Go check out Freddy and Gaz's channels! Freddy youtube.com/@Deluxoism?si=1mt0STPYEauEE8Rh Gaz youtube.com/@BuzzardMGs?si=3mDZCELlyUTSRNKa Also huge thanks to my girlbestie Ven, who did the thumbnail art for this video in my absence! twitter.com/vendarca
I’ve always liked helicopters. I sold my mk2 because i just liked flying the buzzard and sparrow around. Now I’ve actually gained “skill” which most mk2 players are not able to comprehend.
If you haven't been using the low levels to your own ends all these years, you've been seriously playing wrong. I always spam invite prospects and get them running around with me, and I always treat them as if they were expendable. The moment you go back to pick one up, is when everything goes wrong and the missions don't get completed. Sure, some of them move on... But you can always invite more. 😉
I'm no pvp enjoyer but flying around in helicopters is my favorite thing in the game. weaving around the city buildings, doing unnecessary low altitude maneuvers, doing heliborne with my stealth anhilator with friends in prep mission, it just feels so good.
hah, I always hovered a few feet over the ground and went under and between buildings for fun. My buddies were terrified of me flying and one day said “We’re about to end up like Kobe”, funniest thing I heard from them
Hey, it's something i experimented with while trying to be a friendly player sometimes after i pretty much had nothing else to grind for, and man, some of them are terrible gunners, some are terrific, but every single time, they're having a blast while they're annihilating anything that moves, including other players, which caused me to be hunted for a bit, but nothing unmanageable. Definitely give a low leveler a ride in your tank\apc\heli, both of you are gonna be having a blast, of course, at the expense of anyone who crosses your path.
A BIG upgrade to helicopters, especially for people who grind, would be an option to keep the helicopter on when you leave it. In that way, you would be able to land, pick something up, and fly away in seconds, and not have to wait for it to stop and start up.
I absolutely love your content. The editing has a very noticeable level of care and effort put into it. The footage itself is impressive, you clearly show time put into practicing what you preach. Your humor and references are on point have my sides killing me. Most of all though, you’ve got something that not many people have for this type of content, genuine joy in what you do. You have fun and talk just with your brain but also your heart. It makes me miss the days gone by of GTAV when my friends all played. Good luck and Godspeed in your adventures
I hope one day we can honestly as a community bring that good side of the game back, honestly, however that can be done. I'd love to make these videos for a long long time.
The way you edit triggers some sort of nostalgia within me that I don't even know where it's coming from. You've definitely stuck some sort of groove that just resonates with me. Keep it up! 💯
Its just that its been 10 years. 10 years of people like you putting efforts into videos like these, showing everyone how much better things could be. Suggesting what needs to be done and giving rockstar solid examples of how it to do it. But they wont care, ever. Even if it would bring people back and make them money, they dont care.
My favourite solo experience in GTAO was flying a Pyro around maze bank for cover, dodging Oppressors and Lazers the week the Opmk1 came out. Your videos give me that nostalgia in a way no other "gta youtuber" can
im not gonna lie, when i get tired of gta, I go to you, you make the game look so much more interesting and it rekindles my dying will to play lmao. so thank you, for posting even to this day.
@@BallersAvatarTutorials how am I gonna argue with idiots like you who must believe we shouldn't have guns because it can be used for Griefing. 🤣🤣🤣 Nah I can’t with the lot you little girls who are so scared of a “broom”
You make videos like no one else in the gta 5 scene. Really unique message and style of presentation, fantastic job! Hope you have a productive break and look forward to your return
@@Stormyy6310think he said he’s taking inspiration from him. Which is good. Soup did it like no one else. He came out of nowhere snd got so many subs and went all so fast… sad situation
Yeah at peak Cayo, shooting back and fourth between the kosatka and mission areas in a closed session was such a vibe. I have genuine nostalgia for it too bc the Sparrow dropped with Kult FM always selected, which is such a banger station in-game
Was never a plane guy but PvP was the peak of gta. Helicopters were just straight up forgotten by Rockstar, the Hunter and Akula are some of the best to use and most fun to use if you're in a fight without deluxos and a mk2
Both are still good for fighting those. Akula more difficult if in sight for deluxos mainly because running homing rockets due to easy dodge and no countermeasures. But for both you have way better climb then those two makes it very easy to dodge MKll missles and out of range for deluxo lock on. Just hover above and drop bombs, tilt tail down then fully up and spam barrage/ homing rockets, or you can try to catch their circle.
If you've got the time I really recommend one of the Arma games if you're not already playing any of em. Reforger isn't quite there yet but there's a solid Cobra mod for the game and a fair few other birds
That hunter segment reminds me of the time I randomly picked up a level 5 in my pick up custom and the dude just casually downs the same B11 three times. The low levels are indeed free and they are better at murder than you would think.
hey man! I might be wrong but I think I saw a community post of yours about doing your... job training! I just wanna say thank you for your service, and welcome back! missed ya
nah youre the boss, and hey, we understand if the uploads are slow, it's really damn impressive (and appreciated) that you were able to upload at all! keep your head up it'll be done in no time
Im so glad you found how good the buzzard still is it was an og grinder dream vehical to a perfect pvp players nightmare. I have always loved the buzzard.
