Gaijin needs to look into a solution for the A-10 series of aircraft especially the A-10C which is at a higher BR. Most of the issue is the game modes putting all of the players into a cheap, lightning fast furball in the center of maps.
I recently got the A-10C after using the premium A-10A Early for some time (aside from other aircraft in the game) and noticed a horrible trend. The A-10 is too slow to reach any targets, ground or air, before matches end.
I don’t have a solution, but I recognize a core problem.
Something needs to be done about this. The matches are ending before I get a chance to do anything. I’m halfway to ground targets on these maps when 1 side’s full team is dead and the match ends.
I was also thinking, maybe the Nuclear Thunder event would be a great place to do some Ground Attacking with the A-10, but the AA is so drugged it wouldn’t be able to drop anything without all of it getting lasered out of the sky by AI-controlled AA.
(edit) My only idea is to give slower jets like the A-10 and Frogfoot a VERY close spawn to the ground units. Or just spread the ground units out more (away from the furball) and put the air-to-air fighters very far away.
Its more of an “ARB sucks” rather than the A10 being too slow.
Try playing air sim with the A10C, its hmd + 9M’s are very good if you struggle with iff. I always see A10’s obliterating ground battles whenever they spawn
Yeah,
Air RB is designed in such a way where certain types of vehicles just don’t have a place, and likely never will. Big bombers is usually what people point to, but things like the A10 or Hawk200 can be difficult to balance.
At least things like the SU25 and Hawk are fairly quick, at least enough to actually make it to the battle on a map that isn’t an EC map.
But this often leads to the chronic undertiering of these vehicles instead of actually fixing the issues they have by changing the gamemode. Like the A-10C being at 11.7 when it gets what is arguably the most reliable IR missile in the game.
As far as ground is considered, I don’t have much problems with A10s running around doing cas because I can just blow them out of the sky.
I first spawn spaa after all.
