Explosion chuting

[[JiF]Uncle Stinky]

How do some of you regularly pop your chute after being blassted by a tank shell? I have hit the 9 key immediately after such an event -- sometime several times in a panic -- but the chute never seems to open. Do you have the key mapped to your mouse for a quicker response?

[Boogie]

There is a delay (3 sec.???) before your chute will open whether your bailing out of a plane or flying through the air after a tank shell blast.
If you don't get booted high enough your time runs out.
It doesn't always work. I get lucky maybe 2 out of 10 times.

[[JiF]rix]

Using chute can also be a good and fast way to come down from high buildings, for example the "towers" in the main flag area on the Baytown map.
They are high enough for chuting.
/rix

[[JiF]Blind Trooper]

Same with DamBuster. After you take the flag from either the Dam or the Power Plant, you can parachute down. Although, the Dam is especially fun if you have a jeep handy Hehehe

[[JiF]Djsmg]

Same with DamBuster. After you take the flag from either the Dam or the Power Plant, you can parachute down. Although, the Dam is especially fun if you have a jeep handy Hehehe

Only if you remember not to be in team chat as a passenger

"eeeeeeee9e9e9ee9e999eeeee999 BOOOM!"

[[JiF]War Trophy]

Only if you remember not to be in team chat as a passenger

"eeeeeeee9e9e9ee9e999eeeee999 BOOOM!"

I use that expression a lot in Bf42

The result of a commonly used tactic in Bf42. Engage in healthy social interaction with your opponent, then kill him. All very polite and sociable.

[[JiF]corn]

I think sometimes it has to do with being a direct hit or a near hit.
In a direct hit your body may go 100 ft high, and you can't open your chute.
Your just dead!

A near hit is when the tank hit or even the explosion from a bomb drop is close and causes you to fly high enough to open a chute.

[[JiF]Blind Trooper]

It also helps if you happened to be jumping. The explosion will launch you into the air, but since it wasnt a direct hit, you're probably just mostly dead and able to chute

[[JiF]zougathefist]

I find that the '9' key is very unreliable but if you map the chute onto a joystick button as a secondary input it works every time, and opens almost instantly,
only problem is getting your hand from keyboard to stick quick enough

[Sir Die-a-lot]

I find that the '9' key is very unreliable but if you map the chute onto a joystick button as a secondary input it works every time, and opens almost instantly,
only problem is getting your hand from keyboard to stick quick enough

I mapped it to a side button on my mouse. As my hand is always on it.