Easy change to rebalance a bit at prop tiers: general lowering of the BRs of fighter aircraft with limited anti-ground armament.
We already see a lot of GRB/ARB BRs being set separately for higher tier jets. Some props have this too but it’s fairly limited. Fighters are easier to use than SPAA for a lot of players (and frankly they’re just more fun).
Not for players mostly interested in ground units.
If I want to dogfight, I’ll do it in AIR battles.
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I really enjoy the markerless air combat in GRB personally
What would be the point of that? All fighters perform battle in A2A than attackers already.
Not only console aim, air alarm also makes every SPAA player easily find target in the air, which almost makes low-alt CAS impossible
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I agree. Not really for this thread but I wish bombs would be un-nerfed, but cost way more SP.
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How about you make a COMBINED ARMS Battle mode so Ground Battle players in tanks dont have to waste time and kill the fun vibe always looking up for revenge kill and retards with 15km ranged guided munitions that require NO SKILL to aim and spam the drop ordanance button
AIR gets to play in EVERY MODE, let those that don’t care about air enjoy it for once
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Hard disagree on this. I know it sounds reasonable but adding a Ground only game mode would probably be super boring for most people who’ve built up a lineup and would split up the matchmaker forcing bot lobbies at more tiers. Diversity is our strength and CAS lives matter.
You mean Tank-Only (TO) mode?
Not really a “combined arms” (that is what RGB is) but I would definitely play a TO mode.
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tl;dr: CAS too expensive so in some games no players spawn, causing first-spawn SPAA players to get bored and not play SPAA anymore
When CAS was more easily accessible, a lot of less-skilled players were able to spawn aircraft more consistently. While on the surface this may seem like a bad thing, this gave first-spawn SPAA players guaranteed gameplay.
The current issue with CAS (exclusing LDIRCM helicopters) is that for the majority of time, SPAA systems are only spawned AFTER a CAS aircraft has made its attack run. This is due to SPAA gameplay being exceedingly boring as in many BRs, you will often see nothing more than a couple scout drones per game.
This is in addition to most low-skilled players being essentially locked out of CAS so there’s less easy kills if you’re playing SPAA.
While you may not notice, you will often be saved from CAS by a friendly SPAA that first spawned (if they didn’t die to an enemy tank) almost every game there’s one in your team, until they get overwhelmed or die to a better player which would already have gotten enough SP for CAS even if it was more expensive.
Small rant
PLEASE SPAWN MORE JETS I HAVE NOTHING TO KILL AT 9.3-11.0, I JUST HAVE TO BEG FOR RUSSIAN TEAMS TO SPAWN SU-25S TO GET ANY KILL
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I don’t play SPAA as SPAA because the rewards for killing aircraft is worse than tanks and also I have like 104 round only or terrible fire rate and gun traverse
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SPAA rewards are only decent if you survive the entire round so you get the activity time reward
It is really sad to see how much gaijin disincentivises playing SPAA
I get the post and reason for making it but lets be real, we absolutely dont need more players to have access to tool that nulifies skill of better player just because better player spawned a tank.
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With a few exceptions, SPAA gameplay is even less skilled than CAS gameplay. Just click on a guy and they die
Not saying that CAS gameplay is skilled, far from it
Both aspects have an extremely high skill ceiling but the equired skill level is basically in the negatives
Plus, it’s a lot easier to kill two tommies flying in a straight line at 10km in their premium jet than have to deal with one actually skilled CAS pilot (though the latter is a lot more fun to fight against)
Better than playing my IFVs which are worse and at higher BRs lol
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I wish there were IFVs with the 35mm KDAs (not the slow firing ones)
Technically the CV9035 can use the same APHE round as these guns just slower fire rate and less accurate
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The lack of CAS (especially in the 8.0-10.0 region) also leads to more players using SPAA as TDs, which just makes the gameplay worse. However, I don’t think it’s purely due to how expensive CAS is, but rather the fact it usually just isn’t as good until you reach top tier again.
I agree but I’d like to shoot down planes in an M247 instead.
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Yeah I know but it has a slow firerate so it’s big stinky
Imagine something like the Namer RWS 30 but with the 35mm KDA
Or… an M113 with the same turret xD
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Ive tried playing machbet and Chaparral lately and I just can’t find anything to shoot
I have to pray I face russia so I can kill a hind or two per game