Crazy how some players think this M163 SPAA sucks or useless or just plain bad lol Just players not knowing how to use it correctly that makes this thing look so bad. Regardless if they had rockets or not, they had no clue I was there waiting for them.
The most kills in 1 game, each game is 1 to 3 air kills. Few times 0.
8.5 K/D
EDIT: 10.2 K/D now. I’m Satisfied with this result. 60% WR
So one plane from higher B.R. and most from lower?
Should we start talking about balance overall like this? Should we say that a vehicle is good/bad because it can eaisly destroy something from lower B.R. that it would not normally face due to B.R. difference?
It fights all kinds of planes in that Br. Many 8.0 to 8.3 jets and many super props to standard CAS planes. Other games i faced pure jets, some just props. Regardless, 7.3 Br is a good spot for this SPAA, if players want to bring lower BR planes instead of jets that are at 7.0+ then thats on them. Not my problem if they decide to use lower Br CAS at 7.3. If they get uptiered, then thats unfortunate for them.
Sounds reasonable, and in contrast to the other poster who suggested “with some like the M163 and Gepard needing 3.0 BR changes”.
Yeah, let’s pump the m163 up to 10.3 to “balance” it out.
It is, problem is that there is nothing to use until 8.7 br, and (at least i belive i that) that 8.3 is much more interesting than 8.7-9.0 that US has. And with 8.0+ m163 is basically useless.
M163 performs pretty well at 8.3. It still sucks to be one of the only nations without an 8.0 or 8.3 SPAA, but it’s not like the M163 is struggling to pull above its weight.
Idontknow. When it was 8.0 i prefered to pick Duster. It sucked as much against air as M163, but at least you COULD try yout chances against side armor of several enemies. Then they moved it to 7.3 and i somehow got several kills. At 8.0 even Shilka brought some but not M163. With some F-100-ish attackers, you need to shoot SO MUCH forestall that it hides the aim point behind the screen. Not even mentioning how helicopters just beat the sh out of you.
