i had the same thought. I don’t even understand it anymore at this point, this must be on purpose.
and i still don’t get it how python 5 is slower than a mim-72.
I’ve seen videos of dudes getting killed literally on the airfield. Crzay how far that thing reaches.
Rn the SLM is by far the best of the new spas.
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We need decompression. Ground BRs need to be expanded to 13.0. I myself don’t play Israel, but I am a fan of you guys getting a proper working Spyder. Even when it is fixed, it still won’t be as effective as the IRIS-T SLM, so IRIS would be 13.0 and Spyder 12.7, along with Pantsir and CLAWS. My beloved but poor Tan-SAM kai wouldn’t go higher than 12.3.
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It still doesnt attack the core issue. SPYDER is unplayable rn, it’s blind and it’s missiles need to be fixed. Even if its worse than the other new systems it needs to be usable or Israel is in the same spot it has been. With the Derby not working you are forced to take P5 and if the enemy spawns a heli with LDIRCM you are screwed
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I hope you’re joking.
Don’t worry, I know the feeling. The Tan-SAM radar is wrong too, lacks several functions, the launchers are bugged as hell, the IR missile lacks IOG + DL… but at least they track.
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this spaa is a joke, terrible performance in game, incredibly artificially nerfed
Don’t think it’s artificially nerfed, the guidance, the radar and the missiles are just not modelled properly. It’s as if they spent a whole month fine-tuning the IRIS-T SLM and only gave the SPYDER half a day.
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Business suits have been filed for less, but I recommend you reread the comments before that point. I wasn’t saying they would
Oh no it’s definitely artificially nerfed. Gaijin keeps shooting down bug reports on both IRL stats and issues in game such as the Python wobbling. The radar behaves like a Mechanically scanned array and is blind most of the time. Seriously 70% of the time I can’t see incoming missiles other times they look like they are jumping to hyperspace when they aren’t even targeting me. The Python wobbles so much that it can’t keep its seeker on target, and the derby still doesn’t go pitbull. Not to mention the ghost signatures. this system just helped fend off irans counter attack in conjunction with David’s sling and iron dome/iron beam, but in game it can barely intercept slow moving bombs
If they want to make this thing playable it takes three simple steps.
- Make the radar operate properly including its ability to operate while the mast is retracted, this will go anlong way to improving the SPYDERs overall performance
- Fix the Pythons “Wobble” there is plenty of evidence that has been presented to gaijin that Pythons do not struggle to right themselves.
- Fix the Derby not going active and give the SPYDER its DL channels so you can engage more than one target effectively with them
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your also forgetting that the P5 can be fired without the radar
Toplite EO can acquire targets too
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I was gonna add that but honestly i would say the three changes I outlined are overall more impactful.
and like the turning of the P5s
guys I got to admit, we are cooked. the spyder can’t kill anything outside 6km {pretty much everything I faced was outside 10+) the last few hours have been nothing but sadness, merkava mk4 not being able to so much as eat one apfsds shell or the fact my APS system never worked once from guided munitions from helis and the greatest of all the 65 ton namer just getting dawged on by everything.
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i was praying the spyder would bring me baclk to this game in hopes the israel would have a fighting chance in at least the air spectrum but I guess I was miserably wrong. gaijin should be torched for the fact that russia got buffs to a missile that doesn’t even exist. plus we got arena aps for russia when we don’t even have the slightest fix for the merkava mk4 aps in the last 9 MONTHS, again 9 MONTHS
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There’s more ofc, Pantsir buffs, not adding SPICE 250 not giving Israel P4 when fox 3s came out, LDIRCM basically being an untouchable shield to only Russian and Chinese helis (have fun in Sim) no Lahat missile, the Spike being useless 60% of the time especially against Russians. I could go on. I still do well with Israel despite Gaijins obvious BS. But dammit we needed an AA I could deal with everything else but Israel literally had no top tier AA and when they finally give us one they make it unusable. The Roland 1 is more reliable than SPYDER.
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NERA underperforming and SLERA not being modeled on any tank.
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While I do think it sucks they wont give the Israelis their proper ive found Merkavas to be a perfectly resilient tank as is. it only takes a little imagination to use it properly. A small ridge to increase the angle on your hull and turret to auto bounce angles, or moving back and forth laterally along a ridge to make enemies hit the large vestigial armor blocks on the turret and do nothing. The Merks don’t necessarily “NEED” their proper armor it would just be nice. Now the SPYDER? That was needed, badly and so far theyve butchered it.
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