Is derby smokeless or not?
It is not at least in the game
Sad
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Another small update, another time gaijin has ignored us. This is getting depressing
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I have enough battles in the Spyder to confidently say that the radar is utter trash.
It cannon lock on helis and targets planes that are not even there thus making the missiles miss.
And dont even get me started on the Derby missiles.
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And also the constantly scary phantom targets rushing at you.
I also noticed how terribly the P5 missiles are configured, they literally barely hit the targets.
Now the Spyder is better suited as an observation post than the SPAA.
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Lmao its not even usable as an observation post because planes always ghost on the radar and helicopters appear 100 meters - 1km higher than they actually are on the radar.
Also does anybody know if the missiles actually lock the target when launching?
My python 5s refuse hitting helis if the radar is ghosting above them as stated above.
And im not talking about Dircm capable helis.
Im talking about ka-50s and ah-64s.
Honestly I don’t know yet how to capture P5 targets, I just let them go and hope they hit.
Literally bro. Wake up every morning crossing my fingers to read the bug reports have something good, always get hit with a slap in the face and hope s
@Smin1080p_WT do bugs get fixed through week days or are they random? Cause I’ve noticed they are on majority of the time week days and I just wanted some confirmation so I could potentially look to the next bug fix
They only work during week days. I always check reddit for dev server datamines hoping to see a fix for Spyder or Tan-SAM kai, but alas, it never came, and my hopes of them ever coming are getting smaller and smaller.
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I hear you on that one brother, this is getting honestly hopeless. I honestly wonder what gaijin do with all their time, feels majority of it goes to making premium packs and copy paste. They need to get a dedicated team to fixing these problems
I usually just keep the target locked until they die. In the replays, the P5’s go into DL mode on launch until they aquire. Usually at least 4 seconds for helicopters because they top out then start searching. I have had others where they never left DL / IOG and cruised right past the helo, but usually so long as I am able to maintain a lock for the first few seconds after launch they will reliably hit the KA-50’s at least. Did the same (maintained lock) on one of the SU’s (top premium one, the blue thing) and killed it at departure end of the runway with a Derby (Cant remember the map name, desert with the coastal town and the bridge that can be taken kinda apart). I watched the replay from their perspective and they got the missile launch warning, and it intermitently would coast in and out but missile went into it none the less which maintaining the lock is probably why it worked.
The missiles both derby and and p5 are way underperforming, plus that ghost radar drives me absolutely nuts cause it’s so schizophrenic to lock non existing targets I’ve stopped trying to use it
(And the p5 missile wobble is driving me nuts, uses all of its power from swinging all over an over correcting)
Oh I am not saying theyre performing well. Just saying that is how I have managed to get kills (by maintaining the lock). I have had plenty of “Where the hell did that missile go?” moments, but if I can maintain the lock for the Data Link, I can usually get a reliable hit.
I’ve had no luck but like 10 kills I think I have at most with it. It’s so sadly unreliable
Can Spider launch P5 without turning on the radar? If so, why isn’t this implemented in the game?
That is a good question… I would guess not because of the vertical launch style but cant say for sure
My main problem is getting matches where someone actually brings anything that can fly. Most top tier is “I died and didnt get SP for my plane, I am gone” matches. I watch people with full lineups die once then bail which snowballs, and with the spotting bug that allow light tanks to spot everything from spawn using the drone it isnt helping the situation because you will get 1 - 4 light tanks hanging in spawn trying to spot targets to lower their CAS SP