I wouldn’t say pointless to escort, I’ve been saved from aircrafts due to being escorted before many times. If they failed to escort then they failed to escort, too bad. I also had to use gunners on bombers to shoot them going head on before they do too much damage where i lose control.
What also helps is flying low unless one is on a bomber.
yup, there are cases where the Nuke Alarm didn’t go off till it was close leaving us little to no time to react.
That was a bug because they coded the alarm to not go off unless the nuke plane was “flying”.
When you spawn, until you get some alt (like 100m or so) you did not get the “take off” reward which meant you were not “flying” in the eyes of the code.
I believe this has been fixed but i could be wrong.
I actually quite like this idea
Playing grb without sound or music so loud you can barely hear is a gigantic disadvantage and makes you practically half blind.
staying close to the bomber, ie. escorting, makes both the bomber and the escort vulnerable to enemy interceptors. enemy CAP needs to be intercepted BEFORE it intercepts the nuke carrier, not during and certaily not after.
anyway, back to the original point - adding such “nuke alert” to the game would only lead to nuke being intercepted more regularly. Nuke carriers in their current state rely on stealth, which includes but its not limited to, flying low.
Nuke alert would take that away from them, as now the enemy CAP does not have to rely on team to communicate to them that nuke carrier is active, but they have nice convenient alert in their UI.
Argument that it would make more team mates fly escort is pointless, as team mates can easily see if someone is in nuke carrier by simply looking at the score board.
Sure, nuke alert would make the gameplay ever so slightly more convenient for players not only willing to, but having SP to spawn in an escort plane (and those that need to be compensated for their bad hearing for some reason) so that they dont have to open the scoreboard or hear the nuke siren or read the game chat, for the low low price of enemy team knowing exactly when the nuke is deployed, on top of already knowing where it is deployed.
yeah looks like a good idea