I mean, I regularly fly helis on european servers from us west coast, sometimes it is laggy but overall it works fine.

I am sorry you didn't have a great first experience, it is a community project and there are definitely bugs, I didn't mean to oversell how polished the game was, I just love it and am having such a blast with finally having an accessible, moddable spiritual successor to Project Reality.

I would say give it another shot on a lower ping serv, but I also don't want to be pushy (or try a different mod like Casualfield, it has COD style hit reg indications if you think weird hit registering problems are happening that will clear it up whether shots are landing or not) movement is similar to other semi-realistic tactical shooters with a touch of inertia and a mantle obstacle button, it shouldn't in my opinion feel like a puck on an airhockey table lol.

Regardless, whatever you do keep your eye on the project, I think it will be a platform for a lot of cool projects but you are seeing it an early stage.

For me, it is already a blast to fly attack runs in the apache, crew IFVs or play on infantry only servers, but I am sorry if it isn't there yet for what you are looking for!

edit on the topic of hit registering/landing shots, bullets travel VERY fast in this game (translating to a minimal but real bullet drop) but it isn't instantaneous (or hitscan). If you are used to games like battlefield especially in the context of sniping you are likely acting like it is way less point and click than it is (or maybe it seems hitscan when it isn't and that is the basis for it feeling off?). They slow down bullets in more arcadey games like battlefield to make it more intuitive. Try putting the crosshair on the leading edge of your target and aiming for roughly chest level, you should generally be able to get rounds on target just doing that, otherwise maybe there is a netcode issue idk?