Would asking for a helicopter simulation mode for gaijin be too much? Maybe even combined with air sim battles?? I think the helicopters and their models added to the game are amazing, but grinding with helis is really painful and it’s not because of the large amount of SL and PP, but more because of the horrible options to play with them, ground RB if you have enough points for it or playing with few weapons against powerful SAMs and getting frustrated, or playing in the most boring mode that exists in this game, which is the helicopter arcade PVE, and instead of bringing us good options, they bring the laziest possible, now you can research helicopters playing with vehicles, wonderful!
Why not a realistic PVP like the aerial ones? Or better yet, why not play in the simulation battles with the planes? I know it would be difficult and complicated to play between the jets that would hunt the helis with some ease, but I’m sure it would be much more fun, even an exclusive mode for helicopters would be very good, but it seems that everything, even what seems to be the simplest, is asking too much in this game.
I would play it. I would specifically purchase and crew helicopters just for a dedicated SIM mode.
Better yet, a coop SIM mode with my friend in the gunner seat.
I used to be a dedicated helicopter pilot for our group in Arma 3 KOTH with over 2000 hours before I started playing WT. Hell, I have thousands of hours on helis since Operation Flashpoint and Arma 2. I basically fly helicopters since I was 10 years old.
The way they implemented helis in WT is pure cancer for everyone involved and I just refuse to participate until we get a proper thought out modes to play these machines in.
So, Gaijin, please listen to this guy. There is alot of money to be made.
Better yet, a coop SIM mode with my friend in the gunner seat.
2 players in 1 vehicle would be quite unrealistic as the de-syncs would be insane ngl.
but overall i would really really really love to see a helicopter centric gamemode, i hate the fact that the only choice you have is either to play ground gamemodes where tank players hate cas, or play heli pve
I think the developers are actually quite capable, considering the sheer scale of this project. Games from 1999 can achieve this without an issue, why wouldn’t War Thunder in 2024?
A suggestion was made to add helicopters to the air battle simulator
I took advantage of this recent anniversary promotion and bought the Mi-35 and the Ka-52 and honestly I couldn’t go back to playing the PVE helicopter mode for the grind, I simply enter tank battles and play helicopter until I die and go to the next match, it’s bad because you can only use rockets but it’s the only sane way to grind helicopters that I found.