The only way I could see the XM246 getting APDS or proxy fuse is for Gaijin to add one of the other original competing designs for that program, such as General Electric’s submission (I believe it was GE) which was just the A-10’s gun mounted on a Patton chassis.
Also ZA-35, Falcon, AMX-30 DCA with full APDS belt
Nither have full apds belts, they have 1 in 4.
Btw the za-35 doesnt even have apds…
Btw the za-35 doesnt even have apds…
Yet it’s still the best 35mm platform for TD purposes.
Because it uses the same stupidly OP aphe that the xm246 uses… it is also far less survivable and has worse gun handling than the xm
Ah yes then theres france with no 9.7 lineup nor 10.7 lineup.
and so on and so forth for every other tree.
Falcon is a monster for TD but substantially worse for AA, the DCA has no stab and is far easier to hit compared to gepard.
The ZA-35 I dont actually have crewed yet but seems decent, however id rather use the Cheiftain marksman over it.
it is also 8.7
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sure its also got worse mobility overall
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So facing a boatload of leopards and the likes, sounds fine to me, the M247 loosing it’s AP rounds meant that it can seldom damage targets anymore, having a SPAAG with powerful general use rounds is missing from the US tree currently until the LAV-AD, and 10.0 is where funni, gun SPAAG starts to drop off hard.
Just a little off topic but do we know which source that Gaijin use to make M247 only able to carry half of HE-VT of its full load ? (2/4 instead of 4/4)
There is non, its a balancing thing.
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how much pen would the AP have? like 101mm?
That is aproximately it for AP-T at point blank
thats fine
- Radar is random. It can lock target at 15 km, but often has problems with <3 km lock. I tired of mashing lock button on M163, and on XM246 situation is only slightly better. And it looks like you can lock only from sight (correct if I am wrong), what, in combination with next paragraph, even worse.
- Zoom. What the hell, Gaijin? x12? On 35mm SPAA? x6 on M163 was pretty bad, and now x12 isn’t better. Trying to get a high-speed jet at 1.5 km locked through this microscope is bullshit.
- APDS, proximity fuse - I think they are unnecessary. XM246 should be between M163 and M247 as it is now, and that ammo will ruin this.
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Radar is made to give enemy air players a chance close up so you have to aim manually. It is not realistic but gameplay compromise, I think. IRL the XM246 had a closed loop fire control which means it would be more accurate at close range.
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This is because they cloned the M247. IRL the XM246 had 2 magnifications one low one for searching and one high one for electro-optical tracking, which has been bug reported. On the M247 the low magnification is the commanders sight giving it a hunter-killer feature but the XM246 doesn’t have that. Giving it low mag would off cause make it even better as a tank destroyer so it seems they are holding of on adding it currently.
So I can lock target when I don’t need, and I can’t lock target when I need it.
What about making plane weaponry work at random at br <7.0? So we can play roulette which push of space button drop the bomb - from first to ten at full random?)
And because someone in Gaijin think, that giving SPAA x1 sight is too op.
M163 IRL has sight for ground targets and AA sight. What sight did we get in game? Ground targets sight)
Well I only find that withing 800m the radar doesn’t work, if you can’t lock at 3000 the plane i probably notching or chaffing, if you have it on the search radar you just click lock and it automatically locks for me. I would like it to work correctly too btw.
Well I don’t like it any more than you but just explaining why I think it is happening. Just like you don’t want proxy to have it at the battle rating, there are other features which are incomplete.