Cool opinion its not mine tho… I see more people sniping landers then I ever see flyers circling airfield its literally a non issue the ones I do see doing it usually have a ticket lead and have done alot for team and actually have a chance to win if other side dosent do anything to change ticket count to me thats just logical move to regroup maintain lead and try to get altitude why wouldnt people do that… The ones I guess your crying about I just dont see or dont care about because im usually doing other stuff than trying to get 1 more kill that I probably will get later plus it really rakes in Silver Lions and research points to get say 3 kills 10+ ground targets +bases than say 4 kills (the 4th being the guy landing)and it gives more time for other players to get more grinding done
People are camping the AF in most matches. What the hell are you talking about? Seriously. ,“Sniping landers” is extra rare occurence at prop BRs because there are only a few maps that allow for strafing the enemy without getting bonked from way beyond the gun range.
Because the game designer is always right, right? Remember that whole review bombing thing because the devs got it so wrong for so long that the community rioted? Yeah, your argument is trash.
If they’re so bad that they don’t know any of that then they’d be comically easy to body, and you wouldn’t be trying to camp the airfield in the first place. Their kd would be negative, lets be honest with ourselves.
When did I say this
Next time make an argument relevant to the topic of discussion instead of whatever nonsense you’re blabbering on about now.
there should be some sort of distinction. far too many people abuse the airfield AA at high and low tiers
I wouldn’t say bailed out, just that AAA just turns off, partly because I want that kill and that might not play nice if you want to takeoff and then immediately turn around to climb opposite of where the enemies will likely be.
Depends on what you’re flying, but if you have teammates, you can ask them to attack some ground units while you fly away pretending you’re RTB, once they go for them you get between them and their AF and try your best at smacking them out of the air. Sometimes flying near ground level just under their altitude also works because they’ll see you as an easy kill - once they start coming after you, you of course want to bait them away from the AF.
If none of this works, and your team has a ticket disadvantage, you’re just shit out of luck.
Actually had that happen, I was using the N1K1-J while me and a significant number of teammates were trying to drag a Yak3U duo out from the airfield. Took us all damn game and we lost several people.
But we won.
Well, AAA turning off is a good solution for 1 enemy. At least make it so the timer applies to entire pre-made squads who may coordinste AF csmping more effectively.
Should just turn off AF AA entirely 15 minutes into each match
Well, it’s not just the f-104, the 1.0+ split creates the same outcome in many areas. insert 9.3 vs 10.3 smt/f8e/f5c.
Why do I care about the majority of players who suicide, do u ?
good 4 them cuz the other 90% of time they just clean up the entire game without needing too, but u can beat them easily
go to af safety and leave game lolgottem
it doesn’t even work at high tier for months brah, maybe even a year
It seems those of you who want airfield aa nerfed have gotten their way. I flew over the 2 airfields for approx 5 minutes trying to get away from a typhoon with cannons in a D0217E. I wanted to land and j out, but like the bloodthristy mouse aimer he was, he wouldn’t let me. We flew over the airfields about 4 times - from 3000ft to 300ft. Not once was he touched by ground fire. Perhaps he was cheating, despite what Gaijin say.
And yes I WILL use the airfields under certain conditions, and I make no excuses for it:
1 - if my team have earned the win on tickets and I’m the only one left and badly outnumbered (in a bomber or not).
2 - if enemy dirtbags are buzzing the airfield and wont let me land to j out. I’ve tried to do that before and they just swoop in and take their easy kill. So now I DON’T land because you can never trust the person hovering over the airfield.
3- don’t just assume everyone is using a mouse. Hell, a mouse aimer can out-turn me in a bomber when I’m in a fighter it’s that bad for the joystickers out there. If I’m in a ki-109, even a mouse aimer Hampden with 4000lb of bombs can out turn me! Soo you’re damn right I’m going to use the AF flak if I can. We aren’t all flying equally here.
