Starstreak used to one shot fairly consistently before the tusk force update, it doesn’t anymore, was something changed?
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The only thing the Stormer has been consistent at is being inconsistent.
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Welcome to the Starstreak experience for the entire southern hemisphere.
Jokes aside it looks like 2/3 of the darts are just phasing, which normally happens at 150+ ping, but instead during normal gameplay at 45 ping. Probably a server thing instead of an actual change though.
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I’ve seen some clips with really stupid shit happening (like tank shell phasing through an enemy at point blank range). So the servers shitting themselves sounds like the most probable cause. Good to know they didn’t break the stormer again.
I think if the stormer got a Plan Position Indicator like every other spaa, as well as a shorter minimum range as it has in real life, then it would be fairly balanced. But right now, not being able to hit anything closer than 3km, and not having a radar (Yes I know its IRST but it does the same purpose) menu is just ridiculous.
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All these radarless AA’s would benefit from shared friendly radar information, it’s about time we get Datalink or something similar.
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But i has a search system, and it works exactly the same as a radar. In fact, SPAA’s like the rapier still get to use the radar screen even when they are on IRST mode. Also, IRL it has a screen showing the radar. At the end of the day, all the radar screen is doing is enlarging the radar already in the corner of the UI and giving you a list of targets, and I don’t see why the Stormer shouldn’t have it.
Gaijin couldnt figure out the automatic lead that other systems get, especially without prox fuse and that was that. Real shame.
No reason why we couldn’t get the radar screen without the ACLOS, or why we dont even have IFF / NCTR yet for the IRST. Let alone mentioning that we could get LMMs with a prox fuse in the future.
Like with a lot of British stuff. It was too hard to do, so they didnt do it.
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Yeah I agree with LMMs, but I honestly think the starstreak itself needs an entire overhaul. Right now, its just a SACLOS missle with the darts spinning around it, but this is not accurate at all. Each dart has its own guidance and they should all be acting as individual missles, increasing the probability of a hit. This makes the starstreak so effective in real life, but in game where you are forced to guide all three with your mouse it just does not work. I feel like for the ACLOS system, all darts should fly directly towards the cross hair and not lag behind, which means it would not require any lead, just to follow the radar reticle. Additionally, the starstreak really needs to be able to turn out of the tube quicker, because as I said, good luck hitting anything within 3km. Its really such a shame that Gaijin somehow always manages to mess up some extremely good british vehicles, and turn them into useless garbage (Cough cough… rapier still isn’t fixed)
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Yeah, they probably could. But I doubt they would
The year is almost 2026, and the phase through bug remains prevalent.
I wish I could pretend to be surprised.