I don’t play high tier helis much like past 10.0 br so this mostly applies to the 8.0-10.0 ones but after they gave helicopters these extremely fragile damage models, you basically can’t do anything fun in the game anymore. As soon as literally anybody shoots you a single time with any weapon of any caliber you get rendered into a civilian news chopper thats reporting on your own crash live.
I agree that helis were sometimes too survivable in the past but it was mostly SPECIFIC helicopters with that issue… not all of them in general. I think after playing them quite a bit post change that this wasn’t the right way to fix their DMs.
I think the ones that have actual detailed damage models are ok, maybe they could use some tweaks in how survivable the modules are but if the optics on the nose take a cannon shell, its reasonable that they stop functioning.
The issue is the ones that don’t have the modules yet, as if you so much as get the paint scratched, every single system shuts down. 1 rifle cal. MG round turns the air frame yellow and guns are gone, ATGMs are gone, CMs are gone… that’s just absurd.
nothing says fun like having your exquisitely detailed rotor shaft tickled by some 5.56 from miles away followed by the engine RPM failing immediately and you dropping out of the air
in that one game that don’t get obliterated by an IFV/2S38 anyway
thank god gaijin is adding IRST track to top tier MBTs
Dude, I can’t tell you how many times I almost rage quit this game because of that. I was using the AH-1F
in the SEAD event and flew for like 10 minutes try to find the target. I finally get close enough to an SPAA and took one round to my fuselage and lost my ability to fire weapons. It’s even worse in heli PvE.
Another rage inducing mechanic.
