I like and hate the XM246. As your bug reports have shown it’s missing a lot and it just feels unfinished. I enjoy being able to actually pepper enemies with ammunition that poses a threat, but my one gripe is how inaccurate the lead indicator is. When you lock onto an aircraft, the lock will drift up and down on the actual aircraft, throwing off the indicator. The actual indicator itself is not accurate either as you have to aim considerably farther in front of it to actually hit the target. I really hope it gets its historical radar as that might help with it.
I only wish it has something like AHEAD or HEVT, else it going to be just another SPAA that is more excel in TD than AA.
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I agree, only giving it those tools would result in it moving up in BR. I know the PGZ09 has AHEAD at 8.3, but that’s just because Gaijin doesn’t care about minor nation BRs (Hence the wierdness with the Israeli Magachs).
The US is also the only nation that doesn’t need those tools, because they have one of the only two conventional SPAAs with them at the next lineup.
Same like M247.
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How is it worse? The guns are closer together so planes and AGMs can’t just fly between them, this also makes it much more convenient to shoot tanks.
It’s also way better protected so enemy IFVs and SPAAs are less likely to just onetap you, and more resistant to aircraft fire. AFAIK you also can’t lose your gunner or FCS to .50s which is a HUGE upgrade. And being more spacious means you’ll survive tank shells more often.
If it got proxy fuse it would move to 9.0+, better to not get it so the gap between VADS and York is filled.
Similar story with Gepard. And that one isn’t the best 8.3 SPAA, not even close.
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Its not as OP as most say it is though?
And its true that USSR SPAA is underwhelming until you get the strela…
Lmao you think the M247 is stupidly good? Hahahhahahaa now I know what the people that deny Russian bias feel like hahahahahahahahaha
It’s mostly the fact that it out ranges everything else, and yes, you can dodge the missiles, but it takes some degree of skill when they can launch one after another after another and I mean, it’s not like you can’t dodge most other SAMs either.
Tracer-less HE-VT is indeed stupidly good.
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So it sounds like SPAA is finally useful for once
It is indeed stupidly good, what is that hahaha for? to deceive people?
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Opinions on XM246
It’s ugly AF
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it would be better if gaijin didnt model it as having a parachute attatched
it is stupidly good, intercept 4 kh-38s yesterday
my highest plane kills is 7(1 Su-30, 2 Su-34, 4 Ka-50 and 1 Su-25) using it at 11.7
no one expect such thing at the BR
it would help if the ADATS wasnt stupidly gimped so m247 wasnt the best US AA for intercepting munitions
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i still dont get why Gaijin is bias, like why not just brush it aside
ego too high or what
If yall insisting there is bias instead of them being incompetent, imagine what will happen to USA if the game dev is from China lol
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yes because one nation having both by far the best AA and the best air to ground weapons (both fixed and rotary wing) is absolutely fair even more so given that that AA is the only one able to defend against large numbers of munitions simultaneously
and competing nations have their best AA artificially limited in a stupid number of ways making it unable to intercept air to ground weapons
id say both tbh
bias and incompetence is a deadly combo
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