot. i orbited the village at a good speed and height waiting for my gunner to finish the enemies off for what ending up being around 40 mins. the AI is a terrible shot with that GL (it cant compensate for the movement of the chopper apparently), so you have to fly low and slow (or stop) so your gunner can make the shots. if your gunner is shooting flares? yeah check addons, unless you just mistaking the "thoomp thoomp" of the grenade launcher for flares... which i doubt... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CameronMcDonald 146 Posted April 19, 2011 The gunner is an amazing retard. I took all the shots manually because he would run out of ammo before the mission was a quarter complete. The tail rotor failure bit at the end was good fun, but I was disappointed that you didn't actually get a chance to land the bird... the hardest part of surviving a tail rotor failure. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
NeMeSiS 11 Posted April 19, 2011 The tail rotor failure bit at the end was good fun,. Its not fun at all if you can only keep on flying if you have enough speed when the scripted damage happens and you are not prepared for it. It took me forever of slow hovering to let my gunner kill everyone, once that happened i couldnt get enough speed to stop myself from crashing. Trying to maintain enough speed to survive it makes your gunner shoot only once every 10 years. :rolleyes: Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dbeaty2 10 Posted April 19, 2011 i have to think that "aviation" is the worst mission BIS has ever designed. it is a pain in the ass, especially for bad pilots like meuntil you realize that you are practically invulnerable (thank god!) if your gunner is shooting flares? yeah check addons, unless you just mistaking the "thoomp thoomp" of the grenade launcher for flares... which i doubt... Oh man, I couldn't figure out what that sound was. I had no idea he was shooting grenades as I was too busy trying to fly and get into a good position to rain down rockets. In other missions like this in the past, I'd land and use a rifle to take on the bad dudes. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dbeaty2 10 Posted April 20, 2011 I finally completed aviation. What I did was find a good sniping spot, go into auto hover, go down to 50 feet or so and aimed the left front quarter towards the enemy. Seems like the gunner would fire only when aimed slightly with the left side facing forward. But I did take a lot of incoming damage. Not sure if it mattered in the scripted mission. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
That guy 10 Posted April 20, 2011 well done. overall i liked PMC (the last mission really is a treat IMO), but god damn aviation sucked :p Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
lugiahua 26 Posted April 25, 2011 weird...I past that one on my first attempt I just made slow circles around the target villages so the AI could rain grenades on them. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