I adore the annihilator. I'm sure it's classed everywhere as the "worst helicopter", but it's genuinely a blast to use. Sure, no rockets, no explosive guns, but it's durable as hell, has so many little secrets about it, and homing rockets struggle against it most times.
I've never really been a fan of pvp, jets, helis and everything of the sort, but more of just a casual grinder, but since i've found your channel a few months ago i've definetly started trying out more of the things you talk about, so thanks for that! I've been having fun messing around in them with my friend.
Watching new GTA videos make me feel so old, hearing you call the Savage OG is crazy to me, I still recall the day when Heists first came out I was on Xbox and the servers kept going down cause there were too many players trying to get on to play the update, but years went by and I lost interest in the game due to stuff like the MK2. Im glad people are still enjoying a game I grew up with when I was in school.
Damm. This channel reminds me of youtuber I admired 3 years ago: Astro Soup. The way you pace your words, the way you set up your cinematics. You have a really nice charisma, please keep doing what you are doing!
Akula is super fun because of the off the radar. Its ideal for sneaking up on griefing oppressors and straight up mince them to pieces with the rotor blade. Worked especially well in bad winter weather 💪
Just started gta again 2 months ago. Had my friend buy the akula and put heat seekers on it so I could see if I wanted it, I’m a diehard pilot in every game and with this chopper I’m a weapon of mass destruction. Was only level 60 annihilating level 5-700’s who kept grieving people. No one would know I was there before they were blown up and by the time they respawned I was over the ocean waiting for them to get distracted again and sneak up at night to do it all again. The element of surprise is the best thing ever in that helicopter. Paired with a pilot like me you become a god.
Getting good with helis made me a better pilot in general. And learning handbrake turns helped a lot. Sparrow and Buzzard are good for grinding, just wish the Sparrow had skids like the Buzzard for softer landings. Or that we could use the Sea Sparrow from the Kosatka. Akula and Hunter are top tier too.
I'm glad someone's finally giving helis the much deserved love, as a hard-core dogfighter, I used to be a lazer air-to-ground fighter, but after they nerfed it, I came back go the many helis I owned and become a hard-core hunter fan,
Played GTA V from launch to about 2021 I think. Buzzard was my legs in this game and I destroyed in it. What you now feel about the railgun is what I feel when the homing launcher was introduced it also completely killed dogfights for a long time. Being able to call the Buzzard in instantly with CEO at the time was incredible too and the number people I successfully chased under bridges was phenomenal
I recently found your channel and I use to be a huge PVP'er on PC until hackers completely took over and you've made me remember nice times, thank you. Sometimes I debate buying one of the next gen consoles just to try to get back into it.
i just wanna say man this is the very first video I've ever seen of yours and i feel like I've been watching you for years bc your editing style and the way you speak is so similar to Astro Soup and i fully agree with what you're saying helicopters they are the best and have always have been outside of jet dogfighting
hey i literally just opened your previous your rogue video and instantly wanted to comment so im on this video cause more chances you'll see it i saw your rogue video for around 10 seconds and i immediately subscribed. i love it, i literally still havent watched the entire thing. i know comparing can make you feel discredited but i hope you can see this as the compliment that i intended this to be. your content is scratching an astrosoup itch that ive not been able to scratch since he disappeared. im hooked already
I just found your video on The Rogue earlier this year and found this again on my feed. Your videos are all top quality that it might even belong to high end cinemas or if there's an exclusive luxury youtube membership. I can't begin to imagine what your videos will be about GTA 6.
I feel like it’s an unpopular opinion but I love the annihilator stealth, it’s tied for my favorite with the fh1 hunter, but I just love how clean it looks when painted all black, and it handles very well for a helicopter and the rappel feature is actually great when you have other players that can use it. I basically just use the annihilator stealth for most grinding and use the hunter when needed
It's also fun to fuck around with, and launch military-style operations with the ability to rappel onto buildings/surfaces or very tight spaces where the chopper can't land on.
I had most fun with it too, even though akula is far superior in every way. deploying team in rappel then I hover in the air in stealth mode, provide close air support, pick them up in LZ and leave. super clean and fun.
Great video, but one advantage the MK2 DOES have over the Sparrow when grinding is how quickly it takes off. On some missions, getting into the sparrow, waiting for the blades to spin, and to actually take off can be hairy. That being said I'm 100% with you, I hardly use my MK2 at all. Mostly only when the sparrow is on cooldown. Flying helis in GTAO is absolutely great, and I would have loved the game to not introduce things like the MK2 that made helis too easy to kill most of the time.
