reaper not adding to killstreak?

So lately I've been running the assault streak a lot with a 5-7-9 set-up, predator-attack heli-reaper. When I get out of the reaper I expect to have already earned my predator missile again (or at least be close), but my kill meter is zero. I thought the kills from the items add to your streak, I know they do with the predator and the attack heli...so what gives? I know I'm not dying while up because I come back in the same spot to the computer closing animation...

Does anybody know anything about this? Have you noticed it yourself? I've done a quick search around and can't really find anythiig. Is it because it's my top item and the streak doesn't re-set until after I've used it or something? Seems kinda screwy, so I think I'm gonna switch to the overwatch.

Once you 'top' out your killstreak kills stop counting towards killstreaks.
Once you have 9 kills in the bag your killstreaks will stop adding to your stack.

If you manage to get back to a preddy it will stack towards the new cycle.

Would they start stacking if you died on purpose before using them. I am asking because I noticed that the IMS doesn't build mine either. But I don't thing IMS build no matter what because I have run attack heli and had 3 or 4 kills with it.

i wouldn't know , out of 20 or so reapers i got maybe 2 kills and 5 assists

gmoswell wrote:

i wouldn't know , out of 20 or so reapers i got maybe 2 kills and 5 assists

20 reapers and 2 kills? The reaper is the same thing as a predator missle only guided from the air. Just watch the red painted area on the ground and move it with your target for the kill.

Was just talking about this same thing with my brother-in-law. I think Snow is bang on, once you hit the top of your set of killstreaks it doesn't rebound back around except if you get to that first level killstreak on your own.

I actually feel this is a very good thing because otherwise it would make it pretty darn easy to get to that first predator and just keep chaining to the next killstreak for the rest of the map without firing another bullet.

JK STEELERS68 wrote:

Would they start stacking if you died on purpose before using them.

Nope, you could pull that trick in CoD4 but they wised up since....

Thanks snow...I will not worry about it anymore...

I know they don't add to your streak once you die...as I've died just before dropping a predator before...respawned and dropped it and it doesn't add...

The reaper takes a little getting used to...but it's fun. Took me a couple times to realize I control the missiles like a predator. The trick seems to be to start with the missiles not on the target and then move to it just before impact, because it shows a red spot on the ground.

I switch back and forth between that and overwatch. Overwatch netted me my best game so far on Dome..52 and 9 and a pretty crazy score on Kill Confirmed. That little helicopter was just going Rambo on the other team.