RageGummy said:
From the video, it seems you have to stay alive while using this.
Flip the lid on your laptop and your a sitting duck for snipers, frags and general knife attack's. If you watch when it shows the perks list, you will see you need 11 kills to be able to use this. I also cant see it been stable to shoot from and will need a spray and pray method of shooting to get anything.
But think on the reverse side, a automated perk like the one in COD4 is going to hit you if it aims for you. But with human comes human error, leaving it open for someone to get 11 kills with a knife, but non with the helicopter.
Plus ... rockets home-in now....
You should admit though, the amount of times a chopper could kill any number of the opposing/your team in a single attack, than the inaccurate fire it does most of the time, is quite high. An experienced player could easilly rack up more kills if they were the one controlling the turret.
The only thing what made the chopper bareable was how you could hurt it with small arms fire, now seeing that the only way to down the AC-130 is to attach an perk you could other be using, or have an entire team (Who, lets be honest, don't exactly have the whole
teamwork thing as their motto, nor do they communicate before the match begins as to who has what perks), search an entire map under both large calibre round fire, explosive round fire and large shell fire, to find the single guy on the opposing team controlling the damn thing.
The ways I could see this working out, could possibly include; taking control of the AC-130 for the remaing time once you kill the original user (Team killing woud eliminate this option), making it so only a single 11-kill streak call in during a single match per team and making AT-4's (I think this was the model of RPG?) spawnable on all maps at limited locations (Say one per side) though I don't even like the idea of this myself.
I'll go with the first point and second in that list as even remotely feasible, but I'm still noting that there have been times when everyone on my team chose Bandolier instead of RPG's and a chopper minced us. You don't communicate that well on COD... there's enough kids and people in parties/ P chat to ensure that.