Any good reaver pilots?

Antres Midel · 2003-07-26, 07:13 PM

I've been read a lot of posts lately and I couldn't help but noticing that there seems to be a sever lack of decent reaver pilots out in the field. Is this true? Are there no pilots who come to snuff? Are all reaver pilots spray-and-prayers? Any info on this subject would be greatly appreciated.

-Midel

Lonehunter · 2003-07-26, 07:47 PM

I've thought about becoming a Reaver pilot recently

Mr1337Duck · 2003-07-26, 07:49 PM

If you do, it's good to get the engy cert, the longer you stay in the air, the better.

00AgentDuck · 2003-07-26, 08:00 PM

I'm a pretty half decent reaver pilot. When I get shot down after blowing up some people and possibly some vechicles or other air vechicles I bail in my infiltration suit and try and direct my smoking reaver into an enemy if possible. This way when I land I'm cloaked and the enemy can't spot me as easily unless they have darklight or are a skeeter. Dogfights in the air are also very fun. I've been in some pretty good ones where you and some others are all flying around blasting each other. It's exciting to gun a guy down with the help of other pilots as well as watch an ally get gunned down (adds a dramatic quality to the dog fight). Also once I gunned down a galaxy with the help of other reavers and that was really something. But I agree, extra reaver pilots wouldn't hurt.

SasukeMurisama · 2003-07-27, 04:34 AM

umm... i would consider myself an above average pilot.... though i have had my bad days.... i just traded in my reaver cert... ill be gettin it back soon... and i love flying... no matter wha the vehicle.... and you say you had fun takin down a gal in a reaver... with a couple riends helpin... hell... i took down a gall in my skeeter by maself... >.<

Hertston · 2003-07-27, 07:41 AM

I just can't take them seriously. OK, I'm not expecting Warbirds or Aces High but the "flight physics" are an absolute joke, something out of an 1980s C64 game. When you can loop, roll, and climb above 400m (?!) I might try PS "piloting" again.

Cease · 2003-07-27, 10:41 AM

There's no severe lack of good Reaver pilots. Plenty of pilots, but pretty hard to tell who is a good one and who is a bad one. Not hard to kill grunts with missles. Not hard to kill parked AMSs. So how do you tell a good one from a bad one?

00AgentDuck · 2003-07-27, 12:20 PM

When you can loop, roll, and climb above 400m (?!) I might try PS "piloting" again.

I agree, I've only down a barrel roll once, and that was only from hitting a tree with the side of my reaver, I didn't blow up and I did a barrel roll. If only you could do more manuvers then piloting would be taken up by even more people.

Not hard to kill grunts with missles. Not hard to kill parked AMSs. So how do you tell a good one from a bad one?

Something a good one can do is shoot while flying accuratly as well as use they're afterburners at the correct time. I've killed many reavers with my AV VS max even though the orbs travel slow they always hit because I've seen many reaver pilots that once they see a target they stop in mid air a blast it to death without moving at all. Engineering can also be a pilots best friend at times.

Katanaboy · 2003-07-27, 12:23 PM

True, it seems that the only pilots i see are the dumb guys who sit still in mid air shooting rockets at the ground...oh well, easier targets for my lancer, i suppose

Lonehunter · 2003-07-27, 12:47 PM

Originally posted by Mr1337Duck
If you do, it's good to get the engy cert, the longer you stay in the air, the better.

I all ready have it. But yesterday I traded my dual cycler MAX for the Pounder (griefer) I got over 500 grief in 2 hours! Once I got to 1013 I got a little warning screen. So tonight I'm gonna loose the pounder and get a Gal so I can at least help my outfit out.

ObnoxiousFrog · 2003-07-27, 12:57 PM

You know you're a good reaver pilot if you find yourself dry on ammo.

Lonehunter · 2003-07-27, 01:01 PM

Originally posted by ObnoxiousFrog
You know you're a good reaver pilot if you find yourself dry on ammo.

That doesn't seem right. Anybody could just spray and pray then run out of ammo.

ObnoxiousFrog · 2003-07-27, 01:12 PM

Originally posted by Lonehunter187
That doesn't seem right. Anybody could just spray and pray then run out of ammo.

Quite on the contrary....
If you find yourself out of rockets, that is understandable...when you are flat out of EVERYTHING and still flying, thats when you know you can fly and stay alive. Spray-and-prayers usually find themselves dead fast due to their unselectiveness and unawareness. To be totally dry on 20mm and Rocket ammo shows a true sense of piloting prowess.

Lonehunter · 2003-07-27, 01:22 PM

Oh ok I get it now. When I get my Gal I wanna find a hovering reaver and RAM right into him.

00AgentDuck · 2003-07-27, 02:05 PM

Oh ok I get it now. When I get my Gal I wanna find a hovering reaver and RAM right into him.

Sounds like a good idea to me

. I should try that, kamakaize galaxy, I've tried that with my sunderer going into a fully defended NC base with no body else but my squad and me in my sunderer. We didn't last to long... only made it to the other side of the base... it was funny though how many rockets and bullets were being launched at us though

. I used to think the sunderer was invincible...