Really think for mid tier RB Ground Forces CAS should not be dropping 1000kg bombs on tanks. Even dropping them in the vague direction of a target will kill or cripple a lightly armored vehicle.
Just find that planes are more dangerous than tanks in GF and certain open maps I just quit out of once half the enemy team start flying around.
It would require a lot more skill if they were limited to 100-250kg bombs. Last few games I’ve been killed more by planes than tanks.
My screenshot is a good example. I saw the plane coming at me high and fast, snowy map, heavy tank, going uphill I almost thought about suiciding the tank to deny him the easy
It’s only a toxic mechanic because the player themselves can’t handle the game as it stands, hence the complaining and moaning about needing a special mode just for them, and getting upset about people saying that it’s not a good thing in the slightest.
CAS up to 5BR is mostly one plane equals one kill unless you are very lucky or have a mega bomb in a bomber.
Yes it may equate to a guaranteed kill in many cases but then its back to the airfield for more bombs by which time the game is over or you have severely slipped own the score chart.
You may get lucky with your cannon or machine guns if the enemy team spawn plenty of SPAA fodder for you and cant really use it but that is out of your hands.
CAS is like Artillery ,M44 or 109, it is a major irritant and game spoiler but really does little else except limit fun.
Ok you may get one game in 20 or something where you decimate but does the world need changing because of this?
We need to real about CAS and just how many kills we get from it.
Some people get to use their premium in a full down tier and get ten kills but how often?
Most CAS is lawn darting after one bomb drop ,PE 8 or HE111, Lancaster may do well on the lucky dip or may blow the entire game on a bad pass but many teams throw a game when they go CAS and many players give up top 3 by going for a plane when they would have scored so much better in a tank.
Too easy to rage post over CAS in GRB/Arcade and I have been there believe me.
All in all what I would still like is a no CAS GRB choice for when I tire of CAS and all the negativity it brings.
Time and time again, you ignore SPAA. It’s there, use it… Doesn’t matter if you can’t use it, it’s there… If you don’t use it, then don’t complain that you can’t because it turns into a won’t.
It’s not toxic.
To be honest, there’s nothing poisitive that comes from it because you’re pandering to a group who genuinely can’t actually handle playing the game, so much so they call things unfair, and toxic, not because they are, but because they died…
It’s hardly a metric to gauge the situation on because it’s jaded.
Time and time again, I can’t shape-shift into one if I’m already in my tank.
Even if people can and know how to use AA, they’ll still be able to get killed in a toxic way when playing other vehicles.
You mean it’s a way of giving people a way to play only with and against tanks, just like you can play only with and against planes.
I’d say that’s equality.
It is possible that if fulfilling a role for the sake of the team is important to you or you just decide to do that for fun then taking a SPAA in first spawn can work and be succesful.
You just have to reconsider your game play. You are not steaming in to CAP points ,you are hiding behind the front line waiting for that in rush of CAS that will come a few minutes in then you and your team get the laughs as the arrogant flyers get a their asses handed to them.
It can be done and it is often done.You have to sacrifice much of what Gaijn tell you is important. The top of the kill board or the SL and RP but if winning as a team is valuable or just having some laughs then playing SPAA can be fulfilling.
You will just have busy and quiet spells and need a bit of luck and you will get better at surviving games and getting kills.Yeah I agree with you there.People need to think outside the box a bit or forget the scorecard.
I understand that and in some cases Gaijin offer no CAS anyway for some nations in some BR.You need to be protected by tanks to face tanks or have cover so its map dependent sometimes.
I also struggle with the odd time shift we get.So I get killed in a sky full of rampaging planes.I re spawn 20 seconds later and the whole map had changed the planes have all vanished and we are over run with heavy tanks and there is me in my SPAA with flak ammo loaded 😜
Don’t worry, they’ll be a hot commodity if it’s set up in the same way as aircraft in Ground, practically hijacking the mode from the “native” vehicles and being top dogs.
I almost forgot, making AAs really strong will force people to grind through Ground TT just to get them and be fully competitive in their mode.
Honestly I doubt many Air players would love this equality being brought up on them :)
