I’d really like to know the mechanism/staff behind these decisions. Expecially GB seems to reall get alot stuff lately and this super ordnance at 12.3 fits the sceme as well. Germany has not even a community mod and seemingly absolutely no lobby.
Yea, so a couple of problems I’ve noticed:
1)Rotor doesn’t seem to have any kind of brake? Upon dumping the speed after a dive it spins up to 140% RPM (with 0 coll). That actually kills your engine on the spot, like immediately.
2)While lofting spikes sometimes go into cloud and lose a lock, lol.
3)Spikes sometimes lose a lock out of nowhere? Got a couple pretty close shots (3km±) and Spikes just decided to fly over the target.
Threats:
Avoiding everyone seems very possible beside the chinese trash spaa that they get as a free spawn. Aim-9x slingers and smswines. Sometimes very weird ARH missiles hit when they shouldn’t, but that’s on gaijin and their noodle code. A splash from, for example, buk - could actually kill you because you don’t have any armor.
Weird but cool thing:
Spikes lock on the target so much better than PARS, which kinda made me think about the lock-on mechanic. From comparing PARS and Spike I’ve made a conclusion that they allow (or not) you to lock onto something by drawing a path with missile logic applied and if it doesn’t meet any obstacles on the way (buildings, trees, dead tanks) - you’re allowed to lock on, if not - well you’re not. Due to a huge loft spikes can lock onto the target from an angle UHT couldn’t even dream of.
On unrelated note check out my paint job. I think it fits this heli neatly.
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the wildcat is still absolutely useless, it would be a decent heli if half the time you didnt die because you maneuvered in the wrong way and it becomes completely uncontrollable and spins itself into the ground while you can only watch
Maybe 2 years later we’ll get a full helicopter.
all of the Leopard additions and we still yet to see germany get proper equivalents, we got the base variant of every leopard modification, other nations get the superior modificatoin, japan just got the 2RI, meanwhile germany doesnt even get the proper Revolution series. its pathetic.
and the some random doo-doo comes and says “it will break the game.” no it wont. Russia can get the BMPT, but other nations cant have anything remotely close? whatever man. Germany has been getting the short end of the stick ever since the 122B was a thing, they could literally have introduced an equivalent to germany as well, the 2A6EX MAX and the Demo-2 variant.
“but germany doesnt need every leopard!!!” oh but the muricans can have 9 Abrams right? the brittons can have 7 Challengers? i wont even bother counting the number of T-series tanks, meanwhile germany gets 4 Leopard 2s. haha. that’s so cute. what a community.

Btw, all of their motors appear to be smokeless. Are they in-game?
Its solid close from what we can see compared to IRL firing them