General case of exploitation, helicopters shooting FAF missiles while hovering above their bases, then landing before counterfire reaches them. They can’t be hit unless a visually guided missile has LOS on them and the pilot screws up, and they’re inmune to SAMs who can’t hit them on the ground. This is badly designed and should end.
Exploitation case in a specific map: map Domination Sinai, enemy helicopter can hover above the cliffs on the northern spawn and shoot at the northern team from behind their spawn while staying out of reach for SPAAs in the northern team. Haven’t encountered this when playing southern team. The only (theoretical) countermeasure is northern team spawning an airplane and air-to-air killing the enemy helicopter… but usually at that stage any aircraft will have 10 SAMs up their tailpipe well before being within range for tracking a helicopter right above the rocks. This is badly designed and should end.
The Maginot line has a great exploit along these lines for helo’s. Had it happen again earlier with an AH-56A simply going into hover just inches off pad at base, unloading its full unguided rocket loadout, gathering up several kills, land, reload, do it again. I suspect using a wall-hack cheat would help this method as well since they can get the targeting more refined. But either way they don’t need los.
They are unkillable though, except from other CAS…but as we know, that’s as it is supposed to be!
Well, “as is supposed to be” does not necessarily make for a good game mechanic… modern MBTs “are supposed to be” shoot & scoot from a hull down position behind cover and “are supposed to be” the effin gun will never be effin hit FFS.
But this is a game and no matter how hard and long (or expensive) is the way to get those top tier choppers, the exploitations I described make poor gaming.
Also “as is supposed to be” means that any chopper landing 5 km from the frontline will receive a visit from Mr. 155 mm & Friends in about 2 minutes. Among a thousand things in modern warfare that make for poor gaming and many things in War Thunder that make for poor reality.
They also do this on Normandy, I was only 100m away from spawn and also behind cover yet the missile manage to say hello. Was mad enough that I called that 💩head a 🐱
