Helicopter grind is awful / which way is the fastest?

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Man, KA50 in PVP was genuinely the most unfair, broken thing I have ever experienced in any video game in my life lol.

I grew so tired of dying to it when grinding my British Heli’s that i bought it out of frustration, and i think i have something like 1,100+ player frags in 30 something battles (Probably half a dozen of which i left very early on).

Was disgusting how unfair that thing was. So glad the mode was canned.

Oh, yeah, if it’s useful for you to know OP, it took me 52 rounds of PVE in the Peten to reach Saraph in the Israeli tree. (Just to give you a reference idea of how long it takes with a premium Heli)

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EC PVP was ka50 playground, and before that, a UHT one. When they added the City map, a lot more helis became playable. Not sure why they didn’t keep it.

Starstreaks where good for this but only the top end helicopter had them

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I think I only unlocked Teapache right before the mode was removed, so didn’t really get to take revenge for all the suffering endured in Glynx unfortunately lol.

Those were real dark days for Grinding Heli’s. PVE takes way longer than PVP did, but i’d rather be bored for 100 hours than suffer Vikhr torment for 50 lol.

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you’d spawn, sit on some mountain and get one kill per Vhikir you fired

if you’d encounter another KA50 you’d just shoot his missiles until you both have none and from them you’d go sperate ways

it was much more boring than the new PVE mode tho

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Honestly the heli situation is entirely unacceptable, Heli PvE is like 20k RP per hour and some of the heli’s are just not viable.

They did exactly what I said they would do, is dump millions of RP on ground, another horrible economy, and call it a day, so whenever you complain about heli grind now they’ll use the excuse that you can use ground, because adding vehicles to the game that require a different mode and vehicle to grind surely isn’t an example of horrendous game design.

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now fastest ways are using premium tanks (also premium heli if you can put into your line up) and playing GRB like grinding tanks
trust me it easier nowadays back in the day in eternal torture to get top Heli that isn’t Russia

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Controversial Opinion but I think they should bring back the old Heli PvP. With the Saclos Missile Nerf Vikhrs wouldnt be as strong as they were. And now there are a whole bunch of nations with Helis that have Spikes. The Starstreaks are still viable and im sure TY90s would work really well too.

The only Nation it would suck for is the US. And people playing starter Helis. But I would really hope they would have a br split like the current PvE one has (or even more brackets) as that was the single biggest issue with the old PvP mode.

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bro really said the gepard is the deadliest instead of the za35 or the m42 that literally does not have a radar and snipes you from +4.5km without tracers

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As others have said, Heli EC is the most consistent way of earning RP. However, because of how bad Gaijin made the EC economy, it is not enjoyable whatsoever.

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Dunno, I got to the point where I was unlocked the HKP9A, then quit, started to play some of Russia though, got the unlocking the MI-24V, idk, generally speaking it’s not worth it.

I would buy the MI-28A for Sweden, but it’s in GE, and I’d rather buy a pack vehicle.

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Starter helis are a mess, being expected to grind hundreds of thousands of RP with a heli with a handful of crappy rockets and no ballistic computer is insanity.

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Heli EC is basically a 3 part game.

  1. Extremely painful grind to get the first few mods to actually have a usable helo. Anyone with even the slightest advantage will reap many rewards before you even get there.

  2. Dedicate time to play long, long EC battles waiting for players to drop out so you can finally take the easier targets.

  3. With luck you’ll finally have enough mods that you are top dog and can force the pain on others as you zoom around faster and kill easier.

Eventually you’ll buy a new helo…go to 1

Its literally time = money, possibly more than any other mode. And premiums/boosters are worth considering but what ever way you approach it there will be pain and boredom.

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Like others have said, Heli EC is the " best " way to grind the Heli TT.

But like others have said, it’s an outright miserable experience. Worst experience I’ve ever suffered in the game, frankly.

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Bring it back, but with a BR split/better MM to prevent helicopters with a2a missiles from facing ones without them.

I found it very fun when I wasn’t swatted out of the sky by a Ka-50 5 seconds after spawning.

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Grinded the entire German Heli tree with tanks :')

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I mean they work. But they’re far from untouchable. Especially non American ones as you will see the M247 and its proxy rounds almost immediately.

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I understand M247 is a thing so that’s why I mentioned there will be outliers to the rule.
Alouette which is a 8.3 heli can engage targets with impunity if enemies only have non-HE-VT gun AA and/or IR slingers, which is quite ridiculous considering some IR slingers can be as high as 10.0.

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I miss heli realistic battles lmao

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idk why you would think that last part would make for good gameplay

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People will just spam Spikes fire and forget , if pvp is back it will need some balance but i wish we had a better gamemode, i wish Helicopters on GRB had their own objetives and not only enemy tanks, idk maybe we could get an enemy base with AI to attack and get better rewards, this would make the stock grind easier for the shitty helis with rockets and no CCIP or the shitty helis at 13.0 which gets stock 4km atgms (basically a 8.7 -9.7 range)