Calm down they arent going to add copter blades to the main game.
I think what a lot of folks are forgetting is that everyone will be able to fly. You won’t be AIMING DOWN at people on the ground.
My guess would be that cloaks and guided missiles will be Meta in this… we’ll see.
As far as I have been seeing, everyone is already running homing missiles and giving up on aiming anything
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I’m calm, put a smile on your face and read my posts again. Only you can add tone.
Nothing in this game would change how calm I am, it’s not important.
From the first handful of matches I wasn’t too impressed as it feels kind of clunky but it’s not bad by any means. The homing rockets are a little vicious to out maneuver. I had a little fun messing with crickets. I can’t see it meshing or balancing well with the regular game but as standalone it’s fine and I’m sure it would be fine in some pve environments (non-patrol) too… As far as the mode goes I’m not to keen on the starting random spawn points or the random re-spawn points.
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I’ve played this about 2 hours. Cloaks and guided missiles are indeed meta. Pyres are the strongest overall, followed closely by Hurricanes. Griffon cab is the best overall, because you can use the Griffon perk to get 10 seconds of free shot time, as long as the rockets aren’t already locked on. You just put Griffon perk and cloak on different buttons, and save your cloak for whenever a missile gets you. Also, the teal Chameleon is best because it reloads faster.
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I second that. I was using locust and and adapters at first but decided to ditch that and went half pyres(4 pyres) and half drones(md3 owl and and ad-12 falcon along with cheetah engine to boost drone reload). I started doing 3 times as good with that setup instead. Never though id see the day id be using the r-type-52 codriver but it works good in this game mode.
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I will have to add, nests, and autocannons are also really good but not for copters. they are good for ground vehicles shooting down copters.
another thing to note is Annihilators those things will follow copters to teh end of the earth so long as they are mounted on a copter. and most copters can’t deal with them.
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R-type is really good for anyone using the flying drones in this mode, they go from an easy target that gets blown up to wing men of the year.
just fly circles above the enemy and the drone does the job for yea and with pyres yea it is op. Flying is pretty wonky so it is hard staying on target with regular weapons so full autonomous is the way to go. So that is what I am gonna stick with.
Actually you need to use “space” a lot on keyboard to help keep yourself on target.
Also, I
I bought an Assembler for the event, as it is the cheapest legendary and I thought it would do well. It hits reasonably hard with Falcon, but it doesn’t easily land its shots against helicopters.
Then, after a while of floating around at the bottom of the scoreboard, I opened two 24 hour Hurricane rentals and started taking top placement.
You don’t need armor or wheels for this event. Just Griffon, Cloak, Hurricanes, a couple of gun mounts, a generator, a fused blue radar and an expanded ammo pack. I actually feel bad that this fun mode is so heavily dominated by locking cheese.
I think that if this becomes a permanent mode, Cheetah and fused reload Chameleon 1 will cut down on missiles a little bit.
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I’m using omnibox, cutdown on the ps too as opposed to using a legendary cab. I don’t have griffon anyways.
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OR just Griffin cabs, but yeah for this to be a permenant mode we need better AMS then the argus.
Another little reason I realized why using drones with the homing rockets like hurricane or pyres is so good is because you can better tell where the enemies are too, so if md-3 owl starts launching rockets behind and above then I know all i got to do is make a quick u-turn, face up launch some pyres and thats it. You can almost use it like a little 3d minimap and where everything is vertical in this game mode it is very useful, and will provide info you wouldn’t get from checking your minimap.
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I thought that codriver only buffed ground drones and turrets?
Am I crazy?
Hi Poony,
The R-52 only has its +damage perk for ground drones, but the 3 passive perks, +durability, +20 percent duration and -10 percent delay before attacking work for all drones.
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So the ultimate helicopter meta in this brawl is as follows:
Cabin: Griffon
Weapons: 4-5 Pyre
1 Annihilator
Co driver: R-52
Generator, Ampere, charge or Bootstrap depending on power score constraints
Modules: Expanded Ammo pack, fused blue radar, fused reload teal Chameleon, maybe Flywheel
Engine: Cheetah if you have the power score. Otherwise, none. Cheetah is for reloading cloak and your flying drone.
Wheels: None
Armor: None unless you have free power score.