The Hydra and Rhino Tank Are No Longer Feared

[darkluminous]

Ahh, so happy now that all of those plebs that went and terrorized people with tanks and hydras are gone now.

 

Tested my APC against a tank with the fully upgraded cannon - it literally blew it up within two seconds. Boom boom boom boom boom! Hydras I can devastate now with the sniper in two shots.

 

Tons of other vehicles like the oppressor and others are all capable of taking out people that annoy you. I am greatful to R* for listening to us, just wanted to make this thread to appreciate the feeling when you take out a Hydra noob within a few shots of the sniper and then they get pissed.

[H x R G]

The Tank hasn't been feared since it's nerf a long time back... keep up

[flexcreator]

As a Hydra pilot, the explosive rounds is the only problem I noticed this week. And it took 3-4 shots actually - enough to switch the jet and change tactics.

 

A crew of players were griefing around in their Half-Truck, the gunner couldn't do anything to me. It took just two passes to take them down. I've got similar results with APC while protecting my Yacht.

The new bike should be treated like a buzzard - it can't go too high, so the Hydra pilot can exploit the altitude difference.

 

 

"Hydra noobs" may be scared, but the experienced pilots have very few thigns to worry about.

Edited June 19, 2017 by flexcreator

[Happy Hunter]

The tank? That hasn't been feared since 2014 lol.

 

I'm mainly a heli pilot anyway. I can deal with the vehicles. Not looking forward to when more people get explosive rounds, but I'll deal with that when it arrives I guess.

Edited June 19, 2017 by Happy Hunter

[SHOKKERZ91]

Yeah, let´s implement an OP-item to counter another OP-item. Makes sense... The last bit of balance got totally f*cked over in this update. Meh, more OP-sh*t i can grief noobs with i guess.

[Jimmy]

Making the hydras vulnerable through APC shots is probably one of the best things. Hackers or rogue modders will find a way to terrorize people. But now, a single and fully upgraded APC will get rid of them. Or having a group file multiple shots is equally fun as well.

[Happy Hunter]

Yeah, let´s implement an OP-item to counter another OP-item. Makes sense... The last bit of balance got totally f*cked over in this update. Meh, more OP-sh*t i can grief noobs with i guess.

I really hope they just make the Savage survive heavy rounds like it can in reality.

 

Sure it might be pretty scary to fight lol, but what the hell? If all this stuff is here, the Hind should be what it was truly born to be.

Edited June 19, 2017 by Happy Hunter

[BlackMilk]

Some people seem to think that players who like using jets are stuck in them. The whole point of all the complaint threads about jets was with their destructive power and their speed and manouverability, they made public sessions more dangerous. My first thought when learning about the new toys was that it'd be nice to see some smug pilots being denied air superiority but that was a short thought indeed. Those annoying people in jets that kept terrorising everyone in their session? They're not jet pilots. They're people who like to terrorise everyone in their session. And they just got a bunch more toys to do that with.

 

The heavy sniper makes it a little more equal opportunity than it was before, not forcing people to also take to the skies to reliably shoot down other aircraft that are plagueing a session but for many the Lazer and Hydra were nothing but a means to an end. And like the rest of us who aren't into the whole "griefing" thing, they just got a lot more means to that end.

 

Hydra pilots getting annoyed by you shooting them down, you know what that is? That's the phase they go through before realising there are now better ways, depending on how good of a pilot they are. Before you usually didn't have to get too worried about player icons that weren't jets despite the fact we already had the RPG and homing launcher in the game. Now we have a bunch of vehicles that are apparently stored as personal vehicles and with the weapons of a souped up Pegasus vehicle. And not the paperweight Rhino either. Dual miniguns, target seeking missiles, a personal weapon that delivers explosions to VERY SPECIFIC locations, etcetera.

 

Again, the complaints were made because people wanted to have fun in free mode but felt that the jets dominated the playground and made it all about them. It's more equal in that regard now as anyone with enough millions of dollars to spare has some or all of the new toys, but the danger level of a populated public session has probably gone up by at least 200%. The sniper alone means that if you're in range and in line of sight of ANY other player, you're at risk of getting blown the hell up without passive mode. That is not improvement. What many of us wanted was for Rockstar to take explosive rounds away from jets, not to add more to other weapons. But that's the hand we've been dealt and I'm going to try to deal with it.

[Hécate-II]

The APC with multiple rockets looks impressive the first time, I was thinking "so much rockets" , but fundamentally it suffers of the same problem than Pick Up Insurgent and all other vehicles like TL, Karin...etc, the angle limitation prevents from smoking dive-bombing aircrafts whose pilots know what they're doing, I just fled over, and performed a 90° attack with the cannon. Perhaps the customization would allow to increase speed of the vehicle then compensate the angle limitation.

 

Its another story about the bike and the genius Online unlockable Raygun...I'm pissed, I always advocated for efficient AA vehicles that would allow CEO to defend themselves against Hydra and Lazers, but the reality its R* relied on fantaisy again like the time they released the ruiner.

Edited June 19, 2017 by Hécate-II

[ProKiller93]

the tank is so weak and useless in this game

[SmokesWithCigs]

Not exactly. Some idiot in a raccoon mask blew me up with his sams while i was searching on the ifruit phone. When people do that crap i get mad as a wasp and go running for my hydra. I bombed the sh*t outta him. I kept doing runs on him and forced him to take shelter under that overpass at the mall in rockford hills.He couldnt even hit me with his sams. I f'ed him up so bad he went running to his moc to get repairs. I guessed he got pissed because he ghosted this organization and ssent his friend afterme in a hydra who i also outmanuevered. In brtween bombing hem i seht him this little message "this is what happens when you kill people for no reason" i own an apc also. If you are gonna use it you better be good with those sams or get hit up.

