I remember in one type 91 bug report, that they said to put a suggestion in the forums for a visible light seeker.
Has that been done yet? I don’t see any traces of that in the forums
Am I the only one that feels as though there’s been a shadow-nerf to MANPADS, or maybe just the Type 91 in particular, when it comes to it’s handling characteristics?
I had a drone 1km away, the little recon ones, and before the update I could hit them relatively easily even if they were bobbing but now, it just can’t hit it for the life of him. In that same match I had to fire 4 missiles as an Su-7BMK because the first one barely pulled to try keeping up with his slight turn, the second missile flew off course from a slight barrel roll, the third took out part of his wing via blast radius but was about to miss like the second, and the fourth finally blew the wing off but still didn’t enjoy tracking.
So I did something awesome today
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360 back flip, good air time 10/10
They didn’t, you simply shot it in the back where heli don’t have invincible armor. Usually enemy ka-50\52 just don’t turn sides or back to you
Even if they did make target lock better don’t worry it will be fixed and reverted to broken state in less then a week like they did it for 3 years(or 4 already, when nerf-dart spaa was released?)
You cant lock Ka-52 at all (Like, i have never managed to lock ka-52 from any range and any angle)
You supposed to be able to lock ka-52 because of visual seeker on type91. And you even could lock ka-52 for some time long ago but that was “fixed” in less then a week(You still couldn’t kill it because of stalinum tho)
War Thunder parkour XD LOL
YES OMG
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Now lets hope they don’t break it as bad as the Type 91 is. I am a little more optimistic tho since these are not manpads so maybe they won’t be coded as bad.
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Hah good joke, when was the last time u played VT 1 or rolands?
Yeah their not greatly modeled but have you seen how manpads and more specifically the Type 91 missiles are on the Type 93? They are just outright useless.
These are unique in that, from my understanding, they’re guided manually until their onboard sensors pickup the target, whether that’s IR or active radar.
It’s kinda of the best of both worlds, you get to launch even if you don’t have a lock at the time of launching and once lock is established by the missiles, it takes care of the rest so you don’t have to guide it in all the way.
FWIW, the automatic guidance is usually pretty good as long as they have the G overload for it. Like even the Type 91 has good hit rates when launching against targets within proper launch windows (not launched at front aspect fast moving targets within say 3 km).
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I am afraid they will put it in 11.0, flarable with a single weakest flare and still can’t shoot ka-52 which basicaly will make it slower type93
Oh god please let me be wrong
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On Russian dev stream they said that the Type 81 and Type 93 will be receiving a way to change between locking optically and locking with IR. Think we’ll be able to deal with helis now lol.
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Only if there are no background behind them and weather is good
So never then lol.
Every match I have now is overcast foggy and rainy.
There is still hope, as there are videos of them hitting smaller targets than helicopters on cloudy days.
If it’s just based on high contrast situations or just high enough light levels to have a contrast of sufficient amounts… I should think it will make the system far more deadly.
From what I understand as well, the Type 81 has some form of datalink per say with the missile, so you can have an IR lock, and fire on the VEHICLE’s lock, and guide the missile in until it has a lock to be done. I haven’t the foggiest if they’re going to properly implement it but, I’ve also heard the Tan-SAM will only be a 30G missile even though I’ve heard it should be much higher.