Got the Gunship to crash finally!

[CyberPitz]

And no, this isn't photoshopped. If you need a demo of me ****in with it after it crashed, then ask me. And I got it to crash from rocket, so it didn't explode.. ..apparently gotta kill it right off the ground.

 

[chimpmunk]

Care to explain in details?

 

[nbk]

Whoa... so you killed it when it was above you? Nice job!

 

[CyberPitz]

I was like "DIE YOU DUMMY!" and I shot it with my rocket while it was near the ground....it just fell. I was kinda shocked myself

 

[Asuka]

Cool. Didnt know if they took it out or not.

 

[CyberPitz]

its just hard to get to...got lucky

 

[grhmplmtr]

I've done that. Same spot, oddly enough.

 

[A Big Fat CoW]

That specific gunship crashes whenever you blow it up; the rest just explode, unfortunately

 

[PedroTheLion]

Um...is everyone playing dumb or did most people not know you could do this?

EDIT: Ah, I get it now. Thought that everyone was amazed that you could shoot the thing down. Each time I played this scene, it's crashed like this, so I assumed that's how it played out every time.

 

[fragShader]

did this to me the very first two times i played it. every time since it has broken into several pieces and landed far away.

 

[Shadow][]

yeah ive seen my friend playing and it died like that for him, it looked like a giant half insect/whale when up close

 

[Quelaar]

???

I thought it was always possible to take out the gunship...I got past it with a few rockets on my first try. The bugger shot two of them, but the seeking feature on the r-launcher really helps :naughty:

Did you guys just ignore it and drive on?

Quelaar

 

[fragShader]

Quelaar they are talking about getting it to land on the road, in one piece, like in the e3 2003 videos.

most times it explodes and lands far away.

 

[RakuraiTenjin]

Eh.. mine has always done that.

It usually almost kills me by going down right in my direction

 

[Quelaar]

Quelaar they are talking about getting it to land on the road, in one piece, like in the e3 2003 videos.

most times it explodes and lands far away.

Ah

Well, mine landed on the highway, crashing through the cars
:naughty:

Oddly enough, I finally killed it while it was over the edge of the cliff, above water. It staggered for a moment, then, in what I thought was a scripted sequence, made it's way to the car pile-up while crashing.

The other gunships seemed to fall straight down when you killed, so I assumed that this one had a scripted crash as it flew for a bit before finally touching down.

Quelaar

 

[Player 17]

Yep it has landed on the road for me 3 out of 3 times, and only exploded once...I had no idea I was so lucky...

 

[Quelaar]

Yep it has landed on the road for me 3 out of 3 times, and only exploded once...I had no idea I was so lucky...

I really think it's scripted to do so. Perhaps a bug is making it fall "normally" for others?

The first time the thing landed in the car pile-up it really went out of its way to lay its roasted hulking mass there, so I seriously doubt it crashed through the cars by accident,

Quelaar

 

[disruptioN_]

I thought it always crashed on the road. I guess I'm just a lucky guy.

 

[Cons Himself]

the nose of it really looks like the combine guy you see breen talking to in the beginning when gordon is in the teleport

 

[Tynan]

It "tries" to crash on the road because that's more dramatic, so yes, it is scripted to a degree (and very well-scripted too, you really can't tell much). Just like it always hovers to the right of the buggy jump as you drive over. More dramatic when it's right beside you.

 

[Amorphous]

Thats really odd, because out of all the times I've fought that particular gunship, its blown up into pieces.

 

[RakuraiTenjin]

This must be one of those "hint" scenarios.

Not totally scripted, but the gunship is told if it's possible to easily do when near, to do a form of it.

 

[Quelaar]

Thats really odd, because out of all the times I've fought that particular gunship, its blown up into pieces.

Works fine for me.

Just born lucky, I guess :smoking:

Quelaar

 

[Ownzed]

Yes I did that the first time I beat the game..it was cool.

 

[omni]

Anyone else notice how the Overwatch Scanners do the same thing? They emit a desperate distress signal before it tries to crash and explode into you. Like little mechanical suicide bombers.

 

[CyberPitz]

Everytime I've done that part *upward to 5 times* it has exploded And I remember someone posting a photochopped pictar of it landed, and noone believed it, so I just assumed it was normally blowing up Hence the thread! lol

 

[Ghost Freeman]

Done it before. It does ****ing own.

 

[Soldcar4gasmony]

Actually, i know you didn't fake this because i did it myself. i know exactly where you did it too! If you go up the road from the warehouse that has the magnetic crane (the one you use to lower bridge and raise your car up onto the dock) you jump a destroyed bridge and end up where a bunch of cars are. you then confront a gunship and blast at it,reloading from a crate in a van (in the picture). If the gunship is near the bridge, it's like it doesn't have enough room to run through the expolsion sequence and just lands on top of the cars. My 2nd time around i used the blue grav gun and you can actually pick it up and fling it around (striders too).

 

[Slime]

I posted a thread about it crashing a week ago, but only 1 person ( Cookie to Brian) decided to post! Blasphemy!

Just kidding! This is not a fake, you just have to kill the gunship when it's above the birdge, thus "hinting" it to crash the bridge to make it dramatic. I found it fun to examine it for a while, it seems to have 2 pairs of eyes, on the sides and just behind the cannon.

 

[Revenge]

Well it has always crashed for me, but then again it's always been hovering along the length of the road and looking in my general direction when I've killed it, never has it been pointing away from me nor has it been way out to sea when I got the final shot in.

 

[Mickeey]

Ive acturally got to crash down the gunship on the place where you have the bugbait, and there comes 2 gunships, one of them felt down in one piece over the fence.. :O

But the for the bridge thing, everyone is able to make it crash down into the cars, if you shoot it the right place

 

[Bobcat]

If the gunship is close enough to the ground, it will make a crash landing, if however it is too high or out over the sea, it'll blow up into little pieces, looking crap if you ask me.

Funny though, the gunship is immensely detailed if you get close to it.

 

[tHe_NUdist]

For me the gunship usually arrives just right after i leave the warehouse..now the 3 rockets you start with doesent do it, so are there more rockets at the car wrecks?

 

[Chadda]

The first time I played through I actually found a Gunship eye on the ground. At the time I didn't know what it was. It looked cool - colorful etc. When I played through the second time, the gunship crashed at this point (near the cars) and i realised what it was - a gunship insect eye.

It was weird when I first found it - I can't remember where it was either.

 

[Milkman]

I never had enough rockets to shoot it down with so I just ignored it. Never thought it could do this.

 

[rocklegendfm99]

the 2nd time I played it I was using the gravity gun,
so when I killed it I picked it up and threw it in the ocean

 

[zul]

its always blown to pieces with me

 

[Dumb Dude]

When I did that part for the first time, it laned on the highway just like that. I thought thats how it was supposed to happen.

 

[Apos]

I never had enough rockets to shoot it down with so I just ignored it. Never thought it could do this.

There's ALWAYS enough rockets around when a gunship shows up.

 

[spencerjrus]

il have to try that, it exploded for me.