That's actually a good point on the Mk2 that I've never thought about, the instant takeoff. With almost every other vehicle, particularly aircraft, you have that startup, which encourages players to maintain distance, also giving anyone they're fighting time to prepare or stop the threat asap if they're too close. Meanwhile Mk2 is just on and woooop. Great observation!
“ Devs don’t want you to know this, but the low levels are free. You can just take them. I’ve got 25 low level at home.” The best line in a gta video I’ve ever watch 😂😂
i’ve been playing online since 2014 and when the savage was originally introduced, it was insane. however the buzzard still existed, and not many people (including me) knew about the super easy trick to dodge missiles in helicopters… also it’s worth noting that while you couldn’t buy the Lazer, people would steal that thing so fast if you used something like the savage on them.
The Savage was 2 mil and good at killing. The hydra was 3 mil and fantastic at killing. The Lazer was free and even better than the hydra. In my experience most people opted for the later. Hence lazers being a problem with early gta online when the only counter was rocket spamming, getting your own lazer, or bst with the heavy sniper.
Yea, those vehicles are insane, but they are a fun kind of insane. They are fun to fight because it’s Possible to fight one. It’s not possible to fight raijus and mk 2
honestly I think the sparrow is on of the best solo helis against ground targets, it is a small target its fairly easy to dodge missiles and railgun is hard to hit because of the glass. It was the first vehicle I extensively used for pvp
I randomly click on a GTA Online video and suddenly get jumpscared by Meet Matt Stryker, instant sub. Edit to say that I kept watching and have to admit this guy has good taste
These are all the helicopters and their real life counterpart Valkyrie - UH-1 Huey Savage - Mil MI-24V Hind Swift - AW109E Grand Annihilator - UH-60A Blackhawk (GAU/19 Pylon, 4-Store) Annihilator Stealth - MH-X Stealth Blackhawk Buzzard - UH-60 Littlebird Cargobob - CH-47F Chinook Frogger - Eurocopter EC130 Maverick - AS350 Écureuil Volatus - Airbus H160 Supervolito - Eurocopter EC135 Sea Sparrow - Bell 47G2 Sparrow - Bell 47G Havok - CH-7 Hunter - AH-64D (No Longbow Radar) Akula - RAH-66 Comanche Conada - MD Explorer Avenger - VM-22 Osprey
@@wilson_wrightthat’s not what I meant. I was referring to the Thruster and using the Avenger like a big buzzard. The helicopter mode avenger thing is a bit of a joke tho, hunter and akula are def better than it (not counting using the avenger normally, that shit op).
@@alexcrisman1954 Well, apart from the missiles, the US military was in fact testing a Remote Guardian Weapon System which has a GAU fitted below the Osprey and is controlled remotely from inside with a camera. And the Thruster, yes unrealistic, but that's a jetpack not a rotary-wing Edit: it is mounted on the VM-22 Osprey, so no longer in testing, but in-service
17:12 “the devs don’t want you to know this but the low lvls are free… just land by one wait for their murderous urges to leave their body and for them to recognize the superior violence is in your gunner seat… you can always count on a low lvl to just be excessively violent for no reason” I was laughing so hard during this sentence 😅 so accurate. Amazing video 👏🏻
You truly earn every subscriber you have, your content is great and one doesn't even have to play GTA Online to enjoy the thought provoking ideas presented, your cinematics are great too!
Criminally underrated. Can't help but feel like you're Astro Soup reborn lol. Just stumbled upon your channel and already subbed in the first 5 minutes. Keep it up dude, love these style of videos.
the editing, the music, and most important: the content is just on another level. ngl when I watched this vid I thout you must have millions of subs, but dude you are so underrated.
I have the reputation in my group as *the* helicopter pilot. I own a Hunter and a Buzzard, imo the Buzzard is better for grinding (it can land in more versatile spots thanks to its smaller size and better handling), while the Hunter is good for close air support, seek-and-destroy missions, or getting around the map because it's faster. Both vehicles are just a joy to use and fly, and I LOVE helping out my crew while using them because they're amazed by and respectful of the time I put in to learn how to use these vehicles well. And then a mk2 just exists and my entire role is void.
This content reminds me of astrosoups old videos, a youtuber who I miss very much, so thank you for bringing that vibe back. edit: also love the akula, easily my favorite helicopter, so good for surprise attacks on railgun and explosive sniper users and great for grinding too cause you can hide from people off radar when doing missions or heist preps
A note about the savage that I think makes it pop off as "a power up" over any other helicopter. Hey, did you know you can call it from the office? With 0 cooldown? >get in to fight >they call kanjali >run to office >they think I'm hiding and wait outside my garage > :) The sheer amount of times this has happened, or with other vehicles, especially good with the shorter offices so you dont spend ages getting to ground level. I'll also say that after coming back to GTA and pvp ing, at least on pc i havent found the rail gun to be an issue, it's always explo sniper or it's just bot an issue. Idk
Dude I'm so ready for more helicopter videos from you! All your videos are so much fun to watch and simply out of this world. Best of luck with your job training, take your time! Can't wait to see you back though.
