Why is the Stormer HVM so bad?

Says something that when the stormer HVM is so bad in game, that the system it was designed to replace IRL is more reliable and better than it.

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I do alright with it.
The missiles are fastish and they are hard for aircraft to spot

Dont bother engaging anything defending at more than 4-5km its an ambush sam

Would I love buffs and fixes for it…absolutely

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To be honest, I cannot understand what technical limitations prevent Gaijin from adding a radar control interface. Is there something particularly unique about the Stormer HVM? Could it be due to the automatic lead calculation being overly inaccurate?

This is the only theory that makes sense. That the spaghetti code just cannot handle ACLOS for the Stormer HVM/Starstreak

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However, I believe this should not be an excuse for Gaijin’s inaction. They should strive to fix this issue rather than stating in the Issue section that it is not a bug. I’m not sure if it’s possible to call upon a technical moderator or forum administrator to bring this issue to the developers’ attention, but I hope it can be fixed as soon as possible.

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Stormer HVM does not have a radar screen, as it “Has a different system”

Edit: it was explained why.

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Well guess now we know why.

I personally prefer to aim it manually than relying on the Radar Screen since it doesn’t have a proxy fuse. Needs a direct hit and Radar Screen will just make it inaccurate.

The radar screen would have allowed for it to filter drones (the rage i feel watching my friendlies launch drones knowing theyll never use it and itll just act as clutter for me for the rest of the match) as well as team mates in general. Plus, the situational awareness you gain from it is worth its weight in gold.

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For the first part. All they need to do is add the IFF + NCTR.

Though Gaijin is proving just as lazy for that.

But yeah, I’m sure they could add the radar screen just without the functionality to have ACLOS

I sincerely hope that the developers can address this issue as soon as possible, rather than acknowledging the problem but not resolving it. If I recall correctly, IFF and NCTR have not yet been implemented.

For the HVM? Yes, they were not.

A reminder that this thing has been released in update 1.89 (5/29/2019) and, for my seven years on WT, I never seen this thing working as intended once.

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Once or twice, was quickly fixed tho lol.

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lol

Instant 11.0 material right there.

Thats just gaijin make no imporvements or fixes increase it’s br…

Chally will go to 15.0 with the Leopard 2A8 while staying exactly the same

Since it’s somehow still broken… Community Bug Reporting System

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Interesting.

Wonder how much that will help with people not seeing them coming.

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It didn’t have almost any smoke anyway. The problem is one of the most prominent tracers in the game.
flarak - stormer - pantsir

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Yeah, that needs to be fixed. Especially given its entirely fictional