would be awesome if we got a ground only game mode, but i’d honestly settle for a no heli ground mode. honestly don’t get killed by them often but its also not fun having helis that camp their spawn just point and clicking you and not being able to do anything about it. would be an easy fix if every mbt or light tank got a anti-heli round, but thats not realistic or beneficial for the game. we either need an increase in range and speed for sams or even easier would be to make a no heli gamemode or no cas gamemode, and just give players bonus rewards for playing gamemodes that do allow for those vehicles.
I think what you fail to capitalize on are 1) the insanely powerful SPAA that can be found throughout the tiers helis occupy (From Gepards to the new multi vehicle stuff, very capable SPAA) 2)Helis’ weakness to air power. When I’m poor and grinding SL (basically always), its easy money to hop in a spitfire and kill helis. If you only play light tanks/mbts, sure you don’t really have the ability to “do anything about it”, which is why you gotta mix up your lineups.
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I think what CAS players fail to understand is, 1) a lot of players find SPAAs extremely boring to play, not because they are ineffective
M247 and PGZ09 being recognized as a god tier SPAA in their respective br by many, I don’t play it anymore because I find them extremely boring.
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Helis are completely sad vehicles the second they get into a 10.3 match until FNF ones, below that they are kinda problematic not having much counter sitting at max range with a few exceptions like shturm S etc. But those missiles are so slow that if you are paying attention its not too difficult to dodge.
You’re proposing ahistorical changes which are very unlikely to happen, this discussion would fall under the “No CAS gamemode for tanks” discussion. Though nowadays helicopters don’t perform as they did back in 2023 and prior, there are sure some unique gems which can surprise some, I’m not talking about the helicopter Meta because even the Meta suffers from a problem.
Yeah. The biggest issue when playing spaa are those matches where only like 1 plane spawns so you sit there for almost no score.
Shooting down planes also hardly gives score. I can keep skies clear with 5 kills but still be at the bottom of the team below some dude how has 1 ground kill
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Helis aren’t even good.
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M247 is massively overshadowed by XM246 (to no one’s surprise). The slight increase in AA effectiveness is just not worth its horrible AT ability.
Even more ridiculous is making great shots like downing a jet or helicopters at long range with tank’s main cannon pays the same, like they don’t understand making great shots should be rewarded. There are just anti-player practice to keep people poor so they have to buy premiums to stay afloat lol
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XM246 is a superior AT due to the barrel firing offset that I even rate it higher than the Falcon these days, with great optical zoom I find it easier to pop russian mbts frontally compare to when I was using Falcon, but its AA capability is nowhere near M247’s.
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To be honest, even though I hate CAS and don’t play them much I can still actually feel the frustration for players who played helicopters, especially those that shoot hydra rockets that has to get close to be effective, what are those puny mg that chieftain use? it can downed them in like 2 hits, one time I’ve actually downed two first-spawn helicopters with that peashooters.
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Finally My memory restoring magic. Not kamov only this time D
btw Hydras scatters at about 2.5 leo2 length at 3.5km considering the spread in aiming. did this for last time D.
The only Hydra that could put smiles on everybody’s face is the one on the Magach lol and you also have an ammo box for it.
Completely agree with this–I feel like getting a kill at over 1km should warrant more of a reward than the measly 500 or so SL for the sniper achievement. I hit a heli with a conqueror one time (I think the 500 mm of pen was enough) and remember feeling pretty skunked after only getting the standard 300 points for it. Furthermore, I think SL should be way more widely available for nonprem vehicles. But knowing Gaijin and their grubby little fingers it’s not gonna happen :(
It would be a real shame if these ‘OP’ helis disappeared. My last kill was with my PzH 2000 at over 6,300 meters.
Slight? The York has tracerless HE-VT shells, how is that a SLIGHT increase over bogstandard 35mm tracer shells?
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Because it’s not a massive increase, thus it’s slight.
If only lavad can use laser to zero the hydra - - They haven’t even got the range lines for it
No. Helicopters are a reason to bring out vehicles like the QN506.
Yeah, they suck nowadays. Mi-24s are SL pinatas, because one stray bullet disables your fire control system.