I started wanting the savage but knew it’d take a while to get it. I did not expect my sparrow to be one of my go tos for, really any situation. I’ve just gotten so used to using it that it’s where I’m at my best. I eventually got the savage and I love it, but I get way more opportunities to flex with the zippy little sparrow.
I loved your transition to the hardcore metal kill scene with the low-level high violence Hunter review! I have recently started over on PC and have unlock most of the businesses and have held off on the Mark II and stuck with the Buzzard because I'm quite the adequate helicopter pilot that has managed to outmaneuver jets in the city and under bridges for tiny sweet little victories! I will eventually get a mark ii, but I'm not in any kind of rush, and I'm hoping to get it on discount at some point.
Go check out Freddy and Gaz's channels!
Freddy
youtube.com/@Deluxoism?si=1mt0STPYEauEE8Rh
Gaz
youtube.com/@BuzzardMGs?si=3mDZCELlyUTSRNKa
Also huge thanks to my girlbestie Ven, who did the thumbnail art for this video in my absence!
twitter.com/vendarca
He plays GTA check
He plays titan fall 2 check
AND he plays war thunder
He is the perfect player.
YEAHHHHHH
Thanks for the share 👍
Make the hunter video
First vid of yours reccomended to me. Genuinely funny and made me laugh a couple times, glad i found the channel!
I’ve always liked helicopters. I sold my mk2 because i just liked flying the buzzard and sparrow around. Now I’ve actually gained “skill” which most mk2 players are not able to comprehend.
based
Didn’t sell my mkII but yea I kinda forgot about the mkII when the sparrow came out.
damn i thought i was the only one sane enough to sell my mk2 after cayo perico came out with the sparrow
Fun fact, mk2 can't catch sparrow if it's at full pace!
@@CaptainBroadSword it can, actually
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The tip about picking a low level to be a gunner is genius I might have a reason to hop back on again 😭😭
Yeah as a mid tier level it is fun
If you haven't been using the low levels to your own ends all these years, you've been seriously playing wrong.
I always spam invite prospects and get them running around with me, and I always treat them as if they were expendable.
The moment you go back to pick one up, is when everything goes wrong and the missions don't get completed.
Sure, some of them move on... But you can always invite more. 😉
I'm no pvp enjoyer but flying around in helicopters is my favorite thing in the game. weaving around the city buildings, doing unnecessary low altitude maneuvers, doing heliborne with my stealth anhilator with friends in prep mission, it just feels so good.
Keep doing that and you'll eventually love pvp
hah, I always hovered a few feet over the ground and went under and between buildings for fun. My buddies were terrified of me flying and one day said “We’re about to end up like Kobe”, funniest thing I heard from them
stealth annihilator ftw
@AzulDevin6880 i was playing cod the other day and I seen a dude named "Kobe should've drove"
17:13 “the devs don’t want you to know this but the low levels are free” I’m deaaad 💀
I am low level but a hacker made me level 63 before i could leave 🥲( I still have fun)
xddd its true tho lol
I started dying
As a diehard helicopter pilot, I have never resonated with a GTAO video so much as now
Bro that bit about getting a low level to be your gunner in the hunter is genius and so very true.
Hey, it's something i experimented with while trying to be a friendly player sometimes after i pretty much had nothing else to grind for, and man, some of them are terrible gunners, some are terrific, but every single time, they're having a blast while they're annihilating anything that moves, including other players, which caused me to be hunted for a bit, but nothing unmanageable.
Definitely give a low leveler a ride in your tank\apc\heli, both of you are gonna be having a blast, of course, at the expense of anyone who crosses your path.
@@GashimahironChl this man gets it.
@@thewormarchives7876 Man those were some fun times, about as fun as carrying bazooka squaddies on plane wings back in battlefield 1942.
Similar to getting randoms to hop on your Armored vehicle to go on police rampages
A BIG upgrade to helicopters, especially for people who grind, would be an option to keep the helicopter on when you leave it. In that way, you would be able to land, pick something up, and fly away in seconds, and not have to wait for it to stop and start up.
every time they're close they headshot you through the glass lmao
How do you do this @mortenkrjgaard19
I just thought it would be a nice thing for rockstar to add. So unfortunalty it isnt possible in game@@SNEPARD179
@@SNEPARD179you can't, he was saying it *would* be cool
@@Grgmit my bad, thank you
I absolutely love your content. The editing has a very noticeable level of care and effort put into it. The footage itself is impressive, you clearly show time put into practicing what you preach. Your humor and references are on point have my sides killing me. Most of all though, you’ve got something that not many people have for this type of content, genuine joy in what you do. You have fun and talk just with your brain but also your heart. It makes me miss the days gone by of GTAV when my friends all played. Good luck and Godspeed in your adventures
I hope one day we can honestly as a community bring that good side of the game back, honestly, however that can be done. I'd love to make these videos for a long long time.
