Why? I think CAP with air belts and no ground ordinance (or AAMs for higher BR) is a good thing to counter CAS with especially if the spaa of the BR or specific lineup is lacking in performance
Angry flag in 3…2…1…
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Which is why CAP should be the same price as CAS.
I already explained in the post you responded to. Those that prefer tanks (this is a GROUND mode) have little interest in flying planes - else they would play ARB.
Good luck getting ground attack players to switch to CAP - they like the easy kills of air-on-ground. If they liked playing CAP they would already be playing… wait for it… ARB.
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I far prefer A2A combat in ground over ARB.
I’ll give you that. I wish Realistic Air was just like how it is in GRB. The amount of times I bested people in an inferior aircraft just because they can’t use their eyes is insane. No way a Tempest should be defeating MiG 9s and Me 262s by boom and zoom, but it happens.
Tbf, ASB and not GRB but -
Are we looking at an Fw190 or a Ki-44?
From farther out, I swore it was an Fw190.
Up close I finally saw the red eyes of doom.
Somehow the P40 won the turnfight, but it’s very easy to see “ooh, big nose = radial = bad turning (energy generation) axis plane”" and then realize too late you’re fighting the japanese thing with insane P/W.
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I’ve been evil before and done similar. I love the Rhodesian roundel (it’s why I got into Britain), and when I realised it could go on anything, I may throw it on stuff and fly at the enemy. “Ah, it’s a Wallet Warrior with a British BF-109… WAIT, it’s a BF-109 PRETENDING to be a British BF-109!”
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But yeah, I could tell it was a Japanese plane because of the green colour, but I can imagine how terrifying that would have been. I’ve done the same in Realistic, where I mix up the names for certain planes, believing it to be a strike aircraft, just to then suffer the wrath of a fighter. Yeah, not a fan of Germany naming their stuff Do and Me and expecting slow bombers. Or the Vautour bomber being a fighter.
I believe this is your personal perspective, and I respect it. However, many players enjoy both ground and air vehicles. As for their numbers, perhaps a poll could be conducted to gather statistics.
Important to note that even those who do like planes and tanks equally, or indeed may like planes more than tanks - can still prefer tank only mode for when they want their share of ground gameplay.
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It’s not only about opinion, it’s simply math. In ground battles, players use ground vehicles due to the necessity of first spawn, so grinding air tree takes essentially forever, and cannot follow ground tree research unless the player plays ARB along GRB.
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I just conducted a poll as well, but it was missing some content, which is also my viewpoint: if players could use a small number of spawn points to deploy aircraft to counter CAS, I personally believe the vast majority would do so.
Addition: Based on a poll from 2023, I believe it cannot accurately reflect the current situation (at least regarding SPAA, as no one would consider the IRIST-SLM to be weak, right?).
I believe this is not a mathematical issue but rather a compromise made to ensure game duration. If we could earn a lot of experience per match and quickly unlock desired vehicles (for example, if air vehicles could contribute to researching ground vehicles, as it’s well-known that air vehicles are researched much faster than ground ones), this could maintain a relative balance between CAS and ground forces. Isn’t the biggest point of contention currently the frustration caused by being unilaterally attacked by CAS?
Addition: Based on the example above, if air vehicles could contribute to researching ground vehicles, and if players could use air vehicles for air defense and to counter CAS at the start of GRB, I believe, as a player with air vehicles, they would be happy to do so.
It would be a compromise if air and ground were implemented at the same time. But they were not. Air RB was added before ground vehicles were added. I played a lot of air RB and got through half of the air trees available at that time while playing air RB. If I were to start now, I would not use planes at all, as it is essentially impossible to research them while playing ground RB without playing air RB. And the air RB now is much worse than it was when the game started.
It seems pretty accurate to me, and regardless of how old it is that thread has been seeing activity recently so it’s been present and available to most people to vote on still and regardless of how old a thread is opinions on this rarely change. People want the choice either from being fed up of being revenge bombed from some dude you just killed in his ww2 tank, to being deleted by modern missiles from orbit personally there’s nothing that changes my opinion on aircraft in a ground mode i don’t play ground to play air if i did i would play air modes.
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When they think they can be sneaky and toss a 1000lbs bomb at me from 1000m up high. Getting better at shooting bombs the more I practice.
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Why the actual fuck is it so easy to spawn in cas with bomb and big bombs in low tier it should be like 900 sp since the AA are useless when they get bombed from the stratosphere with a 4000lb bomb
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Literally skill issue. WW2 SPAA is ridiculously easy to play.