how was air assault after the HP buff? I tried before the update and failed before 15 mins; I got a 75% booster for failing.
I also tried using the aim-9Ls against bombers in test drive, mainly firing them 100m above bombers at a 70-80 degree angle. while the missiles still did not down them in one hit consistently, I found more bombers were taken down when the missiles were fired top down rather than fired from behind, ±20 deg elevation.
IDK about the top bracket yet. But I just played the 2.3 and the base HP has been bumped to 400 pts. We still lost but that was on our team and we lasted long enough to get the 300% booster.
I guess I’ll have to try it out again one of these days. Is it viable to bring bombs to just take out the artillery? I currently only have IR missiles and the last time I played assault I couldn’t even get close enough to lock on before the AI were killed by all the radar missile users.
I often do to get a few guns without having to lose all of my altitude.
What is ironic is that the bombers now last long enough that lower tier planes get a lot more kills than they used to.
Tried air assault after a long time and it puts 9.0 planes with 13.7+ planes, so yea for some tiers air assault is dead
I’ve shifted down to lowest tier recently and it’s still carryable down there with the right plane. just avoid Norway and Sicily; the low alt planes, Potez 633 and Beaufort, also received survivability buff.
Good way to finish killing this gamemode, now its truly impossible to win, even if you let 14.0 aircrafts it will still be the same. Well maybe if everyone plays Su-30 and spam kh38 at them.
First match against wellingtons (B-29) and we lost in the first round.
Second match, against dorniers and me264 it was easier to deal with them, but after dealing with bombers and arty, we got overwelmed.
I’ve just tested the revised DM in test flight with an F-14
I had to reload my 6x Aim-54’s 3x times to get a single B-29 to go down… not one fire until the 18th “hit”
A 130lb warhead ramming home at Mach3… “Hit”
Not sure if the mode is dead, but it is certainly not as fun for a lazy afternoon. I’m getting on target, lots of sparkles and glitter and maybe one crit every full ammo load (on a stock FW190). It’s not something I intend to do anymore… which is a shame, as AA was a fun thing to do after a couple of beers. Now it isn’t.
lower tier now struggles a lot since you cant kill bombers fast enough so they just get through and its still really hard even after they increased base health. Also you get shot down or have to respawn a lot more often which means you cant even make money from the gamemode anymore.
you’re out of topic, just try and record air assault arcade, I wanted to see if you can win it or not.
before bomber buff i usually carry and win 6.7 and below, now I can’t and just rely on top tiers and hoping get a generous players to carry spam missiles and J out repeats to win.
My dude, “Just try” is the keyword here. Not gonna waste 2 episodes’ worth of Stargate Atlantis hoping I get a match.
I still got the match in less than a minutes, wdym?
Good for you, you are lucky anyone still plays it.
I don’t see it getting discussed much but something twitched:
Considering that we will be facing faster and more advanced bombers, we need to seriously consider extending the BR limit to 13.3 or 13.7.
Sure would be nice so I could get some RP for my JAS39D
I would not be surprised if the 10.0-12.7 is actuall 10.0+ like it now is with the highest tier.
I totally missed that. Hallelujah! The Snail does listen.
