I can still bomb airfields for 400 points xD
Maybe, AF health pools were changed too. It went from my entire bomb load barely scratching it to only about 1/3 of it doing any damage. Haven’t checked on it in a while
It definitely seemed like AF have increased HP too, roughly on order of what they previously had. I haven’t verified whether AF repair is working again or not, but tend to think not based on AF damage I observed in games last night.
Would be good if it is. Af repair can be disabled. Ill try it out later
How do you repair AF (assuming it is working)?
I Think. and I could very much be wrong about this. That the “residential zone” is responsible for repairing the airfield, or at least will affect the rate that it repairs. So by disabling that zone, I think, you can slow down the rate of repair. The AF will passively repair (again, I think, like a lot of things with EC, Gaijin is very vague/doesnt actually bother with saying how things work, so can be guess work). Though I have no idea how long it takes.
Did some testing tonight, before it was 4x Mk83s were plenty to destroy the runway. Tonight I lofted 8x Mk13s at the runway, and barely scratched. Fairly confident most if not all impacted. Shall test it more over the coming days but I believe we are back to the point where AFs can be destroyed but you cant end the game in one sortie
Sometimes when I drop 5x1000 lb whole module disappears, but sometimes it got hit only and stays green or change to yellow.
I don’t know what it depends on, because at one airport the modules are destroyed and turn black, and at another airport the modules only change color or change color only after dropping bombs 2 times.
Also, All Phantoms, except German F-4F have bug in CCRP. There is no point marker in HUD display. I have to use CCIP and I have died several times because I was shot down by AA.
The runway is suppose to have twice the HP as the other modules and i dont think all modules have the same HP. and its possible that some modules may have previously been damaged but show as green.
This is an on going discussion on other threads. F4s likely never had CCRP HUD though i am interested in the fact it works for german ones? But yeah this is a known issue
Movran already provided the reference, but I’ll add my observations from when it worked.
As described and probably 6+ months ago the repair was automatic and worked as long as the airfield residential module was not fully destroyed. It was pretty quick repairing something like 20-40% every 15 minutes (I don’t know exactly, but it could bring yellow >30% damage back to green easily within the time of a sortie). I believe it generally took multiple aircraft working together to destroy the AF housing module, at which point the other modules could be damaged without their ability to repair.
Sometime, probably 3-6 months ago the repair function was broken so that it only activated when the housing module received damage. This made it possible to damage or destroy the other module of the airfield that support spawning (runway), rearming and refueling (tanks), and aircraft repair (hangars) permanently as long as the housing (AF repair) did not take damage. If the housing module took damage, the AF would begin repairing all modules.
I’m not certain what state airfield repair is currently in, but I don’t think it is automatically active.
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My honest feelings and observation is that there is an employee in Gaijin that is hired purposefully just to annoy EC Air Sim players. Gets paid only for that.
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Wouldn’t surprise me to be honest xD
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Unfortunatelly that one seems to be the most skilled one of the company :(
I have been playing war thunder for 1.5y now, and I hear all the veterans say SB was much better some years ago … it seems like the devs that did it are gone …
Ive heard that SB is developed by a single guy.
god I hope not I’d pity that dude.
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pour one out for the poor lad locked to an old soviet era desk and chair
that’d mean one dude dealing with all the bugs for sim I’d go insane.
It was - Last Grey Angel (LGA) - and he used to regularly communicate with us here on the forums. He would explain his ideas and vision for EC, while also taking on player ideas or explaining why they couldn’t/wouldn’t work. I’d far rather have EC looked after by one guy like LGA than have it looked after by the anonymous clown show running the rest of WT. Sadly, I don’t think we’ve heard from LGA in a couple years or more, so I doubt we even have one full time dev working on EC. Doesn’t seem like it.
Started playing some Air EC recently, after a gap of a year or maybe closer to two. It’s gone backwards:
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AI Bombers used to bomb enemy bases and exit the map; now they seem to mill around in the middle of the map until they’ve been shot down (think they’d started doing that last time I checked in on EC, 6 months, a year, ago). I may have seen one bomber group that was going for a base, but I got involved in a fight with a would-be enemy interceptor and never witnessed what the bombers did.
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Airfield repair - as detailed above. This used to work (almost) as explained in the devblog linked by Morvran above. The tented area was responsible for repairs, so that was the number 1 target for bombers. It appears it should now be the last target because other areas don’t repair until the repair tents are damaged - WTF?? In other ways airfields never behaved as described by Gaijin - destroyed modules didn’t always repair slowly, despite what the notes said, and destroyed airfields definitely did disappear, contrary to what Gaijin said would happen. Airfields never fully implemented as designed and never fixed… and now even less ‘fixed.’ Shame really, because the way they described modular airfields working was quite realistic - airfields never get totally destroyed as the enemy will always fix things to keep them operating, even at a very reduced capacity; as IRL targets need constant re-attacking to keep them ‘down.’
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Nation line ups - worse.
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Now AI bombers spawn at one end od the map, going to attack ground targets or ships, after several minutes they going back to previous spawn point and then disappear. The same with attackers.
Repair module is very hard to destroy. Me and squad mate were both trying destroy it using 28 x 500 lb bombs at the same timer, and it only changed color from green to yellow. Other modules disappear when i drop 12 or 24 500 lb bombs, but repairing after a while.
Many times the bombers stay orbiting the center of the map … but we don’t know if it’s a feature, or just that by a bug they use the AI of the surveilance plane.
I have a suspicion that Last Grey Angel was against the introduction of usefull action in August 2021. in June/July 21 he had still built good things. and then he was gone. maybe he was fired? I don’t know. in any case a fateful moment for EC.
from august 2021 onwards, an intern from Gaijin probably tampered with the EC mode. or maybe the cleaning lady knocked over the bucket and the water ran over the EC server.
…which also happened. the mode was literally shot to pieces.
there were no improvements or innovations at all in two years. only mistakes from august 2021 were partially fixed again.
in the winter of 21/22, EC was dead. now 2023 at least the number of players has increased again.