pooroldspike

Are you talking about guided or unguided AT missiles? I know that if I fire a guided Titan ATGM missile at an armoured vehicle in KOTH and it pops smoke grenades, the missile always dives into the ground short of the target vehicle. I've never seen such a missile get through smoke, because smoke messes up the guidance system.

Mate, I've been a member here for 8 years and me and other people have been suggesting lots of things, and we can only hope the Devs see and take on board what we're saying..:)

Ah, but Arma3 1.68 was like a beautiful woman and didn't need any changes..:) I once dated a woman who did need changes because she always wore oldfashioned clothes and horrible flat shoes, so I bought her a pair of sexy high heels but she refused to wear them, so I ditched her. Pity because I was planning to buy her a Wonder Woman outfit too (sniffle)

And for the record, me and other players are complaining like crazy in other threads about the fiddly new 1.70 Blackfish VTOL vectoring controls and the hopeless new Titan AA lockon routine. Both issues have seriously impacted the KOTH servers because hardly anybody can fly the Blackfish any more, and the jets in there are now almost impossible to shoot down with Titan AA's and the whole game is therefore badly unbalanced in favour of jets which are now far too powerful. All the KOTH game designers original careful work has therefore now gone out the window so unless BI fix the Blackfish and the Titan AA's he'll have to do a re-write to take the new 1.70 issues into account. BTW, I used to play the hugely popular 'Combat Mission Barbarossa to Berlin' computer wargame for 10 years and the designers never updated it in any way in all that time because it was so good Yet BI seem to be updating Arma3 every 5 minutes and it's getting on a lot of peoples wicks including mine, because it means everything that's gone before like vids and tutorials are now almost worthless because they only apply to earlier versions. For that reason my 11-page 'Weapon tests' thread is now ancient history and basically useless (sniffle)- https://forums.bistudio.com/forums/topic/165403-weapon-tests/

This thread is titled 'Helicopter camera' so on page 1 I jumped in to have a bash at 1.70 and said- "...the...external camera view is now messed up...because the camera stays pointing in the direction the nose is pointing, which means we lose sight of the ground when flaring for landing etc." Later BI brought out the 1.70 Hotfix which greatly improved the view and I can live with it. If BI revert to 1.68 I can live with that too. But as I've also said, the ideal solution would be for BI to have both views in the game like flight sims do, so players can choose which one they want to play with..:)

Well guys I just bought the full version of FRAPS to get unlimited video time, and made this video. This is with the 1.70 Hotfix and as you can see, the horizon yo-yo's a little bit but it doesn't bother me and I have no trouble landing that Mohawk on a soccer pitch, so if I can do it after only about 4 days practice anybody can because there are pilots out there who are better than me. (Like I said earlier, I can live with both the old 1.68 static horizon and the new 1.70 Hotfix yo-yoing horizon, ideally BI could give us an ingame option to switch to whichever people prefer). PS- the vid is only 1min:35secs long, but it took about 6 friggin hours to upload to youtube via broadband! Is such a long time normal, or am I doing something wrong? And the colours look a bit washed out on my monitor, and the definition is bad in fullscreen, does the vid look alright to you?

Yes, ff there are SAMs about, chopper pilots have to fly low all the way to the objective and land, but even so, many have the bad habit of landing smack in the enemy's lap and getting shot to pieces by the enemy, you should hear their passengers curse them! Beats me why they don't land on the relatively safe edge of the objective area so the passengers can make their own way to the centre on foot, using cover. Even worse, some chopper pilots land smack in the enemy's lap even when there are no SAM's about, and nearly get lynched by their passengers! Logically in a SAM-free environment they should fly in high above small-arms range and let their passengers parachute out. PS- to clarify what I said earlier, I fly choppers and (until recently) Blackfish VTOLS.

I'm mostly a screenshot nut and only have very limited video-making experience, but I think I know how to do 30-second FRAPS vids and upload them into youtube. 30 secs is all FRAPS will allow and might not be long enough, what other way of doing vids would you recommend?

