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Low Level Hunters changes
This post was originally published here on 2026-03-31 Tue 11:08 AM KST.
In this month, I mainly focused on new unit additions to create more dynamic gameplay and offer new kinds of challenge in combat!
New Enemy Threats
T-55A
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A Low-tier MBT with worse armor and less sophisticated fire control system than T-72M. It can be easily destroyed with 20mm cannon.
T-64B
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A High-Tier MBT with remote-controlled machine gun and 9K112 Kobra ATGM, capable of sniping helicopters with missiles!
BMP-2
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An Infantry fighting vehicle carrying both 30mm autocannon and ATGM launcher at once.
9K38 Igla
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The advanced MANPADS to Strela-1, featuring much improved seeker and proximity fuse. This missile is used as infantry weapon or stationed lawnchair.
S-125 SAM System
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The most unique new addtions in this month are the radar guided missiles and its SAM systems. This SAM system works under the communications between early warning radar, fire control radar, and the missile launcher.
The early warning radar helps the fire control radar to quickly find the target, and Fire control radar orders one of the launchers to launch the missile and guide it toward the target. Without the early warning radar, Fire control radar's target acquisition ability is greatly reduced, and without the fire control radar the missile can't be launched at all.
S-125 and other SAM systems have extremely long effective range, capable of intercepting the players from the distance where the player can't even see the units. Their main weakness is high minimum engage height and long minimum effective range. Flying low and hiding to sneak into the SAM site is the key to victory.
2K12 SAM System
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A self-propelled SAM system where 1S91 radar unit searches target and tracks missile at the same time.
9K35
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An upgraded unit of 9K31 Strela-1, carrying better heat seeking missiles with IRCCM.
9K33 Osa
A mobile radar SAM launcher. Osa is the most dangerous Anti-air unit in this game, capable of searching targets and guiding missiles alone.
New Friendly Units
Defender Patrol had much less variety of units on the player's faction. In 'Low Level Hunters', I have put some effort to have nearly equal variety of units in both factions, to make the enemy faction helicopters playable in the future.
M60
Ally's Low-tier MBT with more primitive fire control system.
FV4201 Chieftain
A middle ground between M1 Abrams and M60.
M113
The M901 ITV from defender patrol had been recycled into M113 APC. It can equip M2 machine gunner or M40 recoilless rifles, while having 2 M60 side gunners.
M2 Bradley
The Ally's IFV with 25mm cannon and TOW missile launcher.
DMS
A stationed twin stinger launcher.
HAWK
Ally's answer to S-125!
Rapier
This is rather an unique SAM system that works differently to other SAM systems. While it uses Blindfire radar for quickly searching targets, the missile itself is Command-guided by the operator, which means Countermeasures can't spoof the missile. The pilot need to avoid it by steep turning or Hiding behind hills.
R440 Crotale
A self-propelled Radar SAM system similar to 2K12, except it has much inferior effective range.
Gepard
Shilka at your home! it can shred those hind helicopters with powerful twin 35mm cannons.
M727 Chaparral
A more powerful heat seeking missile launcher to AN/TWQ-1, carrying ground version of sidewinders.
M35
Your team's cargo trucks to protect. Some trucks have a gunner for self-defense.
Multiple Weapons for One Unit
The old units also got some updates in this month. Some units like Utility Cars (M1025, UAZ-469), APCs (M113, BTR-70), and Scout Cars (BRDM-2, LAV-25) now can equip one of various set of weapons! M1025 for example now can equip M2 HMG, M40 recoilless rifle, or Tow missile launcher instead of M60 machine gun.
New Equipment
In order to deal with those nasty new threats, New equipments had been added to the player.
Chaff Dispenser
Along with Flare dispensers from Defender Patrol, there's now Chaff dispensers as well to spoof enemy radars. The Chaff can spoof not just missiles but any radar units, which means it can also be used against radar operated AAAs (ZSU-23-4 Shilka) to reduce their accuracy.
With Chaff, evasive maneuver is more important than Flare does. Without the enough distance between chaff and your helicopter, it won't have much effect on fooling the radars.
AGM-122 Sidearm
A new Anti-radiation missile based on AIM-9D sidewinder. It specifically locks on radar units to destroy them, but unlike other fire-and-forget missiles, It can also be launcher without pre-launch locking and let it find its targets on the fly. If you know the location of radars, you can just hind behind mountains and launch the missile around the direction of radars to destroy them safely!
Wrapping Up
With all new actors arrived, my work in April will be creating New Buildings for Desert and Snowfield, Bigger and better looking airfields, and various decorations to make the world look better.
But in this week, I'll focus on creating a pre-release trailer by myself to publish the pre-release steam page as soon as possible. I contracted the trailer to other guy but unfortunately things are not progressing as planned - it's time to do it myself!
— Hijong Park
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