How do you do the level 60 BP challenge “Excellent Naval Air Defense Specialist” it seems impossible and i need really a help…
The one asking to destroy 5 player aerial vehicles by operating the guns of the coastal fleet in manual mode…
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It’s probably easier to do in Naval Arcade given that the new aim system means you just have to aim at the aircraft and the guns will automatically lead themselves. In my experience people also seem more willing to use planes in Arcade compared to Realistic.
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Also make sure you are using coastal that has decent AA armament - multiple 20-37mm (bofors 40L70 are great too - 40/60 not so much), or US multiple .50’s, Sov multiple 12.7’s etc!!
I’ve done this so I’ll share how.
Do it in arcade for a start, you get lead targets and enemy markers over the planes. Although I’ve noticed that depending on how far the plane is form yoj depends on how you have to sim at it, lead markers seem to be what to aim for when they appear but the body of the plane when they aren’t.
Either way just target the planes and spam guns at the things until theyre hit
I usually have a lineup of pt-811, frank knox and gearing.
I’ll normally take the pt out first in a match.
However for this challenge I would take gearing or Knox out first and second and then the pt boat last to allow the enemy players to get to the point of spawning planes a bit. Any coastal with similar type of guns will be fine.
I wouldn’t chase anything or attack anyone unless I had to then to not draw any attention, I’d knock my engines immediately into reverse on spawn to look where I am then get into cover as quickly and as best as possible and sit there waiting for planes to come in
It’s then down to the luck of if a plane comes for you or not or comes your way enough that you can actively go after them and hit them easily enough. Some maps really help with this, it also helps to know where the planes spawn from and fly into battle from too.
If you go into the match with the attitude of “if I get one in this then bonus” and just play each match to play the match not hope for planes you’ll find it suddenly gets done quickly.
I think it took me 3 matches to actually complete, and about 8 matches in total to get that done
Good luck!
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ty for tip
About this challenge, last game with the Karl Marx, I shot 2 planes : one was a bomber and the other one was a recce Hydroplane from a ship. The Hydroplane didn’t count, because it was on the water ?
Can I more infos ?
Likely because the Ai gunners killed it? It seems you have to do it manually. Which makes this ten times more miserable than it ought to be. Ai gunners are insanely accurate and more often than not some random guys AA will wreck the planes.
Hydroplanes only count when the player is controlling them - this is evident by the player name above the plane.
When the player is controlling the ship they are just 'bots, and count for nothing much at all.
Horrible challenge, the IA are way faster to shot down planes… Stuck to 0 after 3 days, really gaijin ?
what is annoying is I am trying something similar, but with a pure coastal lineup, and none of my rounds hit or even splash damage the planes.
Tried with VT rounds, tried with normal AA guns, both either miss or do zero damage
What is your lineup? I found the USA PT and British MgB style of boat best for it, whereas the frigates and sub chasers etc tend to not be anywhere near as easy to hit planes with with their aa
It’s the machine guns on the small boats that work best when using manual from my experience, the lead target and aiming system is confusing tbf and I’m never sure which to aim for when so spam fire at both
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I used a variety of lineups but ended up mostly with the british 3.7 - 4.0 Frigates and corvettes using 3" and 4.5" VT.
It did take a while tho’
You’re going to hate it, the SKR-7 (I rarely use it and hate using it, it feels too dirty), the BM-21, and the MPK Pr.12412P. I’ve also tried with the SF 40s, AF D1, and Bussard with no luck.
I failed miserably to hit anything with consistency with the skr7 haha, great for farming other boats but meh for aircraft as it just doesn’t fire fast enough to spam enough firepower at planes imo, I practised a little before this challenge was available to try dimd the most efficient way to do it and arrived at the boats I’ve mentioned being the best for it before it happened tbh
With the SKR it isn’t the amount of lead that is the problem, the problem is the HE-VT doesn’t do damage when it proxies most the time… I had it have to be right on the tip of a Stuka’s wing to register any form of hit.
And with the SF 40 light it was only hits, no crits.
But I’ll try to find something to run like what you suggested.
Hydroplanes from ships do not count, I shot one down with the player controlling it and it did not count
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HE VT and approaching planes. I find it work best against head on planes.
Truly demotivating mission. Not fun at all. The developers are not playing their own game, evidently.