In a game earlier, I had a Typhoon just circling right above me, staying within 1.5-2km, so I could do nothing about him due to deadzone.
After enough passes he eventually strafed me to death lol.
I fail to understand how it would even be capable of acquiring a target that way then, seeing as even ARH missiles need to be fired in a state which the seeker is already on during launch if it lacks the ability to be feed datalink. If it’s searching after launch in the suspected direction and range, there would be a high chance it locks the wrong target, no?
From my very limited sample size of games thus far, definitely feels like Spyder excels on urban maps, which is somewhat of a rarity for AA.
On open maps, you’re so big you can’t hide, and no smokes mean you just eat everything thrown at you.
On urban maps though, CAS is forced to get closer, you have plenty of vertical cover, and your radar skyscraper often extends above cover anyway. Can just lob Pythons up whilst being largely hidden.
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I don’t understand why they don’t let the player manually operate the retraction and raising of the missile launcher
Me neither, it’s honestly kind of annoying watching it constantly fold and unfold.
Perhaps it might be worth making a proper suggestion to have a new key bind added for launcher raise / lowering.
I find it really funny that spyder still has no IRST and the radar is horrid so its almost unuseable xd
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Man make some videos and share if you already have sypder aio would love to see it
you are not missing much, spyder is okay missiles with extremely high difficulty of target engagement
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Thh the spice can be unlocked by like 2 games
I mean expet the radar its kinda the same
Derby sr and python 5 with almost python 4 performance
Well I mean the Python 5 does have Python 4 flight performance IRL, but both models are underperforming ingame
should i even grind the spyder?
in hope it will get fixed?
My thoughts exactly, I personally don’t play Israeli top tier often, as I’ve been waiting for more additions such as this one, so why should I grind it out if it’s in a half baked state and yet to be fixed?
It’s still better then Chap…
but, like, the only reason i stop playing top tier Israel is cause there was no spaa to counter planes.
now there is, but the spyder is so butchered.
maybe if they fix it?
I mean if you have to choose between a horrible vehicle or a mediocre vehicle, why even play that BR.
If trophy APS wasn’t bugged I would see some arguments to play 12.0 Israel, but with how the Spyder turned out it just feels better to play a different BR or different nation.
Also the colombian kfir uses it
And maybe a p5 in the future?
Made serveral games today with the Spyder and this thing is a real Joke …
- Radar display is a mess
- AESA radar that can’t even correctly track a drone or a straight flying plane
- Radar looses targets and prefer to display all missiles around you instead of staying focused on the plane
- MIssiles can’t even hit a drone at 7km because explose far away from it (last try was four missiles that explosed too far and one that only made a critical hit)
- Missiles can’t even hit an helicopter at 5km
I don’t even speak about planes because missiles are unable to follow them, at 5km or at 15km it’s the same shit, 0 chance to damage them.
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