I’ve always been amazed at how some people can snipe with those guns from such long distance,planes and helicopters too.
I tried to learn it, yet i can never shoot planes with VIDAR, my biggest problem is the amount of smoke ejected from the barrel after the shot , I can’t course correct to see how low/high i am in correlation to the shell from the enemy aircraft. So i’m mostly doing it on feeling.
Yet i’ve seen so many people sniping planes with VIDAR ,and even PZH2000H , from long distances even,and I’m wondering how they do it.
I’m not sure to be honest, I just freehand it and hope for the best and it works. Probably muscle memory or something.
thats what i assumed too, but i’ve been playing vidar for over a year now and i still don’t have a feeling for the VIDAR shells.
Most probably using an aim bot or some other such program.
It is amazing that people can spot you, aim, lay the gun correctly and then shoot you in under a second, quicker than modern day targeting equipment using second world war equipment.
Look at the general direction of planes path and then just start firing a bit ahead of plane according to the distance, Most of the time i just fire randomly at any distance ahead of the plane and it works
It’s all about skill, I love destroying planes with my SPHs it’s easy
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What I don’t understand is how people manage to hit maneuvering aircraft with these guns.
Or just RNG there is no skill in the game, they even say that what you see on the hit indicator is not actually real due to lag. It is just an RNG shoot em up that somebody has spent a bit of time with on the models.
Maneuvering doesn’t necessarily mean unpredictable: Many pilots in WT really make it easy for SPAA players. Others are indeed very hard to hit and kill, if they know how to fly defensively.
I’m quite an experienced SPAA player myself, and can really spot very quickly how easy a kill will be only after watching a plane for a few seconds. Sometimes it’s too easy - but requires a lot of experience of course about lead, timing, etc.
Note also that those 155mm HE-VT shells are fast and massive, with about 9x more TNT equivalent than the already deadly 76mm shells of the OTOMATIC, so you don’t need to really hit, just to get it close enough…
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Oh no i know, it has a radio fuze,i always try to hit in the general direction, but i can never correct course fast enough . Maybe if a plane was going directly at me maybe it could,but even then…
I ask this question because there were a few times i got absoutely sniped when i was coming in with a plane from 3-4 km , yes i wasn’t doing any manouvers because i wasn’t really expecting anything to hit me there,and i wasn’t taking SPAA fire. I just exploded and then i see the VIDARS looking at me.
But we’re talking about SPHs, not SPAAs ;)
With planes you simply guess where the plane is going, artillery HEVT has a huge fuse radius and explodes hard so you don’t need to aim that accurately. With helicopters, you can just let LRF do most of the work and have a decent chance to hit any copter you see
The ballistics behind it is the same. ;-)
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VIDAR and PZH2Ks have laser rangefinders which also help immensely. Depending on if the target aircraft/helicopter is approaching or retreating I usually adjust my distance based on three lase bursts to get their rough m/s difference, then manually set scope for lead/decline and send it. Works well in sim, but I do struggle with 45ish degree slant approaches.
Go to testing hub and train.
The helecopters and planes fly there in the same course. Try it and learn.
A vague understanding of the vehicle and its shell velocity. After a long time, it becomes natural to some people, and they can just feel where a shell will go.
Must be bevause the good shell velocity makes it relatively easy to aim.