If you could, how would you re-balance CAS in Ground Battles?

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4088

Yeah, its never made sense to me why:

SPAA costs 70
Heli with only AA costs 200-250
Fixed wing with guns and/or Fox 1/2 costs 500-550
Fixed with with Fox-3 costs 700.

Its actually kinda insane the cost for CAP.

Id dramatically drop the base spawn cost for fixed wing down to at least the same as a heli, around 200. Then just increase the cost of the loadout options to compensate, but I would dramatically drop, if not outright remove the cost for A2A weapons. Id maybe even remove the SP cost for ammo belts past a certain point, like 11.0. Because if you are getting gunstrafe kills at that BR, then I think you’ve earnt it tbh.

Just needs a block on first spawn, and sorted. CAP becomes waaaaay more viable for countering CAS, because at the moment, its just not economically viable to spawn in a CAP most of the time.

Then on a case by case basis / BR to BR, increase the cost for certain gun types / ammo belts so that gunstrafing at lower BRs is balanced too, or at a bare minimum, just have the base SP Cost drop around 10.0 (where guided CAS starts to really become prominent)

4089

Very true, but I still do it out of pure hatred for CAS players, it is very entertaining watching them fly in a straight line as my Fox-3 approaches.

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4090

I still do it because I find CAP gameplay more fun than playing a tank.

But yeah, there is some hilariously bad CAS players out there that have no idea what to do vs another aircraft. A rapid triple kill with the FRS1 was probably one of my more recent-ish highlights.

Though they really need to fix Heli radar signatures to be detectable by aircraft, that drives me nuts

4091

Use IRTS to detect them by their heat signature, if your plane has it, otherwise a pod can provide that functionality.

4092

Not many have IRST below top tier and still doesn’t mean I can engage with anything but guns.

Tpod trick yes, but again, massive chore to find them manually using that trick.l and means having a tpod in the first place

But it’s useless if I’m in something like a Tornado F3 and they should be detectable on radar