Not only that plane spotting is much worse, you don’t even get a reward by doing it.
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Good. You shouldn’t get a reward for plane spotting.
No reason why not.
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There’s no reason it should. Should you get a reward for spawning? Should you get a reward for missing a shot? Should you get a reward for shooting down a tree?
Your argument ceases to exist once you realize scouting is already an implemented mechanic, which makes me think there’s nothing stopping them from giving out rewards for the same exact thing, but with planes.
You see a plane, place a crosshair on it and scout it. This would make the plane visible to your team and as such is an useful action which should be rewarded.
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For fairness in mechanics, 100% agree. If we can scout tanks, should be able to scout aircrafts too. No harm doing so, scout drones are also used to scout potential air targets too in the real world and boats in the ocean. Submarines have scouting drones that can be launched from underwater too, if Gaijin plans to add them Subs soon.
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You have failed to provide even a single reason for why scouting planes should give rewards, or why it should be in WT in the first place.
Saying SPAA should scout cause tanks can is the equivalent of saying we should have naval simulator cause we have GSB and ASB.
Because you scout the enemy plane which is helpful to your team ?
Scouting as a mechanic is already in the game, so if tanks can get scouted I don’t see a reason why planes couldn’t. Neither are invisible objects.
Because spotting planes is already ridiculously easy. T 6 1 is already unarguably overpowered. It doesn’t need another buff.
It also gives you a single instance of location with altitude and heading shown which is much worse than what you have with tank scouting, where they get marked on the map and location is updated on it’s own for dozens of seconds.
Making this change would be better for the pilots as they wouldn’t get scouted without LoS anymore and it would take effort to locate them first.
There were a few comments very long ago, but I haven’t heard anything recently and I certainly do not suggest people stop lobbying for it.
Oh, no argument here. I think the only “fix” is a GV only game mode. Everything else is a bandaid at best.
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What does tanl scouting have to do with this? SPAA shouldn’t have plane scouting, especially not better tank scouting.
AA definitely should be able to scout planes in a similar fashion as tanks can be, but with T-6-1 removed alongside.
You should also get reduced SP costs for all ground vehicles if your scouted target gets killed.
I think we should :P
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Very goofy suggestion. I hope you see why Gajin ignores CAS haters.
because CAS forces players to spend money to grind. thats why
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Not exactly ignore. just taking their sweet time with it. There are multiple features that were added into WT over the years that helps SPAA to face CAS and some which I wish listed before.
- Ammo boxes for all SPAA (Recent)
- Radar Screen (Recent)
- Mini air/ground available(recent)
- Air Alert Calls (T,6,1)
- Modern SAM to counter Modern ammunitions (Recent)
- Rewarded for downing ammunitions (Recent)
- Fixed the reward for downing scout drones to 100% earned (Recent)
- HE-VT weapons able to detect and air burst air ammunitions
- AF spawn due to bad weather (Though changed due to players crying about it) (Recent)
- etc…
Other suggestions or wish-lists are yet to be added:
- Allowing drones to scout aircrafts
- Allow SPAA to use drones
- Proper gun sights for each SPAA like how Radar vehicles get their Radar Screens
- Slightly expanding spawn areas for moder SAM systems to function
- SP changes for CAS loadouts
- etc…
Could have missed a lot or a few but so far a lot has been done to make it smoother for a SPAA to do things. For the experienced SPAA players that is. CAS has always had more advantages and will always have more available advantages when played correctly.
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Don’t know if this actually helps SPAA. It doesn’t really do anything but slightly inconvenience the pilot for a little moment. If anything, airfield spawns are arguably better for good CAS players.
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Not sure how this would work, considering you can just Air Alert from the drone. The scout ping for ground targets update slow and aren’t too accurate.
Only if they fix the multitude of issues surrounding drones and scouting.
Probably the easier/better option is to expand the air alert functionality to also include a last known position marker for the map and radar screen. That way everyone would benefit from the improved communication.
Maybe, but the idea is that SPAA is very reactive. No CAS, you basically sit AFK. So why spawn the SPAA to begin with? Then when CAS does spawn, there is no SPAA.
This is why I rather like SPAA such as the Stormer HVM because there is always something to do besides SPAA.
Scout drones and expanding what SPAA can scout is a good starting point for consideration.
I did also wonder if the new multi-vehicle SPAA could include an IFV, not an overally strong one (like perhaps a deliberately lower BR IFV), and it would naturally increase the SP cost if selected (so make it an optional thing like a loadout option), but would give you something to defend yourself with on the smaller maps and something to do when there is no CAS.