#Chicane Buff Thread

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somber dome
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the Chicane is currently piloted from the back seat, as is customary in attack helicopters, but in real attack helicopters the pilot does exactly 0 shooting. So trying to shoot from the back seat is..... a crap shoot (hah)
so either give the gunner full weapons control (bad idea) make it a two seater (very strange in current gameplay/technically annoying to emplement), move the player to the front seat, and let them both pilot and shoot. or rework the UI so you can look "through" the cockpit, similar to the system in the F-35. its the future after all.

Modern attack helicopters have radar, idk why ours do not.
The helicopter is undergunned, the picture is the payload of a Comanche stealth light attack helicopter, which was canned in 2004.

https://odin.tradoc.army.mil/WEG/Asset/AH-64E_Apache_Guardian_American_Attack_Helicopter
^that is the payload for the apache as of 2011. (the gun has a longer range than ours) and it has active IR jamming

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agile crypt
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god yes chicane love would be huge

shadow summit
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I will say giving the Chicane the ability to defend itself more is a good idea

somber dome
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coughing baby vs nuclear bomb (Literally)

shadow summit
somber dome
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real aircraft are less resistant to nukes than the ones in game are

shadow summit
glad jacinth
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chicane is already goated as it is tbh

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only thing i'd like is for the gunner to be more consistent, whether worse or better idc

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or an indicator so i know where its currently aiming

agile crypt
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the gunner does have an odd issue of aiming in a random direction sometimes upon target swap

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so you have to unlock and relock the target for him to aim in

somber dome
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and maybe a tad more range?

agile crypt
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ooh idk, it already can pilot snipe at 2km

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maybe?

somber dome
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on ground targets only then.

agile crypt
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if doable that could be interesting

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i'm still surprised it has less payload than a comanche, yet is faster than a comanche, despite being more bloated/chonky than a comanche

lavish parcel
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The Chicane carries more AGM-48s/Hellfires than the Comanche, but in terms of the other ordinance is generally worse. Given the Lynchpins strengths, I don't think giving it more rockets is good idea.

However, the internal bays can either hold 8x AGM-48s or be empty. Maybe a few more options should be made for that slot. I don't want to turn the Chicane into a flying SAM site, but maybe the internal bays should be able to hold a pair of 2x S1 launchers?

Another alternative would be an additional pair of AGM-68s, assuming they would physically fit. Could even allow a pair of S3s in the bays, not sure whether that is more or less balanced than the 4 S1s.

shut stream
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chicane can already take stubwing S3s, so two more wouldn't be insane
a flying IRSAM site sounds hilarious tbh, im all for that...

rugged steppe
rich turret
agile crypt
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well, i dont think they'll remodel the entire cabin design just for that