Anti-aircraft behavior on land and at sea has been significantly reworked and rebalanced, particularly for short-range SAM systems. For example, they no longer fire while moving at full speed, and now activate their search radars earlier.
Search radars should be always active and not “activated earlier”. How else would the SAM know that there are targets at all? It’s like there is psych sitting in the SAM telling them that there is something the search radar could pick up or not before they activate it or not lol
Changes have also come to this mode’s key force, anti-aircraft systems. Originally, to achieve acceptable server performance during battles on a huge map with hundreds of active units, we had to completely disable search radars on short-range SAM systems. However, this was frustrating and didn’t give players the information they needed to make decisions in advance, even after search radars were set to activate on missile launch.
Now, following a series of additional optimizations, here’s what’s been implemented: short-range SAM systems will activate their radar once a player gets within a distance roughly 1.5 times the system’s missile launch range. This should give players enough time to make decisions and strike the SAM sites with anti-radiation missiles before the system opens fire.
Either that (even if I’m no friend of beating software inefficiencies with hardware) or better optimize the software (Compile flags, use SIMD where possible, do optimzation passes on all logic implementations, etc.). Would have much more advantages in the long run… If they say they already fully optimized it, they’re lying as there are always things you can optimize one way or the other, even if it’s writing hot code as a kernel in assembly (like encoders/decoders for audio/video do) :D
I think the idea here is the U.S. covers a lot of Europe with its own nuclear arsenal so a U.S. aircraft would act as the delivery option for certain nations.
There might be a point to where we have B-2s etc available to European tech trees idk lol
