helicopters are useless until you reach top tiers , at 8.0 , 9.0 are only painfull also for premium accounts , now helicopter has avionics bay and when are you hit by a bullets , often you can’t shoot , it s a shame , helicopters need rework or reduce PE for modules or increase PE for actions , actually are unplayable in PvP
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I only bring jets for CAS and have never played any heli at any br. Could you explain to me since I’m planning to grind the heli tree afterward
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skip from 8.0 to 10 br are only painfull and waste time
Ok, lucky that there is the option to grind heli with tanks
Not all helicopters at low BR are bad. If you have ATGMs in stock, that’s good.
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i know but you can’t research the all modules to spade it , or better you can finish to spade but after you have given your soul to game , for example i have finish to spade AH-1G after two month and i have a account premium , now i was playing with uh-1b huey and after a while i have decided to give up it and grind only tanks, is only a waste time
Don’t bother unless you have nothing else to grind, crew slots to spare, playing Sim and/or really like Helicopters for some reason.
- Even the best Helis in the game like the Ka-52/Mi-28NM are just kinda pointless next to the Su-30/34
- Spikes and PARS are very unreliable at doing damage.
- Sit at standoff range with Hellfires and they take too long to reach the target, get too close and you’ll get instagibbed by SACLOS SAMs, 2S38s or the multitude of other threats like aimbot IFVs/Spikes. Meanwhile a tree or bush acts like IRCM against you; sending your missile into the next postal code if a tank happens to move past one.
- Why even bother with TY-90s when absolutely everything will outrange you, the Pantsir exists and next gen SAMs are coming and the time it takes to go BM/Spawncamp the opposing team; in an average top tier game it will already be over by the time you get set up and you are a wasted teamslot.
- And if you feel like rocket rushing for something different a random MG round can shut down your weapons systems and/or cause your payload to explode (the latter is the game being merciful).
Helis are fun, as long you don’t know what that word means or what it feels like.
Things like the Allouette and Scout are usable CAS if you didn’t grind planes.
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Thanks, that’s pretty informative!
My main complaint about helicopters is that it takes a lot of life to unlock the modules. The modules cost too much XP to unlock, and for each kill what you get is ridiculous.
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they need reduce PE for modules , or increase points for kill , i think about helicopter there is a sneaky system to grind them, like the game inderectly just want you would spend GE to unlock the modules
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“If it’s bad don’t play” comments on a balance thread xD
Have you played top tier helis? They cant compete at all with top tier AAs. Helis peak around 9.0 with SACLOS missiles since the AAs arent too hard to deal with or avoid. They do take way too long to grind but I wouldn’t call them useless
Heli gameplay summary:
- Use AA missiles (Best option if available)
- Sit above helipad and shoot ATGMS
- Get shot down in a rocket rush
- Get shot down by SPAA
- Get shot down by planes
- Get shot down by roof turrets
- Get shot down by main guns
- Get shot down by 2S38s
- Annoy ground vehicles with guns
- Get weapons disabled by a pebble hitting your landing gear
- Clip a tree or building you clearly didn’t touch
Trust me I’ve finished 3 helicopter tech trees and tried just about everything in the process but it all just ends up being the same after 9.0. A bunch of people say “YoU cAn JuSt GrInD tHeM wItH TaNks” well some people don’t want to use tanks to get helicopters. Thats like having to use naval to grind planes.
Unless you’re Hunter_i86, Loner, or Bruce Leeroy, helicopters will be nothing more than a soft target.
Even they admit the heli gameplay is just kinda bad.
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Can spade it in assault mode before bringing it to grb.
Not to mention the fact that trees are useless and dont confuse sams, in reality trees are AMAZING cover for helis bc of the radar not being able to see the air craft but in game they can maintain lock through trees on some maps.