Support Helicopter: Totally Useless?

[G o d]

Edit: misread your question, yeah its useless as f*ck

Edited February 21, 2015 by G o d

[T.V. Eye]

 

I wonder if the heli backup would be useful in solo Coveted? As in, would they actually take out the pursuing chopper?

No need. If your doing it solo just use the bob to pick up the crate and then drop it again straight away. Land the bob on the cove again and wait. Granted it will seem like an age for the chopper to appear. But when it does just use a lock on rocket to take it out.

 

Usually I spend abit longer at the start to go collect my buzzard from Trevs airfield. Then just the same as above instead of waiting just jump into my buzzard and hunt down the chopper before returning to the cove, collect the bob and crate and fly leisurely to the drop off point.

Ah, nice one. I've had two different results after flying a ways and setting it down: 1) landed, got out and took out the chopper, hopped back in and picked up the crate and 2) got out, took out the helicopter, "the crate has been destroyed" I'll give your method a shot.

[The4x4]

edit.

Edited February 22, 2015 by The4x4

[Chaos69soahC]

 

Lester' abilities, yeah, sure. I think they are all useful, except the helicopter and car's location. I mean.. I don't understand them. Yeah, pick this chopper but bring it back before 5PM or else... Man, I'm gonna go pick some random choppers without having to feel bothered by random cops flying all over me because I forgot to bring them back their wasted chopper. Sorry, I don't see the point.

 

Lamar's only ability is pretty fun. I love to send a mugger after some noisy-player and it's always a lot of fun to hear them cuss after you after they got robbed, especially when they're in a tank. It's also pretty cool when you are engaged in a shootout against a player and you see the mugger slowly going after him. Useful, yes, absolutely.

 

Merryweather is a lot of promises with not satisfying results or almost.

 

Airstrike ? Totally useless. I have never been killed by an airstrike nor have I ever killed anybody with this option. Never. It is absolutely useless on plain terrain, mountain terrain or whatever. It seems to be somewhat of a threat against a player sniping other players from a high tower but if the player is not stupid, he'll run around and won't be killed. To be useful, we should be able to mark the target with a sniper gun. Otherwise, fail.

 

Helicopter support ? Yeah, OK, promising but they always come too late. Worse, when you're in your car, they seem unable to catch up with you. They're not totally useless but they're not as bad-ass as NPC choppers you'll encounter in missions. So, no, for a diversion, it's too expensive for what it is.

 

Helicopter pickup ? It's a f*cking joke. They're mercenary right ? As I've said before on this forum, the helicopter pilot seems to only be able to land on a perfectly flat terrain and even at that, it's gonna take him so much time that many time, you'll be killed before he landed and disappear when you come back. How many times have I waited more than two minutes before he finally landed ? Or even before you finally hear him going down. Anyway, when you need him, you're usually in the mountains. Good luck with that. You'll have more luck going back to the civilization by jumping down the mountain. Anyway, his flying skills are so low that it's better to kill him once he's on land.

 

No, the only useful options with Merryweather are the boat pickup (because, yeah, they won't tell you they can't accede to your location and also, let's be honest, when you need it, you're that far from the shore that it won't bother you to wait a little bit) and the mercenaries. Mercenaries are alright but I hate, hate, hate when they call me saying they finally got the target when it was me who killed the said target !!! Give me back my money!

 

PS. I'm referring to free roam. It is true that helicopter support is useful during survivals (which I stopped doing because they don't bring enough $$$ versus my spending and the time it takes to complete them). But-but-but helicopter support will only be useful if you're the last man standing (the same would apply to a mission) because otherwise stupid co-players will shoot at it until it explodes), because they can't tell the difference between a red-marked chopper and a black-marked chopper on the mini-GPS-map.

 

Good abilities: (that I find useful at least)

 

Lester - Off radar, Lose cops, Blind Eye, Reveal

Lamar - Mugger

Merryweather - Chopper pickup, Merc attack

 

Agree with everything. I always thought the airstike should be done with a laser pointer. Make it devastating with long intervals in between and maybe more expensive.

Edited February 21, 2015 by Chaos69soahC

[Hyperglide]

Read the OP in this dudes voice..

 

 

[CrysisAverted]

I called it once to aid in my claiming of a bounty who was on the rails, the f*cking chopper spawned inside the large Turbine field and blew up almost immediately, I use it often as just a distraction, its effectiveness is worse than Merryweather Mercs

[NubcakeVII]

In a year and a half of playing, I think I called for this one time.

 

And that was at the very beginning.

 

Useless.