Tell it to my passengers mate..:) When I crank up a transport chopper they all come running to daddy because they know they've got a much better chance of getting to the objective with me than with most other chopper pilots. Sometimes I fly as passenger in somebody else's chopper and I feel as if I'm in a flying coffin..:) PS- my passengers used to LURV it when I flew a Blackfish VTOL and gave them HALO drops, and 550 knots highspeed low-level drops, but since 1.70 f***d up the Blackfish controls it's a dead duck and I won't touch it any more, and neither will most other players, I only saw a single Bfish on the KOTH servers today, whereas the sky used to be full of them pre-1.70 (sniffle)

Aargh I spent 4 hours on a KOTH server today trying to get the hang of the new 1.70 Titan AA against jets, but it's almost impossible to shoot them down just like I said in my starter post. The problem lies in trying to hold the fast-moving jet inside the very narrow sensor cone in order to get a solid lock. As a result, jets are almost invulnerable because even if you're lucky enough to get a solid lock, they'll pop chaff/flares which usually decoy the missile away anyway! So here's a recap of my suggested remedy package- 1- Widen the sensor cone to make it easier to hold the moving target inside it. 2- Replace the lock-on silence with a steady unmistakeable high-pitched whine as the launch cue. 3- Reduce the time it takes for a lock to become solid so that we have a chance to launch at a jet before it vanishes over the horizon.

You can lock a Titan AT through smoke, but when you fire, the missile will dive into the ground just short of the target, making smoke a barrier that AT missiles can't penetrate. Same thing happens if you fire without a lock, the missile will fly down the crosshairs which you're holding on the target, but it'll still dive into the ground before reaching the target.

I can't speak for others but I mastered the old 3rd-p,and now I've mastered the new 1.70 Hotfix view, piece o' cake, so it makes no difference to me if BI decide to revert to the old 1.68 view or stick with the 1.70 hotfix view..:) PS- my awesome flying skills are due to the fact that I'm 60-plus years of age and retired, and as retirement is the world's longest coffee break, I can put in about 10 hours of game-playing 24/7 without the distraction of having to go to work. It only took me about 3 days (30 hours) to master the new 1.70 hotfix view and I spent most of today throwing choppers around at low level in KOTH, skimming the rooftops at high speed in a near-vertical bank, slaloming around the towers and making the local natives shriek "Aiieee! It is he who flies with danger!"

Just to clarify for newcomers to this divine thread, the AA3 1.70 update introduced a new 3rd-person view for planes and helis which made the horizon go up and down like a ship in a heavy sea and made most of us puke our guts up with seasickness, so to their credit BI brought out a 1.70 Hotfix which stopped the horizon going up and down so much, but it still makes some people feel queasy. That's why a lot of heli pilots want BI to put the view back to how it was in 1.68 where the horizon doesn't move at all. PS- Remember, 1.70 was the killer, so make sure you've got the later 1.70 Hotfix installed which partially improved it.

It happens to us all and there's nothing we can do about it, for example I started a 'Weapon tests' thread 3 years ago, but all the game updates since then have rendered it out-of-date (sniffle) https://forums.bistudio.com/forums/topic/165403-weapon-tests/

I've spent 1500 hours in the KOTH forums doing nasty things to the enemy and their fluffy kittens, and I estimate about 10 percent (150 hours) of that was flying choppers, so i've bin around and people like flying with me; for example a bunch of guys once jumped in the back of my Mohawk and one said "I hope we've got a good pilot", and somebody replied "Yes we have"..:) And although I can live with the new 1.70 hotfix, I'd have no complaints if BI decided to scrap it and go back to 1.68 because I can live with that too. The ideal solution would be for BI to give us the ingame option to select whichever view we prefer, (1.70 hotfix or 1.68) like nearly all flight sims out there do..:) Incidentally I asked developer Oukej what AA3 jet pilots thought of the new 1.70 view and it seems they like it; and it was their idea in the first place! Here's his reply on page 5 of this thread- "Valid complaints that 3rd person camera used to be "suboptimal" (and sim industry non-standard-ish) for aircraft control and flight vector awareness is what triggered the changes in the first place :) One examplehttps://www.reddit.com/r/arma/comments/5h06zz/aircraft_3rd_person_camera_proof_of_concept/ So from airplane's perspective we've received positive feedback after the change."