Bro really pulled off an 8 minute intro
Nah it was good though
Saw the comment and had to check
Yeah, this is a criminaly underrated channel.
This video was so fun to watch, especially with the commentary, very well done.
The way you edit triggers some sort of nostalgia within me that I don't even know where it's coming from. You've definitely stuck some sort of groove that just resonates with me. Keep it up! 💯
Probably because he's going for the AstroSoup style, montages with indie punk rock in the background included
@@JCBOiiiI think whitey is actually pop rock but yeah
@@Cuckler I have just discovered you, this is my first video I've watched of you. I already love it
Its just that its been 10 years.
10 years of people like you putting efforts into videos like these, showing everyone how much better things could be. Suggesting what needs to be done and giving rockstar solid examples of how it to do it.
But they wont care, ever.
Even if it would bring people back and make them money, they dont care.
Plenty of features came from community suggestions, if anything, they’ll take it into consideration for the next title
100%🔥
I mean gta6 is coming out next year so
@@d3admaub938doesnt mean its going to be better i bet theres going to be alot of flaws
@@RicardoE46With the standard that every other AAA game is setting.. r* is gonna make bank and release dogshit
My favourite solo experience in GTAO was flying a Pyro around maze bank for cover, dodging Oppressors and Lazers the week the Opmk1 came out. Your videos give me that nostalgia in a way no other "gta youtuber" can
im not gonna lie, when i get tired of gta, I go to you, you make the game look so much more interesting and it rekindles my dying will to play lmao. so thank you, for posting even to this day.
how to make gta online 90% better: remove opresor mark 2.
Or Improve your skill level, instead of crying.
@@BIGCHUNEx said by a true mk ii couch potato
And the orbital.
@@BIGCHUNEx oooh wittle baby dosn’t want his flying motor byke gooonew
@@BallersAvatarTutorials how am I gonna argue with idiots like you who must believe we shouldn't have guns because it can be used for Griefing. 🤣🤣🤣 Nah I can’t with the lot you little girls who are so scared of a “broom”
You make videos like no one else in the gta 5 scene. Really unique message and style of presentation, fantastic job! Hope you have a productive break and look forward to your return
Kinda reminds me of Astrosoup, may he Rest In Peace
@@Stormyy6310think he said he’s taking inspiration from him. Which is good. Soup did it like no one else. He came out of nowhere snd got so many subs and went all so fast… sad situation
I love the sparrow so much, the fact that it comes with the sub makes it so convenient that i dont even use the MK2 for cayo grinding
Yeah at peak Cayo, shooting back and fourth between the kosatka and mission areas in a closed session was such a vibe. I have genuine nostalgia for it too bc the Sparrow dropped with Kult FM always selected, which is such a banger station in-game
Was never a plane guy but PvP was the peak of gta. Helicopters were just straight up forgotten by Rockstar, the Hunter and Akula are some of the best to use and most fun to use if you're in a fight without deluxos and a mk2
Both are still good for fighting those. Akula more difficult if in sight for deluxos mainly because running homing rockets due to easy dodge and no countermeasures. But for both you have way better climb then those two makes it very easy to dodge MKll missles and out of range for deluxo lock on. Just hover above and drop bombs, tilt tail down then fully up and spam barrage/ homing rockets, or you can try to catch their circle.
Bruh I got shot at in a heli and I was in a armored truck delivering a trailer I couldn't even fight back 😂😂😂
Working with the Ah-64 was actually my MOS in the Army I love and miss working around them so much.
If you've got the time I really recommend one of the Arma games if you're not already playing any of em. Reforger isn't quite there yet but there's a solid Cobra mod for the game and a fair few other birds
That hunter segment reminds me of the time I randomly picked up a level 5 in my pick up custom and the dude just casually downs the same B11 three times.
The low levels are indeed free and they are better at murder than you would think.
hey man! I might be wrong but I think I saw a community post of yours about doing your... job training! I just wanna say thank you for your service, and welcome back! missed ya
I appreciate it boss. Still in the thick of it sadly so uploads are hard, but it's good to at least have my phone haha
nah youre the boss, and hey, we understand if the uploads are slow, it's really damn impressive (and appreciated) that you were able to upload at all! keep your head up it'll be done in no time
Good to see Gaz getting the recognition he deserves! Nice vid as always ❤️
Dude I have no idea how I've never heard of him, he's so goated
Fr
THE goat
There to many top-tier-pilots going compleatly unnoticed. Thats realy sad.
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Im so glad you found how good the buzzard still is it was an og grinder dream vehical to a perfect pvp players nightmare. I have always loved the buzzard.
I adore the annihilator. I'm sure it's classed everywhere as the "worst helicopter", but it's genuinely a blast to use. Sure, no rockets, no explosive guns, but it's durable as hell, has so many little secrets about it, and homing rockets struggle against it most times.
