Make the AC130 flyable.

DICE. Stop what you are doing right now. Go back and make the AC 130 pilotable by players. Please. It worked in 1942 for the B17, why not use Frostbite 2 technology and the 'largest Battlefield map' ever to implement something AWESOME into the game.

A HUGE selling point for Battlefield over Call of Duke Duke was DRIVABLE vehicles. So why are you creating an AC-130 that will play EXACTLY like the one in Call of Duty? We've already seen an AC130 on rails. No one will be impressed. Make it flyable, please. All of the players want it. For once please listen to your fanbase in BF3.

how about NO

THINK OF THE BASE RAPE

You know what it was used for in 1942? Flying straight to the enemy base and carpet bombing it.

What if I told you... That there is a stationary base AA that can stop air vehicles from base raping?

Ralle1122 said:
THINK OF THE BASE RAPE

emplaced AA guns, AAV's. With this logic all helicopters, fighters, and even ground vehicles should be scripted. Fuck it, I don't even want the freedom to be able to walk, I want to play Railfield 3 now

Yes! I need to jihadi that!!

gankger said:
how about NO

No U.

Yes please

This idea is actually silly.

The pilot cannot shoot, he simply flies in circles around targets for the two gunners to take out.

How long does it take before he gets bored and bails, or kamikazes into a tank?

Even worse it could become the most outrageous personal transport vehicle ever.

leggsXI said:
This idea is actually silly.

The pilot cannot shoot, he simply flies in circles around targets for the two gunners to take out.

How long does it take before he gets bored and bails, or kamikazes into a tank?

Even worse it could become the most outrageous personal transport vehicle ever.

Exactly. I highly doubt randoms would be willing to fly in circles for more than 10 minutes. At least the Huey is agile when people pilot it. The AC130 would be a bore to fly.

I think it should be piloted.

leggsXI said:
This idea is actually silly.

The pilot cannot shoot, he simply flies in circles around targets for the two gunners to take out.

How long does it take before he gets bored and bails, or kamikazes into a tank?

Even worse it could become the most outrageous personal transport vehicle ever.

You know, there's already 10 vehicles (both US and RU transport helis included) where the pilot/driver cannot shoot.

Flyable AC130 would be like AMTRAC on steroids, plus it flies.

Ralle1122 said:
THINK OF THE LAZY DEV

Fixed.

Honestly, I'd just crash it into a tank or a building or something then never pilot it again. Flying that slow with that much enemy focus wouldn't be too exciting if you're doing it right.

At least in 2142 tou could have some control over the titan, it the server allowed it.

No.
because people will fight on who flys and who controls guns.

Ralle1122 said:
THINK OF THE BASE RAPE

Base rape using the AC130 with SAA? Potentially a MAA? I doubt this is a huge issue. Plus you'd be vulnerable to all sorts of hell in a slow flying machine over enemy air space. Making it player driven would, in the right hands (like any vehicle in Battlefield) be excellent for base assault. On rails you can't coordinate your efforts, which diminishes the value of the AC130 as a team resource and makes it simply an armored killer with no real direction. Make the pilot get points for every kill performed by the gunners or significant objective completed; such as a squad leader assigning a base to be assaulted, flying the AC130 over that base to provide slow moving air support and receiving contribution points for being in the relative area of the designated flag.

It can be implemented properly... but I don't think DICE has the time to do it because they're rushing the hell out of these DLC to make deadlines. A bad excuse but no doubt it is a primary parameter for "success" in the eyes of EA.

Anyway you won't have to worry, it won't be changed if we follow EA/DICE's new philosophy of accessibility for all at the expense of "complex" mechanics.

edit: Just so you know where I stand on this issue, I don't care if it is player driven or not because I think as a vehicle it would be considered a boring position to take, though there are always others out there who might love the slow flight and tactical positioning such as the commanders in 2142 managing the Titan. Wouldn't that be a novel idea, having a commander position in Battlefield to take care of the AC130's flight path as part of their command role. I wonder why they don't do that instead...

AC-130 can hold entire 32 man team, wouldnt that be a great multikill.

