Heli pad AA

[Beautiful_in_Sin]

@PointyPuffin

Imho it should be warning shots with a low chance of doing damage to show you that you entered an area that you shouldn’t be in and then at 2-3km from the airfield the AAA fire should start becoming really dangerous.

@SinisterIsRandom

That’s cause it’s hits. The only way to fix that type of flak is to make it function like actual flak and have other calibers that start firing if you get nearby. But as a deterrent and not all of it will target you if there’s more than 1 target.

Guys, don’t explain this to me. I’m all for a ballanced AI AA, but Gaijiners apparently have no idea how to do that. Players have been telling and asking Gaijin for years to do that, yet all they have come with was either death rays or fireworks…

[TheArcticFoxxo]

It didn’t serve any purpose

[TheArcticFoxxo]

@ULQ_LOVER

Special treatment considering planes still have AI AA at the airport.

The airfield can’t kill you while you’re over the battlefield.

[TheArcticFoxxo]

@ULQ_LOVER

And it was changed so now helis don’t have any protection while aircrafts do.

Aircraft don’t. They spawn high 15km away from the battlefield. There are only SPAAGs on the airfield, and you can easily kill aircraft from range without getting hit by them.

@ULQ_LOVER

Someone can just sit at heli spawn and destroy anyone spawning. If all AI AA was removed I would understand it.

It shows you exactly where they are on the map. You have about 15 seconds of spawn protection.

Get good and kill them.

[thethrill820]

Arguing over Planes having Anti Air compared to Heli pads is stupid.

Heli Pad - ~4 km from battlefield

Airfield - ~20 km from battlefield

Can players lob munitions from Helipad?

Yes

Can players lob munitions from Airfield?

No

[ULQ_LOVER]

@TheArcticFoxxo

The airfield can’t kill you while you’re over the battlefield.

But it allows an aircraft to be invincible when near airport.

@TheArcticFoxxo

Aircraft don’t. They spawn high 15km away from the battlefield. There are only SPAAGs on the airfield, and you can easily kill aircraft from range without getting hit by them.

You know that You can spawn on airport or fly to it?

@TheArcticFoxxo

It shows you exactly where they are on the map. You have about 15 seconds of spawn protection.

lmao.

[TheArcticFoxxo]

@ULQ_LOVER

But it allows an aircraft to be invincible when near airport.

It doesn’t. Effective distance is only about 2-3km, while you can easily top-down a missile onto somebody landing/taking off, and even launch one out at 4km while they’re landing and it’d catch up with ease.

@ULQ_LOVER

You know that You can spawn on airport or fly to it?

There is no sense whatsoever in spawning on an airfield, and flying to it leaves you vulnerable as hell.

[jaded_sakura77]

@PointyPuffin

Nope, a tank can do more against spawncampers than an aircraft ever could. Don’t twist facts.

Maybe if the pilot is paraplegic, deaf, blind and somehow still getting into a plane…

[GNDM_Panzer]

It actually covers enough distance that all IR-based A2A use requires being in the zonebso no, currently people cannot just sit outside ijust to throw A2A.

Also, spawn protection already exists for Helis.

[AK_Awful_Waffle]

@PointyPuffin

This heavily encourages spawncamping. The first team to get a fighter up can just supress any air support of the enemy team.

Atleast at 10.3 you can start spawn in a helicopter with ATAS.

I regularly do so to hunt enemy helicopters and planes. Find a good ambush point between the 2 heli spawns and the aircraft spawn and cut them off

If you want to prevent it, the other team could also spawn an A/A helicopter and do the same.

[BuVideo]

I think everyone missed the point or the topic got side tracked… I was talking specifically about Heli AA. This whole day players sit outside the safezone where you cant see them on the map as a red blip. As soon as you take off they fly in with their helis and destroy you. Yes you have 15 seconds of spawn protection but as soon as you are off the ground spawn protection does not exist and you die. Now I did not know previous AA did nothing to aircraft or helis and was only an indication that there is a threat. I was just looking for answers and maybe a solution to this problem