MW2: AC-130 or Chopper Gunner

[12345cyclone]

At 11 kills, you can either get an AC-130 or a chopper gunner. I'm going to lay out some pros and cons as to both of them to help you decide and get a discussion going.

PROS

AC-130

-You get a wider view of the battlefield, because you're farther away and higher up.
-You get 3 different weapons(the 20mm,40mm, and 105mm).
-You are a lot harder to shoot down, as you have 4 sets of flares

Chopper gunner

-You don't have to reload, and can continually fire the chopper's machine gun.
-You move closer to the ground, so you can take out targets that hide in buildings(in they're in the doorway or the window.
-Since you don't have to reload, you have the potential to get a lot more kills with constant fire

CONS

AC-130

-Just run inside and you're pretty much safe
-Reloading is a *****. The 105's reload is the same, but you can only get 4 40mm shots off before reloading, and maybe a 2 second burst with the 20mm.

Chopper Gunner

-These aren't hard to shoot down(Put cold blooded on so they can't see you and just get 2 stinger lock ons)
-On maps with lots of buildings the chopper gunner will go close to the buildings, which gives a restricted view of the battlefield.
-I just need to repeat this because it is really important. If people actually try and team up to shoot down your chooper (with stingers) you're screwed unless you purposefully look for cold blooded soldiers.
-Just one set of flares

Also, remember that the chopper gunner and AC-130 are usually the link to the all powerful nuke, so keep that in mind that you're going to want 10-14 kills with both of them.

Please share your thoughts and opinions.

 

[Martyn106]

Just so you know, if you fire constantly with the chopper gunner then the aim takes longer to lock targets
And the Ac has the potential for multi kills

However it is unlickly yoiu will get an 11 streak alot so i recomend having a 9 streak instead e.g. pavelow

But i would say AC-130, if you have a good co-ordinated team then you can force them out of building by having team mates occupy them

 

[Pimppeter2]

A very confused....Buh?

EDIT: Woops, for some reason I neglected to see the MewTwo part in the tittle, and had no idea what you were talking about

 

[12345cyclone]

Just so you know, if you fire constantly with the chopper gunner then the aim takes longer to lock targets
And the Ac has the potential for multi kills

However it is unlickly yoiu will get an 11 streak alot so i recomend having a 9 streak instead e.g. pavelow

But i would say AC-130, if you have a good co-ordinated team then you can force them out of building by having team mates occupy them

Yeah, but if you use other earlier kills streaks such as stealth bomber, harrier strike, and predator missile(not at the same time) then you could get the AC-130 or chopper gunner in 5 kills(usually in 7)

 

[Irridium]

I've gotten both, and I prefere the chopper.

Nonestop chopperfire makes it harder for the enemy team to get stuff done. Sure they could have cold blooded, but chances are they don't have a rocket with them on it, its likely in hardcore, but not very likely in normal Team Deathmatch.

Sure, it could happen, just not very often.

 

[ma55ter_fett]

all my custom weapon loadouts have a stinger as the backup weapon, just in case.

I prefer the chopper, the fact that I never have to reload is nice.

 

[Simalacrum]

I've only tried each once (I was really REALLY in the 'zone' in one game, ended up getting 30 kills to 3 deaths, and I was lucky as well, as straight after using the AC-130 I found an enemy care package with a chopper gunner in it XD), and personally I preferred the AC-130.

the chopper gunner kinda moves a little too fast, and the whole problem with reloading is solved cause you can switch between weapons.

 

[Octorok]

I've gotten both, and I prefere the chopper.

Nonestop chopperfire makes it harder for the enemy team to get stuff done. Sure they could have cold blooded, but chances are they don't have a rocket with them on it, its likely in hardcore, but not very likely in normal Team Deathmatch.

Sure, it could happen, just not very often.

Bullcrap it doesn't! I once counted. Nine games running my Harrier was shot out of the sky without a single kill, and I see a killstreak reward go flying down every damn game since they made lawn chairs not replace Perk Slot 1 and thus fucked up a little bit of the balance.

