but wait… are the starstreaks on the apache FNF? (I don’t have it yet) But if it does, surely that means both the missile and the radar have the requirements and existing “technical limitations” to work?
No, you have to manually guide them on the apache.
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I’m pretty sure the automatic guidance mode used in the new radar mode just isn’t accurate enough to get them to hit, therefore its pointless
They require manual guidance with lots of small adjustments to hit
I can tell you, its because their lazy or simply dont want to put that much effort into the British tt. How hard do you think it would be to code a way for the game to give the correct lead for the stormer to hit targets reliably? The amount of effort just wouldn’t be worth it in their eyes.
Yeah. Would take them 10 seconds to code it.
How in gods name did they break it again? The missiles feel sluggish (even more than usual, somehow, which is impressive considering the minimum effective range was already ten times what Thales states), the overlay at the top is COMPLETELY detached from the azimuth/distance display (and does NOT point you towards the target whatsoever)
when you try to lock, the search pattern for acquisition is COMPLETELY broken and searches at a minimum of something like +10 degrees…
I have absolutely no words. No update has managed to make the stormer properly unplayable for me before this - even when it was desynced and phasing through targets I learned to lead and account for it, but now the sensors don’t work. The main advantage of the entire system besides the darts, which also don’t work as intended. It’s absurd.
it CANNOT be that hard to go ONE UPDATE without touching the goddamn stormer and its starstreaks. Just let things work for once, please. And at the absolute minimum QA the damn changes instead of just rendering the entire system useless for something like the tenth time.
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I’m unsuprised, It’s really not a true War Thunder update if it doesn’t completly break the Stormer.
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I translate. They have the technical limitation that they don’t give a shit about this vehicle.
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I’ve always tried to love the HVM. Sometimes, with some patches, it has been pretty good. But once they started adding SPAA such as the Strela and Osa, they really sealed it’s place in irrelevancy.
Gaijins default solution unfortunately
A) Do we spend time and effort making this unique and fun vehicle good?
Or
B) C&P a soviet vehicle so we can forget about it?
B always wins
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Pretty much. Ah well, least I can pair the Stormer AD with the FV4030/3 (and Desert Warrior)
I’ve just never hit a scout drone with the starstreak. at all.
For a system designed to handle UAVs its just embarrassing.
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I havent either!
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weather stormer update, they fixed the overlay at the top at least. you still cant lock shit in third person because of the second bug and the missiles still feel mediocre at best.
Edit as of 2 days later: it broke again
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I’ve given up on this vehicle now. For its BR its simply not worth it when there are so many other options that can fill its place better. The Strella is objectively better, and the OSA AKM is definitely better, which means to me there is literally no reason to even bother with it. Gaijin have forgotten about it, and neglected it to a point that its practically worthless at its BR. Its a cool and unique SPAA system that has been treated so poorly that its just fallen behind to a point that everything else is just better at the same BR. Gaijin have already proved that they have no intention of fixing it by the fact that there are so many unread bug reports on it, and those that have been reported and read have either been ignored or marked as “not a bug” despite clearly being a bug. - I’m just done with it and clearly Gaijin are too, as they have not put even a ounce of care into this vehicle for the last 2+ years.
RIP Stormer HVM. Hopefully I will use you when they actually care enough to work on your problems. But right now, they just don’t.
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You put more effort into writing that paragraph than Gaijin has with the Stormer HVM for years
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and this is why they added the Soviet C&Ps. They can now forget the British ones even exist
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It’s why I’m also against adding the Arjun MBT’s to Britain currently. They would end up being objectively better than the Challenger 2’s and Gaijin would just do the same thing and forget about all the issues that Challenger 2 has, as the Arjun is fine, and it would end up just replacing them IMO making the final tiers of Britain, vehicles that arn’t even British.
They need to fix the challenger 2’s to make them competitive, and THEN add the Arjun, when the top tier of the Great Britain ground forces has a British vehicle worthy of being the final vehicle. Not a Indian one, for the simple fact the British ones are broken and over tiered, but a British one because it is the British tier tree and it is competitive and worthy of being used.
Is the Arjun even really a Challenger 1 equivlanet?
Unsure. However I still have the fear that it could be used to replace them. A fear I’d say is justified with how much they dislike working on CR2’s
Their justification would be that its development was 2004-present day.