If you have the superior force and someone is circling their airfield and you don’t want to lose your aircraft then GO ATTACK THE GROUND TARGETS! As mouse aimers, is your only strategy head-ons?
THINK! There is more than one way to win.
Just stay away from the airfields. Or get Gaijin to call this game Fighter Thunder, because there’d be no point in flying anything else if the airfield AA is made ineffective (for the brief period that it was we just got dozens of airfield campers waiting to kill damaged aircraft coming in to land - it was just a race to get to the other teams airfields…)
You can just use mouse aim if you think it’s unfair.
Or switch to sim where there is no mouse aim…except for bomber gunners.
Funny, because FRC will demolish MA players when it comes to turn fights… same plane will turn tighter and rate 1-2sec faster on FRC than on mouse…
Otherwise just go to play sim or something, you’ve been crying on this forum since 2015 about mouse aim while playing a gamemode with mechanics centered around mouse aim all the while having a dedicated mode for people with JS available to you.
my goodness - you mouse aimers are so ill informed. You believe what you want to. But don’t listen to hearsay. Go try if for yourself - if you dare. You know it to be true and that’s why you stick with the beginners tool - which is the mouse. Easy7-peasy, lemon squeezy. Any minor advantages a joystick might have are fully negated by what your instructor does for you (energy retention/helicoptering etc.). I can guarantee you a mouse/keyboard player will always be able to out turn us in similar aircraft.
You have both said things which you somehow think I haven’t heard before? Laughable.
The bottom line is this: you’ve got it easy enough. Airfield flak helps the non-mouse aimers as well as the absolute beginners. Don’t be so churlish as to try and take that away from us. You’ve got it good enough already.
Using realistic joystick gives you a turn rate advantage in quite a few airplanes. It’s such a large difference that the meta strategy for Air RB tournaments is to use realistic joystick controls and force a rate fight against non-real joystick users.
If you are so insistent on playing with a HOTAS just learn to play sim. No need to be toxic towards regular RB players or feel superior because of a control scheme you use.
^The strategy in that case is “unless I have 1000000000m of alt on the enemy I run to my airfield where he can’t engage me or is certain to die right after killing me”.
Local man doesn’t like winning on his own merits and wants the game played for him
Most likely because you’re one of, if not the last one left and they’re 100% coming for you because they want a kill
Also airfield AA is still broken lol, so they’ll be shot down at 2-3km.
- use a mouse this isn’t Simulator, Air RB is designed around mouse aim;
- whatever input you’re using doesn’t make your plane worse, two exact same planes will turn the same regardless of being on mouse or joystick, they will only differ when you turn off the Instructor which inherently means you can’t use mouse aim - this will make your plane significantly better at turning if you have the skills to do it;
- massive skill issue if you’re getting outturned by a Hampden LMAOOOOO.
Yes, and throw away all my altitude and speed to attack ground targets so the airfield camper can use his massive crutches to get every possible advantage.
No, stop camping and have an actual fight. If you brought the wrong plane that’s on you, land and J out or PLAY. THE. GAME.
Stop camping then. if you can’t play without massive crutches, then I’m just gonna hover somewhere you can’t see me until you leave, and then it definitely won’t be a fair fight.
By the way I just took a look at your stats, and for someone talking in a derogatory manner about “you mouse aimers”, you have some truly horrid stats to back it up.
I mean, over 500 games in a plane as good as the A6M2, yet you only have ~450 kills? With a K/D of 2:1? Same with the P-39N, about half as many games yet in a plane that belongs a full BR higher you’re still only getting 2:1.
Before you complain, actually learn to play the game.
I really have no idea why this dude doesn’t play SBEC even he has joystick and complain about ARB that is basically full of keyboard/mouse or gamepad players.
And he will always stop replying when someone points out that a lot of planes will in fact turn better with the instructor disabled.
That was what happend to me in old forum.
https://old-forum.warthunder.com/index.php?/topic/375012-airfield-aaa-discussion-thread/&do=findComment&comment=9601531