After unlocking the Rapier I wanted to try it on live for a funny, hit a su 25 with 4 missiles and got an assist… because a wolfpack hit it with its 50cal and it crashed. Amazing xD
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The damage bug report was accepted officially a few hours ago, hopefully it gets fixed this week.
Its good that gaijin at least seems to recognise it as a bug.
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working as intended
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Rapier updated?
So with testing, unless I got super lucky, it seems the missile actually does something now to targets of certain angles. It still cant chase worth a damn or side on really, but if the plane is overhead/coming at you and you aim specifically for a wing you can kind of take them out.
Still massively inferior to the dev server version, and ofc if you hit centre of a plane theres a strong chance it will be fine, same for the Scout, you need to specifically aim for the tail section or its munitions to try and knock it out.
In all cases I have noted hitting centre of the target or the cockpit does nothing.
edit: tried in live, you “can” kill things, but its stupidly hard to use to do so. Hopefully more work going into it otherwise its BR needs a giga drop lmao. It took 2 missiles to take out a FW 190 xD
Just tried in the test drive and to be honest it seems exactly the same, direct hits do no damage to the IL-28 and it took me 5-6 missiles to take the Scout helicopter down.
I think you may have just got lucky haha
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https://community.gaijin.net/issues/p/warthunder/i/hMEdUimMjcvP
This isn’t my report of course, but this quite clearly shows the Tortoise is massively underperforming in terms of armour. I really hope they fix the armour following this report as it would make the tortoise almost on par with the T-95 in terms of armour
It would completely remove several of its weak spots such as the flat part of the left side superstructure, which is currently 152mm flat, with this going up to around 255-260mm of armour. The flat part around the gun which is 215mm would also go up to 294mm, not much is going through that.
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The chieftain is missing loads of armour too.
Gaijin really aren’t great at modelling cast British vehicles
They genuinely dislike British stuff IMO. They give them 0 effort when compared to say USA USSR germany.
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Sadly the US and Russian community have a lot more voices than the British community to complain to gaijin with
I reported the FV-4005s top speed being too low three months ago, still no change after two major updates, its just changing a number gaijin :(
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very true all I want is them to complain about the 4-5 harriers they have
US players don’t seem to have much care for the Harrier sadly, they’ve got plenty of other options unlike the British tree
Its because it was modeled wrong, so they played it once went this thing is ass and than never touched it again.
The Harrier 2 is actually capable of going toe to toe with the Typhoon in a close combat situation AND its still artificially limited and nerfed.
The Harrier 2 comfortably turns inside the Typhoon at a similar rate all the while being artificially limited to 18 degrees AOA when IRL it can do like 30 comfortably.
While having 300+ FPM climb to spare…
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Even before the buffs the Harrier IIs were pretty good, now they’re great.
It’s a shame the buffs weren’t in the changelogs, as most people genuinely just don’t realise they got buffed. The 9.7 Harriers are absolutely amazing atm and nobody seems to know.
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Yes they are practically untouchable if you know their strengths. In a down tier its a little unfair lol.
Wonder how long till people realize and complain.
I have been consistently gunning down the F-5 and MiG-21 when before they where my worst nightmare.
A pity that it’s still outputs four times as much heat apparently.
Or more lol. Males playing it a little bit frustrating.
Definitely not updated, took 6 missiles to critical and aircraft and 4 to knock out a drone… Which still had to crash as it still wasn’t damaged enough to count as a kill prior.