I've never really been a fan of pvp, jets, helis and everything of the sort, but more of just a casual grinder, but since i've found your channel a few months ago i've definetly started trying out more of the things you talk about, so thanks for that! I've been having fun messing around in them with my friend.
You, my man, have definitely filled the hole that Astro Soup left behind. Keep up the phenomenal work!
Yeah man, loved astro soup
i remember when you had like 5k subs when you made the raiju video and you've grown so much! I'm proud of you
Thanks man :')
idk how you have less than 100k subscribers to be honest but man you deserve so so many more. better editing then 99% of youtubers rn
Watching new GTA videos make me feel so old, hearing you call the Savage OG is crazy to me, I still recall the day when Heists first came out I was on Xbox and the servers kept going down cause there were too many players trying to get on to play the update, but years went by and I lost interest in the game due to stuff like the MK2.
Im glad people are still enjoying a game I grew up with when I was in school.
Damm. This channel reminds me of youtuber I admired 3 years ago: Astro Soup.
The way you pace your words, the way you set up your cinematics. You have a really nice charisma, please keep doing what you are doing!
Akula is super fun because of the off the radar. Its ideal for sneaking up on griefing oppressors and straight up mince them to pieces with the rotor blade. Worked especially well in bad winter weather 💪
Absolutely, I myself use the akula as a taxi to take players around. But it's a massive power house in stealth attacks
Akula is the best cause its got my favorite number, I've flown mine for at least 400 hours
Just started gta again 2 months ago. Had my friend buy the akula and put heat seekers on it so I could see if I wanted it, I’m a diehard pilot in every game and with this chopper I’m a weapon of mass destruction. Was only level 60 annihilating level 5-700’s who kept grieving people. No one would know I was there before they were blown up and by the time they respawned I was over the ocean waiting for them to get distracted again and sneak up at night to do it all again. The element of surprise is the best thing ever in that helicopter. Paired with a pilot like me you become a god.
@@r.a.d.d.a.d.7903 Get gas bombs to troll griefers even more 😂
it would be fun but the raiju already does what the akula does and more and I hate that
Getting good with helis made me a better pilot in general. And learning handbrake turns helped a lot. Sparrow and Buzzard are good for grinding, just wish the Sparrow had skids like the Buzzard for softer landings. Or that we could use the Sea Sparrow from the Kosatka. Akula and Hunter are top tier too.
Still the most underrated channel I’ve seen. First saw the toreador and raiju video, the quality is unmatched.
When you said low levels are free that brought back memories of them being some of the best fun people to play with
That Siege of Shangai joke touched my nostalgic heart of how good it was and the low levels afterwards just made me cry hahahahhahaha
There‘s like a German community completely focused on using helicopters
Welp time to learn German
I'm glad someone's finally giving helis the much deserved love, as a hard-core dogfighter, I used to be a lazer air-to-ground fighter, but after they nerfed it, I came back go the many helis I owned and become a hard-core hunter fan,
Played GTA V from launch to about 2021 I think. Buzzard was my legs in this game and I destroyed in it. What you now feel about the railgun is what I feel when the homing launcher was introduced it also completely killed dogfights for a long time. Being able to call the Buzzard in instantly with CEO at the time was incredible too and the number people I successfully chased under bridges was phenomenal
I recently found your channel and I use to be a huge PVP'er on PC until hackers completely took over and you've made me remember nice times, thank you. Sometimes I debate buying one of the next gen consoles just to try to get back into it.
Didn't expect to get slapped in the face by "astrosoup" sitting in your search bar.
im new to your channel and i dont know why but i like this style of thumnails keep it up
The Buzzard Miniguns can also wipe out a Kosatka in a few seconds of direct fire. Thing is totally slept on.
Can we all agree we want the railgun video, because more videos to watch from you the better.
god do you really
it's just gonna be 30 minutes of me bitching more about incentive and game balance theory
@@Cuckler yes
@@Cuckler free content yo xD
@@Cuckler Please yes
i just wanna say man this is the very first video I've ever seen of yours and i feel like I've been watching you for years bc your editing style and the way you speak is so similar to Astro Soup and i fully agree with what you're saying helicopters they are the best and have always have been outside of jet dogfighting
hey i literally just opened your previous your rogue video and instantly wanted to comment so im on this video cause more chances you'll see it
i saw your rogue video for around 10 seconds and i immediately subscribed. i love it, i literally still havent watched the entire thing.
i know comparing can make you feel discredited but i hope you can see this as the compliment that i intended this to be. your content is scratching an astrosoup itch that ive not been able to scratch since he disappeared. im hooked already
He will see this message
Screw helis bro, get an arena Sasquatch & fly everywhere with it
cant wait for this video to make me buy a helicopter
Fr, this guy made me buy a rogue, and tbh I could not be happier to be bamboozled
@@CabritinhaJPAmen my friend
It's me on 0:30 😅😅😅 i tried to sneak in chop shop while suddenly BOOM 😂
I just found your video on The Rogue earlier this year and found this again on my feed. Your videos are all top quality that it might even belong to high end cinemas or if there's an exclusive luxury youtube membership. I can't begin to imagine what your videos will be about GTA 6.