[anpbabaki]

lol tanks were feared before?

 

as others have said, as a jet griefer, there is little in this new update that worries me or any good pilot. The AA stuff is a joke. Explosive rounds are it, but I havent seen many with them, and even so, it takes more than one shot. After one shot I can still make it back to the base and bail for a new jet. Sorry guys, jets arent going anywhere. You just havent seen them lately because they are too busy grinding the DLC.

[fiill]

the tank is so weak and useless in this game

Pretty much only good for criminal damage or whatever that free roam destroy everything you can mission is

[Tokasmoka]

"I am so glad I can kill hydra noobs" - An APC noob, circa 2017

 

Lol, sorry that's all I got from this thread. That and rockstar couldn't balance water on the ground(oh snap).

[Smooth Longsack]

The balance may be out of whack but the new toys are certainly fun as heck.

[FaultyDroid]

Ahh, so happy now that all of those plebs that went and terrorized people with tanks and hydras are gone now.

 

Tested my APC against a tank with the fully upgraded cannon - it literally blew it up within two seconds. Boom boom boom boom boom! Hydras I can devastate now with the sniper in two shots.

 

Tons of other vehicles like the oppressor and others are all capable of taking out people that annoy you. I am greatful to R* for listening to us, just wanted to make this thread to appreciate the feeling when you take out a Hydra noob within a few shots of the sniper and then they get pissed.

I look forward to your thread crying about Oppressors.

 

Boom boom boom boom.

[Florpus]

Was the tank ever feared? It is so easy to out maneuver that thing, even far more so now.

[.Vooodu.]

 

The new bike should be treated like a buzzard - it can't go too high, so the Hydra pilot can exploit the altitude difference.

 

 

 

The new bike is not a buzzard tho.

 

Hydra can go high.. Bike can go even lower. Meaning a hydra can avoid the bike just as easy as the bike can avoid a hydra. Its not like these bikes need to constantly fly around.

 

But a Hydra still needs to go low to get a kill on anyone. And once a jet goes low they are now in lock on range for the bike.

 

Also ghost or OTR are way more useful on the bike then a jet. Bike is dead silent.. Jet is loud and easy to track in the sky

Edited June 19, 2017 by .Vooodu.

[Big Muse]

Not exactly. Some idiot in a raccoon mask blew me up with his sams while i was searching on the ifruit phone. When people do that crap i get mad as a wasp and go running for my hydra. I bombed the sh*t outta him. I kept doing runs on him and forced him to take shelter under that overpass at the mall in rockford hills.He couldnt even hit me with his sams. I f'ed him up so bad he went running to his moc to get repairs. I guessed he got pissed because he ghosted this organization and ssent his friend afterme in a hydra who i also outmanuevered. In brtween bombing hem i seht him this little message "this is what happens when you kill people for no reason" i own an apc also. If you are gonna use it you better be good with those sams or get hit up.

 

Thanks, now I'm terrified to log on ever again.

[IWasYourPilot]

Making the hydras vulnerable through APC shots is probably one of the best things. Hackers or rogue modders will find a way to terrorize people. But now, a single and fully upgraded APC will get rid of them. Or having a group file multiple shots is equally fun as well. This is the most noobly idiotic and mentaly retarded comment ever if a hacker will use hacks most of the 100% he will use godmode idiot than whats makes all what you sayd now confirming that youre noob and specificly a kiddo because if you would have a lil tiny fragment of brain you would have left the session but no you gotta keep crying to rockstar that will make a op vehicle for you and your baby acts bruh this is the game dont like it leave this is the much more horroble updates iv ever seen except to make more air units they make op weapons to kill the actual good community of the server the hydra "noobs" you call are much more skilled than your cause they dont stand in place google us air navy and see whos getting into there by drop number just saying its not that ez to be in hydra you just dont know how to control it and fight it cause your too stupied to learn math secondable ur lil sh*tty apc can succ my dick cause i can destroy it in two dive bombing so yeah call this a noob! tbh this update is cancer rickstar should have turn the cards towards everyone and not to land vehicles you landys rockstar are greedy ass mother mothers ughhh whats the point even

[Black Terminator]

The tank hasn't been feared since 2014 because of how easy it can be taken down.

[Mattoropael]

 

the tank is so weak and useless in this game

Pretty much only good for criminal damage or whatever that free roam destroy everything you can mission is

The Tampa is what I use for Criminal Damage now. It shreds unarmored vehicles (i.e. The street cars that makes up the bulk of damage) and frees up the Pegasus quota for an expensive vehicle to blow up... like a Luxor Deluxe.

[flexcreator]

The guy had both Oppressor with missles and Explosive ammo.

 

 

 

Having the tools is not the same as being able to use them properly

But a Hydra still needs to go low to get a kill on anyone.

 

 

The Hydra can pick any angle you want unlike the new bike. Oppressor's weaknesses - it's very slow at turning and it's very bad at breaking, so diving at target from behind increased your chances to kill the guy before a lock on

Edited June 22, 2017 by flexcreator

[Blasterman4EVER]

They're both feared.

They're both very feared off radar.