The basic concept behind the OTOMATIC was to take the 76mm Naval Gun used on naval vessels and fit it to a suitable mobile platform in order to create a long-range SPAA vehicle that would outmatch similar designs such as the Gepard or the Marksman system. Designed and built by Greyhound Systems and OTO Melara, it was armed with a single 76mm naval gun.ĭevelopment of the OTOMATIC SPAAG began during the mid 1970s privately by the OTO Melara company. The Otomatic is a Federation Artillery Multirole Area Defense weapon. What do you guys think? Am I over thinking the Otos control of the AA meta? Do most pilots still fly at 2km and get missiled anyway so fuck it? Good to get your thoughts.Auto Credit Based on RocCrafter101's Federation Mammoth Main Battle Tank I get that Italy's gimmick seems to be speedy cars and stronger than average AA but the Oto breaks the meta allowing one team to missile with near impunity, especially if a mistral is working to knock the planes down as well. I controls the SPAA meta very strongly with only the Mistral coming close. I really dislike this but feel if it can't be fixed or equivalents added it needs to happen. (Personally dislike this 'artificial nerf') Reduce the Range of the Oto to bring it into line with the other gun SPAA. I don't like this because I believe this wouldn't really solve the problem anyway due to the ROF on the OTO and the RADAR Guidance. The proximity shells could be altered to not work under a certain height. This and Point 1 is what I personally want. RADAR is clearly very broken with planes in the open being missed and helis behind mountains being tracked. With equivalents added to the allies (Sov/USA) ASAP for balance.įix the RADAR system of the game. I think a list of vehicles that are similar in capabilities needs to be made, even if it's a tank with prox fuze rounds (like the BegPanzer. They are in an order of preference to me. Solutions: Could be pick one or a variety off. A big indicator of this is how well you can do in the French HAP when flying against the allies vs axis. However as noted with the Oto above it can range out to 5-6km easily even without RADAR its rapid firing makes blind shooting and aiming irrelevant, especially as helis loose a lot of control when any control wire goes orange (as they should). Top tier SPAA vs Air Meta Description: In the current meta a heli pilot has to stay low, get close and use terrain to do well, with their ideal spot being 3km where SPAA is out of range and missiles don't get proximity fuzing. It is the only vehicle which gets this and only one team (Axis) gets this. The issue with the Otomatic is that out to 5-6km it has extremely fast radar assisted proximity fuzed munitions. CAS should not be 'OP' but it shouldn't be useless, it should be strong if played smart and weak if played stupidly.ĭescription of Otomatic: There is however one vehicle that is really meta destroying.

I genuinely thought we would see Sidearms and other ARMs with the coming of the F4C so good on Gaijin for not jumping the gun on that. Let me preface I am really happy with this compromise rather than the constant one up war that was going on. Background: So with the adjustments to how missile AA works I think the Heli vs AA meta is pretty healthy, planes are a bit weak but that is more a Mistral (a missile from 97 if it's performance is to be compared to reality) issue in my opinion.

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