War Thunder "Hornet's Sting" - Changelog

If the new aiming worked, I’d probably agree to some degree; however, I found it extremely unreliable and inaccurate. Most of the salvos would fall way too far ahead of the target; I assume that’s because the AI can’t account for maneuvering, like Air Arcade’s aiming circle.

That’s why I prefer manual aiming hahah. Which is what I used to use in Naval Arcade. Sadly that is no longer an option :(

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Two TT M1s and Click Bait should all be 12.0.

Should be, but won’t get moved up.

Cause America mains are bad and Click-Bait is a premium

Then they’ll moan about other nations getting preferential treatment, all the while their top tier is undertiered.

The rapier is so ass it’s not even funny lmao.
Better off throwing a tube of pringles at a passing plane instead.
Or a rich tea biscut.

  1. The missile does almost no damage, might be the proxy fuze being too large
  2. The firing angles are diabolical. For a whopping 156 degrees frontally (+/-78 degrees off the centre line) it’s gun depression is a +23 degrees. There’s a bit of leeway in missile guidance but if I’m understanding the data-mine correctly it’s 15 degrees, so good luck targeting anything below +8 degrees above the horizon frontally, as good luck swinging the hull around to allow you to fire down, that’s not even touching the next point.
  3. The missile (Mk.1E at least) is super sluggish especially at range, snappy movements make it want to oscillate like a drunk squirrel on a washing line, especially when trying to fire in the frontal aspect.
  4. The Tracking radar is kinda bad when trying to lock directly above the SAM, at least it has IR-Track I guess
  5. The platform itself is a M113 in a frock, so uh, mobility is more of a suggestion that a thing. Good luck trying to swing the hull around to get “a” shot off.
  6. It’s not foldered so you have to research a bad AA before “good” ones like the Stormer or OSA
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adats missile speed: 1027mps

pantsir missile speed: 1300mps

helicopters are most efficient near the close helipad, about 5km away from the enemy spawn. over such distance, a difference of 300 does not compare to the tracer issue. having an “insane radar” also makes no difference to helicopters, they are already easy to detect. flarakrad can actually go hull down and become very dangerous to some helicopters (pantsyr doesn’t benefit from hulldown that much, the turret is too big).

you’re deeply unserious…

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It was not a good addition as the UK already has tons of AA in that bracket… modern top tier AA is needed

I mean, what did you expect from a 10.0 AA ?

That too, but jeez at least the previous SAM additions where somewhat useful, the Raiper is just miserable.

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It makes a difference as you can easily detect incoming missiles and shoot them down

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Good luck shooting down 16 Spikes coming your way.

Luckily spikes suck and usually doesnt kill pantsir lmao…

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not sure if pantsir is the only aa that can do that

You guys reporting my message explaining exactly how the Pantsir is superior to the FlaRakRad and Adats is laughable. Even further proving my point.
Children.

No such thing as 16 spikes, 8 max for any heli having them.

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@Stona_WT @Smin1080p_WT
would it be possible to know if the Devs have allready decided about these Yet?

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Well the Click-Bait is a premium and Gaijin has a faux rule about not selling top tier premiums. Even though 12.0 has nothing to uptier to and therefore always sees 11.0 downtiers. It probably should be 12.0 but again, “no top tier premiums”.

As for the tech tree variants, maybe. If the M1A2 variants that got DU armor and the M829A3 had such, and there was a 13.0 BR, could agree see that. But until then, no. They’re fine where they are at. Im not sure why there is such a feet dragging on decompressing groujd vehicles but again, balance doesn’t appear to be sometbing devs care about.

This has been one of the worst updates to date. And not just speaking of all the bugs it released with, but the blatant bias towards air forces in any mode is just downright disgusting.

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You fool, Israel.

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