Watch it make it worse lol
Indeed, It’s fixed day.
At least in test drives, I’m getting consistent kills with it.
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Its pretty bad thay it took this long for this update vehicle to even be functioning so long after the patch drops
wait does this QOL update fix the ITO90M radar that doesn’t work in ground battles for like 15 days…
nvm they fixed it very nice
I get consistent kills with it in the current test drive lol, sadly it seems to be a wee bit weird xD
Heres hoping still, it was legit the only vehicle in the patch I really wanted to play xD
Rapier — a bug that caused the missile warhead to deal too little damage has been fixed. We’d like to note that the mass of explosives in the Rapier missiles is significantly lower than in other SACLOS missies, therefore Rapier missiles still deal less damage then other missiles of similar calibers
Nice, but still worried about the disclaimer lol.
Played a round, su 25 eating missiles as usual, so err, yeah, sure, lol?
bad luck maybe, but idk xD
edit: seems to be working decent vs anything not an su 25 for me at least, so gone up good so far.
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Guess I know what I’m going to be trying to spade today.
Yeah, though so far its been slim pickings on targets, have had games with 6-8 planes at once on my team and 1 guy spawns a plane on the other side xD
So it works?
So far so good, got a fair few kills. Not amazing but works.
I’ve done a few games, it works a lot more reliably now
The damage is still not amazing, but its enough that I find a single hit usually disabled most aircraft. Sometimes you’ll need a follow up shot but usually not if you aim right.
At the end of the day its a small warhead, so it makes sense.
well, I guess I’ll be spading the Rapier today!
Just have to make a spaa line up
Brimstone related stuff can be discussed here, we gotta stop hijacking the Rafale thread.
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But yeah.
If Brimstone is resistant to chaff, then simply not make it resistant to chaff, its not the first time they’ve tweaked things for the sake of balance. Such as the state of BOL or the flare resistance of Aim-9Ls.
If the LOBL mode 2 is too strong because it has a large capture area, just make it smaller, again, not implicity ahistorical when compared to weapon systems like AJ168’s implementation. Heck, could even give it a largely IIR style targeting of having to physically lock onto a vehicle and fire using a tpod if they are really really concerned.
After that its just quantity mitigation, which should be done via SP cost as it doesnt limit their use in none-ground gamemodes like ASB.
You cant help but feel that much of their excuses given to date lack any kind of meaningful justification behind them, like the lack of CBUs could be put down to concerns over server integrity if used on-mass, but the Brimstone reasoning just feels a bit… weak.
If absolutely nothing else, I would love to hear their excuses for why we have Brimstone 1s and not Brimstone 2s
Certainly possible but that’s from 1995~ this presentation is from 2006, I’d have expected that they would’ve known about M81, unless of course M81 isn’t considered as its not operated by a non-adversarial nation (well at the time atleast…).
Just had a bug in my rapier where the missile launcher was moving as it should but my optic wouldn’t elevate only depress so couldn’t actually lock anything up as I couldn’t look up 🤣
We had this discussion to death when GR4 arrived, and I don’t care to relitigate it. AJ168 only has MIL guidance, something we do not have, Brimstone has a SAL mode, something we do have. A made up guidance mode is only used (to my knowledge) when the only operating mode or alternate mode isn’t currently available in game.
AJ168 with MIL guidance = doesn’t exist in game
AJ168 gets EO as a stand in.
Brimstone, SAL, MMW & SAL+MMW operating modes available.
Brimstone SAL gets added.
Its pretty simple, and not currently up for discussion.
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Remember when the PARS were first added?
They were Just Laser guided like Hellfires, and got later changed to fire and forget, wish they would do something similar with the Brimstone :(
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Then why Brimstone 1?
If we are limited to have 0 FnF/multi-target engagement capability on the Typhoon. The bare minimum is we should have the historically accurate version of the Brimstone with comprable ballistic performance to what everyone has/soon to likely have.
Being limited to SAL only is one thing, being limited to SAL-Only Brimstone 1s is another entirely.