YUV-2 Pondhawk: some pretty major concerns about this thing

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I'll be honest, not even i saw this coming. i was relieved to see a season without an annoying new vehicle breaking the balancing, but oh man was i wrong..

when you have 2 people on that thing, one pilot and one to repair and shoot missiles, they become near unstoppable. hell, even the jet's 20mm cannon does almost nothing against the vehicle itself, and the spread is almost wider than the entire chassis

i had to deal with a match spent entirely by having an enemy squad take 2 of these things and just go to town on everything we had

this teeny little thing, can completely supress any air or ground force if they have a decent player in the backseat

i dont know if they're immune to missiles or my team is incompetent, but we had to deal with them for the entire match. it is ESPECIALLY annoying when you put into consideration that the Below the Radar feature does not work against stingers. so if you use your flares, you're screwed

honestly im shocked it can even go as high up as it does. i thought it was just a high hovering bike like in the trailers. i didn't expect it to become another ratty tool to make the game more annoying for everyone else.

here's a clip from one of the many matches i've had this happen in now, even when i wanted to test if ramming was even a viable counter, not even that worked lol

EDIT: i have no idea why the video is so tiny. its large in the text editor and i exported it as 1080p

ironhead841 · Answer

@Crispi_Muffin&nbsp;These are hardly OP, they're a (decent?) transport vehicle at best, with no offensive capabilities, save shots being fired from the passenger seat.I've had no problem dealing with them, RPGs can one-shot them, Crawford's minigun absolutely shreds them, not to mention it's very easy to simply shoot the completely exposed passenger and pilots off the thing.It's new, it's different, and it's only been in the game for about (checks notes) 3 days at this point, try to figure out some alternative ways to counter it before declaring it OP or a problem.

crispi_muffin · Answer

@UP_Hawxxeyei checked, and it has thermal smoke, which is basically flares but with smoke. and something i noticed while using myself, even when we get locked on without countermeasures, a fair bunch of the missiles that would have hit us, simply did not because the hitbox is so small. the missile will just do a couple of loops around us and then explode without doing damage

now i will admit i had a pretty bad couple of games against that thing so i wrote that report in a bit of a pissy mood, and it might not be as big of a deal as i made it out to be, but it still has some issues that can easily make it an annoying enemy to fight. if anything, they could just lower the flight ceiling to maybe 200-300m above the ground and it'll be cool

up_hawxxeye · Answer

@Crispi_MuffinThe thermal smoke is totally inferior to the flares due to not giving any considerable window of immunity.However the issue you said about the hitbox and the stingers is a big stinging issue that also happens with the nightbirds. I hope they will finally look to it.Without any testing, I bet that the nightbird can erase the YUV-2 in 1 to 2 seconds of well aimed fire.

fr0stw0lves · Answer

@Crispi_Muffin You know how slow that thing is, right? Plus, the range of the stinger? It has no flares, can be locked on by anything (maybe swap off Hydra's and you'd kill it lol), and has exposed pilots. Plus, if it even touches the ground, it's dead.

Your 20mm will delete the people on it, if you'd just aim. You have ZOOM on jets, which shouldn't exist in the first place, that turns your jet into an infantry farming sniper. Which it's just genuinely sad that you're complaining about a flying bike while in a jet. Sorry the infantry can actually kill you now, I'm sure the ability to use rockets on it will be removed in 24 hours too.

up_hawxxeye · Answer

@Crispi_MuffinYou need to specify the size when attaching the video to the post from what I know.Also this hoverbike does not even have countermeasures (from what I know at least). Something to think about.Like you said, your team was probably not very competent. I doubt this thing can handle 2 stingers much less a designated JavelinI would be busy trying to record the first footage of nailing YUV-2 with missiles.

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