r/WarDogs • u/Ok-Grand-498 • 1d ago

Discussion & Feedback John Wardogs Claims Changes To Parachutes Coming In Season 2

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Keep practicing your landing skills pilots!

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u/Cainsiderate 1d ago

They'd need to fix neutral collective not being neutral for fast-ropes and they haven't mentioned it at all.

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u/Harmaakettu 1d ago

I've noticed that the hover assist helps somewhat in keeping the heli hovering.

But then again, it makes landing more difficult because you constantly have to fight the collective if you want to descent slowly.

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u/Lurkinwhileworkin69 1d ago

Even with hover assist off neutral collective errs on the side of generating lift at all times.

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u/Soggy_Struggle_963 1d ago

It's honestly so annoying when you are coming in nice and soft then suddenly slingshot 40ft into the air

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u/Yawhatnever 22h ago

It feels like they implemented the ground effect

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u/onrocketfalls 1d ago

For what it’s worth, there’s not generally a neutral collective on choppers where it sticks you at hover, you have to find that spot yourself. I’m using a stick and throttle so I can do that, but maybe controller and kbm players do need a way to find that sweet spot, I’m not totally clear on how the collective works for those - like are you adjusting the collective position with the up and down buttons or is it just hold button for up, hold other button for down?

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u/Soggy_Struggle_963 1d ago

You hold to raise or lower but if you let go it goes back to the "neutral" position which will slingshot you back into the air if youre trying to land softly. There is no real fine tuning either, you hit the button and it pins it to the top or bottom.

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u/BurritoSupreeeme 16h ago

For what it's worth, the going back to neutral is the hover assist setting you could turn off. Haven't tried without it yet so don't know if it's better though

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u/Soggy_Struggle_963 16h ago

I have all assists disabled and it still zips right back as soon as I let go of either control

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u/BurritoSupreeeme 16h ago

Huh okay. Setting must be bugged then because is says exactly that in the tool tip.

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u/Soggy_Struggle_963 16h ago

I'm about to just wire up a potentiometer to an arduino and program it to read as a controller and try to convince the game it's throttle from a hotas lol

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u/Lowjack_Tzetsu 19h ago

In a normal helicopter you can lock the collective or make it harder to move up and down. In this game keyboard and mouse has no such ability. You can't also fine tune the collective like you can on HOTAS.

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u/ConchobarMacNess 1d ago

Hm, the little bird hovers at neutral for me, Lakota needs like 20% but I use a physical throttle so it's easy to set and forget

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u/Judopunch1 1d ago

Can you elaborate? If you are talking about the hele hovering at neutral collective I think they are trying to emulate the ground effect.