 

[open trap]

chopper gunner. i get alot more kills with that and with the ac130 u just hide in a building and are invulnerable while the chopper gunner has good penetration. reloding plus the time it takes for the shots to hit the ground make ac130 a pain in the ass

 

[Irridium]

I've gotten both, and I prefere the chopper.

Nonestop chopperfire makes it harder for the enemy team to get stuff done. Sure they could have cold blooded, but chances are they don't have a rocket with them on it, its likely in hardcore, but not very likely in normal Team Deathmatch.

Sure, it could happen, just not very often.

Bullcrap it doesn't! I once counted. Nine games running my Harrier was shot out of the sky without a single kill, and I see a killstreak reward go flying down every damn game since they made lawn chairs not replace Perk Slot 1 and thus fucked up a little bit of the balance.

Yeah, but thats a Harrier, an AI controlled gunner, and no flares.
A human gunner is much different.
And after 1 rocket you can see the smoke trail and find the dude with the rockets.

Plus, harriers are pretty easy to destroy anyway.

 

[Insanum]

i prefer the AC130. Although im yet to pair it with the nuke, Although i think i will...

 

[Discord]

My Pick: AC-130

Because you can cycle through all 3 weapons to have a consant barrage of fire. 1st the 25mm, then the 45mm, finally the 105mm and repeat until the time runs out. Some would worry about Anti-Air but I've seen a chopper go down with one hit from any missle (even bullets in some strange cases) a AC-130 can take a few hits before it can get past it's countermeasures before it can be destoryed. Plus, I've faced many teams that dont seem to have any type of Anti-air missles, a few do but if your quick you can locate them in the 105mm view and get them right when they spawn, But of course a well prepared clan or team that communicates can coordinate there fire and take it down with ease. But that goes with any aircraft (espically the PaveLow).

I'll stick with the AC-130 because of it's firepower, defensive ablities, control and range.

But god help you if they ever let me call in one of these Gunships....

 

[nYuknYuknYuk]

I like the chopper gunner better. It doesn't take time for the shots to hit the ground like the AC-130 does. And you don't have to reload, so..... Chopper Gunner is my fav for sure.

EDIT: My most common killstreak setups:

Predator Missile, Harriers, and Pave Low

or

Harriers, Chopper Gunner, and Tactical Nuke

 

[Hybridwolf]

I'll stick with the AC-130 because of it's firepower, defensive ablities, control and range.

But god help you if they ever let me call in one of these Gunships....

Now that, is how you dominate a team. Aside from that, I agree with everything said about the AC. Chopper gunner is just doomed if someone has a rocket launcher.

 

[Ocelot GT]

I like the AC130. Even when someone ELSE gets it. It sounds really scary.

 

[WilliamWhite1]

AC-130

In a war game where death equals grabbing whatever you need to destroy what killed you, you can bet every player will have a custom class that allows them to pick up that stinger or rpg or what have you and shoot you down. I picked chopper gunner in one game and got shot down sooner than I could kill three people, and my spreads are typically somewhere around 30/10. With the AC, you kill around five before they realize what's up, then kill them again when they run out trying to stinger you to the ground.

The thing has three weapons for goodness' sakes.

 

[MetallicaRulez0]

Chopper Gunner is much much better in bad pub lobbies because it's absolutely incredible offensively. It's only weakness is how easy it is to shoot down. The AC-130 is much harder to shoot down, but you're not going to get as many kills with it on average. The AC-130 can put up some ridiculous kill numbers, but the Chopper Gunner has gotten me 35 kills before. Let me repeat that, THIRTY-FIVE kills in a 45 second period with a kill streak reward.

I use both. If I find I'm in a lobby that isn't completely awful sometimes I switch to AC-130 just to make sure I don't get shot down.

 

[Psychophante]

Would have to say the Chopper Gunner. I like using both, but always seem to get more kills with the chopper. I do love seeing the campers flee for their lives when you power either of these bad boys up!

 

[joe182]

In my experience, the Apache (chopper guner) has always been better than the AC-130, max kills i've got with the AC-130 is probably around 15, whereas I went from 20-2 to 42-2 using the chopper gunner All you need to do is find the enemies spawn and unload, get soo many kills, and no reloading helps too.