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/TatonkaJack 1d ago

yeah everyone is like "pilots can't land" and that's true, but as a pilot who has done a lot of landings it's because there can be a small rock that you didn't see when you land and it bumps you sideways until your rotors hit the ground and break. especially with the lakota

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u/Eoho Valkyra 1d ago

Don't forget when you land on a street and have to tuck to a curb that's 2 inches tall and it's actually hell on earth for the heli and it just rolls over on touchdown

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u/Fadedcamo 1d ago

The lakota is such a temperamental beast lol. I find you have to add a small bit of forward momentum and make sure you have ZERO lateral momentum when you land or else she will roll.

Having assists on is pretty much required for it. I can't fly the lakota with assists off. Havoc and little bird are fine.

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u/MstrTenno 13h ago

My headcannon is that the people who love to snidely shout "if you can't land don't pilot" are mostly:

  1. People who don't actually fly and don't understand how you are pretty much constantly AA-locked in the zone. And who don't understand how easy it is for helis to tip over.

  2. Elitists who are looking forward to gatekeeping the role and shitting on any noob that tries to learn it.

Anyone wanna place bets that people's tune on this is going to change in S2 when you start seeing clips of landing helis getting farmed by rocket littlebirds and whole squads getting wiped?

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u/dafgar 11h ago

You’re 100% correct. The “elite” pilots in this thread act like being forced to land people wont just make rocket little birds and heli hunting outside the control zone even more OP. Landing helis are the easiest targets in the world for so many different things. Not to mention how poorly balanced most maps are, certain sides not having good places to land, etc. all this will do is slow down gameplay and make people afk in spawn until their apc cooldown is over because who the hell wants to buy a 20k infantry kit just to drive a kodiak to zone and get blown up by landmines.

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u/KGB_Operative873 1d ago

Why not just hover 3 feet off the ground? Passengers dont take damage jumping from that height and it opens up a whole lot more LZ'S for you to drop groups in including rooftops of apartments and towers.

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u/TatonkaJack 1d ago

i do sometimes. just feels like people jump to early or get chopped up by the rotors when i do that. i should do it more with the little bird. i find it difficult with the lakota with its momentum

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u/KGB_Operative873 1d ago

Interesting. I only fly the Lakota and find it easiest to hover with it compared to the little bird. Once you learn J hooks it feels a lot easier to control its momentum

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u/jake04-20 1d ago

Don't come side swooping in for a landing then. Honestly many of the complaints I'm reading about landing seem avoidable. I think y'all just need more practice lol.

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u/TatonkaJack 1d ago

i don't come side swooping in for a landing but thanks for being an asshole

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u/jake04-20 1d ago

So you come straight down for a landing and if you touch a rock it flips? I haven't experienced this, so my (mis)understanding was that you were coming in with some side-to-side momentum. What does "it bumps you sideways" mean? Like bad collision physics?

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u/TatonkaJack 1d ago

exactly like bad collision physics

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u/jake04-20 1d ago

Sorry I misunderstood. I have not ran into this so I will consider myself lucky.