Wirbelwind is no longer any fun...

[Kazaa]

... after it was nerfed to the ground!

That's all.

[MjTalon]

Here we go.

 

[Strip]

Actually it was over-modeled to begin with...its now closer to the real thing.

[Lusche]

... after it was nerfed to the ground!

That's all.

Tell that to the real Wirbel gunners. They would probably had agreed with you that cranking the turret by hand wasn't "fun"

[Jayhawk]

It'll take some getting used to, still landed 9 kills in it last night though, including a 262 

[bravoa8]

ha im glad that its turret moves slower its not so deadly anymore tired of that thing killing me all the time

[Getback]

Just got two kills in one. No more whipping that turret around. 

I've flown by those things at 400 mph only have them track me. I think its a great change!

[CAP1]

It'll take some getting used to, still landed 9 kills in it last night though, including a 262 

i could never hit anything in the dam thing anyway......unless i drove into a tree or something.

i do much better in the m16's to be honest......

[smokey23]

Since the powers that be caved to the vulch tards and pulled the teeth on the wirble, you would at least think they would make it alittle tougher. When one .50 cal round takes out the turret. However it takes multiple 20mm rounds from the wirble to take down an aluminum plane. The least they could do is make it harder to take out the turret. This is a bad change.

[texastc316]

This is a bad change.

just for some. OF course it was overmodeled to start with

[Dinan]

When one .50 cal round takes out the turret. However it takes multiple 20mm rounds from the wirble to take down an aluminum plane. The least they could do is make it harder to take out the turret. This is a bad change.

Maybe you should switch to the aluminum plane. 

[CAP1]

Since the powers that be caved to the vulch tards and pulled the teeth on the wirble, you would at least think they would make it alittle tougher. When one .50 cal round takes out the turret. However it takes multiple 20mm rounds from the wirble to take down an aluminum plane. The least they could do is make it harder to take out the turret. This is a bad change.

A SINGLE 50 CAL ROUND could damage the gear drive. it could kill the dood spinning the wheel.

the multiple 20mm rounds could simply pass through hollow portions of the plane, not hitting anythign vital.

just sayin.....

when i't my plane? they never miss. 

[waystin2]

As a Wirbel Junkie I will agree that the modeling was incorrect to begin with.  I spent time practicing and implementing different ways of dealing with the now much slower turret speed.  Yes I came up with some workable strategies!  I began having success again, but crossing shots of a high speed target are a thing of the past unless you can get a burst in ahead of the con and let them fly through the stream of shells.  Frontal shots are still plain deadly to aircraft.  I congratulate you HTC on your willingness to stick to accuracy.  

[AKP]

I admit it's tougher to gun in one now, but that has two sides to it...  Always hated getting torched by them from the air too... so I am glad to see the turret speed corrected.  

For me, I never used the Wirble that much... mostly the Ostie (whose turret speed has also been reduced)... and mainly as a town assault vehicle.  Air defense in them has always been secondary for me.  So I will still keep upping in them, and still using them to wreck towns with.  And if the pilots are foolish enough to come at me head on when I am in one, then they will go down just as easy as before.  It just means that one Flakpanzer cant defend on his own as easily now... a little teamwork is needed.

Yeah, the turret is weak, but it's open... so it always will be weak.  I have taken shots in the turret and not been damaged... it just depends on the angle.

It will just take some getting used to.

[usvi]

It might be tougher to wipe out an entire horde with one or maybe,require teamwork or new tactics.
Changes in the game are challenge to some and blasphemy to others.
Let the whining commence.