Helicopters with railguns?

[Tiny serpent Shnissuvihr]

I've seen it twice so far, Helicopters with railguns flying high in the air shooting with pinpoint accuracy totally dominating matches by themselves alone, getting between 20-40k damage and 70% of the entire team's kills??!

just what is this, an exploit? or is it the new meta, cuz if you can make flying snipers I really want to know how this is possible...

[XenoDragon]

Originally posted by Avihr:

I've seen it twice so far, Helicopters with railguns flying high in the air shooting with pinpoint accuracy totally dominating matches by themselves alone, getting between 20-40k damage and 70% of the entire team's kills??!

just what is this, an exploit? or is it the new meta, cuz if you can make flying snipers I really want to know how this is possible...

If you time it right, you could get a shot when the heli is stable.

[Akyer :3]

I've tried to use rail + rotors but they are slightly inaccurate rather than spider legs.

[Holl]

at a certain hight above ground rails / flak get inaccurate, so when each of their shoots landed on your Bot it is:
a.) luck
b.) skill
c.) exploit
d.) cheats
my guess is d

[__]

Regardless how still your bot is cross hairs are still wide open. I feel like rail & flying flak hit way too often. Especially when its a bug heli falling frome the sky but some how lands 4 in a row.

[Tiny serpent Shnissuvihr]

Originally posted by Mordlust_CH:

at a certain hight above ground rails / flak get inaccurate, so when each of their shoots landed on your Bot it is:
a.) luck
b.) skill
c.) exploit
d.) cheats
my guess is d

But that's the thing man, they can consistently hit despite being in the air even at long distances, wich only makes me doubt the legitimacy of such a build

[V12Maniac]

Originally posted by Mordlust_CH:

at a certain hight above ground rails / flak get inaccurate, so when each of their shoots landed on your Bot it is:
a.) luck
b.) skill
c.) exploit
d.) cheats
my guess is d

my guess is both a and/or b. think about it. if you had a gun, would it matter if you were using using the iron sites and shooting, or not using the iron sites and hitting the target. i think thats what this is. the rails are facing the enemy whether or not the bot is in the air. i've seen this quite a bit. and none of the bots have been moving when i have been hit or an enemy/teamate has been hit.

[Tiny serpent Shnissuvihr]

Originally posted by RBNB TheDiamondNation:

Originally posted by Mordlust_CH:

at a certain hight above ground rails / flak get inaccurate, so when each of their shoots landed on your Bot it is:
a.) luck
b.) skill
c.) exploit
d.) cheats
my guess is d

my guess is both a and/or b. think about it. if you had a gun, would it matter if you were using using the iron sites and shooting, or not using the iron sites and hitting the target. i think thats what this is. the rails are facing the enemy whether or not the bot is in the air. i've seen this quite a bit. and none of the bots have been moving when i have been hit or an enemy/teamate has been hit.

you cannot "SKILL" through the innacuracy of a flying railgun m8.

[XenoDragon]

Originally posted by RBNB TheDiamondNation:

Originally posted by Mordlust_CH:

at a certain hight above ground rails / flak get inaccurate, so when each of their shoots landed on your Bot it is:
a.) luck
b.) skill
c.) exploit
d.) cheats
my guess is d

my guess is both a and/or b. think about it. if you had a gun, would it matter if you were using using the iron sites and shooting, or not using the iron sites and hitting the target. i think thats what this is. the rails are facing the enemy whether or not the bot is in the air. i've seen this quite a bit. and none of the bots have been moving when i have been hit or an enemy/teamate has been hit.

I don't think thats how the inaccuracy works.
It increases the angle the shot deviates from the laser.

[V12Maniac]

Originally posted by Avihr:

Originally posted by RBNB TheDiamondNation:

my guess is both a and/or b. think about it. if you had a gun, would it matter if you were using using the iron sites and shooting, or not using the iron sites and hitting the target. i think thats what this is. the rails are facing the enemy whether or not the bot is in the air. i've seen this quite a bit. and none of the bots have been moving when i have been hit or an enemy/teamate has been hit.

you cannot "SKILL" through the innacuracy of a flying railgun m8.

then why did you put it in your list?

[V12Maniac]

Originally posted by XenoDragon:

Originally posted by RBNB TheDiamondNation:

my guess is both a and/or b. think about it. if you had a gun, would it matter if you were using using the iron sites and shooting, or not using the iron sites and hitting the target. i think thats what this is. the rails are facing the enemy whether or not the bot is in the air. i've seen this quite a bit. and none of the bots have been moving when i have been hit or an enemy/teamate has been hit.

I don't think thats how the inaccuracy works.
It increases the angle the shot deviates from the laser.

maybe

[jamnb]

At first i thought there must be a way around the inaccuracy like timing shots synchronous to bobbing, but i see them hit rapid shots.

[V12Maniac]

Originally posted by jamnb:

At first i thought there must be a way around the inaccuracy like timing shots synchronous to bobbing, but i see them hit rapid shots.

Yeah. There must be a trick to it

[__]

Originally posted by RBNB TheDiamondNation:

Originally posted by jamnb:

At first i thought there must be a way around the inaccuracy like timing shots synchronous to bobbing, but i see them hit rapid shots.

Yeah. There must be a trick to it

Magic.

[Granger]

Its cheats. The games anti cheat is a joke still, its just a whole lot less prevalent since the population of this server died.

You can test this quite easily yourself: put some rails on a hoverbot. Hover at max height and shoot - you'll see you literally cant aim them.
Then hover a bit lower until your crosshair normalizes and shoot, and notice every shot has 100% accuracy.

The game doesnt care at what height you are, you either are touching the ground or you suffer a 60% accuracy penalty when using rails.

[Tiny serpent Shnissuvihr]

I was looking at my screenshots and found it, This guy right here (EmotionLess) is the 2nd and last encounter I've had with a Railgun helicopter, he claimed that he was just lucky with his shots and that it was just "spray and pray" when I asked him what he was doing to be able to shoot rails with it.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=970419322

But I cannot not take his word for it, I mean come on, you want to tell me that he did THAT good running on lucky shots alone? man that guy must be a leprechaun or something.

I abstained from calling cheats on these guys, but I'm certain that there's something that they're doing that isn't about being lucky, a particular bug, exploit or a way of building so that they can shoot railguns from the air.