17:13 “low levels are free” that line cracks me up on top of the dial up sound bite.
I feel like it’s an unpopular opinion but I love the annihilator stealth, it’s tied for my favorite with the fh1 hunter, but I just love how clean it looks when painted all black, and it handles very well for a helicopter and the rappel feature is actually great when you have other players that can use it. I basically just use the annihilator stealth for most grinding and use the hunter when needed
It's also fun to fuck around with, and launch military-style operations with the ability to rappel onto buildings/surfaces or very tight spaces where the chopper can't land on.
I had most fun with it too, even though akula is far superior in every way. deploying team in rappel then I hover in the air in stealth mode, provide close air support, pick them up in LZ and leave. super clean and fun.
Fellow Stealth Annihilator fans represent!
@@Lazarultos glad I’m not the only one
I didn't see an Akula dropping off the SEALs that killed Bin Laden 😎
Great video, but one advantage the MK2 DOES have over the Sparrow when grinding is how quickly it takes off. On some missions, getting into the sparrow, waiting for the blades to spin, and to actually take off can be hairy. That being said I'm 100% with you, I hardly use my MK2 at all. Mostly only when the sparrow is on cooldown. Flying helis in GTAO is absolutely great, and I would have loved the game to not introduce things like the MK2 that made helis too easy to kill most of the time.
That's actually a good point on the Mk2 that I've never thought about, the instant takeoff. With almost every other vehicle, particularly aircraft, you have that startup, which encourages players to maintain distance, also giving anyone they're fighting time to prepare or stop the threat asap if they're too close. Meanwhile Mk2 is just on and woooop. Great observation!
And the landing
“ Devs don’t want you to know this, but the low levels are free. You can just take them. I’ve got 25 low level at home.” The best line in a gta video I’ve ever watch 😂😂
No gta video has ever made me want to hop on the game so much in AGESSSSS. bro amazing video.
i’ve been playing online since 2014 and when the savage was originally introduced, it was insane. however the buzzard still existed, and not many people (including me) knew about the super easy trick to dodge missiles in helicopters… also it’s worth noting that while you couldn’t buy the Lazer, people would steal that thing so fast if you used something like the savage on them.
The Savage was 2 mil and good at killing. The hydra was 3 mil and fantastic at killing. The Lazer was free and even better than the hydra. In my experience most people opted for the later. Hence lazers being a problem with early gta online when the only counter was rocket spamming, getting your own lazer, or bst with the heavy sniper.
Yea, those vehicles are insane, but they are a fun kind of insane. They are fun to fight because it’s Possible to fight one. It’s not possible to fight raijus and mk 2
honestly I think the sparrow is on of the best solo helis against ground targets, it is a small target its fairly easy to dodge missiles and railgun is hard to hit because of the glass. It was the first vehicle I extensively used for pvp
And its has endless missles
ultralight video when
Watching this at 4AM because I can’t sleep. Hit different
I still don't get how your channel hasn't completely blown up yet, these videos are immaculate.
Bombushka video when
taking low levels as gunners is like recruiting child soldiers
they're mostly kids irl so that's actually pretty accurate. Normalize child soldiers!!!
BRO THAT WAS THE INTRO????💀
I randomly click on a GTA Online video and suddenly get jumpscared by Meet Matt Stryker, instant sub.
Edit to say that I kept watching and have to admit this guy has good taste
He tastes delicious
Kinda sad when the best two “helicopters” in gta aren’t even real helicopters
These are all the helicopters and their real life counterpart
Valkyrie - UH-1 Huey
Savage - Mil MI-24V Hind
Swift - AW109E Grand
Annihilator - UH-60A Blackhawk (GAU/19 Pylon, 4-Store)
Annihilator Stealth - MH-X Stealth Blackhawk
Buzzard - UH-60 Littlebird
Cargobob - CH-47F Chinook
Frogger - Eurocopter EC130
Maverick - AS350 Écureuil
Volatus - Airbus H160
Supervolito - Eurocopter EC135
Sea Sparrow - Bell 47G2
Sparrow - Bell 47G
Havok - CH-7
Hunter - AH-64D (No Longbow Radar)
Akula - RAH-66 Comanche
Conada - MD Explorer
Avenger - VM-22 Osprey
@@wilson_wrightthat’s not what I meant. I was referring to the Thruster and using the Avenger like a big buzzard. The helicopter mode avenger thing is a bit of a joke tho, hunter and akula are def better than it (not counting using the avenger normally, that shit op).
@@alexcrisman1954 Well, apart from the missiles, the US military was in fact testing a Remote Guardian Weapon System which has a GAU fitted below the Osprey and is controlled remotely from inside with a camera. And the Thruster, yes unrealistic, but that's a jetpack not a rotary-wing
Edit: it is mounted on the VM-22 Osprey, so no longer in testing, but in-service
Akula master race
TFW sold my akula for a raiju
18:02 wtf you have a kkk outfit in gta????
