The moment I found myself agreeing with alwis
APHE nerf yes.
I would say they need something like a overhaul though an actual overhaul would be too much work. There is right now 0 reasons to play planes other than the few op ones Yes ofc I know F58 &c from ~8.0 all the way to 12.3. CAP and CAS, also Rocket Heli. (excluding new fnf, too new for any conclusions)
They’ve messed up early/mid coldwar SPAA probably bcs of the heli against gepards and 10.3 hellfires. who knows
Also the lowering GRB BR is pure mistake. Lowering CAP would make A2A compressed and lowering CAS will just make everyone else suffer (and right now compressed also). Ground ofc, and SPAAs can stay at a lower BR so that only op planes are working.
I still remember separated BRs are willed for the performance issues attackers have in ARB.
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I appreciate the feedback.
I don’t think I explained what the aircraft br section was about well enough…
What I meant for it was that aircraft in grb should have a more balanced br for what they can do; for example, a fighter with no hope of ground attack should be at a grb br that suits its capabilities against other aircraft, whereas a ground attack craft should have a grb br that has a competitive chance against spaa, but not a dominating chance.
Sorry if there was any confusion, faults on me.
(edit) Typo and; this is basically saying to balance the br more, which is kinda pointless to say ngl because that should be a given
Indeed :D though some minor (or not just minor) trims towards GRB meta would be nice, e.g. lower the energy bricks and heavy bombers without 5 tons for our propeller BRs
At the end of the day, it’s better to have realistic APHE than to apply double standards.
If Tiger E players have to deal with me hitting their cupola, I should have to deal with flanking Gepards; It’s only fair until APHE is corrected.
My level of anger around the APHE situation is high, because it would’ve made ALL heavy, medium, and light tanks slightly more resilient to APHE rounds while changing nothing about APHE’s post-pen when penned center mass.
@Creastroy
I have major issues in communication, but when I do well I portray myself as agreeable which is what I prefer.
I think this specific double standard is fine though.
If not because of starting a standard that could eventually be expanded and improved upon, but also because as of now it is not only a problem when you get flanked.
As someone who has a lot of experience with things like the marksman and the falcon, even I can see that their performance is unbalanced and not fair against the enemy.
Cupola shots with an actual cannon is one thing, but being able to one shot an mbt with a small aphe round, from any angle might I add, is not fun to play against. And at the end of the day, fun should be what matters more than if a double standard should exist.
Fun for both players. Killing things with spaa is fun, but my victims are not having fun when they get randomly penned by a round that bounced off their barrel into the front of their tank and die because of it.
Having the aphe changes only apply to autocannons would effectively eliminate the “bs” kills that infuriate many, while keeping the parts of aphe people like.
(edit) And don’t down yourself about communication skills. I was able to understand your point of view fine, even if I disagree with it.
No double standard ideas are fine.
It’s a slippery slope, and will give “Russian bias” arguments that much more commonality.
If you just keep eyes and ears open, a SPAA will never frag your MBT or heavy tank, and rarely your light tank.
Well yes, any attent player can deal with these spaa, but the problematic part is when you are not attent.
Lets give an example:
An mbt misses their first shot on you when they caught you off guard, you get a chance to fight back.
An spaa misses their first burst on you, they then correct and you are dead.
It’s more fun and interesting when there is some sort of counterplay, yes the fault is on the player for not noticing the enemy, but it is not fun to have zero chance to fight back when the enemy messes up too.
(edit) let me clarify, yeah even with the changes you would be dead if it was a flank, but this happens more often that you think even in the front aspect.