The launcher spins as the motor burns to keep it stable. This is what causes the three dartlets to be spinning around each other. As soon as the dartlets release from the motor unit though, it’s just inertia which makes them continue to spiral. The fact that they were spinning and then no longer held together causes them to spread outwards, and then they correct themselves which causes the oscillating behaviour you see from IRL footage.
I’m not sure if the dartlets are modelled individually in game. I wouldn’t be surprised if GJN just made the thing one spinning projectile out of laziness.
Oh no, they’re definately indiviually modelled, it was made obvious when on winter maps 2 out of the 3 darts decided they’d had enough and just flew off doing their own thing.
I would love to know the reason for that issue, for why it was winter maps only. I imagine it woudl be very amusing.
Here you can see that tarts do spin, but rater slowly compared to what we have in game. They spend more time and energy getting to correct location, overcorrecting and going back while also overcorrecting
I just love videos where you can see it launch. It has zero chill, it’s just gone.
You really see the difference in lmm launch videos, they’re clearly much slower.
I’d absolutely love the lmm to be added as a researchable option for the stormer, or just replace the star streak with it. It really is the perfect solution.
I also think that at this point LMM is the way to fix stormer. After all it seems like dart flying at
1250 is a problem
I will ignore that this things have no problems at all. Most likely due to proxy fuze
Buuuut, we don’t have the wildcat in game, so it would either have to be a "there is no reason it couldn’t so whatever’, the apache is stuch with faulty missiles or the wildcat is added.
A better question is why not? More missiles is never a bad thing!
You can imagine it would be quite useful, after all, the LMM can be converted into a glide bomb, and you can cram three of them onto a hellfire rail, so you could get 2 x small air to ground bombs on it (with a bit of work to make that variant fit). 2 x assuming there’s another on the other side of the vehicle, for balance purposes.
I just imagined a plane with something like 6 x hellfires, where it carries 6 x hellfires, it would carry 18 of these glide bomb variants. I think I need a lie down now.
