So how You can counter air without using air Yourself? Please, spare me the SPAA talk, or show how effective You are with it (not only spaa with he-vt/missles but also low tier too).
Spawn in a plane, and shoot them all down
Oh yes, easy to counter becasue You can die to it and then do something about it… right.
Reduce the respawn point of fighters if only take aams, 480 is the maximum I guess, and the second time should be lower than 700, I don’t know why so many people complain that they wanna use SPAA to get a revenge kill immediately, they can respawn many times just for one kill, and never consider using a fighter.
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I would give pilots full AIR RB EC, so that they would have an actual mission to play CAS and other underdog aircraft in apart from G RB.
2 reasons why people spam planes in G RB.
- AIR RB is a stale 10 year old mess, more so now with that 16v16.
- G RB doesn’t have markers and so if you spawn a CAS plane, you won’t get immediately targeted by the whole enemy team for an easy kill.
For those 2 reasons peple run from AIR RB to G RB to have meaningful engagements and subsequently ruin the game for the players that play WT only for the tanks.
In conclusion, you have to fix AIR RB in order to fix G RB.
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I only wish that the arcade touch did away with all planes and helicopters, only tanks vs tanks,Playing history like airplane tank battles, playing arcade machines like tank battles, perfect！
Same with helis too. Only reason I play GRB is because Heli EC is a buggy mess
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So mamy air kills!
Hope it is not a one time situation ;)
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One decent match against severely undertiered aircraft = efficient counter
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Happens every once in a while. There are very few opportunities for this though due to a lack of targets.
I would love to see how effective R3 is and how it (which is one of the most effective SPAAs due to high fire rate) deals with two planes that know what they are doing.
But then, we would need data from multiple matches. Stats on my F4U-4B comes only from GRB and can be seen by everyone.
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A R3 player that knows what he is doing will shoot them down easily without them even noticing him.
Sorry but two planes are enough to destroy any SPAA
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Only if they know about its existence and its location. Also they need to focus on him and usually matches are 10+ vs 10+, so such situations rarely arise.
The R3 doesn’t even have bright tracers to give away its location while it is shooting at an aircraft.
And why they wouldn’t?
So I’m just the luckiest person on earth!
And plane doesn’t need to be in its effective range to notice it.
Your post shows that you are relying on the R3 player to not use the vehicle properly. It should keep a low profile, use visual cover, avoid unnecessary movement and wait for a proper opportunity.
Shooting at an aircraft even barely gives away its position due to the lack of tracers.
The only way to spot a properly played R3 from the air is by using ‘competitive settings’ that just don’t render its surroundings, which is borderline cheating.
And You are relying on air player to not use their vechicle properly.
Still can be visible from the air.
Don’t want to dissapoint You but most setting won’t render buildings from certain distances.
Not really. I am just relying on him not to have seen my location before spawning his aircraft.
Visible perhaps, but hardly noticeable. That is usually good enough especially since most air players first go for high value targets on the ground or their respective killer, which gives the R3 perfect opportunities to shoot them down.
I’m playing with everything maxed out, except HDR and everything renders in as soon as I spawn, including trees and buildings. Only some terrain lods are shifting around during my approach, which often provides visual cover for tanks that just ‘disappear under the terrain’.
I can’t deny that I am putting myself at a disadvantage with these settings, but I don’t mind that at all.
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Why stop there
Why not set it up so the 2 planes face their equivalent SP cost in anti air?
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