Good news, you aren’t! You still have yourself, your plane, and your wits.
In my example all of my team could be dead and I could be almost out of fuel. Even then, it’d still hold that I’m not entitled to anything.
No you aren’t. You just aren’t. If you shoot off all of your ammo, that’s an issue with your gameplay, and you should reap the consequences. If you can find a safe opportunity to RTB, say if there’s a lull in the fight or if your teammates are able to cover for you, then great! Otherwise, you should be SOL, not carried by an OP game mechanic.
Yes they should. It sucks, I know, I don’t like it either, but this is a team game. What’s in our control is our own plane, and if we fly particularly well then we can protect our team and snowball that into winning the game. But if our team collapses, we as a collective were just outplayed, and the enemy team shouldn’t have to juggle some busted AA mechanic to cater towards one guy who thinks they’re entitled to free repairs or fairness or any of that. There will be games you cannot win, that’s just how it is.
Thankfully, we all take off from the same runway, so nobody is a free kill. “The circumstances of one’s birth are irrelevant. It is what you do with the gift of flight that determines who you are” and all that. Will you let yourself become a free kill by being your own enemy and firing off all your ammo or bringing too little fuel? Will you reverse your turn in front of their guns and get critically hit, needing to RTB? You make yourself a free kill through your actions throughout the game, therefore you are rightly punished by the game when someone acts on your vulnerability.
Again, you are not entitled to having the game play itself for you and cover for your weakness.
Still exploitable if there’s more than one player left.
Removing airfield AA in its entirety is an overreaction IMO but I support it because it’s far better than the current state, and I find it more likely for Gaijin to implement than some convoluted still-exploitable system like changing its behaviour throughout the battle. I think we’d be begging for the monkey’s paw to curl with that given what we keep seeing from Gaijin when it comes to Air RB.
