Apparently the Rolands that are usually guarding bases are gone now. Not sure if it’s intentional, or when exactly that happened (seems to be very recent) but honestly it’s a VERY good change. I’m quite close to getting the YAH-64 (~80k squadron RP) and that’s going to make the stock grind a heckuva lot easier.
Also I’ve played some more Rocky Canyon in my UHT…
… and the PARS 3 seem to track normally now. Am I being gaslit the last time?
Holy crap you’re right! Same for the lower BR but those weren’t much of an issue. I doubt it was intentional though. Still got the aimbot Gepards in the convoys.
Thats a lot of utility capability we got there, Devs. Be pretty cool if we could utilize that for something…
I just hope it stays lol
I wish, but I’m not holding my breath. That actually gives utility helicopters some, oh I don’t know, utility?
i wish theyd bring PVP back, sure its horrid , but i had fun slinging Stingers at KA50s
Dies in sweden Helis
Probably wouldn’t be as horrid if they retained the BR brackets we have now on PvE. Especially now that we have more helicopters with FnF missiles ingame (HAD Block 2, AH-129D and AH-60). Undoubtedly Vikhrs will still be dominant, but at least they won’t have to be matched against starter helicopters.
I’d honestly just want it back so I can spam PARS 3 LRs willy nilly at people lol
I always wonder how much more fun and engaging helicopters could be in the game. Unfortunately, I don’t think helicopters will reach their full potential any time soon. The AH-1W was passed to developers in 2018 and just recently got added in 2024. I’ll probably be in my mid 30s by the time helicopter gameplay is even touched again. One can only imagine.
Yeah it’s frustrating. There’s some genuine potential here that’s being wasted. Helicopters as it stands now doesn’t really have a comfortable place in any of the available game modes, you either get intensely paranoid in GRB/GSB of SAMs, SPAAs and fighters or spend copious amounts of time in PvE being either bored as hell or cursing at the Kamovs hoarding all the points.
Absolutely not a fun experience, not to mention you also have to deal with the soul-crushing RP grinds on top of all that, while it is alleviated somewhat by the ability to grind with ground vehicles, is rather impractical since it’s mutually exclusive with grinding ground vehicles. (unless you happen to have most of the ground tree already researched)
Yes, Heli PvE at top tier is terrible to play.
It’s like a tank full of sharks with not enough food for all, there is a constant stealing of kills.
Normally it takes 1-2 hours to complete a mission, with all these high tier helis we once completed the whole thing in 40 minutes.
They need to increase the number of convoys, ground battles and cap points without decreasing the reward for each action.
yeah im back on this grind again now and am not looking forward to unlocking 10.3 littlebird… it has nothing, and immediately reminds me how it went for me until i unlocked something could actually use to even grind with in pve battles, aam’s etc.
Currently grinding with uh1c xm30 since i had it from its launch but sincerely not looking forward to spading either of these 10.3 american choppers now and i’ve spaded alot of helis :(
Any body notice the AI convoy targets’ hitboxes not matching their visual model, on Afghanistan and other maps?
This has always been the case with convoys in Rocky Canyon. Consistent, even expectable. But about a month ago, when the servers were in bad condition, I had a match on Afghanistan where this happened for the whole match (Lower bracket match, Server was CIS). And unlike the usual way where the hitbox oscillates around the visual model (which serves as the equilibrium position), this one seemed to be consistent. Unnaturally so.
The hitbox consistently stayed behind the visual model by about 1-4 tank lengths! Usually, say on Rocky Canyon, the hitbox would always be less than 2 tank lengths, but constantly moving. In this Afghanistan match, however, they seemed to stay still (relative to the visual model’s position) for several minutes at each position. And was so far away from the visual model, you had to attack from directly in front to have any chances of hitting them. This only applied to the Gepard! The other vehicles in the same convoys: Sho’ts mostly did not have this mismatch, and the AMX-13s were entirely unaffected.
As for the players, most of them got understandably angry, typed some curse words and other speech in Russian, and left.
I have played more than a day of Heli EC and have never seen this happen before or since this single incident.
Sweden has one to with the HKP.4
I think this was before the Mi-8 was added, but now there’s another.
This is a big issue on Vietnam as well specially at lower tiers where the margin between being able to kill these gepards and not is very slim.
there’s a large desync between models when they are going over the hills etc.
I think must have something to do with the LOD’s or collision models of terrain not matching what we see so there and their position REALLY doesn’t match
I haven’t played PvE in a couple of months, but I can confirm that the hitboxes are getting worse. In the past something like autotrack/IRST (found on modern helis) would bypass this problem and always hit the taget, no matter how bad the desync was.
Last time I play not even autotrack would work, the missile would at times just hit above the target and do no damage. I am the only one to have seen this?
alot of maps the pve targets even just go under the map and can’t be targetted.
It really doesn’t help when you can critical/disable like horizontal drive, weapons, and they don’t care at all for AA
I was pretty curious about the infantry april fool joke (when i didn’t knew if it was a joke or genuinely real) because it would’ve benefited helis a LOT… early Hueys especially
Now with the SEAD event they tried to combine planes with heli for more interesting missions, so our last beacon of hope for helis is that this gamemode actually get implemented…which shouldn’t be any time soon :(