Sorry mate I'm still not sure what you're saying..:) Here are 6 screenshots I took during my KOTH session this afternoon- 1- This is my 1st-person view after I hop in the back of a Mohawk as a passenger, that other guy is also in there- 2- And this is the view after I hit the 3rd-person key, my warm squishy body is still inside, but my eyeballs have popped outside. As you see, you don't have to stay cooped up with smelly other guys if you don't want..:) 3- Same when you're the pilot, this is your 1st-p view- 4- and this is your 3rd-p view, you can fly from this view if you like by waggling the joystick and juggling the throttle..:) 5- Regarding the 1.70 hotfix, I've grown to like it because no matter how you throw the chopper around when you're the pilot in 3rd-p, the horizon always stays in sight which gives you good situational awareness in the 3D world..:) For example, the horizon is still there if you shove the nose down like this.. 6- and the horizon is still there if you violently pitch up like this- So to sum up, although I didn't like the hotfix at first, I now like it..:)

The word "die" is a bit strong as the KOTH servers are still very well-populated, and I haven't noticed any decline in the numbers of choppers in the air since the 1.70 heli hotfix because I think we're getting used to it..:) However the Blackfish VTOL is now a rare endangered species in KOTH because most people (including me) can't get the fiddly new 1.70 key controls to work (sniffle) And just for the record a lot of KOTH players (including me) are also complaining in voice chat about the new 1.70 Titan AA launcher, I posted screenshots about it in another thread.

I'm not sure what you're saying muchacho, all the dozen or so KOTH servers that I play on have got 1st or 3rd-person options, and nearly everybody plays in 3rd-p (as I do myself) because 3rd-p is hugely popular. For example nobody wants to sit in the back of a chopper in 1st-p where they can't see much, we prefer to be outside in 3rd-p. In fact I often can't get into some KOTH servers because they're full up with about 110 guys, so I have to find another KOTH server with fewer players..:)

Okay, it seems jet pilots like the 1.70 hotfix, so I suggest we give helicopter pilots time to see if they like it too. Personally I'm beginning to like it myself..:) But the best solution would be to have 2 in-game menu options (if that's possible) so players can choose which view they want, namely- 3rd-person view (the 1.70 hotfix view) 3rd-person Locked view (exactly like the old 1.68 view) In fact nearly all flight sims already have those 2 views, called by such names as "Spot view', 'Locked spot view', Chase view' etc.

To sum up as of 1:30 pm Fri 26th May, I think we're all agreed that the hotfix only partially fixed the 3rd-person view. It made helis slightly easier to fly but the view still tends to follow where the nose is pointing up and down and it's like being on a ship in a heavy sea. Flaring for landing is especially difficult because as the nose pitches up, the view pitches up with it and we lose sight of the ground! I think most of us would like to see a return to the 1.68 3rd-person because the view always stays pointing horizontally at the horizon no matter whether the nose is pointing up or down, and we don't have to reach for the seasickness pills..:)

Incidentally, the new camera view that we're all complaining about also applies to jets and VTOLs as well as Helicopters. Do jet/VTOL pilots like it? I don't seem to see them doing any complaining, or have I missed their thread somewhere?

Hey is 'Misconduct' your name in the KOTH servers? If so I'll keep an eye out for you in there and we can team up and I'll buy us a Kajman attack chopper or Xian VTOL bomber or whatever, I can fly it and you can gun if you like (or vice-versa). If we get shot down I'll just buy another and another, I've got 360k cash which is more money than I know what to do with..:) I play under my name PoorOldSpike.

And the Blackfish controls won't work for me since 1.70, I've watched tutorial vids, read the Manual and tried various key combos but no joy.

Hey Maquez, are you a Moderator? If not, it might be best to leave it to the Mods to tell people what to do..;)

The whole forum is too big and sprawling and we all find it hard to post in the right place at times..;) PS- I've put in 1500 hours on the KOTH servers and am currently Level 102, great fun..:)