Proposal: Introduce Helicopters to Air Simulation Mode for More Tactical Variety

Proposal: Add Helicopters to Air Simulation Mode

I would like to propose the addition of helicopters to the air simulation mode. I believe the helicopters in the game, especially those with a BR of 10.7 and above, are excellent within their respective BRs and highly capable.

Currently, in air simulation battles, ground targets are rarely engaged effectively. While aircraft are often difficult to find and take down, many helicopters are equipped with very powerful missiles that are hard to shake off, especially when piloted by experienced players.

Proposal Details:

  • Helicopter Addition: Introduce helicopters to air simulation mode, adding more balance and variety to the combat experience.
  • Reasoning: Helicopters bring a different dynamic to the game with their guided missiles, which are hard to avoid or counter, especially in the hands of skilled players.
    • Helicopter Missiles: These helicopters are equipped with guided missiles that are very effective, making it challenging for aircraft to counter or evade them during combat.

Objective and Impact:

  • Increased Strategic Depth: By adding helicopters, players would need to adapt their tactics when facing both fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters, increasing the overall tactical diversity.
  • Enhanced Player Experience: More experienced players could focus on upgrading their helicopter skills, which would contribute to the overall strategic complexity of matches.

With this addition, air simulation battles would become more engaging and balanced, offering more strategic options and encouraging more dynamic gameplay.

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Maybe with exceptions, like no TY-90? Its just a 5km kill zone

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No idea what you are talking about…what issues are you claiming to see in this post?

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That it is made via chatgpt.

Outside of the very “chatgpt-style” formating?

At those brs, most attackers have guided missiles which allow for easy ground pounding.

Other than the ty-90, what missiles would those be? They all basically have stingers which any pilot can out pull without much trouble.

The guided missile are all very easy to dodge in a jet.

But i guess chatgpt doesnt know that.

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I would like there to be Helis in Air SIM(however they should have mouse aim controls cause playing stuff like the Hueys is agony with sim controls) Air sim is much more alive than Heli EC(takes upwards of 10-20mins to get a match) and it would make the devs actively work on improvements to Heli EC(I.E Gepards no longer being an iron dome system for the convoys in Heli EC that beam down anything within a 2km radius against helis like the AH-1G or Mi-4). In In conclusion, less time spent matchmaking, no OP SPAAGS, it gives MUCH better rewards, ect. (Helis that are OP like the Ka-50 can be upteired so they wont melt shit with their very good A2AMs)

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No. Huey is beautiful in aspects of control

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I guess I care less about the formatting and more about exploring the core ideas put forward. Your first post did nothing to forward the discussion. That is worse than using ChatGPT in my opinion. Your second post at least added to the conversation, buried in your sarcasm and snotty attitude.

I would very much like to see a new mode for helicopters. If possible, a strike mode with helis and strike aircraft. Do not know how they make that work without improved AI enemies, but I would love to expand into helicopter gameplay if there were a real mode focused on them that was at least as entertaining as GRB or ARB.

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Who cares? Useless post about unless things, you understood his point 100% so useless to play the grammar police for such minor reasons

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Personally, i just find it annoying because it always has stuff that doesnt make sense.

it has good grammer so i have no issue with that. i am not one to correct grammer.

at least he isnt like that one dude who did chatgpt and titled it “an essay that i wrote”

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It’s a really tough balance, because a well played aircraft with a decent radar would never allow a heli to get anywhere. Likewise a well played Heli could camp at the end of a runway and just spawn kill

It would be fun, but not sure how it could be implemented in such a way that it doesn’t just cause chaos.

Ai helis though, now that would be a really interesting objective to add

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The same suggestion from someone with 16 hours of helicopter time in sim with only 1 nation…

Take it from someone with 8 days in sim playing ALL nations… this is a TERRIBLE idea.

in 9_2 games I can spawn a plane and kill ALL the helicopters with zero issues.

In 10/11_2 I can spawn a Z-19/10 and kill ALL the planes.

Fly a PVE game and fly to the bottom of the map. Now fly back to rearm… it will take 30 minutes… and sim maps are MUCH larger.

Sim is broken already, they should fix it before talking about adding helis.

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Think a good way to balance this would be to just have area defense aircraft be sent after them? They waste missiles on the incoming a.i. and get more distracted while actual player’s take off?

Hmmm, would having a.i. squad heli’s help? like bringing backup vehicle’s with you to change into?

The first is possible ,but Gaijins AIs are hit and miss at best, quite often they just crash.

As for the second, no such mechanic currently exists so would be whole new thing just on its own.

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The defender’s for the attack group aircraft on sim map’s seem to have better a.i. i think.
Unless I’m going schizo lol.

As for the second, yea. Heli a.i. would need to be made. But they already got a good outline with Single mission squad’s so maybe a c/p with a bit of editing.

(Wouldn’t happen to know a good cdk tutorial? might try making my own code for it if possible)

AH-1Z AIM-9M

Id would love to see Helis AirSB, where I see the problem is on where to Spawn them helipad, in a 128x128km map ist going to be a Nightmare to traver that distance

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It’s also very general in what it says.

It doesn’t say specific examples, or anything directly relating to the game, it’s all surface level stuff that means absolutely nothing. This makes them quite easy to spot.

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Yes please! It’s absurd that the only mode helis (read: aircraft) can exist in are Ground modes and an AB-only(!) PvE mode. :(

They can be trimmed to fly well if they don’t fly well. And you can map change controls mode to a button and change to simplified. That will you SAS. Or is it impossible change controls mode in GSB?