That would be worth 50 if they had maps that included drivable ships, submarines like they had in 1942, probably will never see that again in a BF game

ChuckFnNorris said:
AC-130 can hold entire 32 man team, wouldnt that be a great multikill.

There should be C-130 transport as a mobile spawn point to parachute around the huge maps and pilots could get drop bonuses or something, and AC-130 for firing and stuff. Pilots could get huge kill assists and drop assists or something and other random goodies to help give incentive to fly that big bird.

Signed, let us fly the AC130!

43-26-2 said:

leggsXI said:
This idea is actually silly.

The pilot cannot shoot, he simply flies in circles around targets for the two gunners to take out.

How long does it take before he gets bored and bails, or kamikazes into a tank?

Even worse it could become the most outrageous personal transport vehicle ever.

You know, there's already 10 vehicles (both US and RU transport helis included) where the pilot/driver cannot shoot.

Flyable AC130 would be like AMTRAC on steroids, plus it flies.

Funny thing is, noone ever wants to drive the AMTRAC. Maybe one person out of 50 Players actually would do it (properly). Anything else is a lie

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8IdlUAdLZ0

WUNDER8AR said:

43-26-2 said:

leggsXI said:
This idea is actually silly.

The pilot cannot shoot, he simply flies in circles around targets for the two gunners to take out.

How long does it take before he gets bored and bails, or kamikazes into a tank?

Even worse it could become the most outrageous personal transport vehicle ever.

You know, there's already 10 vehicles (both US and RU transport helis included) where the pilot/driver cannot shoot.

Flyable AC130 would be like AMTRAC on steroids, plus it flies.

Funny thing is, noone ever wants to drive the AMTRAC. Maybe one person out of 50 Players actually would do it (properly). Anything else is a lie

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8IdlUAdLZ0

Could that possibly be because it's slow moving and the driver gets no kills?

PWNtrooper said:

WUNDER8AR said:

43-26-2 said:

leggsXI said:
This idea is actually silly.

The pilot cannot shoot, he simply flies in circles around targets for the two gunners to take out.

How long does it take before he gets bored and bails, or kamikazes into a tank?

Even worse it could become the most outrageous personal transport vehicle ever.

You know, there's already 10 vehicles (both US and RU transport helis included) where the pilot/driver cannot shoot.

Flyable AC130 would be like AMTRAC on steroids, plus it flies.

Funny thing is, noone ever wants to drive the AMTRAC. Maybe one person out of 50 Players actually would do it (properly). Anything else is a lie

__________________________________________

www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8IdlUAdLZ0

Could that possibly be because it's slow moving and the driver gets no kills?

impossibruuuu

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8IdlUAdLZ0

Sorry I'm with DICE on this one.

i doubt anyone whit a bit of brain would simply "fly in circles": it would be more than achallenge to drive it when a map is full of jets,helis,aa,maa and who knows how many other veichles.i like the idea it should be flyable

I would leave it on autopilot. If it is made flyable, one of 3 things will happen:

1) It just sits on the runway most of the time because noone wants to waste their time in a blubbering sky whale while everyone else (including your gunners) are getting kills and earning points while you're just flying in circles like a jackass.
2) The rare occasion it does fly is when some bushwookie wants to use it to get himself up on a crane (anyone else notice the amount of cranes in this game?) or skscraper roof and then just bail out. Kind of like the Huey now.
3) Even if someone does fly it you better hope they do it properly. Might get some noob that circles it in the wrong direction so instead of your guns pointing at the ground where they're supposed to be, they all end up sticking up into the sky like a bunch of useless boners.

leggsXI said:
This idea is actually silly.

The pilot cannot shoot, he simply flies in circles around targets for the two gunners to take out.

How long does it take before he gets bored and bails, or kamikazes into a tank?

Even worse it could become the most outrageous personal transport vehicle ever.

So you don`t have choppers now that you can`t shot in? Yes there is, you do know that you get points as a pilot, AND it`s fun to fly.

TheSpySapper said:
What if I told you... That there is a stationary base AA that can stop air vehicles from base raping?

OMG everyone can use that i thought it was a glitch and i was the only person who could get in that thing