Not him, but idk how they got it, the hat comes from Dunce lobbies.
17:12 “the devs don’t want you to know this but the low lvls are free… just land by one wait for their murderous urges to leave their body and for them to recognize the superior violence is in your gunner seat… you can always count on a low lvl to just be excessively violent for no reason” I was laughing so hard during this sentence 😅 so accurate. Amazing video 👏🏻
You truly earn every subscriber you have, your content is great and one doesn't even have to play GTA Online to enjoy the thought provoking ideas presented, your cinematics are great too!
Never thought I'd hear "Meet Matt Stryker" in a UA-cam video, but it put a smile on my face, great video.
The quality of this video is top tier was expecting a couple hundred thousand subscribers
this reminds me of astro soup, also generation kill and bf4 references are dope as hell
Criminally underrated. Can't help but feel like you're Astro Soup reborn lol. Just stumbled upon your channel and already subbed in the first 5 minutes.
Keep it up dude, love these style of videos.
This is the first video of yours ive seen and i already love your content, insane music choices genuinely, loved every bit
you have filled the void in my heart left by astrosoup my friend, thank you
1:18 one of of the last places i expected to see “Moral Orel”
You single-handedly made me want the rogue and the akula AGAIN, I go back and forth with them and sell them lol, but imma grind and grab them again
the editing, the music,
and most important: the content is just on another level.
ngl when I watched this vid I thout you must have millions of subs, but dude you are so underrated.
I’m a simple man. I see a titanfall reference I sub. Good vid
The shots and editing are crazy 🔥
I have the reputation in my group as *the* helicopter pilot. I own a Hunter and a Buzzard, imo the Buzzard is better for grinding (it can land in more versatile spots thanks to its smaller size and better handling), while the Hunter is good for close air support, seek-and-destroy missions, or getting around the map because it's faster. Both vehicles are just a joy to use and fly, and I LOVE helping out my crew while using them because they're amazed by and respectful of the time I put in to learn how to use these vehicles well.
And then a mk2 just exists and my entire role is void.
The “low level” bit was gold. Astounding video!
this guy needs more recognition he puts so much effort into his vids
This content reminds me of astrosoups old videos, a youtuber who I miss very much, so thank you for bringing that vibe back.
edit: also love the akula, easily my favorite helicopter, so good for surprise attacks on railgun and explosive sniper users and great for grinding too cause you can hide from people off radar when doing missions or heist preps
A note about the savage that I think makes it pop off as "a power up" over any other helicopter.
Hey, did you know you can call it from the office? With 0 cooldown?
>get in to fight
>they call kanjali
>run to office
>they think I'm hiding and wait outside my garage
> :)
The sheer amount of times this has happened, or with other vehicles, especially good with the shorter offices so you dont spend ages getting to ground level.
I'll also say that after coming back to GTA and pvp ing, at least on pc i havent found the rail gun to be an issue, it's always explo sniper or it's just bot an issue. Idk
Smaller youtube channels have been absolutely pushing out heat lately. Instant sub, love the editing, do this more and you will make it somewhere
you remind me of astrosoup and darkspace, other gta content creators.
He is Astro Soup
Dude!!, I just discovered ur channel today and ur content is GOLD 😌
Dude, I love your thumbnails
Bro busted upon nearing the mention of the hunter
Loving the astro style editing just subscribed and about to binge the you content
Its nice to find someone with based opinions
Apache does have one of the craziest spawn camps you can pull off in the game, I went like 15:0 against a friend
i barley play gta online but this video was so well made that im gonna grind now
Dude I'm so ready for more helicopter videos from you! All your videos are so much fun to watch and simply out of this world. Best of luck with your job training, take your time! Can't wait to see you back though.
2:31 as a lvl 850 I’ve never bought a mk2 because I specifically love driving cars
ok that shot at 12:23 is fucking sick it looks like something off the back of a game case
The "unmatched power of the sun on an mi-24" comment earned you a sub from me. Great video, this was super fun to watch.
Genuinely Some of the most outstanding GTA footage I've ever seen.
I started wanting the savage but knew it’d take a while to get it. I did not expect my sparrow to be one of my go tos for, really any situation. I’ve just gotten so used to using it that it’s where I’m at my best. I eventually got the savage and I love it, but I get way more opportunities to flex with the zippy little sparrow.
Bro you must be insane with a little bird,also just found your channel today and the video quality is so good🙌
I loved your transition to the hardcore metal kill scene with the low-level high violence Hunter review! I have recently started over on PC and have unlock most of the businesses and have held off on the Mark II and stuck with the Buzzard because I'm quite the adequate helicopter pilot that has managed to outmaneuver jets in the city and under bridges for tiny sweet little victories! I will eventually get a mark ii, but I'm not in any kind of rush, and I'm hoping to get it on discount at some point.