one of the most important missions aircraft take part in is destruction of enemy air defenses, however currently the only air defenses are those around airfields, and the spaa escorting convoys.
I suggest the addition of surface to air missile sites, placed behind airfields, such that their effective range covers much of the territory from the airfields and backwards.
doing this would make allied territory seem safer than it normally does, as it would prevent aircraft from simply sitting behind enemy territory and waiting for people to take off, allowing for more head on encounters, which are more enjoyable for both players.
additionally this allows for missions to have objectives centered around destroying these defenses, making it easier for ground attackers to destroy bombing targets and airfields after their protection is removed.
such air defenses can include vehicles that would normally not be placed in the tech tree; such as the 2k12 kub system for the soviets, or the mim-32 hawk for american teams.
additional radar sites could be used to reveal enemy aircraft in allied territory, incentivizing players to destroy these sites to give their team an advantage in combat.
this could potentially improve the player experience for ground attackers, who would now feel more useful to the team.
this could also improve the experience of the fighters, who can now retreat to friendly territory as needed. having a safe space to retreat makes it more like that players will disengage from fights, allowing for long range air to air missiles to have greater use, as players will likely want to engage enemies with missiles rather than risk chasing them into hostile SAM coverage.
We need a greater variety of objective types in Air RB, and removal of various arcadey crutches alongside them.
The main thing standing in the way of adding new objectives for non-fighters is matches ending purely from PvP, which non-fighters are not built to partake in seriously outside select high BR machines fitted with AAMs. The “no active players left on hostile team” bleed needs to go - all ground targets are worth tickets now, and paired with the AI attackers there is rarely a situation where you can’t end the round by PvE after the player aircraft are dead.
If you add new objectives without first removing the ability to end games from PvP alone, people will not go for them very often, and they’ll eventually be removed.
According to GJN, “they believe” anti-radiation weapons don’t really work in real life, and that’s why they’ve not bothered adding things like the AGM-88 HARM. As they continue to give Russia OP SPAA, and they are reluctant to even give NATO nations a top tier SPAA option, we should at least get the opportunity to counter them with anti-radiation weapons so we can do SEAD missions.
Really!? Where did they say this? It’s a super Gaijin thing to say, but I wonder if it’s relating to a specific weapon or to ARMs in general and would like to see for myself
We have already commented on the ARM issue in the recent Q&A. This is a rather complex type of weapon and, in our opinion, rather overrated in the eyes of our players.
